🎬 Can RDJ as Doctor Doom beat Thanos as the best Marvel villain?

I've been thinking about Avengers: Doomsday all week. It's out this December, and I've already planned my first day. Robert Downey Jr is playing Doctor Doom, from what I've read. Not Iron Man. The villain. That's a strange choice. He was Tony Stark for over 10 years. I had to read the news twice. My dad, who watched all the Marvel films with me, said, so he's the bad guy now? He sounded betrayed. Last weekend I rewatched Infinity War and Endgame, back to back. Took 6 hours and 2 packets of chips. Thanos works because they spend 2 films building him up. By the time he snaps, you believe it. Doom doesn't have that runway, as far as I know. He has to show up and be scary fast. Maybe RDJ can do that. He's got the screen presence, and he knows how to hold a room. But Tony Stark's voice is all over him in my head. I keep hearing the jokes. If he makes a sarcastic comment in his first scene, I'll laugh and the villain will be dead. I want to be scared of him. Does anybody else worry about that, or is it just me? Anyway, I'm booking first day, first show at AMB or PVR the moment tickets open. Last time I tried, the app froze and I got a seat in the front row. Neck pain for 2 days. Who's coming with me? And be honest, can Doom beat Thanos as the best villain? I say Thanos for now. I'm open to being proven wrong in December.

Learned my lesson after missing first day tickets for the last big Marvel release here, sat refreshing the booking app for almost twenty minutes straight once the window opened and every decent showtime near me sold out within that stretch. Setting a reminder for this one well in advance, not making that same mistake twice given how much bigger this release is expected to be.

Thanos still edges it for me personally since the entire two film buildup made him feel like an inevitable force rather than just a well cast actor delivering good lines, Doom has a much shorter runway to earn that same weight before December. Would love to be proven wrong once the film releases though and Doom gets his own proper buildup on screen.

Robert Downey Jr playing the villain after over a decade as Iron Man is the boldest swing Marvel has taken in years, curious whether audiences can separate him from Tony Stark enough for Doom to land as threatening rather than just familiar.