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Casting Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom Was Kevin Feige's Decades-Long Dream

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San Diego Comic Con 2024 cemented itself as one of the event’s most memorable installments the moment the MCU’s new Victor Von Doom unmasked himself. That’s when we all learned Robert Downey, Jr. is playing the iconic comic book character. No one expected the franchise’s first big screen hero to return as one of Marvel’s greatest villains. So who had the idea to bring RDJ back as Doctor Doom? Turns out it was the man in charge of the entire MCU,…
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Nerdist broke the news on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
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