Why Is It Impossible To Get Doctor Doom Right?

Doctor Doom has been a mainstay in the Marvel canon for decades. He is one of the best villains ever put to the page, and has had several attempts at adapting him to the big screen. Though it has turned out adapting Doctor Doom to a feature film is a lot harder than expected. Will we get to see a new Doctor Doom before Marvel Studios releases it's Fantastic Four movie?
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Written by Dave Baker
Edited by Chris De Pew

[@alanhervert2702]

I would love to see our heroes defeating Kang only because of the help of Doom and then realizing that he’s an even bigger threat

[@muddlewait8844]

The key to Doom is that he views every challenge as a problem to be solved and has absolute confidence that he can solve it. He is never in despair.

[@philosophicaljay3449]

Another thing that is completely abandoned when people try to adapt Doctor Doom, he is trying to save the world. He is the world's hero in his own mind. He saw many futures, and every one that he was not ruling the world had humanity wiped out while the one he saw with him ruling had humanity survive. To him, becoming the ruler of the world is a necessity in order to save humanity, and those that oppose him are literally working to doom the future of humanity.

[@Dyiad]

I remember once reading a thing about how battles with Doom can go one of three ways.

[@PhantomBugler]

Doom refers to himself in the third person, that's the level of ego we're dealing with. The technical genius of Stark, the arcane talents of Strange, and the political swag of T'challa combined in one person. Yet it drives him crazy to see an absent-minded professor who easily discovers new dimensions and invent physics defying spacecraft in his penthouse suite get all the glory. As Doom himself would say, "Nations shall burn for this insult!"

[@nogh8344]

The fact that we got a better adaptation of DOOM in music than movie is amazing

[@quadrodopollock]

The thing I love the most about Doom is that he does the unthinkable, the one thing villains don't do: He wins.

[@chuckontal9962]

The perfect short story that shows you who doom is is when Reed was unavailable to help Sue when she was delivering Valeria (after a very complicated backstory) and Johnny called Dr doom to help. He then proceeds to use all his intelligence and magic to deliver the baby successfully, claims naming rights to her and names her after a lost love, swears that she is now under the protection of Dr doom, becomes her godfather, and secretly makes her his familiar. What a guy.

[@lunch_bots]

All I want for his MCU adaptation is for his theme to be an ALL CAPS rendition.

[@jamesreed620]

He needs a whole movie as an origin story. Imagine, introducing the Fantastic 4 in a Dr Doom movie.

[@kingjames924]

The thing with Doom is that any story told about him can't be contained by just one movie. You'll have to go full Avengers Saga style with his storytelling.

[@thefoxesmind]

I feel like the problem is two-fold. The unwillingness to commit to comic book logic and the unwillingness to make the villain strong enough that they actually have to figure out how the heroes will stop them.

[@TechfulThinking]

To me, the fact that Doom was sent back to the beginning of time to relive all of existence elevates him to the level of a genius demigod. I think that Hollywood is unaware of how to portray such a massive presence without being accused of “Doom worship”

[@RoseKB22]

To portray Dr Doom accurately, an actor who can pull off the dramatic old time theatrics of Doom is needed. Someone with a deeper (baritone) voice, someone willing to swirl the cloak dramatically. Doom is the sort to have 5 escape routes at all times, the sort with 10 backup plans at all times. Even Wolverine has a rough time with Doom.

[@jimkirk4357]

It's not impossible, just very unlikely. Victor Von Doom is a multi dimensional character, fleshed out over decades in the comics. He's not just a one trick pony who's easily portrayed in a movie. He's not a shallow villain but a complex man with grand aspirations and even grander abilities. He's the hero of HIS story, ruler of his country and even loved by his people. In short, he deserves his OWN movie.

[@carronline1]

when the mcu do doctor doom, i just hope they did for thanos and actually build him up over a few movies and not just a single movie villain, he needs the build up to get his character done right

[@thesentinel5523]

Dr. doom is the shadow of Tony Stark. He’s Iron Man without selflessness. Therefore, you need to cast an actor with charisma who can carry the MCU as a villain through multiple projects like Robert Downey, Jr. was able to do as Iron Man. This is probably the most important part that marvel needs to get right.

[@hattoripool1533]

Why do other adaptations barely include both the mysticism and Tech side of Doom because normally many adaptations always include just the tech side

[@1dcondave]

I think part of the challenge in trying to adapt Doom to the big screen is in giving him everything that Doom is as a character, but doing so in a way that doesn't feel like a rip-off of the movie villain Doom most closely resembles: Darth Vader. Larger than life, scarred and encased in an armored prison being a Death's Head metal faceplate, cloaked in darkness, master of both magic and science, a merciless dread overlord... Doom and Vader are nearly twins. And until someone can figure out how to solve this conundrum, they will fail to write Doom properly...

[@MrBiggles53]

After watching Raul Julia play M. Bison in Streetfighter, I thought if, given a worthy script, he could have successfully pulled off an excellent Dr. Doom character.