We nonetheless don’t know loads about Physician Doom’s motivation in Avengers: Doomsday, though his plan is undoubtedly related to the multiversal shenanigans which were happening all through the previous few phases of the MCU. With how huge the size of the MCU’s Multiverse Saga is, it’s unimaginable for Doom to have been with each particular person superhero in Doomsday. Nevertheless, there are some he undoubtedly has an issue with.
Within the latest trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, Doom says, “You have got all lived stolen lives. However now you need to give them again.” We don’t see who he’s speaking to, and we’re nonetheless not completely positive what it means. Nevertheless, it very nicely could possibly be associated to how MCU characters incessantly meddle with time, which may have inadvertently led to the rise of Doom. So, listed here are the totally different characters we imagine could also be dwelling “stolen lives,” and why Doom might need to do away with them.
4) The X-Males
Though they’re performed by the identical actors, the X-Males seen in Doomsday most likely aren’t the identical variants seen in FOX’s X-Males film sequence. In any case, these have totally different costumes, relationships, and workforce members, and whereas that could possibly be drawn as much as in-universe modifications that occurred within the years since they had been final seen, issues like the brand new Sentinel design make this appear unlikely. Nevertheless, each X-Males iterations will probably have a number of parallels, that means that Doomsday‘s mutants might have lived via occasions much like these seen in X-Males: Days of Future Previous.
Within the movie, the X-Males stay in a dystopian 2023, inflicting them to ship Logan again to 1973, the place he can finish the Sentinel program earlier than it begins. This plan works, altering the timeline and creating a greater 2023. The happier lives that lots of the mutants stay could possibly be thought-about stolen, however issues get even worse for the workforce while you keep in mind that Logan’s actions actually deliver Scott Summers and Jean Gray again to life. So, this is able to undoubtedly put the X-Males on Doom’s chopping block, particularly in the event that they proceed to mess with the timelines in Doomsday.
3) Loki
Of all of the characters whose lives could possibly be deemed stolen, Loki is arguably the obvious. Whereas the character’s mainline iteration died in Avengers: Infinity Conflict, the Avengers’ time journey plan in Endgame induced a Loki variant to acquire the Tesseract in 2012 and escape from his imprisonment after the Battle of New York. This led to the occasions of Loki, with him encountering the TVA, leaping to every kind of various timelines, encountering Kang, and finally turning into the brand new He Who Stays.
Loki appears to carry supreme energy over the multiverse forward of Doomsday, that means Doom most undoubtedly has his sights set on him. Doom may hope to steal Loki’s place as He Who Stays, and he could also be justifying it to himself attributable to multiverse-hopping and killing additionally being how Loki received the place.
2) Steve Rogers
On the finish of Endgame, Steve Rogers leaves to return the Infinity Stones to their timelines, solely to return as an outdated man. What occurred in between these two moments could also be what leads Doom to his doorstep. After returning the Infinity Stones, Steve goes again to the Forties and lives a full life with Peggy. This has raised plenty of questions all through the years, because it appears to contradict guidelines of the multiverse that had been arrange in initiatives like Loki. Nevertheless, Doomsday might lastly reply them.
Tons of rumors have indicated that Steve’s resolution to return in time to Peggy is the inciting incident of Avengers: Doomsday, with it probably inflicting an incursion or one other catastrophic occasion. If this occasion impacts Doom, it could make sense for him to despise Steve, with him probably going after him all through the movie. Steve’s return in his youthful type in Doomsday will clearly contain multiverse shenanigans not directly, so it solely is smart that they are going to play an enormous position in Doom’s arc.
1) The Victims of Thanos’ Snap
Whereas it is smart for Doom to carry grudges in opposition to some characters specifically, his plan in Doomsday turns into terrifying while you keep in mind that half of the universe could also be dwelling “stolen lives.” In Endgame, the Avengers have to return in time in an effort to retrieve the Infinity Stones, which permit them to defeat Thanos and produce half of the universe again to life. Loki implies that that is a part of the Sacred Timeline, however since that wasn’t a factor anymore, it’s onerous to justify sanctioning this time journey plot whereas condemning all others.
This could possibly be Doom’s level in Doomsday, with him not believing that the Avengers and people who are alive due to their actions in Endgame ought to go unpunished. Doom may see destroying half of all life in Earth-199999 as the one solution to set the multiverse proper, undoing the obvious harm that the Avengers did. This is able to put tons of Doomsday superheroes at risk, together with Sam Wilson, Yelena, and probably many extra.