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Robert Downey Jr.’s Casting As Doctor Doom Sparks Backlash From Fans


MCU fans are shocked after Kevin Feige announced that Robert Downey Jr. will return to the MCU as Doctor Doom, not Iron Man.

Like Tony Stark, Doom is an eccentric, charismatic genius with a huge ego, but the good Doctor is meant to be a unique individual, not just another version of Iron Man. One X (Twitter) user managed to “predict” Downey Jr. as Doom via a sarcastic post that was poking fun at Marvel’s desperate nostalgia; another commentator noted that even Reddit was unimpressed by the casting. Talk soon turned to Kang, the multidimensional supervillain played by Jonathan Majors, who was dropped by Marvel Studios after being convicted of assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend.

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