My stupid DrDoom theory
I started thinking after they announced Endgame is coming back to theaters shortly before Doomsday. I think there’s a very intentional reason for that besides money and reminding everyone that Doomsday is around the corner.
I really don’t think they’re going to ignore that RDJ was Tony Stark. In fact, I think they’re going to lean into it. After all, the Russo Bros have connected their 4 MCU movies tightly together, so I would imagine they will continue on what they have built.
My guess is that DrDoom was unintentionally created somewhere in the multiverse when Tony snapped & died in 616. Maybe there was a cost to bringing everyone back with his snap. Whatever that cost was for Stark, I think it will lead to his transformation into Doom. Maybe he was awakened somewhere else in the multiverse when he died in 616. Perhaps he was marooned and left to claw his way out of the multiverse, then became Doom along the way.
I’m just spitballing here of course, but I could see Stark waking up marooned somewhere in the multiverse and being hell bent on trying to bring back 616 to its glory days before Thanos showed up and everyone started dying off. Tony has always tried to fix everything that goes wrong, so it would be in character.
I don’t think his transformation would happen overnight and his struggle to fix this would lead him down a dark path.
I could easily see him thinking that Franklin would be the answer to everything, using him to create a new universe where all was fixed and made right again. Of course, doing this would make him a villain and would really pull on the emotional strings of everyone that was close to him. I can’t see the Russo Bros passing up that opportunity for drama.
I think the big theme from Doomsday will be that you can’t change the past and trying to do so is futile. You just have to pick up the pieces and keep moving on.
Anyways, just my random thoughts. I’d love to hear other people’s theories too. I know a lot of theories have already been posted, but I feel like the recent Endgame announcement changes things and sheds some light on the direction they’re heading.
I really don’t think they’re going to ignore that RDJ was Tony Stark. In fact, I think they’re going to lean into it. After all, the Russo Bros have connected their 4 MCU movies tightly together, so I would imagine they will continue on what they have built.
My guess is that DrDoom was unintentionally created somewhere in the multiverse when Tony snapped & died in 616. Maybe there was a cost to bringing everyone back with his snap. Whatever that cost was for Stark, I think it will lead to his transformation into Doom. Maybe he was awakened somewhere else in the multiverse when he died in 616. Perhaps he was marooned and left to claw his way out of the multiverse, then became Doom along the way.
I’m just spitballing here of course, but I could see Stark waking up marooned somewhere in the multiverse and being hell bent on trying to bring back 616 to its glory days before Thanos showed up and everyone started dying off. Tony has always tried to fix everything that goes wrong, so it would be in character.
I don’t think his transformation would happen overnight and his struggle to fix this would lead him down a dark path.
I could easily see him thinking that Franklin would be the answer to everything, using him to create a new universe where all was fixed and made right again. Of course, doing this would make him a villain and would really pull on the emotional strings of everyone that was close to him. I can’t see the Russo Bros passing up that opportunity for drama.
I think the big theme from Doomsday will be that you can’t change the past and trying to do so is futile. You just have to pick up the pieces and keep moving on.
Anyways, just my random thoughts. I’d love to hear other people’s theories too. I know a lot of theories have already been posted, but I feel like the recent Endgame announcement changes things and sheds some light on the direction they’re heading.
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Feels like there's gonna be a Scooby-Doo moment where the facade collapses and we meet Dune Prime at the end. With the battle continued the next year.
You think that Kevin Feige, the big comic fan he is, would allow for Marvel’s most popular villain, a huge staple of comic history as a whole, to be used to throw off the audience at a convention just to ruin the grand finale of the Infinity Saga which happens to be one of the most popular movies of all time, that is rereleasing just a few months before Doomsday to remind the audience of it. And for what? Shits and giggles? To piss off fans of Doctor Doom? To destroy the MCU’s reputation?
Yeah…doesn’t seem very likely.
Yeah, don't be too surprised that people lost faith in him. The casting of RDJ as Doctor Doom reeks of desperation and it's hard to shake the feeling that it will tie into the story somehow.
Maybe we only saw part of the intent from the Tony Stark snap in Endgame, and the other half....is more nefarious (eg Tony Stark is Victor Von Doom vice versa)....a smokescreen/distraction/red herring/misguidance.
And the new prevalent rumor is that Tony Stark is a Doom variant and not the other way around. *Which would fit with their statement.*
We don't know. But the Russo Bros. are geniuses, they have a reason why they chose RDJ as Doom. They have a story about Doom in which he has an uncanny resemblance to Tony Stark.
There could be a moment where Doom is unmasked during a battle and instantly is recognized as Tony Stark by fellow Avengers. Other characters (F4/Thunderbolts) have no idea who Stark is, they seem Doom as Victor Von Doom and not Tony Stark.
Whatever happens in the end, it all leads to Secret Wars. This is likely a huge encounter with many characters and villains from previous films returning for one last epic battle.
**“Don’t compare me to Stark. He’s a sickness.”**
Doom will not want to be seen as another version of Tony. He will see himself as superior and completely different, both in mindset and purpose.