Dr Will Hatch
Senior Member
Originally posted by quanchi112
I pose this question which director would you fans of Doom trust.
Any good director, really. It's less about the director and more about the story about why we haven't seen Doom and the Fantastic Four in the MCU yet if they're soon going to be introduced. Here's my pitch:
Takes place after the events of Infinity War.
Victor Von Doom has spent a great deal of time in Latveria, both leading the resistance against the corrupt royal family, and later, building the country into a utopia. He has already have designed and donned his power armor, mastered sorcery, etc, and he is solely interested in improving his home country and cares nothing about all the crazy shit that has been going on with the rest of the world. Aliens, Norse gods, sentient A.I, HYDRA, vibranium and shrinking technology does not interest him. In fact, Latveria has been shielded from all threats for a long time via something like Doctor Who's transduction barrier.
Anyway, Latveria under Doom's leadership is a repressive state along the lines of North Korea. It is a pariah on the world stage, listed dead last on the Universal Human Rights Index. Barely any information gets in or out about the country, which explains why nobody has referenced how advanced scientifically Latveria has become. The thing that causes Victor to come out of hiding is Reed Richards, his old college rival, who in light of what Thanos and several other worldwide catastrophes within the last ten years has publicly announced that he and his family will be the first people to walk on Mars as a test run to begin the human colonization into space so hopefully there will be a chance of humanity's perpetual survival. Reed has designed a ship that will get his family to Mars and back in a fraction of the time it would normally in the real world. Doom seethes with jealousy as he watches the space launch on television. Thanks to a shielding problem, Reed and company come back mutated by cosmic rays, of course, and later establish themselves as well loved superheroes, and an alternative to the Avengers which causes a jealous Victor to decide to attack them out of petty jealousy. He goes to New York with no particular goals in mind except beating the shit out of them and sending their souls to Hell. I have a great image in my head of a furious Victor just wailing on The Thing with his power armor clad fist over and over again, with Susan Storm coming to Ben's rescue at the last second.