Big news coming out of Hall H at Comic Con. The one that shook the internet is the news of Robert Downey Jr. Returning to the MCU, this time as Doctor Doom. Let's theorize & discuss. #robertdowneyjr #DoctorDoom
This comment is the absolute best comment ever, considering what was announced during Hall H. RDJ as Dr. Doom is great, but also, not a great idea. In my opinion .
Please god .. No more Ryan Reynolds either. I don't even watch his crap movies and still have to suffer his annoying face and smarmy delivery every other commercial YT makes me watch. I can't stand that guy.
Not only do I agree about this being a desperate move bringing Robert Downey Jr. back, but it’s also desperate in that they had to announce it. If Marvel studios was still as popular with the general public as they used to be, then this would have made for an amazing surprise for the viewers if we were never told about Downey’s return whenever Doom’s character is visually introduced in the MCU.
These events are for investors and shareholders. They're basically glorified business plans. Looking back I remember how much hype and money the phase 4 announcement caused for Disney+. The initial success of that service hinged on a promise that Marvel will make content for it, a promise that Disney made Marvel make. It's also why Marvel put less than no effort into making those shows. It wasn't always like this, but after Phase 3's billions and billions, oh yeah. I'm hoping this time is different as Bob Iger has been saying but I don't have too much optimism.
This released this info to the public because he isn’t going to be the main MCU dr doom. It was something they could share to the public because it wouldn’t throw out actual surprises for the movie
*Cilian Murphy, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michael Fassbender, Alexander Skarsgard… there were sooo many actors who could’ve nailed this role. I’d like to be a fly on the wall of the room where these execs decided, “Imagine Tony Stark, but he’s not Tony Stark, he’s Dr. Doom! Yeah that’s a great idea!”*
@MichaelGaryScott90 I guess I saw somewhere there is a comic arc called The Infamous Iron Man where Tony does become Doom...I still think they should have finished out Kang. This is the 1 saga where recasting would have made sense and accepted Edit: correction I saw below is it's the other way around...Doom becomes Iron Man. Either way I still would have preferred Kang be finished and done properly.
This is the problem with the "multi-verse", they can make anything and everything happen. Thus, there are no stakes, and nothing is permanent if they don't want it to be.
That's why I got out of comics and made the switchover into manga. Why should I care about stories where, characters never grow and consequences can be explained away with "Oh, that actually happened on Earth 123."
@@jjstarrprodRDJ will be playing a fully powered up Victor Von who comes to concur the 616 timeline in Doomsday. It won’t be confusing because his mask will be on and voice modulated.
What a colossal waste of money. RDJ was the highest paid actor out of all the Marvel cast and he was often 10-15% of the ENTIRE film budget. Bringing him back to play Doom just means tens of millions of dollars that could go to better FX, better design, more staff, or giving the opportunity for new acting talent to step up, has all been washed away so RDJ can make another $100,000,000 per flick.
Jeremy sarcastically anticipating Chris Evans as magneto and RDJ being Doom just made me think of Micheal Fassbender. He killed it as magneto and would have been perfect casting as Dr. Doom.
@damonestephens8722 you're taking this out of pocket. I only knew him as iron man/Tony stark I can't see him play as doom like... it does make any sense.
It feels not only like desperation, but like life support. Bringing Downey back as Doom buys you _one_ movie's success, buoyed by curiosity. It doesn't really help that they've steadily hollowed out the heroes' side.
Yeah this is not a desperation play cause RDJ WOULD HAVE BEEN BACK in Avengers 5 and 6 no matter what. They just decided to go this route instead of Iron Man. Chris Evans will be back as well 110%. They are bar none their biggest stars/heroes no chance in hell they were making new Avengers movies without them.
@@JosipDodig I mean Anthony Mackie is already the new Captain America so what purpose does Chris Evans have? RDJ is already a bold move, I highly doubt they'd make another by bringing Chris Evans back
how is it life support when deadpool is the biggest R-rated movie ever. Where Spider-man no way home is one of the biggest movies ever. And most of phase 4 made a crap ton of money lol.
I think they where banking on getting the reaction that they got from chris evans returning as Johnny Storm. Which was amazing tbh. Dutch threates are not exactly known for cheering and applauding like they are in the us but the people in my theatre went nuts when he flamed on. They can make this work, give him a ruthless personallity after everybody he lost died and then he went on a rampage, eventually killing his reality's doom and taking all his stuff. He'd still be tony stark just cosplaying as doom. If he's ACTUALLY victor von Doom its gonna be lame AF
Bruh Cillian Murphy would have smashed this role just from his menacing face and eyes. They really blew the ball on this I feel. Cillian Murphy said he’d be open to it if the script was good, but considering how serious Cillian takes his roles, I can’t see him being fond of a multiverse movie.
As Jeremy said, this feels desperate and, imo, a little sad that we’ve reached the point where this is even seriously considered. The “reuse” of actors in Deadpool and Wolverine was a literal joke and it worked great, but this is just bizarre because it’s not a joke.
Bruh, chill. You didn't notice but in multiple movies, actors played many different roles, not just one. He doesn't have to be just an iron man dude. Plus, he's nailed every character he's played so just let him cook dude.
Had to know they were eventually going to backup a Brinks truck for RDJ with the way things are going, but I didn’t think it would be for this role. I have a feeling I’m going to range from probably not liking how they explain this one to absolutely hating how they explain this one.
A lot of folks defending this claiming "the comics bring characters and variants back from the dead and do evil one off versions of heroes all the time this is on brand" without realising those very same practices that helped erode investment in and slowly kill the comics industry.
Dude, absolutely agreed lmao. This and multiverses, alongside politics and attacking fans online, killed comics and true talent within them, because of how lazy it is.
It's worse dude. They confirmed this Doom appears in FF4 and is intended to be that universe's variant of Tony Stark except his name is Victor Von Doom and he's evil.
The line he said on stage "different mask...same task" really struck me as a Stark variant that became obsessed with the whole armor around the world thing
He has been confirmed to be Victor Von Doom but Doctor Doom and Iron Man are very similar in the sense that they’re both geniuses who build their own tech and that So casting RDJ is really good casting and he’s for sure gonna kill it and bring his A Game
Truly ridiculous. The multiverse is the worst thing to happen to Marvel because nothing can be taken serious now. Anything can be changed, fixed, anyone can be brought back to life with the cheapest excuse: "oh it's because the multiverse". Extremely lazy writing and extremely desperate move by Marvel.
@@nicholasnajibi3082 nah he's right. Movies haven't at all been that way since the inception of film-making. Maybe the odd science fiction has been, yes, but real movies have characters written into their stories that suffer real consequences and a characters' death is usually final. They're anchors for true storytelling. Disney, on the other hand, thought that the multiverse was their answer to unlimited stories to make, where no character could ever really do wrong, where any and all mistakes can be blamed on the multiverse and therefore, reversed. But it has backfired and now people see through the sloppy, lazy writing.
"anyone can be brought back to life with the cheapest excuse: "oh it's because the multiverse"." ... do you realise the media that you're commenting this about? Like, I'm not saying this as someone who is excited about RDJ coming back (in fact it's a cheap shot and I agree that its lazy writing). I just think it's hilarious since comics USED to just kill a character and that's it. I mean there's an expression of "no one stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben", which broke in 2005 because DC brought back Jason Todd as Red Hood and Marvel brought back Bucky as The Winter Soldier (literally three months a part). Now, comic readers aren't as attached to the death of characters because we know they'll be brought back again.
I think, though, that Doom is only Doom because of DECADES of character back story in the comics - and Marvel doesn't have decades to get him into the mix. This might be the only way to shortcut that process.
@@Therealbeastgohan Hey man, people are gonna have opinions. But as a person who loved RDJ’s performance in Oppenheimer. I have no doubt he’ll kill it. Would I have casted him? Nah, I’d get a new or lesser known actor but we have RDJ as Doom now and I’d be a damn fool to not think of the fascinating routes this could take.
@@Therealbeastgohan People say this with conventions and trailers, but the whole purpose of these events are to get people excited for upcoming projects. If people are more worried than excited, the people in charge of creating these projects really didn't do their job, in most cases. I'll fully admit that this could prove to be untrue, but as of now, I don't agree with the concept of bringing back RDJ, and Disney really hasn't done a great job at convincing me otherwise. I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong, and there's more than enough time for this to happen. From where I'm sitting, fans are justifiably concerned. Not up in arms, just skeptical, and that seems justified.
@@davidmhh9977 concerned about what the only thing that's justified to complain about is rdj as doom that's fair criticism but anything else it just untrue
Trust me they will do the sleight of hand trick and reveal him or other amazing actors as the actual Doom. RDJ is just the buzzmaker variant. It also makes sense how he can be a variant. Its a MULTIVERSE for a reason. This is all a plan. He is not main DOOM.
@@jaesea323Well it's stupid to you , but there are others who love it. The public is split. I agree that it's stupid to have RDJ come back as Doctor Doom. I swear it should've been someone else. We'll just have to wait and see how the Russo Brothers are going to deliver it. They have a good track record though.... Captain America:The Winter Soldier Captain America:Civil War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame That's a helluva record for a movie Director.
the problem is either no one is going to accept seeing him as a different character, we've had 13 years of him as the face of the MCU as tony stark. or they are going to have doom be a multiverse evil stark and ruin the character that way instead.
@@GreatSageSunWukong You don't speak for me. I accept him as a different character. He's an actor, he has played multiple different roles over his career. It's not our fault that you can't differentiate between an actor and the roles he plays. Go watch Oppenheimer, he won an Oscar for playing Lewis Strauss, a character that is completely different from Tony Stark.
@@vashsunglasses Those are different movies, not at all connected to marvel. It's that same as if chris evan's human torch would show up. Everyone knows him as captain america in the franchise. Saying actors are able to play different roles is stupid and you know it, because that is a given. But within the same franchise its weird and people will see him as tony stark, and will find ways to connect him to tony stark.
@Necrostatix buddy I don't care if people see him as Tony stark that's a brain dead take jesus christ. The announcement alone that RDJ will play doom will pull mio of people at cinema.
That says everything about a section of Marvel fan base right. That it would have been cool before, but now not, just gives credence that it’s just a bunch of crybabies, whining and bitching just to whine and bitch. It’s the same with Star Wars, it ridiculous nonsense, and why the producers don’t listen. Instead of giving feedback on what is actually not working, you bitch of nonsense that doesn’t matter, so it appears as you’re just trolls. You act like there wasn’t the same bitchiness about various movies in the infinity Saga.
@@PureEntertainment-PEthey don’t care about the money, they do care about ruining his association with the hero because that has effects that span into the future world these cretins envision.
My initial reaction is honestly repulsion. For so many reasons but the main feeling its that this stems from creative bankruptcy more than anything else which is always a recipe for disaster.
@@sachintendulkar3556At the same time though Hollywood has never cared so LITTLE about movie stars. Actors use to sell movies now the brand sells it instead but somehow it's horse-shoeing back around to making a handful of those actors actually important again.
It is a little desperation, but it is warranted to an extent. I think people keep forgetting that we're only like 6 months out from Jonathan Majors being found guilty and Marvel having to completely rewrite the arc they were going for into something else. They needed another larger than life actor to play the biggest bad, and they didn't want to risk someone that hadn't been in their movies yet. So they went with a sure thing... it's the only non-risk they're taking really. Because let's face it... if the next Avengers movie after Doomsday is Secret Wars... that means much like with Infinity War... Doom's gonna win.
@@quiotu I didn't forgot and i don't think that ppl with half a brain also forgot that. Its not about risk, its about what Jeremy said and most of the talented creatives of MCU are gone, so they are literally incapable of fixing it properly and they went for the most lazy solution. Briging back RDJ as Dr. Doom, or Doom's variant of Stark just undermines his legacy from the Inifinty Saga, if they decided to drop the actor, it should stay that way, now they just proven to us once again that they are creatively bancrupt, besides there are plenty of other good actors. I also like the fact, that they're brining back the Russo brothers, but there's a catch, in the Infinity Saga they had everything set up almost flawlessly, phases 4 & 5 are inconhierent sludge of failure, like, it was literally throw everything at the wall and we'll see what sticks, almost all of it was a total trainwreck, or a mediocre bowl of nothing and almost none of it was connected , or it was done very poorly, so the material that Russo's have to work with now is a monumental mess. So yeah, I think its just stupid, but we'll see, RDJ and Russo's have done incredible things, so there's a slim chance...very slim. I also think its not entirely about the actor, it's about the character, Dr Doom is one of the biggest baddies, his mention alone will bring hype, combine it with a well matched actor and i don't see any risk in that, you don't have to bring RDJ for that.
@Kratoss9 The risk is the actor and not the character, you are right about that. But that's my point. Everything they're doing is a risk aside from RDJ. Why risk bringing in a new actor that's never been in a Marvel film, when you can bring in a beloved veteran and heel turn him to start what's basically a villain-centric story arc with a bang. I dunno, I just don't get the hate for it, especially when this was all done on incredibly short notice.
@@quiotu Casting a matching actor is really not hard. The hate is justified, because it's a closed phase, they were the one's that closed it, everybody like it and now they're on their way to ruin it just because they can't think of anything else, the short notice is not an excuse for me, being hasty is not a good way to do it, either you do it well, or don't do it at all, at this point i think everyone is wiling to wait longer for something that's actually well written and high quality and not a cheap nostalgia bait.
@@SirArthurTheGreat lol Still can’t over the good job they did with Winter Soldier man. Too bad secret invasion wasnt done like that. Didn’t even bother
@@sauce8277 Secret Invasion feels more like C story for an Avengers comic.. It doesn't feel like spy thriller, at all.. Russo Bros. actually managed to make people excited about Captain America.. I didn't feel the least bit excited for A Brave New World...
@@HafidzMurshidie Interestingly, I think a Brave New World will end up decent. Something about the visuals for the trailer felt “winter soldier-esque” and I am hoping it’s because of actual direction this time around. And usually using all logic to say “not it won’t”. I hope I’m right. Or maybe it’s better if I am wrong. Will see…
I’ve BEEN sayin Kevin Fiegie’s attitude towards certain characters have been a problem.. he literally said “Nobody else can do certain characters better” and then brought back Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Daredevil, Punisher, Wolverine because he didn’t wanna put in the effort to get good writers and to create a new iteration. This shit’s lazy man.
Word after seeing the deadpool film I'm left even more puzzled at the structure of the world and this is supposedly meant to be apart of phase 5?... I forgot about the phases when guardians hit
I stopped watching after endgame and I haven't seen anything Marvel have done since that's likely to change my mind. I watched the latest Spiderman movie which was decent but that's it.
@@ItsAv3rageGamer Me too, I've been done with it since Endgame, I liked the 2 sony spiderman films alot but even bringing Toby back didn't get me interested enough to see that one, I never watched the Andrew one and I don't like tom's spiderman so why bother when I probably wouldn't know what happening and I don't care enough to chase up older films to find out. they seem to be focusing on a tiny amount of marvel hyper fans who consume everything rather then remembering about the general audience which made the MCU a massive success in the first place.
Not really. The fact that variants s exists disproves this statement. If that concept didn't exist and they did this then I would agree with you. But since that concept exists, you were undoubtedly going to get a story at some point of a variant of a already existing character. Which I don't have a problem with because it creates another level of storytelling. There's going to be multiple people who might have to fight. Victor von Doom who actually had a very close relationship with Tony Stark and it's going to really fuck them up to have to do this and Victor is going to definitely use that to his advantage to mess with their heads.
@@Grimjr7What? They literally said it’s not a variant? Did you not listen to anything the Russo brothers said? The said this is there version of victor von doom
This is unmistakenly Disney pulling a desperation card. But it’s warranted. With the way, they have been building up Kang and the whole controversy with Jonathan Majors even if you recast him at this point in the current saga he would just feel like a B tier villain in an avengers movie. I am for this. I think there is a lot of positives for it, but they have to nail it with every opportunity they have. This is basically a high risk, high reward, move they’re making. And if they misstep, it’s gonna really fall.
I mean we all knew RDJ was coming back just from the sheer desperate stupidity of Disney. We knew Disney was desperate in all their sectors including the MCU and was going to hit the emergency red button that says "Pay RDJ how many billions of dollars he wants to come back". But as Victor Von Doom?....Infamous Iron Man?
It's just so stupid, on brand with Disney (they basically became real life Vought, it's not a parody anymore). We knew all the actors would come back to play a role in Secret Wars, cameos or not, it's obvious, old actors who started the superhero trend back in the early 00s (including Blade and others), Chris Evans playing two characters as a joke, etc.. all this stuff is just cheap fanservice, who cares, but you have to buy in, believe Doom is a multiversal threat, a dangerous character and so on... and you force fanservice even with Doom? Just so dumb. They already performed a miracle with Thanos, a stupid purple monster who somehow was threatening and believable (the CGi will age badly), I honestly never expected they would nail Kang or Doom, there's a limit of how many miracles you can perform... and here we are, Disney being disgraceful as usual
I thought he was Iron Man? How can you play two different characters in the same universe? Are they the same character? Like an alter ego? I have not watched a single Marvel movie since Endgame, maybe I am missing something? Guys...?
I knew RDJ was coming back but not like this!!! This is crazy. Cillian Murphy should've been Doom or another British actor. Michael Fassbender in my opinion could've been another great candidate for Doom. This is just terrible.
Robert Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom/Dr. Doom is honestly a mixed bag in terms of choice. On one hand, from a character wise and ability wise standpoint, it makes sense given that Doctor Doom is like a mix of Iron Man and Doctor Strange, with equal parts brilliance and ego being a common feature of the 3 aforementioned characters. If Benedict Cumberbatch who famously played Sherlock Holmes can also play Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, it makes a certain amount of sense that the other actor who famously played Sherlock Holmes could play his more malevolent magical counterpart, Doctor Doom. It also helped that in the comics, Doctor Doom did do a stint as the Infamous Iron Man, so that's at least an angle that the MCU could approach Doom from. On the other hand, the problem with RDJ as Doctor Doom is that RDJ as Iron Man will be a practically insurmountable shadow to try to get out of. For better or worse, Robert Downey Jr. IS Tony Stark/Iron Man of the MCU. RDJ is as synonymous and inseparable from people's perception of Iron Man as Ryan Reynolds is to Deadpool or Hugh Jackman is to Wolverine. It's a type of almost impossible to escape from typecasting. The decade long iconic legacy of RDJ Tony Stark _will_ understandably overshadow RDJ as Doctor Doom. When people watch a film with RDJ, they're almost always expecting some variant of the snarky, cocky Tony Stark because the cultural cementing of RDJ as MCU Tony Stark is THAT strong. It's like watching a film with Ryan Reynolds in it and trying to expect Reynolds to not play Ryan Reynolds. And I know that RDJ can play a good antagonist role like he did in _Oppenheimer_ but there's a difference between playing an evil real life bureuacrat like Strauss and playing _Doctor Motherfvcking Doom_ . It requires a level of gravitas, menace, and oomph factor that not many top tier actors possess to play the iconic Doctor Doom. Playing Doctor Doom is an extremely difficult role to pull off, which is why the 2 live action Dooms we did get have been abject failures and duds. And I honestly don't know if RDJ has the sauce to perform a memorable Doctor Doom, especially with the legacy of MCU Tony Stark shadowing over him. And I don't know if I can take RDJ with an Eastern European accent as Doctor Doom seriously. So honestly, I dont know if going with a lesser known talented actor would've been a better choice to play Doctor Doom than Robert Downey Jr. There's just quite a few pros and cons along with a whole lot of ambiguity and uncertainty. And if I were to do some speculation on alternative actors who could play Doctor Doom, while knowing it won't happen because of the official announcement, the alternative actors for Dr Doom that I do have in mind also have some attached drawbacks in terms of feasibility as well. 1) Vincent Cassel could be a good choice for Doctor Doom, since a lot of the modern depictions of the unscarred Victor Von Doom in the comics is clearly visually inspired by Vincent Cassel. And Cassel is a good actor but I don't know if he's a great actor, one with the titanic acting ability to play a great Doctor Doom. Being the visual inspiration of Victor Von Doom in the comics does not always translate to having the acting chops to play a live action Victor Von Doom. 2) Michael Fassbender, I believe, could play a good Doctor Doom. He's good with accents and I quite liked his performance as Magneto in the -Men films, so he at least has some experience in playing a famous comic book supervillain/antagonist who's menacing and powerful but also sympathetic and tragic. Both Jews and Roma people, among others, were genocided en masse by the N-a-zis in the Holocaust, so there's at least a similar strain of marginalized community originating tragic backstory between Magneto and Doctor Doom that Fassbender could carry over. So yeah, Fassbender as Doctor Doom would be a casting choice that has veey few downsides. 3) Mads Mikkelsen could have been a viable choice for Doctor Doom and it's not like the MCU hasn't had actors double casted in roles before. He's certainly got the acting avility, gravitas, and menace although admittedly, it is also true that he is a bit overplayed and typecast too much as the villain in roles so there's also a chance that his iconic performance as Hannibal could have been a problem. 4) Anthony Starr could be a viable choice as Doctor Doom. He's got the acting ability and menace to play a terrifying villain like Doctor Doom. But it's also true that Starr would have a similar problem as RDJ in that when people think of Anthony Starr, they think Homelander and I guess the associated R-rated inappropriateness of The Boys and Homelander just would not gel well with Disney MCU's branding, for understandable reasons honestly. And also, a major part of Starr's iconic and terrifying performance as Homelander is the precise facial acting that makes every second that Homelander and his face is onscreen feel unpredictable and dangerous. One of the major difficulties of playing Doctor Doom onscreen is the fact that Doom wears his mask like 95% of the time, so there's a hard limit to what can be expressed with the mask, which is why Doom is an exceedingly difficult role for actors who specialize in facial acting like Starr to do. Acting well with a mask helmet is much harder than it looks, as it requires great body acting and voice acting to compensate for the lack of facial acting to really sell the performance. For example, Tom Hardy is very well known for his body language acting, especially acting with just his eyes when his face is covered, which he's demonstrated in _Dunkirk_ where he played a WWII pilot who had his face covered most of the time, and most notably in Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy, where he played Bane and with his physicality, body language acting, and voice acting, he was able to sell the performance of Bane in a way that a lot of other actors wouldn't be able to. So yeah, the requirement of good body language acting and voice acting to an extent is also one of the reasons why playing a live action Doctor Doom is extremely hard to pull off. 5) Adam Driver as Doctor Doom. This one is honestly a long shot, especially with his previous not so great time working with Disney in Star Wars, but I could honestly see Adam Driver as Victor Von Doom. He's got the acting chops, the deep voice, and the physicality to play Doom along with experience in acting with a masked helmet. The baggage and the fact that Driver is hit or miss with accents of why I would put Adam Driver as my second choice behind Michael Fassbender for playing Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom. 6) And speaking of Star Wars, it just occured to me that a way to solve the difficult casting problems of finding an acting skilled enough in body acting and voice acting would be to do what they did with Darth Vader and split the role between 2 specialized actors, namely 1 actor to do the physical acting of Doctor Doom in his suit (preferably a physical syit rather than a CGI motion capture suit) and the other being a professional voice actor who can deliver the dramatic monologues that Doom is known for. Two specialized actors to get the best of both worlds. It's not like the MCU hasn't done stuff like this before as in the case of Rocket Raccoon and Groot, etc. Well, this speculation was fun to do but it's not like it'll matter in the end, given that Robert Downey Jr. has already been officially announced as playing Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom in the MCU.
@@dark_antihero even in the worst movies ever, someone makes enough money to buy a house I would star in a awful movie if it meant giving my mom a house to retire to
He was my dream cast too but I don’t see him being into signing a long term contract w Marvel. He’s a very lowkey and quiet kind of guy where as we all know how marvel fans and media are, I don’t see him being into what comes w taking the role. None the less, he would be absolutely perfect!
Cilian Murphy is an amazing actor. But he couldn't play doom as Murphy thrives in subtle and complex people and not a larger than life egotistical dictator
litttle sense it makes? You forget RDJ can play different roles because he is a well established actor… Like we just saw Chris Evans play TWO heroes so its not too far fetched with how long Marvel movies have been around. It’s a NEW era
@willemdaho3 Same as the Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic casting, just because an actor can act well, doesn't mean they're right for the role. In all honesty I'd cast Pedro as Doom over Fantastic.
"How would that work, they're in two different cities with entirely different styles and busy schedules? "It's actually incredibly easy, barely an inconvenience"
well, if RDJ only comes back if the script is high quality, I am all in for it. But seeing that not even Christian Bale could do this, I am not letting myself getting hyped.
I wouldn't say panic mode. if deadpool and wolverine bombed, i'd agree with you. As far as Downey playing doom. I don't have a problem with it. I'd have more of a problem if they had brought back RDJ as iron man, since it'd defeat the purpose of his sacrifice. Issue with the the new avengers films is whether audiences will care about the new avengers. You got falcon as cap, a meh black panther after the passing of Chadwick, a spider man that's on his way out, shang chi, who most people have already forgotten. Captain marvel? Some of the xmen? They haven't done a good job of building up these characters towards these new avengers films. I would have rather seen a reboot at this point. Since there were already to many missteps. I think the films will do fine, but nowhere near the level of endgame and infinity war. Definitely hard times as an mcu fan, and having RDJ back in any capacity is a welcome sight.
Ron White made the diamonds joke “diamonds. That’ll shut her up. For a minute” Personally, just casting him makes it feel like the universe is small. Now a Doom vs Ironman would have been good. Plus the last thing I want (but predicted) was that Doom’s armor would be Stark Tech
@@Catdaddy17 Because it's a famous quote from debatably the best comic book movie of all time, The Dark Knight, and it funnily enough rings true more often than not.
Appreciate that someone is actually being analytical and not just reciting that played out nonsensical “live long enough to become the villain” quote. This is seriously MCU’s jumping the shark moment. To those of you who are old enough to remember, this gives me WrestleMania 17 SCSA turning heel vibes.
That's a terrible wrestling analogy. Austin wasn't turned heel out of desperation, it was just a badly received creative decision. And in this MCU case, it's not like they are killing off Tony in order to make RDJ a bad guy. The prior had already run its course.
Current MCU is so desperate trying to gain its fame back instead of focusing on good writing they are doing fan service bruh I really think RDJ and Chris Evans shouldn't do superhero movies for a while because that would be disastrous for their acting career too I would really like RDJ for some realistic roles like he did in Oppenheimer and Chris in Gifted ❤
@@DarksideGmss0513Both can be true. Disney wants him to do it, so they offered him the job. RDJ liked working for them, so he came back for that paycheck
One possibility I haven't seen discussed is that they're looking for a way to close out the Multiverse saga. The Kang Dynasty was meant to be what the Multiverse saga was all building towards. Now, they need a new big bad for Avengers 5 and 6 that will also serve as the Multiverse Saga's final boss. And here we are
I think you’re halfway there. They’re most likely retooling the Kang Dynasty story to center around Dr Doom instead of Kang. So, instead of getting a bunch of different Kang variants, we’re going to get all kinds of Doom variants, and RDJ is just one of them. I get the feeling that this is a way of getting ahead of cameo leaks. Instead of hiding the cameos, they’re advertising it front and center while keeping the casting of the real Dr Doom a secret. Show them the left hand so they don’t see what the right hand is doing.
@@VOXiverothey most likely will but will kill them off in the next avengers movie making doom a multiversal god or something rdj most likely will be THE dr doom until after secret wars
You probably haven’t seen that discussed because Marvel has been saying from the get-go that Avengers 6 would be the end of the Multiverse Saga. Nothing to speculate about as far as them looking for a way to close it out goes because that’s precisely what they’ve been saying they wanna do the whole time
from what i understand from watching the NewRockstars livestream last night, Erik and Jessica, who were in Hall H last night, confirmed that he is playing Victor Von Doom, *not* a Tony Stark variant.
They had the perfect low-hanging fruit: Doom swoops in and “saves” Sokovia after Ultron destroys it and becomes the benevolent dictator he is supposed to be. They just completely ignored it.
One issue the MCU couldnt have helped was that the mainline movies and team ended. Its like when a sports team wins a Super Bowl or World Series and everybody is a free agent. But hollywood doesnt understand its fine to let things end. Ive been saying for a while now that anything after Endgame thats actually good is just a bonus.
The fans weren't cheering/excited for RDJ playing as Doctor Doom.....-_- they were cheering/excited of the fact that Marvel brought back RDJ to be in Avengers/MCU again 😁
Disney are so lazy when it comes to incorporating new character. They use this "Multiverse" to make them all connect and now the plot becoming like a "meh". The whole MCU turned to a full "Fan Service" genre.
The problem I feel with this is doom won’t feel like the real doom. Just an evil tony stark with magic abilities. I’m totally a fan of there being and evil tony but make it an ACTUAL evil tony stark. We want a definitive version of victor not a variant. WE WANT DOOM. I’m gonna still look forward to seeing how they do with this because if done properly it could work and make sense and be accepted but right now just feels weird.
A charitable take: After the implosion of Jonathan Majors as Kang, Marvel Studios needed a strong villain to fill in the gap, while still hitting beats that they have been putting down throughout this (admittedly lackluster) phase. Dr. Doom fills in nicely, allowing a bridge into the universe for the Fantastic Four (again?), while also having had considerable comic ties with Spider-Man, who is now effectively in limbo in the MCU, post “NWH”. Given Tony & Peter also have considerable personal history, this also nicely facilitates the closing of certain narrative loops. IT COULD work well. But yeah: it does seem a little like flailing.
You started off on the right foot with "A charitable take". But it's hard to believe it as anything else besides desperation. Plenty of solid choices to play Dr. Doom but they went back to RDJ (who should have declined to allow another less known actor to play the role).
Here’s the new X-Men line up: Cyclops: Chris Evans Wolverine: Chris Hemsworth Jean Grey: Scarlett Johansson Beast: Mark Ruffalo Prof X: RDJ with a bald cap Gambit: Jeremy Renner Rogue: Brie Larson
I don't think Robert Downey Jr. would return to the Marvel Universe solely for the money. I believe he must have faith in the project and the overarching vision. If he does come back, it will likely be because the story resonates with him, and ultimately, it will resonate with us when we see the movie. In my opinion, he values his connection with the fans too much to come back just for a paycheck.
You're right Jeremy. Marvel Disney is just so desperate at this point just to make money out of RDJ. Absolutely pathetic. I'd rather see Jonathan Majors back as Kang.