Because of course it is.
Marvel fans are up in arms (again) over the possibility that Robert Downey Jr.—yes, THE Iron Man—is going to be playing Doctor Doom. And according to the internet, this is a crime so heinous, it might just tear the multiverse apart (again).
But before you grab your pitchforks and doom masks, maybe take a deep breath and remember that this is the MCU we’re talking about. The same MCU that made us think Mephisto was hiding behind every curtain and had everyone convinced John Krasinski was the permanent Mr. Fantastic.
Now let’s entertain a wild, completely outrageous, totally based in Marvel comic canon idea: what if he’s not even playing Victor Von Doom?
Gasp.
Let’s not forget, Tony Stark and Doom have swapped armor and ideologies before. In the Infamous Iron Man run, Doom literally puts on the Iron Man suit and tries his hand at being a “good guy.” And in the multiverse—where variants are practically falling out of portals—who’s to say this isn’t a Doom-like Tony Stark or a Starked-out version of Doom?
It’s almost like… I don’t know… Marvel is setting up Secret Wars, a massive event involving multiversal mayhem, where characters swap identities, costumes, and occasionally entire moral alignments. But sure, let’s rage online before we even know what’s happening.
And let’s not ignore Marvel’s favorite sport: audience trolling. This is the studio that showed Hulk in Wakanda in trailers just to mess with us. Do you really think they’re going to lay their biggest twist cards on the table before release?
So maybe—just maybe—RDJ isn’t “ruining” Doom. Maybe this is Marvel doing what Marvel does: mixing things up, flipping expectations, and watching Twitter lose its collective mind.
Calm down, internet. It’s not that deep. Yet.
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