That character is none other than Doctor Doom, portrayed by MCU veteran Robert Downey Jr<\/a>. Doom has taken center stage throughout Doomsday’s marketing, with a trio of posters focusing on the metal-clad monarch and a special trailer revealing more of his history with the Fantastic Four<\/a>. Many fans have questioned whether Downey’s take on Doom will be as complex and menacing as the character in the comics, especially since he hasn’t had as much buildup as previous MCU villains. Judging from what’s been shown in trailers and the extra scenes added to Avengers: Endgame Encore<\/a>, it looks like the Russos might succeed in that regard.<\/p>\n Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom Couldn’t Be More Different from Iron Man <\/p>\n When Robert Downey Jr. unveiled himself as Doctor Doom during Marvel Studios’ San Diego Comic-Con presentation in 2024, the reaction was very mixed<\/a>. Some felt that Marvel made the right pivot following Jonathan Majors’ ousting as Kang the Conqueror<\/a>. Others felt that bringing Downey and the Russos back was essentially an attempt to win back lapsed audiences, especially following a downturn in Marvel’s theatrical efforts. The recent trailers for Doomsday show that Downey isn’t returning for a nostalgia play, but is making Doom as compelling a character as he did with Iron Man. Whether he’s staring forlornly at a picture of someone who might be his late mother<\/a> or talking about taking back “stolen lives” from the Avengers, Doomsday aims to keep audiences engaged with Doom.<\/p>\n Downey’s performance as Doom isn’t the first time that he’s played an antagonist in the MCU. That honor goes to Captain America: Civil War<\/a>, which saw Iron Man and Captain America coming to blows. Even though Tony Stark was an antagonist, audiences still saw the emotions that drove his decisions, and Anthony Russo recently revealed in an interview on Marvel’s official website that the same impulse drives Downey’s performance as Doom<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It was a very scary idea to a lot of people that we would sort of put that character in a position of being considered the bad guy. But Robert is brave. He likes to be surprised, he likes to be pushed into difficult places. It was a very similar process thinking about [him] playing Victor Von Doom.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tCollider Exclusive \u00b7 8 Questions \u00b7 2 Minutes \t\t\t\tEight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udc06Killmonger(Black Panther)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udd31Namor(Wakanda Forever)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udfadZemo(Civil War)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83e\udde4Thanos(Infinity War)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tFIND YOUR VILLAIN \u2192\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n 01<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow do you react to something you think is unfair? \n\t\t\t\tALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 02<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow long will you wait for something you want? \n\t\t\t\tANot long, since I have waited long enough already. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 03<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWho are you actually loyal to? \n\t\t\t\tAThe people nobody else turned up for. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 04<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow do you win an argument? \n\t\t\t\tABy being angrier and more right. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 05<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tHow easily do you let something go? \n\t\t\t\tAI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 06<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat do you think about breaking the rules? \n\t\t\t\tAThey were written by whoever benefits from them. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 07<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat do people say about you behind your back? \n\t\t\t\tAThat I am far too angry about it. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 08<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat would you do with real power? \n\t\t\t\tAGive it to the people it was kept from. REVEAL MY VILLAIN \u2192<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tThe Case Is Made Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to \t\t\t\t\t\tBlack Panther \u00b7 Marvel Studios \u00b7 2018\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tErik Killmonger<\/p>\n You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before \t\t\t\t\t\tWakanda Forever \u00b7 Marvel Studios \u00b7 2022\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tNamor<\/p>\n You align with the protector, which is the most understandable \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYour loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far \t\t\t\t\t\tCaptain America: Civil War \u00b7 2016\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tHelmut Zemo<\/p>\n You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens. \t\t\t\t\t\tAvengers: Infinity War \u00b7 2018\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanos<\/p>\n You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that \n\t\t\t\t\u21bb RETAKE THE QUIZ\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ Gives Fans a First Look at Doctor Doom’s Plans<\/p>\n Fans got their first glimpse of Avengers: Doomsday and Doctor Doom’s goals during screenings of Avengers: Endgame Encore. In addition to the original cut of Avengers: Endgame, Encore features four different scenes that set the stage for Doomsday. One of these scenes directly connects Endgame to Doomsday, as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans<\/a>) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell<\/a>) have their romantic reunion interrupted by Loki (Tom Hiddleston<\/a>). Another confirms that Earth-10005, where the X-Men reside, is the sole survivor of countless incursions<\/a>. However, the biggest scene involves none other than Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo<\/a>). <\/p>\n![\"Robert](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/avengers-doomsday.jpg\"\/)
\n Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer.Image via Marvel Studios<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tWhich MCU Villain Do You Align With?
\n\t\t\t\tKillmonger \u00b7 Namor \u00b7 Zemo \u00b7 Thanos<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tAll four of these men started here.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast.
\n\t\t\t\tCI say nothing, and I start planning.
\n\t\t\t\tDI look for why it keeps happening at all.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tPatience separates these four more than anything else.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile.
\n\t\t\t\tCYears, if years are what it takes.
\n\t\t\t\tDTime does not really come into it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tAnswer for the real one, not the polite one.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBMy own, and nobody outside that.
\n\t\t\t\tCOne person, and they are already gone.
\n\t\t\t\tDAn idea, rather than any group of people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEverybody has one method and uses it every time.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious.
\n\t\t\t\tCBy letting them talk until they trip over something.
\n\t\t\t\tDBy explaining it until they run out of objections.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tThis is the question that makes villains out of people.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat.
\n\t\t\t\tCWhen the balance is settled, and not before.
\n\t\t\t\tDInstantly, because it was never personal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tNobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBMine apply, and theirs do not reach me.
\n\t\t\t\tCRules are a tool, and I use them precisely.
\n\t\t\t\tDThe rule matters far less than the outcome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tYou already know which one it is.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBThat I put my own above everybody else.
\n\t\t\t\tCThat I am much quieter than I should be.
\n\t\t\t\tDThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBUse it to shut my own people off from the world.
\n\t\t\t\tCUse it to make the guilty face what they did.
\n\t\t\t\tDUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tYou Align With\u2026<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tactually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the
\n\t\t\t\t\texact point where it stops holding up.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tabout the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tit is anything else.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tT’Challa admit it out loud.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhere it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twas to hold more of it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe last scene of that film still works.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore to you than anything outside it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTalokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou understand exactly what he is guarding.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else’s people to pay for his
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpeople’s safety.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thas given him reasons.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpowers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tout that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other’s secrets.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand a great deal of self control.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tordinary man with a family.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhere it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgreat many people who did not.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconviction rather than stubbornness.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInfinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsingle alternative to it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJosh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpurple giant into a real character.<\/p>\n
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