The article argues that Doctor Doom’s apparent ability to stop Thor’s Stormbreaker with two fingers in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer may be explained by Marvel comics storylines being adapted for the film. If the MCU draws heavily from Jonathan Hickman’s Time Runs Out and Secret Wars, Doom could possess powers far beyond those of his usual scientist-sorcerer incarnation, making him a potentially greater threat than Thanos.

In the comics, Doom discovers that Molecule Man variants across the multiverse are effectively weapons created by the Beyonders to destroy every universe simultaneously. Disguised as Rabum Alal, Doom first tries to stop this plan by killing them, then instead gathers their power for a final confrontation with the Beyonders; the article suggests an MCU Doom with such an arsenal could easily withstand Thor’s attack. Robert Downey Jr.’s Doom is therefore expected to be a multiversal, time-travelling version of the character whose actions may be framed as an attempt to save reality, however ruthless his methods.