“Doom is a Gothic character. He says, ‘Hell answers to me,’ and he’s not kidding.” That’s what co-director Joe Russo told Empire about the iconic villain who will wage war on the multiverse in Avengers: Doomsday. Russo also says Robert Downey Jr.’s iteration of the character promises to be the scariest to ever grace the big screen. But it’s not just his powers and Downey’s portrayal that will make Doctor Doom so menacing. An unimaginable trauma will also haunt him. The film will introduce a Victor von Doom as a father driven by grief over losing his child, something that did not happen to him in Marvel Comics.
In Empire‘s new issue about Avengers: Doomsday Joe Russo talked about early viewers finding the film scary. A big reason why is that its powerful dark sorcerer Doom is “not above selling his soul to get what he wants.” He is someone “worth being scared of” in large part because he is a “victim of trauma” who is “profoundly damaged” because his child died.
Doom as a grieving father will be, at least partially, an MCU creation. Doctor Doom’s only child in Marvel Comics is his adopted son Kristoff Vernard, but he never died in the comics. (Other comic characters were thought to be Doom’s offspring at various times, but each was revealed to not be his kid.)
Will some version of Kristoff appear in Doomsday via a flashback? Will that merely be the name given to Doom’s deceased child (likely the boy in his mural) without any other connections to comics Kristoff? Or will Avengers: Doomsday take advantage of the infinite multiverse and create its own character? The identity of Doctor Doom’s late child is unlikely to be that important to the film’s plot. But a powerful, angry dark sorcerer genius, driven by trauma is. Especially in a movie where so many of his enemies are fathers themselves.
Additionally of note in this piece is the idea that Doom is just himself, unconnected to any form of Tony Stark. Marvel boss Kevin Feige responds to the idea of a Doom/Tony connection. “’Is Steve Rogers a Johnny Storm variant?’ People wondered, ‘Is Doom just a variant of another character? Is this just a shortcut to bringing back another character?’ The answer is no. He’s Victor Von Doom.’”
Nerdist’s Take: Is Doom Going To Seek Revenge by Targeting the Avengers’ Children?
Avengers: Doomsday‘s trailers have highlighted Doom’s anger over the “stolen lives” the Avengers and X-Men live. Both factions have survived death repeatedly. Doom’s child obviously did not. It’s a development important enough to his character that Joe Russo mentioned when talking about the film is “very scary.”
And what if that’s exactly why it’s so terrifying? Because what would be scarier than Doom targeting not the heroes of the multiverse, but their children? Thor is a dad. We have seen Steve and Peggy will become parents, too. Hawkeye, Ant-Man, Hulk, Reed and Sue Richards, and John Walker are all parents, too. And Charles Xavier and his fellow mutants also teach many students entrusted to them.
We know how scared Thor will be of Victor von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. But maybe Love’s dad doesn’t yet know just how scared he should be.
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This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak
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