Doctor Doom is one of Marvel's most popular villains, and that popularity will be put to the test as Marvel Studios is now anchoring the next two Avengers movies on the masked menace. And to bring Doom to life, Marvel has made the polarizing move of casting the actor perhaps most associated with the MCU, former Tony Stark/Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr . As difficult as it may be given the vast, inscrutable layers of in-universe and behind-the-scenes finagling that could be at play in putting RDJ in the Doom mask, it's time to set aside the ups-and-downs of the actor, and start looking ahead to the adaptation itself, which still has the potential to deliver a version of Doctor Doom that does the legendary comic character justice - without simply hollowing out his armor and putting a Stark inside.
If Marvel Studios is determined to make its Doctor Doom more than a publicity stunt, but a character who endures the same way RDJ's Iron Man has, these are five things straight from comics that the actor and the adaptation need to nail to deliver a pitch-perfect big screen Doom. Sorcery AND Super Science It's been said in comics that Doctor Doom is actually smarter than his hated rival Reed Richards, but that he's held back by his own arrogance and villainy. And Doom certainly has his share of technological marvels under his belt, from once building a machine that stole the Silver Surfer's powers, to inventing the time travel technology that would eventually go on to allow Kang the Conqu.