This publish accommodates spoilers for VisionQuest.
Marvel simply confirmed a key Physician Doom element, and it means followers had been proper about one important concept. Though Physician Doom has been recognized to be the central determine of Avengers: Doomsday for fairly a while now, there are nonetheless so many issues audiences don’t but find out about him. Doomsday trailers have already confirmed a couple of issues about Doom, from the truth that he believes the Avengers have been dwelling stolen lives to there being some historical past between him, Sue Storm, and Reed Richards. Moreover, one of many a number of Avengers: Endgame Encore bonus scenes concerned Bruce Banner being “collected” by Doom, suggesting that his plan entails constructing his personal staff—one thing the VisionQuest post-credits scene simply strengthened.
But, it was all the time clear that there was one thing deeper happening with Doom, significantly given his obsession with making the Avengers give again what he believes was by no means rightfully theirs. For some, these theories had been tied to the likelihood that Doom was a Tony Stark variant, though Kevin Feige has shut down these rumors, a number of occasions, actually. For others, although, there have been sturdy suspicions that Doom had misplaced somebody near him—both his mom or a toddler—and now, per Empire Journal, audiences know that he has certainly had such a loss and who it’s.
Physician Doom’s Loss Makes Doomsday Even Extra Fascinating
Per Empire, “He’s a father who’s a sufferer of trauma. He has misplaced a toddler.” That is actually information, though it isn’t essentially a complete shock, provided that it has now been a big fan concept. The ins and outs of this loss and this bigger story are nonetheless unknown, however this does present a bit extra context for Doom’s potential motivations. Particularly, with Doom being so centered on the Avengers having ‘stolen’ their lives, it’s doable that one thing the Avengers did, maybe in Avengers: Endgame, led to the lack of Doom’s little one. In actual fact, it was already beforehand confirmed that Steve Rogers staying up to now induced Doomsday, so maybe Steve’s choice created a multiversal drawback that led to the demise of Doom’s son.
Making this all of the extra attention-grabbing is the truth that, within the VisionQuest finale post-credits scene, Doom comes to gather Wanda, saying he’ll take the Scarlet Witch’s energy for himself. Whereas that’s a terrifying idea primarily based on how highly effective Wanda is, it additionally units up an sudden connection between the 2. It’s doable, or maybe even most probably, that Doomsday will observe the comics and have Wanda’s reminiscence wiped whereas she is with Doom, but when she does retain her reminiscences, then she is going to perceive higher than anybody what it’s prefer to lose a toddler after which be keen to go to excessive, unspeakable lengths to get them again. For now, it’s not clear whether or not Doom’s intention is to convey his son again, however that’s seeming more and more doable.
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