Robert Downey Jr cast as Doctor Doom

I don't want Mads as Dr Doom. He's already in the MCU even though his character is dead. I love him but Disney owns his balls right now.

Who did he play in the MCU?

He was in Doctor Strange as Kaecilius.

For a non-comic book fan, this news was a bummer. I thought following his Oppenheimer turn, he'll prioritize more "mature" projects, for lack of a better word.

Oh well, at least he's playing a villain this time....

Oh, thank you. I do recall now, although I only saw parts of that movie on TV.
I'm still not familiar with the character, but I was never a big follower of Dr. Strange (except for his inclusion as the leader of the Defenders!)

He's just not going to ever be the same kind of draw that RDJ is, especially now that he's an Oscar winner

He has, but a forgettable one. He was the secondary villain in the first Doctor Strange movie. Completely wasted as he should have been cast as Baron Mordo. Not doing so made as much sense as Johnny Depp as Tonto.
When it's all said and done I feel RDJ will silence all critics. Similar to how Tom Cruise did with his performance of Lestat.

I opposed Michael Keaton as Batman back in '89, but ultimately had my mind changed.

Trivia opinion question: Doom's scars.

Which origin for Doom's scars should be the definitive one:

A. His face was terribly & permanently scarred in his early college experiment (which forced him to don a mask so no one would gaze upon the horror that was his face).
B. His otherwise handsome face was left with one small scar, but his vanity was so extreme that he had to cover that one imperfection with an iron mask.
C. Same as "B", but both his ego & impatience caused him to don his iron mask just after it was forged and was still hot, thus scarring his face terribly & permanently (but needlessly).
D. Don't ever show his face and leave it a mystery.

Whatever makes the most sense, cinematically speaking. Probably best to come up with something new that nobody's ever seen.

They did that already... and failed miserably.

In 2005's Fantastic Four, Doom was somehow a smarmy businessman who was the fifth member of the team, directly involved in their origin and came away with the combined powers of Electro and Colossus. (Which begged the question: why did he require a suit of armor when his body was turning into medal?)

In 2015 he went to another dimension and I guess was turned into whatever a "Fant4stic" is.
"Dr. Victor Fant-4stic"!

OK but Kevin Feige wasn't in charge then. He wasn't running Marvel Studios.

There has never been a more successful movie series in human history than the MCU. Maybe there is a reason for that?

Yeah. Other superheros.

The first reason for his mask was his eagerness to wear it before it had a chance to cool down, ignoring the Tibetan monks (?!) that were assisting him. I guess Stan Lee thought him using Eastern Indian monks in a Slavic nation for his then greatest technological achievement made sense lol? Doom probably used them because theyd keep calling him Master. He screams In agony and runs out into a snowdrift and collapses.
As the years wore on and hundreds of writers used the character in hundreds of titles, some took liberties.
My hunch is they'll probably go with the first one as Ryan Reynolds has no problem showing of his scarred Visage as Deadpool, but Doom the character is too vain. It'll all come down to RDJ, I'm sure he will go maskless at times and his scars look extra nasty.

OH HELL NAW !! I never saw any F.F. movie because the comic fans gave them scathing reviews. Especially on how D.D. was presented. Electric Iron businessman my balls.

Except for the mishandling of Doom, the rest of the 2005 F.F. (and its even better sequel) weren't too bad.

Doom looked good in his armor and I didn't mind the actor who played him, but they got everything else about the character all wrong (no accent & apparently being American, only a passing mention of Latveria, Victor being part of Reed's exploration team & getting super-powers along with the rest of the group, no deep backstory like in the comics, a Victor & Sue love triangle - sheesh!)

I liked Ioan Gruffudd as Reed. Jessica Alba was nice to look at, but totally wrong as Sue (and a simple dye job wasn't cutting it). Michael Chiklis was good as the Thing (but I didn't care for him in his human form - he just didn't look like any version of Ben). Chris Evans was okay but maybe too old to play Johnny (who always starts out as a teenager).

I really liked Chiklis as The Thing, especially because he was a big fan of the comic book since he was young, and always dreamed of playing the character. You gotta love stories like those.

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This is a bizarre move for RDJ and Marvel imo.

As a casual I've had no interest in revisiting any Marvel movies since End Game.

RDJ is already their most iconic character...why the hell would he go back playing a different one? Feels like he and Marvel are cutting the legs out of Iron man by doing this. Why would RDJ do this beside monetary reasons? Coming off and Oscar feels like he could have some momentum to try something interesting. I don't get it...guess he just wants the bag.

How many times will they watch Fantastic Four fall on it's face? I have no desire to see another iteration.

Weird all around.

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Why is it a bizarre move to go with one of the most popular actors around who helped propel the franchise into the stratosphere?

It seems a great decision, imho, both creatively and even from a crass business perspective