I like comics Kang and wanted all this to be leading to his big story while Doom started cooking in the background ahead of a multi-phase presence. I would have been fine with him existing as a F4 and MCU villain in the background for a good while before becoming a bigger threat in a F4 sequel and then an uber threat in an Endgame/Secret Wars level event. An overall presence across multiple phases. This way doesn’t really match my ideals for either Kang (obviously) or Doom.
I just realized we're probably not going to see an incursion now with Kang swapped out...
See, now this I would have liked. But that's not what we're getting and Feige is desperate to regain good will at any cost. Which is ironic because audiences have been responding well to Deadpool & Wolverine.
Doom quipping would be the last straw in a long line of last straws. Like, I could see people walking out of theater if that were to happen.
As much as I think Majors' crime factored a lot into this decision, I still believe Quantumania and how that movie mishandled Kang is the main reason why Feige swerved so jarringly hard here. Any kind of intrigue the Loki series built around Kang and his variants was utterly demolished by that movie.
They really thought putting in your big bad in Ant-Man where he gets defeated by him was a smart move...
The fact that this is not the route they are going is mind-bogling dumb. They could be naturally building up the seeds from MoM and give more purpose to Earth 838 and the Incursions. Make the plot of Avengers 5 that the Incursions are destorying the multiverse and the only universes left are 616 and 838. Since the Illuminati was destroyed, this Stark would dive more to the dark side and become obessive to the point we will being willingly to destroy a whole other Universe to save his own. Plus because it would be a variant Stark, you don't have to build him up that much because audiences are familiar with who Stark is. And if RDJ wanted to stretch his acting abilities, he can play him completely opposite of normal Stark and it wouldn't matter cause he's a variant.
This^ all they see and all that maters.
This^ all they see and all that maters.
Whether it makes sense or not, story-wise in a multiverse how much sense does it have to make? It certainly allows for them to pull anything out their @$$.
As far as cooperate-money-wise; it certainly makes sense for a studio desperately trying to hang on to a franchise, and it's ticket buying drones, to bring back the guy they will mindlessly cheer for, no mater if it makes sense or not.
So welcome to a universe where we get a sassy Dr. Doom, in high heals, and likely a minor beauty-scar, which makes him a tortured mess.
Despite all that movie's faults, I still dig the heck out of that 2005 Doom look.
It's certaintly not my first, second or third pick either. But if Marvel is gung ho on sidelinning Kang and bringing back RDJ, this at least makes way more sense.
If those rumors about Doom being behind Lake Bell's character's expedition in Wakanda Forever ended up being true, this wouldn't have been a bad way to start planting the seeds for him.
The Celestial is Doomsylvania.
Basically Iron Doom having a change of heart.
