Both iterations of the Fantastic Four movies – no, I am not including the 1994 Roger Corman one as it wasn’t officially released – have botched Dr. Doom in many ways over the years. Not only did both the 2005 film and its 2015 reboot tie Doom’s origins closely to the titular heroic team’s – he blamed his disfigurement on The Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards (aka. Mr Fantastic) in many iterations, but he wasn’t involved in the mission in which the heroes got their powers – but they also removed many key elements that made Doom such a threat in the comics.
The MCU has been facing some issues lately; 2023 saw two major box office disappointments in the form of The Marvels and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . Quantumania is also now the lowest-ranked MCU movie according to critics on Rotten Tomatoes . The Disney+ series, Secret Invasion , also earned a very low Rotten Tomatoes score and drew criticism for its use of AI. On top of this, Jonathan Majors, who was set up as Marvel’s new main villain, was convicted of assault and harassment and subsequently fired from the
But it’s now becoming clear that one man, at least, did have a plan – Matthew Vaughn, writer and director of X-Men: First Class and story writer of X-Men: Days of Future Past . Unfortunately, Fox chose to take a different approach, and it was a big mist
In the comics, Dr. Doom is not only the monarch of Latveria, but he is also an extremely skilled sorcerer and an inventor with genius-level intellect , often being depicted as one of the most intelligent beings in the Marvel universe. As such, he is often equipped with next-level technology, such as his Doombots, and has wielded enough magical power and abilities to become the Sorcerer Supreme at one point after Doctor Strange relinquished the title. The movie versions, however, show him as either a businessman or a scientist who gets either lightning or telekinetic powers from the same experiments as The Fantastic Four and often portray his rivalry with Reed as rather one-note, usually involving fighting for the affections of Sue Storm (aka. The Invisible Woman).
Finally, Vaughn’s plans would have resulted in a very different version of X-Men: Dark Phoenix . It sounds as though he planned to build up to this story over the course of three films, probably introducing a new version of Jean Grey in his second film, and featuring her in a significant secondary role in X-Men: Days of Future Past . Indeed, it’s possible the early manifestation of Jean’s Phoenix powers could have been a side-effect of the time travel; perhaps she’d have psychically probed the mind of the time traveling Wolverine, and learned her f
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Therefore, it’s possible that despite an upcoming feature film by Marvel Studios, The Fantastic Four may not appear at all in **Marvel Rivals ** , or that they are being saved for a later day, in which case it’s interesting that Marvel and NetEase opted to have the Bag Man costume in the game beforehand instead of one of the many other looks the webhead has sported over the years. Time will tell whether this is the case, and for now, players can look forward to the launch of the Closed Beta and taking the game’s version of Peter Parker for a spin on July
Vaughn has stressed that Fox largely kept to his original script for X-Men: Days of Future Past , albeit switching around a couple of secondary characters – notably substituting Quicksilver in the place of Juggernaut , who he had imagined being involved in breaking Magneto out of prison. And yet, for all the script would have been mostly the same, it’s hard not to see Vaughn’s original plan as a better one. The key is in terms of pacing, with a gradual increase in the stakes; the impending conflict between man and mutant would have been neatly signposted in the second film, and there would have been a clear narrative throughline, with Magneto involved in the Kennedy assassination and imprisoned for it in the third installment. This also would have subtly rewritten Mystique’s role, in that she’d essentially have become more of a Magneto loyalist, continuing his mission of assassinating high-profile political thre
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