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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Doom 2019 comic miniseries had a good bit that I have brought up before on these forums.
A Latverian meteorologist is working with American colleagues who start a conversation about Doom's oppressive rule. The meteorologist points out all of the good things Doom has brought to Latveria. The American meteorologists insist on talking about the oppressive stuff.
Then the Latervian meteorologist cites a part of Latveria's penal code that states that any Latverian criticizing Doom is committing sedition.
Her colleagues get the message and stop talking about this.
Disgusted, but not surprisedEspecially since we'd most likely be seeing Latveria from an outsider's perspective. Or from Doom's. Where we'd be able to see the country's power on full display, but probably not get much insight into the average lives of its citizens. We might hear some lines of dialogue describing the problems with Latveria. But exposition isn't as effective as actually seeing and feeling it.
Getting across the downsides of Doom's rule while also not denying the power he brings to Latveria or the love he inspires in its people sounds like the kind of balancing act you'd need to handle very delicately, and I can't imagine doing so without the audience spending a lot of time IN Latveria.
Edited by GNinja on Jul 12th 2022 at 6:51:20 PM
Kaze ni Nare!If the Contessa's plan somehow factors into Latveria somehow, I can see her recruited heroes/villains being deployed to the country Mission Impossible style to do some covert operations. Thus, we get a perspective on the country through their work over there.
Edited by MatthewWayne on Jul 12th 2022 at 11:23:47 AM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Maybe they could introduce an latverian ally to the heroes who left the country because of the complete lack of freedom of expression or because they saw some things they werent supposed to see. That would give us a insider perspective for why Latveria is maybe not that great a place to live and would also help to humanize its people a bit.
Edited by uncertanSearcher on Jul 12th 2022 at 8:43:02 PM
It'd be pretty dope if Contessa's plot was setting up Secret War, and the culmination is her team going up against Doom and Lucia Von Bardas.
It wouldn't be too much of a stretch from where I suspect it might be going already. I still think it might be set-up for the Secret Warriors and tie into Secret Invasion.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 13th 2022 at 12:12:38 PM
So we have another leaked concept art that shows that MCU Doctor Doom is apparently planned to make an appeariance in the near future and what he might look like, perfect timing for the coversation. Was confirmed to be legit.
Apparently this is for Wakanda Forever, that movie sure is starting to leak quite a bit a plot summary is now also making the rounds.
Edited by uncertanSearcher on Jul 13th 2022 at 9:56:57 PM
Oh dear, are we really going to dip into Doomwar? I'm starting to think the people who are saying Feige is deliberately adapting controversial comics storylines in an effort to be Better Than Canon, even if some of them are the kind that nobody in their right mind should be touching at all, are right.
I do have faith in Coogler to take the concept and make it actually good in spite of this, but just as I said I feared after DS:MOM went with Craaaaazy Wanda, it doesn't bode well for The Marvels to not somehow adapt the Marcus Immortus storyline, even if it does try to rehabilitate it by deconstructing it into a feminist tract on the evils of rape culture.
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I would rather wait for confirmation from the movie but if true, whoa!![]()
Edited by SAwatching on Jul 13th 2022 at 10:11:08 AM
Sincerely S Awatching.Granted I don’t see the point in adapting Doom War without T’Challa but hey if they turn Shuri into her Hudlin-era characterization where she was a brutal hardliner super patriot willing to kill her own people for getting in her way, hell this might actually be interesting.
Chadwick Boseman and Jeffrey Wright for What If and F Murray Abraham as Khonshu in Moon Knight. Both for outstanding voice work. Kinda hoping for an MCU win here.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."![]()
He did, for Scenes from a Marriage (2021). Not surprised they snubbed Moon Knight, Tatiana Maslany did 6x the Acting for Two work on Orphan Black and wasn’t nominated until a while into the show.
I wanna see Marc, Jake and Steven argue about whether they deserved to be nominated for an Emmy How It Should Have Ended style.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."

I think I'd do two things:
1. Have Doom not be Latveria's first autocratic ruler. This is more or less the case in the comics from my understanding, but that way he's only positively compared with his equally autocratic predecessor(s) rather than a hypothetical democratic Latveria.
2. Emphasize that while life in Latveria improved under Doom by some metrics, it's pretty obvious that the whole country is a house of cards that would implode if he weren't there since he has no heir apparent and has totally neglected to build up institutions that aren't personally reliant on him.