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Robert Downey Jr has sparked a brand new – and doubtlessly large – principle amongst Marvel followers about Avengers: Doomsday.
Final Saturday (July 26), the celebrity actor, who'll painting Physician Victor von Doom within the forthcoming film, posted a seemingly innocuous video on Instagram.
For essentially the most half, the footage exhibits Downey Jr hitting play on one in every of his son's (Indio Downey) songs on Spotify. Then, the A-lister briefly hovers his telephone digicam over a few Marvel comics, earlier than turning it on himself to mouth alongside to the aforementioned tune.
It's these comics which have whipped Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) followers right into a frenzy.
Properly, one in every of them, anyway. The primary comedian we see is a duplicate of 'Marvel Tremendous Heroes Secret Wars', aka the 12-issue run created by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, and Bob Layton that ran from Could 1984 to April 1985. That's one in every of two 'Secret Wars' comedian collection – the second coming from Jonathan Hickman and Esad Rebic from Could 2015 to January 2016 – that Joe and Anthony Russo informed me they're taking inspiration from for Doomsday and its sequel film Avengers: Secret Wars. The truth that Downey Jr is studying stated comedian collection for analysis functions, then, isn’t any nice shock.
It's the opposite literary work, titled 'Iron Man: Legacy of Doom', that's despatched MCU devotees right into a tailspin, although.
Contemplating Downey Jr performed Tony Stark and his superhero alter-ego Iron Man within the MCU between 2008 and 2019, some observers would possibly assume that is only a nod to the 2 iconic Marvel characters he'll have performed by the point Avengers: Secret Wars arrives in December 2027.
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Nonetheless, long-time Marvel followers are studying rather more into it and have even crafted a brand new fan principle about Downey Jr's casting within the Marvel Section 6 movie – a speculation that I most definitely hope is flawed. Doubtlessly massive spoilers instantly observe for the subsequent two Avengers motion pictures. Flip again now until you actually wish to know what followers are theorizing about.
Is Robert Downey Jr taking part in two characters in Avengers: Doomsday?
For the uninitiated, 'Iron Man: Legacy of Doom' is a four-issue comedian collection that options one other showdown between the eponymous armored superhero and Doom. Okay, the latter is extra generally related as an archenemy of The Improbable 4, however he's additionally engaged in just a few tussles with Stark in Marvel Comics.
Certainly, 'Legacy of Doom' is he third time they lock horns on the web page. The primary got here in a two-part Iron Man story known as 'Doomquest', which landed on cabinets in 1981, whereas the second occurred in 'The Physician's Ardour', one other two-part narrative that was launched in 1989.
Okay, however what's this bought to do with Downey Jr presumably having a twin function in Avengers 5 and its sequel, which is already one in every of 2027's most anticipated new motion pictures? Some followers imagine Downey Jr is indicating that he's both taking part in Doom and an Iron Man variant, or confirms his Doom is a variant of Stark himself.
The latter is a principle that's circulated on-line ever since Downey Jr was revealed to be taking part in Doom within the MCU at San Diego Comedian-Con 2024. Certainly, some followers have queried why Marvel would rent Downey Jr to play Doom if he wasn't an alternate universe's Stark who hadn't seen the errors of his methods just like the MCU's Stark did, and who might need discovered a approach to grasp darkish magic and mix it along with his self-developed know-how. Hey, Ironheart already proved magic and tech can combine, so it's not as if somebody like an evil Stark couldn't work out the way to mix the 2.
It's the opposite principle about Downey Jr doubtlessly taking part in Doom and one other model of Stark/Iron Man, although, that's bought me fearful.
If – and it's a giant if – Doomsday adapts some facet of 'Iron Man: Legacy of Doom', we might have a state of affairs the place the aforementioned state of affairs turns into actuality. If it does, we might see Downey Jr's Doom and a Stark variant, who'd even be portrayed by the A-lister, struggle it out to indicate how highly effective Doom is and/or if Doom wants to accumulate some tech that Stark has perfected.
The opposite risk is that Downey Jr will reprise his function as Stark/Iron Man in Secret Wars. There have been murmurings that Chris Evans might return as Steve Rogers/Captain America within the sixth Avengers film, which is reportedly being billed as a celebration of each Marvel comedian e-book universe to ever exist earlier than the MCU undergoes its smooth reboot post-Secret Wars. That features twentieth Century Fox's X-Males franchises, Sony's three Spider-Man universes, and the MCU.
Ought to that show to be the case, in Marvel's eyes, it wouldn't be a becoming commemoration with out Downey Jr's Stark being part of it. In spite of everything, he kickstarted the comedian big's cinematic universe.
Nonetheless, bringing again Downey Jr as Stark in any kind would undo his heart-breaking but heroic sacrifice in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. For my part, that was the becoming albeit bittersweet farewell that he deserved, and I'd be detest to see him return as Iron Man in Doomsday and/or Secret Wars due to it. That is one fan principle, then, that I don't wish to see materialize.
Avengers: Doomsday will likely be launched in theaters on December 18, 2026.
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