Freeze, Gorr, and Doctor Manhattan in 2015's Fantastic Four. The worst, however, is also the most recent, with Doctor Doom ( Troy Kebbell) some weird hybrid of Mr. The 2000s Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer depiction, while better than 1994 Doom, is still not quite right, with Doom ( Julian McMahon) a dead ringer for Destro from the G.I. In Roger Corman's unreleased 1994 The Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom ( Joseph Culp) looks like the Terminator in a green dress. His film portrayals to date are laughable, at best. The MCU may need Doctor Doom, but the reverse is also true: Doctor Doom needs the MCU. What the MCU has in Doctor Doom is a sandbox, for lack of a better comparison, a character that can be used in almost every story line going forward as a politician, a dictator, a savior, a powerful and driven super-villain. Doctor Doom's association with The Fantastic Four makes him the most logical entry point for Reed Richards and the gang. His use of magic links him with the other magic users in the Marvel universe, and it was Doom that led the villains during the events of the first Secret Wars, eventually draining the Beyonder's power for his own use. One of his earliest battles with The Fantastic Four saw him trick Namor into teaming up to take on the heroic team, during which he ended up in the world of Sub-Atomica, a planet in the Quantum Realm. Doom did make an alliance with Atlantis, aka Talokan, and turned Latveria into an Atlantean refugee camp when Atlantis was destroyed (another truth about Doom: he's not always such a bad guy). His history in the comics has seen him propose an alliance between Latveria and Wakanda (which Black Panther and his wife Storm turned down). Why does this matter? Because Doom is the one single commonality across the MCU as it stands now, and the open door for The Fantastic Four to come in. The MCU needs Doctor Doom, and needs him soon. The MCU has already used villains that require people to Google who the hell they even are. In other words, why can't we just have a normal villain, one that the public recognizes? There has yet to be a grounded threat in the MCU, one that is capable of great upheaval in the world, but one without alien powers or Infinity Stones, and one that unites and brings the MCU home to face a real-world threat. That means so far there's been aliens, gods, robots, and now a powerful human that flits in and out of time, existing across multiple timelines ( it's a long story). Prior to that, Ultron ( James Spader), the big bad robot, and prior to that, Norse god Loki ( Tom Hiddleston) and the alien threat of the Chitauri. well, the previous big bad, Thanos ( Josh Brolin), was a genocidal, alien warlord from Titan, one that could only be taken down by the combined might of the MCU's heroes and the sacrifice of Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr.).
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