RUMOR: Marvel Studios Wants AVENGERS Star Robert Downey Jr. To Continue Playing Doctor Doom After SECRET WARS

RUMOR: Marvel Studios Wants AVENGERS Star Robert Downey Jr. To Continue Playing Doctor Doom After SECRET WARS

While Robert Downey Jr. is making his MCU return for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, a new rumour suggests Marvel Studios wants the actor to continue playing the villain into the next Saga...

By JoshWilding - Jan 24, 2025 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Secret Wars

With Marvel Studios forced to scrap plans for Jonathan Majors to serve as the Multiverse Saga's big bad, this year's San Diego Comic-Con saw Robert Downey Jr.'s MCU return finally confirmed...as Doctor Doom!

The decision to cast the Iron Man star in that role has split opinions; however, between enlisting one of the MCU's biggest box office draws and the return of the Russo Brothers, it's clear Kevin Feige hopes to recapture the success found by Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame

Downey is rumoured to appear in The Fantastic Four: First Steps' post-credits scene but will take centre stage in the aptly named Avengers: Doomsday. From there, we anticipate him playing a similarly significant role in Avengers: Secret Wars, the Multiverse Saga's finale. 

Despite rumblings that Marvel's First Family will be among Doomsday's lead characters, there's been some disappointment that Downey's turn as Victor Von Doom likely takes the villain off the table for future instalments of The Fantastic Four franchise. 

Well, not only might we see more of Doom beyond Secret Wars but a new rumour suggests Downey plans to stick around as the iconic villain. Marvel Studios reportedly wants the actor to continue playing the villain after that 2027 movie, a sign that there are perhaps tentative plans in place for Doom beyond just this Saga. 

It would be a real shame for Doom to be a one-and-done baddie sidelined after battling Earth's Mightiest Heroes, particularly as the comics have seen him continue his rule over Latveria even after his attempts to take over the world have failed. 

Of course, just because this is what Marvel Studios' wants, it doesn't necessarily mean that Downey will feel the same. Then again, this could lead to the return of the Iron Man franchise, albeit with Doom serving as the "Infamous Iron Man" as he did after the comic book Secret Wars

One character we won't see sharing the screen with Doom next year is Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange. In a recent interview, the actor confirmed he'll be absent from Avengers: Doomsday before saying, "Is that a spoiler? F*** it!" He'd later say that plans changed after Majors' firing and the former Sorcerer Supreme's absence from the movie is down to "the character not aligning with this part of the story."

On the plus side, Strange will be "in a lot" of Avengers: Secret Wars, the Russos' follow-up to Doomsday and the movie is expected to usher in a new era of MUC storytelling. We'd bet on that having something to do with him and Clea heading off to deal with an Incursion at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released in May 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive in May 2027. 

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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 12:41 PM
I hated the idea of this casting at first, but a dark parallel to Stark is starting to grow on me.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/24/2025, 12:55 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - it's cringe IMO. We deserve a comic accurate Victor Doom.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 1:01 PM
@DaHULK2000 - Calling anybody who thinks different a "smooth brained" is the epitome of a dumbass that thinks only their opinion is right....

Stay triggered keyboard badass🫵🏾😂🤡🤡
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 1:03 PM
@McMurdo - Well we aren't getting that right now, but it's not like they said they're never gonna do a more comic accurate version anyway with a whole MULTIVERSE to explore...

I swear some Mofos just wanna whine just for the hell of it🤦🏾‍♂️
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 1:07 PM
@DaHULK2000 - Be gone whiney sissy.

Your remedial brain is clearly too overcome with emotion to think like an adult.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 1:16 PM
@DaHULK2000 - You're just ranting now loser.

Glad I'll be watching this while you'll be on here still crying about RDJ as Doom 🤡
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 1:43 PM
@DaHULK2000 - LOL! Yeah, people with actual lives really spend their time on random comic sites bitching about people looking forward to a movie...

Stay pathetic little guy🫵🏾😂
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/24/2025, 1:48 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - I just think having Iron Man as Victor Doom is a gimmicky move personally. Robs us of a comic accurate Victor.
MG0019
MG0019 - 1/24/2025, 2:09 PM
@DaHULK2000 - I don’t like the idea either, but no reason to insult a fellow for trying to give it a chance.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/24/2025, 2:24 PM
@McMurdo - There's an entire MULTIVERSE as I mentioned in my previous comment, this is just one version of Doom they're focusing on for now. Nobody said that RDJ is gonna be the only Doom we're getting forever anyway. For all we know they can be planning to introduce another one that is aligned with his comic depiction.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 1/24/2025, 12:42 PM
I don’t care.

For [frick]s sake
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 1/24/2025, 2:38 PM
@THEKENDOMAN - User Comment Image
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 1/24/2025, 2:39 PM
@RegularPoochie - What 🤷🏾‍♂️
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 1/24/2025, 12:46 PM
Of course he is. Who the [frick] says no to 30 million a movie
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 1/24/2025, 12:51 PM
Will Gunn DCU be able to compete with the refreshed MCU in the next 5-7 years

Multiverse - Fantastic Four (Dr. Doom)

Street - Dardevil, Punisher (Kingpin)

Cosmic - Nova (Annahilus)

Horror - Blade & Ghost Rider ( Mephisto & Lilith)

Mutant - X-Men ( Mr Sinister)
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 1/24/2025, 12:52 PM
@WakandaTech -

Don't Forget

MCU number 1 options in

Spiderman and Black Panther
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/24/2025, 12:56 PM
@WakandaTech - "refreshed"
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 1/24/2025, 12:54 PM
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