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Not like pre endgame it was fucking teeming with quality, most of the mcu is watchable once inoffensive, appeal to everyone stuff that's competently made.

The only movies i have genuinely wanted to rewatch pre endgame are Thor Ragnarok, Infinity war, and maybe Iron man, that's it, the rest is just not worth revisiting and even iron man if I never see it again I won't feel like I missed out.

Ragnarok i have watched like 4 times and I could rewatch it again, infinity war is really good too and is worth rewatching, endgame is too much fan service moments but still okay.

I can't wait for the inevitable Klumps/Dr. Doolittle-style Marvel series with RDJ in every role, including fat suits.

you mean jumping the stark

I was one of those fanboys since the start but it lost me around black panther 2. This is one hell of a shark being jumped tho.

At least its....somewhat....better then bringing Stark back to life somehow?

They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house, I’m not made of stone!

Deadpool made a joke of Hugh Jackman working for Disney until he's dead.

Dr. Doom has become Iron Man, so there's that. In this case it might just be same actor two roles. Remember that Doom wears that mask because his face is all fucked up; it's likely that they could just have RDJ play the role without any Iron Man connections at all.

Update: also there's this: https://youtu.be/5Jv-HopDBV4?si=052HgQB2WQJhtvRT

I'm not well versed with lore but "What If: Iron Man: Demon in an Armor" has Tony and Victor swap bodies. It happens when they are younger so they have different paths and that story isn't the one that is going to be told here, but... technically yes.

But also keep in mind it's fine for the MCU to do things a little different. In Multiverse of Madness we was the "Illuminati" in a way similar to existing material, but still wholly unique. Additionally we got characters like Mordo who get new arcs and growth that differs from any existing media

While I do expect this to be a little desperate on Marvels part, they're also bringing back the Russo brothers, I think it's also a way to bring hype back to Marvel and the idea of the multiverse. The future is mutants and Secret Wars will be a great way to get that going so I think we're going to speedrun it and a cheesy strat like bringing back RDJ is a way to do that.

In terms of story I don't think they're going to ignore that he played Tony Stark/Iron Man. If we're going to play with the Multiverse (and we are) then a variant of Tony is fair game.

So it's more multiverse stuff that they're desperately trying to claw back from the brink after Jonathon Majors beat the fuck out of his woman and they had to drop their new villain.

Maybe we can lay it to rest alongside Star Wars.

This decision was made with the money in mind, not cinema; this applies ti Disney and RDJ, so I don't expect a great production. Disney was desperately looking to bring the original cast back somehow, and RDJ has previously talked shit about his Marvel movies...

He's totally going to remove the mask.

I don't think you cast someone like Robert Downey Jr unless you're planning on having them out of mask at some point. Even just as a flashback/backstory kind of thing.

The Avengers remain disbanded.

That’s part of their problem. How do you keep the Avengers going with a different group, or have a new group that’s totally not the Avengers? I’m definitely not a fan of all the multiverse stuff - that’s where I stopped reading the comics and it’s pretty much there for the movies

That was the potential with Guardians of the Galaxy - very different from Avengers, with very different situations. They could have been something, but maybe they’ve had their run.

I would watch another Eternals movie, but I hope they’d keep it independent.

It is most likely damage control because the Kang thing was derailed due to Kang's actor being an abuser. RDJ is now a known and reliable actor for the MCU who is able to play a character like Doom and will most likely never show his actual face on acreen. It would be like Josh Brolin reprising Cable in Deadpool now that it is part of the MCU even though he was already Thanos.

As long as Doom's voice is modulated enough that it doesn't sound like Iron Man it should work out fine.

my guess is alternate timeline stark born in Latveria or something like that

MCU (616) Tony Stark is dead dead. Pushing up the daisies. Pining for the fjords. Most we might get are flashbacks, alternate versions (until they close up the multiverse thing with the next two Avengers films), and possibly an AI voiced by RDJr in Ironheart.

This Doom might be an alternate version of Stark, or we might never get to see his face, or we might simply get a “yeah, this is my face, deal with it” lampshade as we got with James Rhodes and are going to get with Thunderbolt Ross.

(I'm not even convinced he'll last for more than the two Avengers films... alternate Doom comes to 616 for reasons, does his thing, leaves. Local 616 Doom then doesn't need much of an introduction, can be played by someone younger and cheaper.)