Doctor Doom Tease Recreates Iconic Thanos Death Moment, Prompting Speculation This is How Avengers: Doomsday Deals With Kang

Disney has teased the emergence of Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom with a caller look astatine the character's design, superpowers, and a large tease for however helium whitethorn found his dominance successful Avengers: Doomsday.

At the Showcase Expo successful China, Disney enactment connected a lightshow spectacular to showcase Avengers: Doomsday's prima villain. Of peculiar enactment was a recreation of the iconic infinitesimal from Marvel Comics' 2015 Secret Wars run, wherever Doom kills Thanos successful melodramatic fashion.

In the comics, Doom punches Thanos' thorax and pulls retired his spine, instantly turning the all-powerful titan into a skeleton. And now, Disney has showcased a caller mentation of this infinitesimal — starring immoderate to suggest Avengers: Doomsday volition diagnostic a akin scene.

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Of course, successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thanos is already precise dormant — helium was snapped retired of beingness by Tony Stark successful the finale of Avengers: Endgame. But instead, MCU fans judge Disney whitethorn person a antithetic supervillain successful its sights to get skeleton-ised — Kang — which would surely necktie up his storyline.

While there's nary confirmation that Kang volition beryllium revisited pursuing Disney's firing of histrion Jonathon Majors, immoderate fans judge Doomsday volition bash something, nevertheless brief, to amusement Doom taking implicit arsenic the Avengers' main threat.

It's casual to ideate the movie opening with Doom exterminating the precise past Council of Kangs subordinate (perhaps we spot them from behind, oregon successful silhouette, truthful Majors isn't required). With this, the ending of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is swiftly acknowledged, Doom's quest to regularisation the multiverse is instantly established, and his powerfulness is rapidly made wide — earlier the supervillain turns his sights connected our beloved Avengers.

Little is known officially of Avengers: Doomsday's plot, but galore fans judge that Doctor Doom volition beryllium introduced arsenic a relatable antagonist, connected a ngo to halt the multiverse from imploding aft repeated incursions betwixt universes by our pesky heroes. If so, squashing each mentation of Kang would apt beryllium connected Doom's to-do list, earlier they origin an all-out multiversal war.

The lone contented past is the information that galore of the MCU's finest heroes (Loki, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel) person also been meddling with the multiverse successful caller years — meaning that Doom whitethorn besides person them successful his sights. And, if caller acceptable photos are to beryllium believed, it whitethorn besides mean Avengers: Endgame's blessed ending for 1 quality is besides abruptly astatine risk.

With conscionable implicit a twelvemonth to spell until Avengers: Doomsday launches successful theaters, Disney is already amping up the hype astir the film. Last week brought our archetypal due look astatine Robert Downey Jr. dressed arsenic Doctor Doom successful promotional photos, conscionable days aft the film's manager duo, the Russo brothers, offered a cryptic societal media tease.

Image credit: Marvel Comics.

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