Should Robert Downey Jr. Return?

Robert Downey Jr wants to return to Iron Man! But should Marvel allow that? Five years on from Avengers: Endgame, the argument is easy to make for the MCU.

[uselessDM]

Nah, he had his arc and everything. Even thinking about it reeks of desperation from Disney.

[motomoto]

“We’ve decoded the intel from Marvel Studios and confirmed the worst… Somehow Iron Man returned”

[hellper]

If Sheev Palpatine can be brought back to life then, so can Tony Stark.
*Just because you can, does not mean you should.

[Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

This feels *almost* insulting. It feels like Disney is desperately jingling keys with RDJ on them, hoping we have the emotional intelligence of an actual toddler

[lovelydumpling]

If RDJ comes back it'd probably be better as a guest in a flashback movie set before Endgame.

[AM]

Here after the announcement at comic con yesterday

[darkwoods]

It's not Iron Man being gone that's the problem. It's the writing and production values. Bringing him back but with the modern quality of writing and production will just sully the character.

[Cris]

I think the best use of RDJ is a short hologram cameo recorded for Rhodey before his death in Armor Wars

[SpammytheHedgehog]

Even if they did bring Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man back, it ain't gonna change the current MCU.

[rx]

Man you really called that, nice work.

[CuteKiller]

RDJ would be great as Superior Iron Man, turn the charming confidence into threatening arrogance

[Shell-iqcx]

He should play a completely different/new character with absolutely no connection to Iron Man/Tony Stark. One person will say they kinda look like Iron Man, everybody else in the scene mocks them for saying that, and it's never brought up again

[lordpessimism]

If they wanted to bring RDJ back, they should have made him the AI of the Ironheart suit. This would avoid cheapening Tony's death, which a resurrection would do, and also gives an older actor a non-action role (and yes, I know Keanu is the same age). The value of bringing Tony back is his charm, not his fights, and he can add that to a movie with a couple of days in front of a green screen, then added into the movie as a hologram or floating head in the Ironheart HUD.

Plus, the role reversal would be a great source of laughs. Tony used to go back and forth with Jarvis, now he IS the Jarvis.

[AvocadoHank]

I think a big difference is now, is that people were going to Marvel movies and would get surprised. Now Marvel is uses these “surprises” as gimmicks. Literally nobody was surprised by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield returning or any other surprise. It’s not storytelling, it’s just empty moments

[LoveStallion]

There is no world where Brave New World performs on par with Winter Soldier let alone Civil War.

[Toshiro]

"Not a great plan" to quote Tony from The Avengers (2012).

[danielgrezda]

No but 90 percent chance he will. He smells how desperate marvel is now and this is the best time to negotiate a hundred million dollar contract.

[GT_Mr.C]

just as a variant. if they somehow bring mcu tony back from the dead then his sacrifice would mean nothing

[chrissolar]

Brining him back would be a short term win but would just be a bandaid, and would hurt in the long term. Imo

[fortynights]

Always a good day when Captain Midnight has some thoughts to share.