Some had speculated (or frightened) that RDJ’s Doom costume could be much less traditional Doom, extra evil Iron Man. See “Notorious Iron Man,” the place Victor von Doom turns into a brand new Iron Man and begins sporting Iron Man model armor with a hooded cape. The obvious Disney Expo artwork, although, exhibits a Doom who appears like he walked proper off of a Jack Kirby or John Byrne drawing.
The large element is the eyes. To cover his scarred face, Doom at all times wears a masks, however the masks has eyeholes that preserve his eyes seen. That’s important as a result of it is solely by means of these eyes that Doom’s face can visibly emote. Regardless of his masks, Doom just isn’t a stone-faced dangerous man. Relatively, he is a bombastic character liable to dramatic speeches.
When Downey Jr. performed Iron Man, that armor’s masks had glowing eyes and fully hid his head; the MCU’s films normally crosscut to pictures of Tony’s face contained in the armor to let RDJ act. As Doom, although, Downey Jr. ought to be capable to categorical himself by means of his eyes whereas preserving the masks on — the identical means, as an example, that each one the actors who’ve performed Batman have.
Doom’s armor has at all times been misleading in its look. It is full of superior expertise, however from the inexperienced cloak to the knight-like construct of the armor itself, Doom appears virtually medieval, à la the historic Man within the Iron Masks. It is telling that in “Marvel 1602,” that e-book’s seventeenth century Doom seemed virtually an identical to the traditional one.
This artwork honors that facet of Doom’s look; the small print of his inexperienced tunic, resembling the massive belt round his chest and the 2 round cloak clasps, make him seem like a king or a sorcerer from antiquity. Look intently, and you’ll discover that chainmail runs beneath his armor; this armor appears prefer it’s composed of tactile, interwoven items like true armor, not nanotech just like the later Iron Man armors had been.
If this Doom look is the ultimate one, then “Avengers: Doomsday” has already gotten the floor stage of his character proper. Now let’s simply hope it will probably nail the deeper layers of Doom’s character, from his complicated code of conduct to his resentment of Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), too.
“Avengers: Doomsday” is presently set to launch in theaters on December 18, 2026.
