With Jonatꦫhan “Great Man” Majors out of the MCU, Marvel obviously has a big decision to make about the future of the franchise. It may choose to simply re-cast Kang and keep the story it’s been building throughout the Multiverse Saga moving forward, but considering that the upcoming Avengers: Kang Dynasty has been retitled, it’s possible that Marvel is pivoting its story to focus on a new villain.
Rumors and speculation about who that new villain could be abound, with antagonists like Galactus, Magneto, and Guardians of the Galaxy’s Vol. 3 villain the High Evolutionary all in the mix. If t🌞here’s a consensus to be found though, it’s clearly in favor of Doctor Doom. Marvel’s greatest villain has yet to make an appearance in the MCU, and if Kang’s is truly over, many are hoping to see The Great Destroyer make his debut.
Replacing Kang with Doom makes a lot of sense. The next🌠 Avengers movie after Avengers 5 is (tentatively) titled Avengers: Secret Wars. There are several Marvel comic series w🌠ith that title, but the most recent Secret Wars is an event mini-series about the destruction of the multiverse - a clear link to the MCU - and centers Doctor Doom as the God Emperor of a patchwork planet made of all the destroyed universes.

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It may be the case that Kang was meant to take the God Emperor role in the Secret Wars movie, but now that the character’s storyline may be getting cut short - and considering the Fantastic Four movie precedes the next Avengers on the current release schedule - Marvel may decide it's finally time to introduce Doom and build him up to be the series’ next Big Bad. There are rumors that both Cillian Murphy and Mads Mikkelsen (who has already appeared in the MCU as Doctor Strange antagonist Kaecilius) are up for the role and that the character will indeed debut in 2025’s Fantastic Four. It certainly seems like the Day of Doom is upon us, and many are rooting for it. I’d love to see Victor Von Doom finally get his due on the big screen, but I no longer trust that the MCU can get Doom right.
Doom is, frankly, too big for the MCU today. A character like that needs a Thanos-level build up in order to position him correctly as the true threat he actually is. I’ve argued before Doom ought to have 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a s🍨olo f𓂃ilm before the Fantastic Four debut in the MCU. It’s clear now that that isn’t going to happen, but it would be even worse to hastily swap him in for Kang like some kind of supervillain understudy. Doom is no backup villain, and treating him as such would immediately betray the c⛦haracter to an unsalvageable degree.
Doom is arguably Marvel’s most powerful and dangerous villain, but more importantly he’s one of Marvel’s most complex and nuanced characters. For a film series that has long struggled to develop strong villains, Doctor Doom is an opportunity that the MCU can’t afford to waste. It needs to take its time with the character, develop him slowly💮 and build out his long and complicated backstory. It needs to show us the lengths he’s willing to go to to acquire power and what that power means to him. You can’t tell Doom’s story correctly without a plan, and it’s clear that, even before firing Majors, the MCU doesn’t have one.
Just tackling Doom's origin story would require an entire movie. One possibility would be a Doctor Strange sequel based on the story Triumph and Torment that jumps back and forth between the present and Doom's past in order to establish his relationship with his mother and Latvaria.
Every previous attempt ꦑat a Fantastic Four movie has proven that Doom can’t be done correctly if he’s simply introduced as an FF villain, and the current trajectory of the MCU doesn’t have the forethought or attention span to develop a meaningful Big Bad the way it did for Thanos. Even when things with Kang were on track, it was still never clear what his true intentions were, what drove him as a character, and what threat he posed to the universe. There is a serious lack of connective tissue in the franchise right now, and there’s just no way to tell a Doom story when things are this fragmented and haphazard.
Doom is the ultimate puppet master and malevolent strategist. To do it right, Marvel should have been planting seeds for a long, long time. He could have been the one that motivated the conflict between Wakanda and Talokan in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in order to identify weaknesses in both nation’s defenses. He should have appeared in the post-credit scenes of the multiverse movies like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as an observer of the phenomena at his castle in Latveria. Thanos and the Infinity Stones got six years of build-up between the first Avengers and Infinity War, andꦆ Doom would need just as much time to develop.
He could be a worthy Big Baܫd in the MCU, and Secret Wars could be an incredible payoff for his character, but Doom would never mount an attack without a good plan, and the MCU needs one too.