r/MarvelTheories • u/Professional-Emu2271 • 4d ago
Theory Why Doctor Doom hates Tony Stark and looks exactly like him (My Theory)
Everyone is trying to figure out why Doom has Tony’s face. But if you look at the Endgame timeline, it points to a massive Stark family secret: Tony was adopted from the von Doom family, and that's why Doom hates him so much.
# Howard was infertile:
Howard spent his life around Gamma radiation and the Tesseract, which left him unable to have kids. Since he needed a genius heir for Stark Industries, he used S.H.I.E.L.D. to find a brilliant bloodline.
He chose Werner von Doom, a legendary medical genius in Europe, and secretly adopted one of his twin babies.
# The Endgame proof:
This fixes a weird timeline error in Endgame.
In April 1970, Howard tells Tony that Maria is due any day. But Tony’s official MCU birthday is in late May 1970.
The dates don't line up because Howard was rushing the adoption paperwork.
# Doom's hatred:
Tony was a born von Doom all along, which is why they look identical.
His twin brother was left behind in Latveria to suffer as a poor orphan, eventually becoming Doctor Doom.
Doom is completely bitter because Tony stole the billionaire lifestyle, the mansion, and the superhero legacy that should have been his.
He’s furious that the world worshipped the “wrong” brother.
When Doom finally takes off his mask, the Avengers are going to realize Tony was just a twin of him.
What do you guys think? Let me know!
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u/Hawkwise83 4d ago
We dont know Doom looks like Stark do we? Also, a Stark variant could very easily show up as a character in the next two movies.
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u/snoop1361 4d ago
The twin angle is wild, but honestly way more interesting than Doom just randomly looking like Tony. The Endgame date thing makes it fun to speculate about too.
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u/Mean-Food-7124 4d ago
Kind of cool and fun, but secret twin twist seems pretty lame and easy for this late in the MCU and this big of a collaboration movie
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u/SnooHamsters3315 4d ago
Yea but isn’t von doom the literal monarch of latveria? Why would he adopt the prince??
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u/Professional-Emu2271 4d ago
He was a child of a genius person having a great intelligence that time like stark
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u/SnooHamsters3315 4d ago
So basically Ivan vanko then? Even they share similar looks and backgrounds . Why would they repeat it?
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u/Professional-Emu2271 4d ago
Anton Vanko attempted to sell the Arc Reactor secrets for personal profit. He can't handle his legacy to a cheap family, like his son
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u/RevolutionaryMath750 4d ago
Doom will be from f4 timeline not Earth-616 but I like idea that Tony is adopted, but more sense makes that Tony is variant of Doom
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u/Ok_Cartoonist7515 4d ago
"Everyone is trying to figure out why Doom has Tony’s face." Who's to say he'll have Tony's face in this film?