Why Is It Impossible To Get Doctor Doom Right?

Doctor Doom has been a mainstay in the Marvel canon for decades. He is one of the best villains ever put to the page, and has had several attempts at adapting him to the big screen. Though it has turned out adapting Doctor Doom to a feature film is a lot harder than expected. Will we get to see a new Doctor Doom before Marvel Studios releases it's Fantastic Four movie?

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Written by Dave Baker
Edited by Chris De Pew

[muddlewait]

The key to Doom is that he views every challenge as a problem to be solved and has absolute confidence that he can solve it. He is never in despair.

[alanhervert]

I would love to see our heroes defeating Kang only because of the help of Doom and then realizing that he’s an even bigger threat

[philosophicaljay]

Another thing that is completely abandoned when people try to adapt Doctor Doom, he is trying to save the world. He is the world's hero in his own mind. He saw many futures, and every one that he was not ruling the world had humanity wiped out while the one he saw with him ruling had humanity survive. To him, becoming the ruler of the world is a necessity in order to save humanity, and those that oppose him are literally working to doom the future of humanity.
This is why he is so comfortable doing so many evil things, because he views it as a necessary evil.

[PhantomBugler]

Doom refers to himself in the third person, that's the level of ego we're dealing with. The technical genius of Stark, the arcane talents of Strange, and the political swag of T'challa combined in one person. Yet it drives him crazy to see an absent-minded professor who easily discovers new dimensions and invent physics defying spacecraft in his penthouse suite get all the glory. As Doom himself would say, "Nations shall burn for this insult!"

[hiianimate]

boy oh boy I can’t wait to get a tony stark variant instead of the character we’ve been waiting for for years

[Dyiad]

I remember once reading a thing about how battles with Doom can go one of three ways.

1: If he's fighting against heroes, he loses, but in such a way that furthers his goals and either teaches the heroes a lesson or leaves them feeling hollow.

2: If he's fighting another villain, he wins, hands down. That's Doom's whole thing.

3: If he's fighting Squirrel Girl, he gets his ass beat, no two ways about it.

[nogh]

The fact that we got a better adaptation of DOOM in music than movie is amazing

[slightlydapperdwarf]

If marvel doesn't put MF DOOM's music (specifically his song "doomsday") into the Avengers Doomsday movie, I'm gonna flip.

[chuckontal]

The perfect short story that shows you who doom is is when Reed was unavailable to help Sue when she was delivering Valeria (after a very complicated backstory) and Johnny called Dr doom to help. He then proceeds to use all his intelligence and magic to deliver the baby successfully, claims naming rights to her and names her after a lost love, swears that she is now under the protection of Dr doom, becomes her godfather, and secretly makes her his familiar. What a guy.

[quadrodopollock]

The thing I love the most about Doom is that he does the unthinkable, the one thing villains don't do: He wins.
He is the most dangerous person on earth and everybody knows exactly where he is, they just can't get him. Which is awesome.

[bonglesnodkins]

I always loved the idea that under his mask, Doom just had a single small scar on his face, but he was such a narcissist and perfectionist that for him it warranted his use of the metal plate.

[ryangarza]

YouTube recommendations certainly has a good sense of humor

[lunch_bots]

All I want for his MCU adaptation is for his theme to be an ALL CAPS rendition.

[TechfulThinking]

To me, the fact that Doom was sent back to the beginning of time to relive all of existence elevates him to the level of a genius demigod. I think that Hollywood is unaware of how to portray such a massive presence without being accused of “Doom worship”

[jorgedanielrodriguez]

I can't believe they casted RDJ as Dr Doom 💀

[tashasupr]

To everyone saying "youre not gonna believe this 😜" "this aged well" thinking a corporation like disney is gonna spit out something original or new or innovative for doom when the first step was to recast an old movie star that was well into retirement just for a chance at reviving a dead franchise.... i need you to be so for real right now

[kingjames]

The thing with Doom is that any story told about him can't be contained by just one movie. You'll have to go full Avengers Saga style with his storytelling.

[hattoripool]

Why do other adaptations barely include both the mysticism and Tech side of Doom because normally many adaptations always include just the tech side

[E-Brightvoid]

Doctor Doom is an opera villain with a death ray. I fucking LOVE HIM

[warclown]

And here we are a year later and RDJ has been casted as Victor Van Doom. Let’s see how he does when we see him on the big screen😆😆