#bad adaptation

If TOTCF have an adaptation, please, DO NOT change the plot and personality like they did to ORV.

PLEASE, I AM BEGGING YOU!!

I keep seeing people get excited about the idea of introducing Doctor Doom as the centerpiece of a massive Doomsday or Secret Wars style crossover right out of the gate, and I just do not think that works. Not for this character.

Doom is not a plug and play big bad. He is not Thanos where you can build him up in the background and then unleash him as a force of nature. Doom is deeply personal. He is ego, intellect, pride, insecurity, and conviction all wrapped together. If you skip the groundwork, you are not adapting Doom. You are reducing him to a guy in armor with a god complex, and that is the least interesting version of him.

If I were structuring this, I would take a slower, more deliberate approach.

First, you introduce Doom in a Fantastic Four sequel. Not a cameo, not a tease. A full introduction. Establish his rivalry with Reed Richards because that is the core of the character. That jealousy, that need to prove he is the superior mind, that inability to accept that Reed might actually be better. Without that, you are missing the spine of Doom entirely.

Second, you put him in a Doctor Strange sequel and adapt Triumph and Torment. This is where you actually meet Doom the man. His code. His sense of honor. His relationship with his mother. His willingness to work with Strange toward a common goal while still being completely and unapologetically Doom. This is where the audience starts to understand him, not just fear him.

Then, and only then, do you do your big crossover. Whether you call it Doomsday, Secret Wars, whatever. At that point, Doom is not being introduced. He is arriving. The audience understands why he believes he should be in control. They might even agree with him a little, which is exactly where you want them.

Because that is what makes Doom work. He is not just a villain to defeat. He is a perspective to wrestle with.

And then there is the casting idea that keeps floating around. Tying Doom to Robert Downey Jr. and linking him back to Tony Stark is a terrible idea. It is a disservice to the character and it reeks of desperation.

Doom does not need Stark’s shadow to be relevant. Doom is bigger than that. Making him a variant, a legacy echo, or anything that ties him back to Stark immediately undercuts his identity. Instead of Victor Von Doom, you get “what if Tony went bad,” and that is not even remotely the same thing. It shrinks the character at the exact moment you should be establishing how large he is.

It also signals a lack of confidence. Doom should be able to carry himself on presence alone. If the instinct is to lean on nostalgia casting to prop him up, then the character is already being mishandled.

Marvel might feel pressure to rush into a massive event to steady the ship, and I get that. But Doom is not the character you rush. He is the character you build around.

no offense if you like her character and you’re chill, but most of you are very delusional and constantly spew takes that set women back 50 years… like genuinely salivating about how stupid and victimized she is in the show.

she’s not “a closeted gay loser who yearns,” she’s written as a hypocritical abusive imbecile, who is the writers’ punching bag and also hogs the screentime.

Cross (Season 2)

I enjoyed season one, as it was tense, different, and interesting (I haven’t read the books, so I can’t compare). Unfortunately, season two is an absolute mess. The mystery isn’t particularly compelling, and the characters spend more time trying to get one another into bed than actually solving the crime. It’s really not as good as it pretends to be. I won’t even bother finishing the season — after four episodes, I’ve seen enough and don’t care how it ends.

YouTube: Got it, so you’re anti-woke so I’ll show you more videos about that and why women and the LGBT deserve it.

Me: Wtf, no I just thought the writing sucked.

YouTube: Ah my mistake, you just want to kill all millennials.

Me:

And then we got a homework to say which version we liked less, and I was just trashing on the movie 😑

(Trying to find something to do cuz can’t watch f2r episodes)