One MCU theory could explain why Robert Downey Jr. is back to play Doctor Doom: Tony Stark was actually a Doom variant.

At the San Diego Comic-Con in 2022, Marvel Studios announced plans for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers ... It's said that Doctor Doom was never part of Marvel Studios' original plans ...

Marvel vets Joe and Anthony Russo are returning to direct both “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” after ...

RDJ’s Doom would replace Kang as the big multiversal ... In addition to believing Doctor Doom is a version of Stark, I also thought the Captain America variant might play could be an evil ...

He also took up the position as the ultimate guardian of those timelines, replacing the killed-by-Sylvie He Who Remains Kang ...

Completely ignoring Kang's influence on the MCU despite Jonathan Majors' firing may be a mistake, but there's one place the villain could be recast.

He also took up the position as the ultimate guardian of those timelines, replacing the killed-by-Sylvie He Who Remains Kang variant ... Jr., playing evil-doer Doctor Doom) will see folks like ...

The project was initially going to revolve around an alternate-timeline variant of the character ... would return to the MCU as a new villain, Doctor Doom. The official plot of the film has ...

Olsen made her last appearance in the live-action MCU films in 2022's Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness and reprized a variant of the character in What If...? She's set to appear in the ...