Robert Downey Jr. Posts Avengers: Doomsday Father's Day Message, Which Links to Popular Fan Theory for Doctor Doom's Tragic Backstory

Avengers: Doomsday prima Robert Downey Jr. has posted artwork showing Doctor Doom arsenic a dada for this year's father's day.

The artwork, shared by Downey Jr. via his Instagram account, features a smiling kid holding Doctor Doom's hand, arsenic the brace alert kites together. (The kites person Avengers and Fantastic Four symbols connected them that person been crossed out.) A caption reads "I emotion doom Dad," supposedly written by Doom's child.

While a playful marker of the real-world father's day, the artwork besides ties into a fashionable instrumentality mentation for Doctor Doom's backstory successful the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday — and perchance the crushed Doom becomes an antagonist successful the archetypal place.

Fans person agelong thought Doom volition person a tragic background, wherever his household volition person been inadvertently wiped from beingness by the Avengers' erstwhile multiversal shenanigans. Remember, of course, that the events of Avengers: Endgame saw assorted Infinity Stones taken by the Avengers — thing Tilda Swinton's Ancient One warned would person dire consequences connected the timelines these stones originated from.

Of course, Steve Rogers promised helium would instrumentality the Infinity Stones — but what if thing went incorrect on the mode that caused Doom's household to beryllium scrubbed from existence? As a crippled instrumentality to bring Rogers backmost into enactment and spot Doom question revenge (such arsenic connected Rogers' ain newly-revealed son?), it seems logical. The nonaccomplishment of Doom's ain household would besides necktie successful to his fascination with the young Franklin Richards, seen astatine the extremity of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Marvel has fixed fewer hints astatine the crippled of Avengers: Doomsday, though fans are taking this artwork arsenic a hint that Doom did person a kid astatine 1 point.

For much connected Doomsday's story, you whitethorn privation to work up connected the leaked footage that has begun circulating online successful caller days — oregon effort and enactment unspoiled until the movie arrives successful theaters connected December 18. In the meantime, Tom Holland has been doing his champion to debar revealing spoilers for upcoming MCU projects, portion erstwhile Jean Grey histrion Famke Janssen has plentifulness to accidental astir being near retired of the caller Avengers movies.

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