Did Deadpool & Wolverine Give Us an Explanation for RDJ's Doctor Doom?

Over the weekend, Marvel Studios reclaimed its crown as the king of summer blockbusters with a successful release. Deadpool and Wolverine and a big return to its San Diego Comic-Con empire.

At the studio's annual Hall H panel, Marvel boss Kevin Feige announced that the Russo Brothers will officially return to lead the way. Avengers: Doomsday (taking up the abandoned position now Kang Dynasty film) and Avengers: Secret Wars with a one-two punch that left the fans in awe. As if that wasn't enough, Marvel also dropped the event with the announcement that Victor Von Doom will be the new big bad of the division and played by none other than Robert Downey Jr. You know, the guy who, until recently, was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the sacrificial hero Tony Stark/Iron Man.

Which leaves us with a question on everyone's mind: How will this be removed?

Let's dive into a few theories, based on the most interesting things we've learned about Deadpool and Wolverine about “anchor creatures” and the “Johnny Storm Effect.” Major spoilers ahead obviously.

What are anchor creatures?

In Deadpool and Wolverine, when Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is pulled from his timeline by Mr. Paradox (Matthew MacFadyen) and TVA, it is explained that his universe is slowly collapsing due to the loss of its “pin”. In this case, the “best” of all Wolverines, is Hugh Jackman's version of Wolverine from Fox. X-Men films until Logan. As Deadpool and Wolverine reminds us, that hero died a lot—and that timeline decay is a reference to the end of the Fox X-Men universe since it was acquired by Disney.

In order to save his timeline, Deadpool takes a trip back in time to find Logan instead so he can just put it in his universe, hoping that will do enough to stop the decay. In that “Power of Love” travelogue with many verses, we get the idea that these parts of the world often have Logan as the things that lead them, and therefore they don't leave without a fight—except for one: “the worst” Logan.

How do you do it Deadpool and Wolverine first connect to the sacred timeline?

Now here's where it gets interesting. This exception Wolverine has already messed up his timeline by not being there when his X-Men are killed; Which is, possibly, held together only by her presence as a punishment for Logan to live his longest days burdened by the guilt of his actions, and desperately try to drink it away. So Wade takes him on as his project, making his “educated wish” that if Wolverine helps Deadpool's timeline, they can go back and fix Wolverine's. That's the conspiracy Deadpool and Wolverine-a fun, violent game—but there's something in the sauce there about those “studded creatures.”

There's a nice scene early on that establishes Deadpool visiting the sacred timeline in 2018 (using Cable's watch), hoping to join the Avengers by negotiating with Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) to become a hero in Vanessa's eyes and live up to hers. possible. This is where he learns and sees who is part of that list, including Chris Evans' Captain America and Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man. Deadpool wanted to talk to Stark but he couldn't find an audience because as Happy put it, Wade had done it himself. – and the Avengers became heroes to help others.

How does Tony Stark fit into this?

Okay, so… since Deadpool naturally wants Tony Stark, we can probably guess that the sacred timeline “pin” is, in fact, Tony Stark. After all, why gravitate to this universe, this Tony, if he could go to any reality where the Avengers were? Ever since Tony made his only sacrifice The end of the game that the multiverse fracturing began. Currently, it is only assembled by the will of Loki, while TVA tries to rescue as many times as possible, stopping directly. Deadpool and Wolverine's arc with the traitor Mr. Paradox.

And like the universe of Deadpool, which now has a new “anchor” of Wolverine to stay together, you doubt that there is a big hole in the sacred time role of “being an anchor” ready to take—perhaps as ” The worst version” of the Tony Stark type.

In the main Marvel Hall H panel this weekend, it was clearly stated that Robert Downey Jr. he will play Victor Von Doom, who confuses Victor to be a different version of Tony-even though they exist. humor enters into the interpenetration of identity between the two.

But let's remember LokiThe end of the first season, and Kang's warning that killing him will bring freedom to another, is too bad for Kang's arrival. That theory, of course, was introduced by a criminal we may never see again. We guess the spaghetti filling of Loki the second season of Victor Timely—the Kang variant—will have something to do with erasing all Kangs from now on. Victor Timely also supports the idea that multiple characters can share the same character's face, even if they are different or different people all together.

To avoid too much confusion, because we don't really know how the inhabitants of the holy timeline will react to their hero's face in the face of the evil invader, let's go back Deadpool and WolverineChris Evans came. When Deadpool sees him in the Void, he assumes he's Captain America—until, like many audience members, he's shocked by the revelation that this is Johnny Storm from 2005. Fantastic Four the movie.

This Johnny storm just happens to look exactly like Steve Rogers' Captain America. And as Peter Parker (a good candidate for Sony Marvel Universe's “anchor being”), he has three variations that we've seen over the years with different faces; we think that includes Michael B. Jordan (2015's Johnny Storm, who also shares a face with The Black Panther's Killmonger!) and his latest version, Joseph Quinn, which will appear next year. Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Thanks to Deadpool's Captain America/Johnny Storm confusion, while we may not know why some variants will share the same face with some completely different characters, we know they will be recognized. This means that when the villain Victor Von Doom arrives in the holy timeline and takes off his mask (something Doom is rarely willing to do in the comics, and something that will definitely happen in the MCU anyway, because he's paying Robert Downey. Jr.) revealing a face that looks like Tony's Stark, it's going to be very difficult for Tom Holland's poor Peter Parker.

It feels like an adaptation that takes aspects of how the Kang character was intended to be used; due to the nature of the redirection within the box that had to be stopped Kang Dynasty and Jonathan Majors' MCU exit, Marvel had to come up with a solid solution. Bringing back fan favorite Downey feels very safe. Sstopping him from becoming the Victor Von Doom that he might be even worse Tony Stark's approach makes sense, especially if there is a team at work between Marvel's original family and the Avengers. Who else can stop Doom, really?

There are so many factors at play. Of course, Marvel probably wants to pit RDJ against Marvel superheroes to get bums in the seats. And there are a lot of threads connecting our anchor Logan back to the holy timeline now: adamantium was introduced into the holy timeline, something that will be processed Captain America: Brave New World. That could give us a new motivation for Logan to fight the Serpent League—which we've seen before The Wolverine and Viper, but now led by Giancarlo Esposito's Sidewinder—especially if or when Doom shows interest in that precious resource.

And while we're worried about setting up various new heroes that these divisions were planning to invest in, we see an idea, overall, of where this is going. This redirect is one way to criticize your films; bring back the ordinary hero to become a villain and face Hugh Jackman's Wolverine until he is 90 years old. It's perfectly balanced as all things should be, as Cable—er, Thanos—says.

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