The Doctor Doom Theory That Perfectly Explains Why Robert Downey Jr Was Cast

Anchor beings, variants, and all the madness of the multiverse: We may not know why Robert Downey Jr. is playing Doom in the MCU — but that hasn't stopped fans from guessing.

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[Looper]

How do you think the MCU will explain RDJ being Doom?

[iliketowatch]

A boatload of cash would be a perfect explanation.

[The_Infamous_Boogyman]

Open film on kangs back. Rotate around to see his blue face. Kang says "they have meddled with my timelines, now there is nothing for them to do except..." SPLAT, kangs head explodes. Slowly from the shadows enters doom, finishing the sentence with "DIE!". Doomsday logo. Fade to black. Start movie.

[Jeeshansameer]

I Adore The Idea Of At Some Point God Of Stories Loki Comes Face To Face With Doom Iron Man Mirroring The First Avengers Movie With Loki As The Hero & Tony As The Villain

[Filmyzaada]

Imagine, movie starts with kangs and his variants from post credit scene of quantumania, kang is ready to take over multiverse and start his dynasty the title card appears (Avengers kang dynasty) in the background doom laughs and says not so soon and beats all kangs ass, kang didn’t expected him because he is from fantastic four universe’s earth as it got devoured by galactus, the survivors escape to 616 sacred timeline, after defeating all the kangs the title cards reappears but now with doomsday

[DaDez]

DC 2014: We cast Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor.

Marvel 2024: Hold my Beer

[attackontitanfollower]

My theory is that
They trying finding a replacement Tony Stark for there timeline by using dr stranger magic and Time Machine they used in endgame, but just when they thought they found the perfect one there’s one little mistake they make and turns out that he isn’t the Tony Stark they thought they pulled from another timeline but later to be revealed that he’s Dr Doom

[ChiragBH-gb]

I think this could perfectly explain why in endgame Dr.Strange after seeing 14million possibilities choose the one possibility in which iron man dies, because in all the other possibilities he see's that tony stark goes on to become Dr.Doom which could have been much harder task to handle than Thanos .

[GokulTube-hoss]

you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

Tony - Naahh I'm gonna do them both 😎

[DRossGaming]

My theory is at the end of Doomsday, our current Loki is acting as the beyonders from the comics(they're very simlar power-wise controlling the multiverse) and RDJ's Doom finds this out, goes to the void beyond time where loki is and says" you could not live with your own failure, where did that lead you? Back to me." But instead of snapping his fingers he snaps Loki's neck and takes his power, thus becoming god emperor Doom and with the help of the TVA/Time beings, he creates Battleworld.

[therealhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

In infinity war, doctor strange said that there was only one way out of thousands that earth 616 would survive, with iron man dead, because otherwise, he saw that he would have became dr doom and destroyed the world. Iron man died, to prevent this future. He could have in fact been the anchor being, and because the anchor being was gone, people of earth 616 didnt want their universe being erased. So they brought back another robert downey jr from a different universe, but this wasnt iron man, it was dr doom

[edthekoreanbrit]

My MCU RDJ Dr. Doom Theory: Through body switching or another plot mechanism, Viktor is inhabiting the body of a Tony Stark variant from another universe. As a last resort after realizing that it’s the only way (Consulting Dr. Strange on all potential future outcomes)….They agree to do what was sworn never to be done(A detail we’ll soon learn of, potentially even with foreshadowing in upcoming releases): The Avengers download Tony’s “saved state” consciousness from F.R.I.D.A.Y. By means of either a spell being cast or in some way more analogue, they manage force Victor back into his own body by integrating Tony’s consciousness into his alter. This climatically peaks with the return of Iron Man joining the team to defeat Doom, perfectly wrapping up the multiverse saga in a velvet bow and inevitably given a soft reboot following down the road.
- I also see a potential for them to declare OG Tony the anchor as a partial justification for The Avengers to make the tough choice.
- I’m still on the fence as to how much of the source material will be applied regarding Reed Richards.

[jackwilkinson]

This version of Doom being an evil variant of Tony Stark, that actually makes sense. What Tony would've become had he not chosen to shut down his weapon manufacturing

[petrairene]

An alternative universe Tony Stark turning into a villain and taking the pseudonym Dr Doom, who wants to take over the multiverse after conquering his own version of earth sounds like an interesting idea. A pre first movie Tony Stark turning into a supervillain is a realistic scenario.

[bjwhitley]

They already said his name would be victor von doom not tony stark

[johnpaulgonzalez]

If you can bring RDJ back for another role, how bout Idris Elba for Black Panther

[OneWingedDemonSlayer]

Tatiana Maslany should be in the films cause she’s just too gosh darn cute

[JamesWyatt-oj]

It's Doom in Stark's body. Read a comic

[jer]

What if, the script isn't even written or started yet. They are going to choose the best guess on how to write it.

[sohamchaudhary]

If they show doom exchanging body with tony in his universe so i would want that at the end of the movie he should go back to his original body and tony gets his body and comes back as iron man in secret wars and we get cillian murphy as dr doom in secret wars