{"id":51138,"date":"2026-11-12T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/marvel-officially-confirms-whether-rdjs-doctor-doom-is-a-tony-stark-variant\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:34:48","slug":"marvel-officially-confirms-whether-rdjs-doctor-doom-is-a-tony-stark-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/marvel-officially-confirms-whether-rdjs-doctor-doom-is-a-tony-stark-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Officially Confirms Whether RDJ’s Doctor Doom Is A Tony Stark Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Marvel Studios announced Robert Downey Jr. would play Doctor Doom in “Avengers: Doomsday” fans used one word to describe it<\/a>: desperate. But anticipation for RDJ’s return has only grown as “Doomsday” has drawn nearer. Still, significant confusion remains. After all, Downey Jr.’s best-known role is that of Tony Stark\/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, he’s back in that same franchise as a supervillain? It’s all a bit confounding, really, and while Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has just tried to clear it all up, he’s also somehow made things even more confusing.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Empire<\/a>, Feige was asked whether RDJ is playing a Tony Stark variant in “Doomsday” or an entirely different character. The Marvel Studios boss seemed to indicate the latter is true. “Is Steve Rogers a Johnny Storm variant?” he said in reference to Chris Evans having played both characters at different points throughout Marvel’s cinematic history.<\/p>\n

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Marvel Studios When Marvel Studios announced Robert Downey Jr. would play Doctor Doom in “Avengers: Doomsday” fans used one word to describe it: desperate. But anticipation for RDJ’s return has only grown as “Doomsday” has drawn nearer. Still, significant confusion remains. After all, Downey Jr.’s best-known role is that of Tony Stark\/Iron Man in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36,2353],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv","tag-superhero-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}