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Marvel Studios returned to Comic-Con after 2 years with the Doctor Victor Von Doom surprise, and they did not disappoint.
In July 2022, Avengers 5 and 6 were first announced, with the film titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Shang-Chi Director Destin Daniel Cretton was announced to be directing this movie, and since then, a lot has unfolded, with Jonathan Majors getting wrapped up in a lawsuit and getting fired from Disney, Destin Daniel Cretton walking away from directing Avengers 5. Additionally, the recent Marvel Studios' multiverse projects have also failed to hit the mark with the fans.
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However, on July 27, 2024, at SDCC Hall H, Marvel Studios Kevin Feige officially announced the directors for the upcoming Avengers movies and made casting announcements.
The new films will now be directed by the Russo brothers. The first movie, Avengers: Doomsday, is slated to release in May 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars in May 2027.
At the Comicon, Robert Downey Jr also revealed his new avatar after taking off his mask and telling the audience:
“New mask ~ same task. What can I tell you? I like playing complicated characters.”
Robert Downey Jr. will star as Doctor Victor Von Doom in the upcoming Avenger films. Doctor Doom, the rival of the Fantastic Four, is a complex character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirbborn. After Doom's face got disfigured in a failed time trial attempt, he forged a mask for himself.
Although he is considered a supervillain because he seeks immense power, Doom doesn’t have evil intentions. His key weapon is his superhuman intellect, and after Doctor Strange, Doom was the potential candidate for Sorcerer Supreme.
With the former Iron Man star now turning into a villain for the MCU, it will be an interesting watch. The article will discuss five things that the fans should know about the villain before catching a glimpse of Avengers 5 shortly.
Five things a Marvel fan should know about Doctor Victor Von Doom
1) Origins
Doctor Victor Von Doom is one of Marvel’s pivotal and biggest villains, created by the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Victor Von Doom first appeared in Fantastic Four Issue 5 in July 1982. A great scientist, Dr. Doom, tried to build a machine initially to travel back in time and bring his mother back; however, the operation failed and gave him a scarred face, because of which he started wearing an iron mask along with armor, to hide himself.
2) Powers
Considering the powers of Doctor Victor Von Doom, who is knowledgeable about both science and magical subjects and has a wide range of skills which include:
- Genius-level intellect.
- Mastery of dark magic.
- Mind transference.
- Technopathy.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant
- Powered armor grants
- Superhuman strength and durability.
- Flight.
- Force field generation.
- Gauntlet lasers and force blasts.
- Various hidden gadgets and high-tech weapons.
3) Robert Downey Jr's history with Doctor Victor Von Doom's character
Doctor Victor Von Doom will be the next big villain in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret War, which will be directed by the Russo brothers, with Van Doom to be played by Robert Downey Jr., as we already know.
Robert had initially auditioned for the role of Dr. Doom, according to an interview with Deadline, previously for the original Fantastic Four films but was rejected by the showrunners. He later took the lead and played Ironman.
Doctor Doom's character was also played previously by Julian McMahon in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). Toby Kebbell also played Van Doom in the last film, Fantastic 4 (2015).
4) Doctor Doom, aka the master of manipulation
Doctor Doom, aka Victor Van Doom, is a Latverian politician who previously stole the power of the silver surfer. In Avengers Emperor Doom (1987), Dr. Doom used a psycho prison to imprison Purple Man and later used his willpower manipulation to enable everyone on Earth to be on Doom’s side and obey him. Doom has also embarrassed Walter Langkowski and Bruce Banners, among other superheroes.
5) Saved the Multiverse
In Secret Wars (2015), the Beyonders were about to destroy all of creation with the Molecule men. However, Molecule Man - another character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (Earth -616), Dr. Doom, and Doctor Strange came to the rescue of the Multiverse by targeting Molecule men from multiple realities and making a super weapon to destroy the Beyonders, after which Doom recreated reality.
Molecule Man transferred the Beyonder's absorbed powers to Doom.
With Robert Downey Jr confirmed to play Doctor Victor Von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, fans are excited and are looking forward to the same.
