However the Steve Rogers focus within the first trailer, and the excitement about one other trailer specializing in Thor, has led some to surprise if Downey Jr. is definitely enjoying Victor Von Doom of Latveria from one other actuality, and that he’s chosen to seem like Tony Stark to mess with the Earth-616 Avengers. And who higher to mess with than Steve Rogers, the person who at all times admired Stark, even once they clashed?
So the following query is, why is Doom mad at Steve? And that’s the place the rumors get fascinating.
The prevalent rumor relies on the top of Avengers: Endgame, when Steve went again in time to return the Infinity Stones. Clearly, Steve modified issues on his cross-time trek, attending to spend his life with Peggy as a substitute of staying within the ice to be thawed out a long time later. When the Joe Biden-looking Steve reveals up on the finish of Endgame at hand over his protect to Sam, we simply assumed all was nicely, that he modified all the pieces for the higher.
However what if these adjustments had a price? And what if another person needed to pay it? The prevalent Doomsday rumor means that one thing that Steve did whereas returning the stones and altering his previous triggered an Incursion in Doom’s actuality. Incursions, MCU followers may bear in mind, are when two Earths from totally different realities work together, ensuing within the destruction of 1 or each. So nice was the devastation left by the Steve-caused Incursion that Doom has launched a plan to get revenge, beginning by modeling himself after Captain America’s best ally, Tony Stark.
That studying has its compelling and troubling elements. On one hand, it permits Doomsday to tie instantly into Endgame, assuring strict continuity between each. Additional, it permits the story to give attention to the core crew, and provides Robert Downey Jr. a superb motive to come back again with out undercutting the facility of Tony’s demise.
However, it completely misses the purpose of Physician Doom. Maybe if his nation Latveria is especially destroyed, then Doom would go on such a mission. However typically, Doom is above such petty issues as revenge. Furthermore, Doom might not respect Steve Rogers or Tony Stark, however there’s just one man he really hates, and that’s Reed Richards of the Unbelievable 4.
