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It’s unclear how Marvel Studios will explain why Victor Von Doom looks just like Tony Stark when the supervillain returns in 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday. A new theory posed on Reddit, however, could provide an answer, while also reinventing the origin of Doctor Doom’s iconic scarred physique from Marvel Comics. The theory suggests that Doctor Doom could be a Tony Stark variant from an alternate reality who became scarred when he used the Infinity Stones to obliterate Thanos and his armies in Endgame, but didn’t succumb to these wounds.
In Marvel Comics, Victor Von Doom scars have a dark origin story that connects directly to his long-standing rivalry with Reed Richards’ Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four. The “Origin of Doctor Doom!” story in 1964’s Fantastic Four Annual #2 explained this backstory, and revealed that Doom met Richards when attending State University in America, where Doom works on developing a device that would allow him to contact his deceased mother, while Richards warns him that his calculations are off. Doom ignores these warnings and goes ahead anyway, but the device explodes and damages his physique beyond recognition.
