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Robert Downey Jr stunned fans as the Iron Man star removed a mask during the San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel to reveal that he will play Doctor Doom, one of Marvel’s biggest villains, in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday.
The panel on Saturday was flooded with hooded figures wearing masks of the comic book villain known for his sorcery and science when Downey Jr revealed his face. “I like playing complicated characters,” he said as fans began to chant his name.
I might be misremembering my marvel lore but didn’t Tony Stark have a twin? If so, I could see an evil twin story making some sense
If I recall correctly, he has a corrupt time traveling nephew. And…
He’s had to fight his own corrupt future self at least twice. He’s been replaced by AI at least
twicethree times (I remembered a third).And there’s alternate timelines where he becomes Sorcerer Supreme, and where he becomes Doom.
As Movie Bob says, ‘Comics are Weird’.
That would be a bit cheap, the best bet is this Doom is an alternate reality Iron Man.
Entertainment Weekly have been trying to piece the clues together:
So Secret Wars will see a lot of multiverse variants brought together by Doom, so it opens the door for him to actually be an alternate Iron Man. It may also be the key to bringing the X-Men and FF into the MCU or making it more viable to cross them over somehow.
It may even be we’ll see RDJ in the FF film, perhaps just a cameo or end-credit scene, as he would need some set-up before Avengers: Doomsday.