Avengers: Doomsday’s Poster Makes One MCU-Changing Doctor Doom Theory Impossible To Ignore
Avengers: Doomsday's new poster lines up perfectly with one of the biggest theories about Doctor Doom's role in the upcoming movie, making it seem all the more of a possibility for the actual story of the impending MCU film. Over the years, Marvel has certainly had no shortage of comics that have explored either Doctor Doom or the multiverse, meaning the MCU has plenty of source material to use in the next two chapters of the Avengers series.
Taking into account both this reality and the fact that there is so much intrigue around Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars for a multitude of reasons, it's no surprise that the two films have had the most theories created about them of just about any MCU movie in recent history, or quite possibly altogether in the franchise's run, given just how many different ways it currently seems this leg of the MCU could go.
Now we're getting closer to Avengers: Doomsday's release, more and more has been teased about the film, supporting and disproving various different theories. As it stands, the new Avengers: Doomsday poster and its look at Doctor Doom makes one of the theories that would be biggest for the MCU timeline look even closer to becoming reality, which is exciting to say the least for the franchise.
Avengers: Doomsday's New Poster Makes The Doctor Doom Battleworld Theory All The More Likely
Avengers: Doomsday's newest poster displays a decidedly dramatic scene setting up the movie, featuring the back of Doctor Doom as he looks at a huge tapestry that looks to show a woman and a child above a cloudy depiction of a planet. It's an eye-catching piece of art, but interestingly, it's also a design that appears to tie into one of the biggest theories about what's to come for the film.
One of the most pressing theories about Avengers: Doomsday and how it leads into Avengers: Secret Wars is that Doctor Doom will destroy the multiverse in order to create his own world, with the hopes of both ruling all of reality, and of bringing his family back - which itself ties into the comics, since Doom rules over the battleworld made out of fragments of all the destroyed universes in the 2015 Secret Wars comic, and "Supreme Doom" has similar plans to remake the multiverse in his own design throughout the early 2020s in the comics.
This image aligns with those ideas and the MCU theory tied to them, since the tapestry is inherently linked to Doctor Doom by him standing in front of it, and the design matches up with this concept of Doom seeking to make a new world that he can shape to his own desires - which may also explain why our first look at Doom was seeing him talking to Franklin, whose powers could do so, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps' post-credits scene.
The Doctor Doom Battleworld Theory Would Be The Perfect Way To Use The MCU's Kang Setup For The Avengers Movie Villain
Doctor Doom has had a complex introduction into the MCU timeline, since the fifth Avengers movie was intended to be Avengers: The Kang Dynasty before Marvel cut ties with Kang actor Jonathan Majors. Given the MCU had set itself up to build Kang up for a good chunk of time before Doctor Doom instead became the Avengers' next central villain, there are obvious challenges to having Doom appear later in the game without as much set up time for his story.
As such, it's easy to see why the battleworld theory may be the MCU's best road forward. All the set up about the multiverse and the warring Kangs could instead be used here as a preemptive warning about how one figure can change the multiverse entirely, and break it to their whim, as was the case when He Who Remains created the TVA and began preventing the creation of alternate timelines.
Altogether, taking this approach with Doctor Doom's storyline would be an effective way to combine the MCU's multiversal storylines and set up for Secret Wars while ensuring the franchise's heroes have a suitably imposing and powerful antagonist to go up against - so there are plenty of reasons to hope the Avengers: Doomsday poster does indeed tease this narrative as an eventuality for the film.