Robert Downey Jr. Is Doctor Doom in Next 2 ‘Avengers’ Movies – Journal Today Online

Robert Downey Jr. is backwards in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

At San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 27, Marvel Studios chair Kevin Feige gave fans a advertisement of the incoming some eld in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and revealed that Downey, 59, module represent the persona Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom in the incoming digit Avengers movies, named Avengers: day and Avengers: Secret Wars.

Feige, 51, also addicted that directors suffragist and Joe Russo module convey to the concern to candid Doomsday.

Feige and the Russo brothers mutual that the Avengers saga module advance toward an adjustment of the favourite comic-book separate Secret Wars, but not before Downey re-enters the MCU as digit of Marvel’s selection villains instead of reprising his persona as Iron Man.

“New mask, aforementioned task,” Downey said as he emerged onto the panel’s initiate among a assemble of actors act masks and robes. “What did I verify ya? I same activity complicated characters.”

The Russo brothers expressed preceding to disclosing Downey Jr. that they conceive “there is digit rattling essential case required to do Secret Wars justice,” and excited they would requirement “the large person in the world” to endeavor Doctor Doom.

At Comic-Con in 2022, Feige, officially declared sociable MCU titles, including a Blade revive and digit more Avengers installments. Collectively referred to as Phase Five and Six, or the Multiverse Saga, they were initially designed to circulate around Jonathan Majors‘ wicked Kang the Conqueror, with the fifth Avengers movie named The Kang Dynasty.

But mass Majors existence found blameable of attack and harassment in his offense effort of Dec 2023, the flat dropped the 34-year-old Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star and declared that the incoming Avengers flick would be renamed. 

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Other members of the MCU’s example Avengers, Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth, appeared at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 25, promoting Deadpool & Wolverine and Transformers One, respectively. 

San Diego Comic-Con runs July 24–28. Following this weekend’s release of Deadpool & Wolverine, the incoming MCU flick module be Captain America: Brave New World, in theaters on Feb. 14, 2025.