Doctor Doom, an Alternate-Timeline Tony Stark After Endgame
ok hear me out
i honestly think an alternate tony stark becoming doom would hit harder than introducing doom as a brand new character right away.
after age of ultron, everything about tony is fear-driven. that vision of everyone dead never leaves him, and pretty much every bad decision later traces back to that. ultron, the accords, the avengers falling apart all of it.
so when he snaps in endgame, i don’t see that as fear being resolved. i see it as fear being validated. the universe survives because he makes the final call.
with the multiverse now, i like the idea that there’s a timeline where he survives the snap but gets completely messed up by it. scarred, broken, and convinced that being a hero isn’t enough anymore.
this is where baby franklin comes in.
tony knows he can’t control everything on his own, so he goes to someone who literally can. franklin richards. someone who can rewrite reality itself. and instead of asking for power, he asks for a world where things never fall apart. where the avengers don’t break up and no one he loves dies.
personally, that’s why this works for me. doom wouldn’t be evil just to be evil. he’d genuinely believe freedom is the problem and control is the solution.
the mask isn’t just armor. it’s him erasing tony stark.
iron man to doom feels like the darkest possible endpoint of his arc, and that’s why i think it fits.
not saying this is what marvel will do, just a direction i think actually works.
i honestly think an alternate tony stark becoming doom would hit harder than introducing doom as a brand new character right away.
after age of ultron, everything about tony is fear-driven. that vision of everyone dead never leaves him, and pretty much every bad decision later traces back to that. ultron, the accords, the avengers falling apart all of it.
so when he snaps in endgame, i don’t see that as fear being resolved. i see it as fear being validated. the universe survives because he makes the final call.
with the multiverse now, i like the idea that there’s a timeline where he survives the snap but gets completely messed up by it. scarred, broken, and convinced that being a hero isn’t enough anymore.
this is where baby franklin comes in.
tony knows he can’t control everything on his own, so he goes to someone who literally can. franklin richards. someone who can rewrite reality itself. and instead of asking for power, he asks for a world where things never fall apart. where the avengers don’t break up and no one he loves dies.
personally, that’s why this works for me. doom wouldn’t be evil just to be evil. he’d genuinely believe freedom is the problem and control is the solution.
the mask isn’t just armor. it’s him erasing tony stark.
iron man to doom feels like the darkest possible endpoint of his arc, and that’s why i think it fits.
not saying this is what marvel will do, just a direction i think actually works.
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This is a fascinating concept for a character, but it’s not *DOOM.*
If it's done well, I guess, but I just don't see that working for me.
The snap from the gauntlet produced so much energy Hulk's arm got fucked, so imagine a regular dude in Stark. With the rules they set up, there's no universe Tony survives that snap unless he's half celestial, and even that is so ridiculous to consider.
And no one he knew died from Avengers from Civil War, to except Vision and Natasha, even then, Hulk couldn't bring her back because of the soul trade for the stone
Its such a bad decision to bring him back *as a Tony variant*.
Its a such a *stupid* decision to bring him back and just not mention the fact that hes the same actor.
If they bring him back and he never takes the mask off, I would actually respect the fucking balls of Marvel so much.
I've said it before, and I could be wrong, but I think this is why he got such a big payday. Now if that's correct, I'm really confused why they wouldn't just save the money and hire someone who was just willing to do that for a lot less... unless they're OK with paying more to scramble people's expectations, misdirect the speculation, and get the additional gains of marketing his name again.
i had this idea that the RDJ as doom thing is a misdirect and the real doom will be cillian murphy.
thats wishful thinking. I surmise that with them working together on oppen, and how RDJ just had nothing but good things to say about him, mayhaps,..
anyway, it'd be cool to see cuz Cillian as Doom would just be fun to see rdj's doom be a doombot
My guy got a perfect ending and y'all want to bring him back by destroying Superior Iron Man and rewriting it as Doom's origin. I'm sure the Russos won't destroy the character of Superior Iron Man
Dunno I feel that here has to be something even bigger that makes him go all the trouble of trying to get Fraklin specifically, something he cannot do with just the stones. Like revive someone trapped in the soul stone, undo an incursion or fight beyonders.