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Avengers: Doomsday, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. May 2026. (lemmy.world)
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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Tony made Ultron as the ultimate defense around the world. I could see the idea going a slightly different way and that Tony being a little more ambitious/evil, next thing you know he's Doom.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I get that I'm in the minority, but I think this is going to not be related to Iron Man at all.

Rdj has range. And Doom wears a mask. I think he decided he was too old to keep playing Tony and wanted to retire the character on a high note, but the movies are fun to make and make him a mint, so when they offered a recast he went for it. But I don't think he'd want to screw with the completed story for Tony Stark's character.

I think RDJ is just going to play Doom, and he'll do a good enough job that no one is going to confuse the characters. Based on his acting choices, that's my guess.

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That just sounds super confusing. I know Marvel has done that with some smaller characters, but Tony Stark is the closest thing the MCU has/had to a main character. If it's not an alternate Ironman it'll just confuse audiences.

[–] ink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think it’d be confusing if they either never show his face, or only show his face as heavily disfigured.

I did worry about his voice though, as RDJ has a pretty distinct accent and way of speaking, but then I reasoned that he’s a good enough actor to put on an accent, and that Latveria, being a fictional country, could justify a strange accent and mask his speech, no pun intended.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah. To add to this: my husband was just reflecting on how dismayed Iron Man fans were when he was cast as Tony Stark in 2007. The consensus on forums like this was that he was a skinny, nebbish weirdo with a nasally voice who was probably too unreliable due to addiction issues to appear consistently in a franchise. And yet here we are.

People forget this: he's an actual actor! He's not just that one voice and face!

I think he's genuinely done and satisfied with Tony Stark as a character, but he had a lot of fun being in Marvel movies, so he's starting over. Yes: he was the main character. And I think he'd like to go on being a main character, but wants a new experience and the opportunity to play the ultimate villain. And when he gets in character, I don't think anyone is going to be confused.