Robert Downey Jr. made the most important splash at San Diego Comedian-Con this previous week, arriving in grand vogue to announce his comeback to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Simply months after his first Academy Award win, and weeks earlier than making his Broadway debut, the 59-year-old actor was revealed by the Russo brothers to be the brand new face of Victor von Doom aka Physician Doom.
On the conference, a sequence of actors enjoying Doom clones had been introduced out on stage, and the one within the center then took his masks off to disclose himself to be none aside from the Oppenheimer star himself.
“New masks, similar process,” he joked to the group. “What can I say, I like enjoying difficult characters.” His look was met with rapturous cheers and applause.
Robert will play Physician Doom within the upcoming two Avengers films, Avengers: Doomsday in 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars in 2027. The Russo brothers have additionally said that the flicks can be set within the multiverse, permitting for the potential for crossovers between Marvel franchises.
© Getty PicturesThe looks can be Robert’s first in a Marvel manufacturing since 2019’s historic Avengers: Endgame, and whereas we’ll take any likelihood we are able to get to welcome again Tony Stark, many Marvel followers do not feel the identical.
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A standard consensus amongst feedback shared on social media between devoted MCU followers is that the actor’s casting appears extra business and fan service-driven vs precise plot and consistency.
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As of now, Robert’s model of Physician Doom is being introduced as a standalone character that doesn’t function a multiverse variant of any type for Tony Stark/Iron Man, and a few Marvel followers puzzled whether or not it was simply price bringing a model new star into the franchise as an alternative versus one closely related to a signature character.
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One wrote on X: “It is a horrible thought. All of the casting potential. All the probabilities. I do know there’s just a few tales on the market the place that is canon just like the storyline the place Stark and Doom are roommates and so they swap minds… Nevertheless it seems like a cop out,” and one other additionally added: “I get it is multiversity and blah blah blah, however Iron Man being Physician Doom means completely nothing to the MCU as we all know it and does nothing for the character Physician Doom. It is simply to promote tickets. It is boring, disrespectful to my fave, and would not make sense. Subsequent.”
© Getty PicturesNevertheless, many others had been thrilled to have the actor again within the MCU and urged that his pure star energy would work nicely for the position. One put it finest on X with: “Nevertheless you’re feeling in regards to the Doom casting, there is no such thing as a denying [Robert Downey Jr.] is among the most charismatic males alive, and he completely thrives in film stardom.”
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© Getty PicturesThe Russos have additionally teased {that a} collision of universes would possibly occur in Secret Wars, which leaves the house for an intersection between Doom and Stark, though it is but to be seen how or whether or not that can really happen.
