#rdj characters

[airlocksandaviaries]

they’re getting ice cream together in downtown LA 😊

also it’s magic hour

[616witch]

How would you know? How would I? What is Doom? The flesh and blood that I can swap in and out of at my convenience? The mind I have copied to a thousand machines? No. Doom cannot fit in such small containers. I am not my body. Not my mind. I am... I am the old trunk, filled with ancient mysteries. I am the explosion in the college laboratory. I am the mask that burns with the fires of vengeance. I am the legend that unites this nation.

[checkingoutforheroes]

Cheese.

Y/n, try to soothe their crying baby: I know you can't tell me what's wrong but at least please stop crying for a moment.

Natasha: Is it the diaper? Hungry?

Y/n, almost mad: Oh maybe I didn't check it. Nat, it is the first thing I checked! I changed his diaper, I gave him bottle, I breastfeed him, check his tummy! Everything that comes to mind.

Natasha, takes her baby: It's alright baby, please stop crying soon or your mommy will cry too. We both know that she's a lot to handle.

Y/n, put back her water from the fridge: What did you said?!

Natasha: Nothing babe.

Tony: Whoaa, what's with all the fuss? Can't figure out why your baby crying? *looking at y/n

Y/n: Why are you at me?

Tony: Because you're the mother. You birth him. Don't you two have some kind of bond or something?

Natasha: Tony..

Y/n: How am I supposed to know what he said. He's a baby! He can't even talk! Not a fucking word! I don't understand the crying language Stark! Nobody does!

Tony: jeeeeezzzz. I'm trying to help!

Y/n trowing cheese at Tony but it fallen on the baby's head and all silent: What in the world-

Tony: Told you, that you guys have special bond!

Y/n: That cheese was meant for you. Now hush!

Natasha: Thank you, cheese. Never in my life I thanked a thing but here I am, thanking a slice of cheese. Yeaaa, you did it mommy! Yes, mommy did. And you're laughing now.

Y/n: cheese huh?

Tony: Do we have enough cheese?

[goofyjelly]

i know I barely marvel post (mostly because Ive never been able to super get into the MCU), but, genuinely, Doctor Doom is my favorite villain!!!

When I was younger I'd read my dad's fantastic four comics, watch the show- hell, even in the Ultimate Spiderman show. I LOVE Doctor Doom!!!

...

LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO MY BOY, THEY MASSACRED MY BOY- 😭😭😭

ALL BECAUSE THEYD RATHER DIE THAN CAST CHARACTERS CORRECTLY!!! Everything is about "which famous person can we get?" and NO THOUGHT goes into "does this person fit the role?"

AND THE FACT THAT DOCTOR DOOM'S ROMANI BACKGROUND IS CRUCIAL TO WHO HE IS AS A CHARACTER-

Please if anyone has any good fan-casting, add them to this post cus then at least it can be cool in our minds 😭

[moodboards-aesthetics]

Tony Stark aka Iron Man

[daddytonysgirl17]

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[greencatalystcomet]

yeah obviously it sucks that marvel is ruining a great arc just to bring back rdj as a shitty cash grab, but like i will not be satisfied until god of stories loki reunites with sacred timeline thor, im sorry. he said the sun will shine on us again and i will beg for it until that becomes true

i understand why we hate marvel ignoring the incredible endings to their own stories just for a little more money. but i fucking want a thor and loki reunion on the big screen

and with god of stories loki its actually fucking possible and could make sense

[tonystarkisafruit]

I'm coming back from the dead to say RDJ as doctor doom is a bad idea and mavel is clearly desperate to get people watching again

[angels-creative]

Am I the only one who isn’t that excited that RDJ is returning to the MCU?

[deviousdevilx]

Ralph's character thinks he got shot up with heroin but the bad nun just took a blood sample, and RDJ decided that's how he'll crawl out from under the bed, because of course.

Too Much Sun (plot: rich man dies but his two kids are gay and lesbian so unless one has a kid in a year, 200 million will go to the church so the old man's priest decides to make sure that doesn't happen. Absolute wild shit happens.)

[persephonesfill]

how much you want to bet it's not even the real doom and it's just some fucked up "what if tony had an evil variant? 👀" plotline just to kill him off and introduce the real doctor doom in the next movie 😔

[navree]

mcu casting don’t be racist and specifically anti-romani challenge, impossible apparently

[trendfilmsetter]

Robert Downey Jr’s conditions upon returning to the MCU as Dr. Doom according to Variety:

More than an $80M+ salary.

Private jet and private trailer encampment access

Dedicated security detail

Russo brothers must direct both AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY and AVENGERS: SECRET WARS

[strawberrybyers]

marvel drives me crazy with hiring some of the same actors to play different characters but i love rdj so much that i’ll let him playing dr. doom slide.

i kind of get why he was chosen as dr.doom as dr. doom takes on the identity of iron man for a period of time, but like dr. doom isn’t tony stark. i mean idk how they’ll play it out in the mcu and i know they like all the alternate universe stuff so maybe they may play a “tony stark becomes dr. doom in another reality” card. but what would’ve been better than all of this is if they just didn’t fucking kill tony stark to begin with!!

[daddytonysgirl17]

"I love you 3000, Tony Stark"