{"id":712775,"date":"2026-07-27T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:34:11","slug":"doctor-dooms-ultimate-goal-seems-to-mirror-tony-starks-greatest-fear-in-avengers-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712775\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Doom\u2019s Ultimate Goal Seems to Mirror Tony Stark\u2019s Greatest Fear in Avengers: Endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Avengers: Doomsday footage<\/a> that was screened exclusively in Hall H on Saturday for attendees of San Diego Comic-Con (well, \u201cexclusively\u201d until it leaked everywhere on social media in no time) suggests that there is something that links Doctor Doom and Tony Stark beyond the fact that Robert Downey Jr. plays both roles.<\/p>\n

In the Hall H footage, Sue Storm says, “Victor was always the smartest guy. He used to be kind, he used to be caring. Everything he loved was taken from him. He was broken.” Later, Victor Von Doom says, “All of you… have stolen lives. But now, you must give them back.”<\/p>\n

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The going theory is that by going back in time to restore the Infinity Stones at the end of Avengers: Endgame, and staying in the past, Steve Rogers unwittingly triggered a multiversal mishap that leads to the cosmic mayhem<\/a> that will play out in Doomsday. Specifically, that somehow the Avengers\u2019 actions caused the death of Doom\u2019s wife and\/or daughter. Perhaps a sort of version of Thanos\u2019 Snap that wiped out half of all life in the universe.<\/p>\n

Such tragedy and heartbreak would certainly motivate a fella, especially one as brilliant, driven and resourceful as Victor Von Doom, and would shed more light on what might be his ultimate goal<\/a>. It would also directly mirror Tony Stark\u2019s own greatest fear that he revealed in Endgame.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll recall that Tony initially rejected his teammates\u2019 time heist pitch precisely because he feared it could conceivably erase his beloved daughter Morgan from ever existing.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Robert Downey, Jr. (and friends) at SDCC 2026’s Marvel Hall H panel. (Photo credit: Jesse Grant, 2026 Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In a deleted scene that featured actor Katherine Langford as a teenage Morgan Stark<\/a>, Tony appeared in the Soulworld where he confessed his fears to her, saying, \u201cI’m scared I made a mistake.\u201d Tony was afraid that the Avengers\u2019 time heists and his own Infinity Gauntlet snap to Blip back all those who Thanos wiped out could erase his beloved daughter Morgan from existence. When Morgan assured him his sacrifice worked and all would be well for her, Tony was able to let go and pass away.<\/p>\n

But imagine if Morgan \u2013 who was born after the Snap \u2013 had been erased from existence and the only way Tony could bring her back was to make what Doom calls in the trailer \u201can unthinkable decision\u201d<\/a>? That would seem to be the impetus behind Doctor Doom\u2019s universe-ending plans.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Doom just wants to kill all of the Avengers and Fantastic Four\u2019s offspring to avenge his own.<\/p>\n

Imagine if Morgan had been erased from existence and the only way Tony could bring her back was to make what Doom calls \u201can unthinkable decision\u201d?\u201c<\/p>\n

Tony Stark certainly had his own \u201cthe ends justify the means\u201d agendas in the MCU (that\u2019s how Ultron came about), so Doom would appear to be Tony\u2019s mirror image. Whether Victor Von Doom actually looks just like Tony Stark or is some sort of variant of him remains to be seen, but for now the official revelations about Avengers: Doomsday would suggest that Tony Stark wasn\u2019t the only one who loved someone 3000.<\/p>\n

For more MCU coverage from SDCC, read up on Ryan Gosling\u2019s casting as Ghost Rider<\/a>, David Jonsson joining Black Panther III<\/a> as T\u2019Challa\u2019s son, Kevin Feige\u2019s pushback on Doom not having a Thanos-level build-up<\/a>, and Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Deadpool crashing the Doomsday panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Avengers: Doomsday footage that was screened exclusively in Hall H on Saturday for attendees of San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}