What Could Doctor Doom's Plan Be In 'Avengers: Doomsday'?
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As Marvel's Multiverse Saga nears its end, all eyes in the fandom are locked on Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars—the two-part epic set to conclude the last five years of Marvel storytelling. The heroes are assembling, the teams are forming... but one question looms above it all: Doom. Or more specifically, what exactly is Doctor Doom planning? What happens when the MCU's ultimate wildcard—an evil Tony Stark—steps onto the board? Perhaps…Put a suit of armor around the world?
Tony Stark Or Doctor Doom?
As stated earlier, the MCU version of Doctor Doom will be played by none other than Robert Downey Jr. himself. For many fans of the Marvel comics, Doctor Doom is a fascinating villain. He is connected to the Fantastic Four and has played many roles in various Marvel storylines, making him a major player in the main universe—a great example, of course, being the comic version of Secret Wars.
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In the 2015 version of Secret Wars, Doctor Doom essentially gains the power of a god as he merges the Multiverse together and attempts to remake it in his own image. Many people believe that this could very much be the basis for Doctor Doom’s plan in Secret Wars. But he did it, to protect life, not destroy it. A very Stark-like motive
In Age of Ultron, Tony Stark said he had a vision—to put a suit of armor around the world. He feared that something from the stars would be the “Endgame.” While Tony’s obsession with defending Earth was noble, it also led him to make some bad choices, such as creating Ultron
What if Doctor Doom, having some connection to Stark, also sees himself not as a villain but as a hero? Doctor Doom believes that everything he does, and every action he takes, is to save the Multiverse—not to destroy it.
It’s possible that Doctor Doom’s version of putting a suit of armor around the Multiverse is to merge all its best elements—ultimately creating what would eventually become Battleworld. In the Secret Wars comic, Battleworld is where all the variants of the Marvel Universe are brought together and forced to fight for survival, with Doom reigning as a god.
Stark has always been someone accused of having a God complex in the MCU. So could Doom have gone the way of the dark side and begun to think of himself as a god over mere mortals? It would be something very much in the spirit of the character, going back to the comics themselves.
The Era Of Doom Begins
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Doctor Doom is one of those villains in the Marvel Universe where even if he wins it’s not necessarily a bad thing. There have been times when the heroes have wondered if they should even let him win, wondering if for the greater good things might work out. With Doom being connected to this Stark perhaps in Doomsday it’s going to make the heroes question whether or not he’s even a true villain or not.
Doom is also a villain who, like Stark, is obsessed with control. He has a desire to ensure that chaos never reaches his home or his world. He will do anything to maintain order, even if it means going to extremes. Again, like Stark—who also became a man driven by the need to be in control and went to great lengths to ensure that control—the difference is that Stark had friends to pull him back from the brink, whereas Doom did not.
Doctor Doom might unleash destruction across the Marvel Multiverse, but that doesn’t mean his end goal is destruction. If anything, what he’s doing might be part of his own twisted desire to protect the world—to put a suit of armor around it.
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