so as most of you guys are aware by now at San Diego ComicCon Marvel announced that Robert Downey Jr is returning as Dr Doom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and they're using one of two stories as a basis for this the first one is Infamous Iron Man which we've already covered the second one is this story so this is an alternate reality story it's part of Marvel's what if line and this opens up with Tony Stark arriving at College only for us to find out that instead of the main Marvel Universe playing out the way that it did where Dr Doom was roommates with Reed Richards Dr Doom is roommates with Tony Stark you guys can obviously see where this is going so the cool thing about this is that this basically shows us Tony Stark as we know him right he's a Playboy doesn't really take anything seriously the alternative here the other side of this is that Dr Doom is far more focused than Tony Stark is and in fact he even says that right as a transfer student you might not be aware the semester has already begun your presence in this room will be tolerated only if your priorities are in order is that understood and so Stark's reaction is just like I mean that's cool man but like my girl here has a girl of her own right like you looking to touch some naughty bits or you just going to sit here and just be grumpy all the time but in the days following their first encounter Tony Stark demonstrates how smart he is this is one of the funny things Dr Doom always comes up second to the various people that he ends up sharing a room with when it comes to him going to college Reed Richards Tony Stark so on and so forth and where Stark's just like blasting music and all that kind of stuff one of the things he points out here is that Doom just needs to learn to relax he says let your back brain do the work and then Doom asks him like what would you know about work at all right you were born into privilege while I've had to fight for every Grant every scholarship the burd I shoulder would break a lesser man but my destiny is to lead and that inevitability is worth any sacrifice now this establishes that Dr Doom's history within this universe is almost identical to his history in the main Marvel Universe and that con cep was basically being carried over here from Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic 4 when they established that in every reality Dr Doom ultimately tries to seize absolute power and the only way to really fix him is to essentially lobotomize him and that's it that's all you can really do but Tony Stark here kind of plays the Tony Stark Game right he says maybe but keeping your focus among other things so tight can lead to mistakes like the proton coefficient in your formula there should be cubed not squared and Dr Doom kind of gets a little piss about this about the fact that he's being shown up but at the end of the day what we end up finding out and what we're told here is that this irritation that Victor Von Doom has for Tony Stark ultimately leads to a kind of grudging respect where Victor Von Doom looks at Tony as a man who's kind of his equal and that's one of the most important things to understand for those of you guys who are new to Dr Doom in Marvel Comics yes he puts off a lot of bravoo yes he does all kinds of crazy stuff Dr Doom really cares more about intelligence than any anything else bravery to a degree but intelligence is at the top of the list and so what happens is Doom leads Tony Stark down into this basement where things are pretty seedy and he says I'm afraid I have a confession to make the late nights I said I've spent in the library is a lie I've actually been here and where Stark is just kind of like the storage Annex like there's nothing down here but rats and old books the response of Doom is exactly that's why I came down here I've learned that my current scholarship may not be renewed in hopes of saving my education I've been forced to take rather Extreme Measures and what he says is really interesting here he says I've borrowed apparatus from other labs even falsified administrative vouchers to secure equipment that I need a risky Endeavor but it's worth it if I succeed now this is also the nature of Dr Doom whatever it takes to win Dr Doom can be incredibly Petty in Marvel Comics if you don't believe me go check out the videos that we did on Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers the events leading up to to the collapse of the Multiverse in secret Wars 2015 where he basically refuses to help Neymar because he doesn't want to be second best it's kind of nuts right it's kind of crazy but the thing that Stark says is like you're going to be expelled here man and again Doom says not if I succeed when complete this machine will trigger dormant telekinetic abilities allow people to move things with their minds imagine what that would mean to quadriplegic the infirm to say nothing of the University's publicity office and that's really the smart move you can get away with with a lot at a university if your actions ultimately make the university look good believe me I used to work at one you'd be amazed the kind of thing that universities will soup under the rug if it makes them look good at the end of the day but he says time is short I was hoping that perhaps with your help and Stark initially rebuffs it right he's like dude you've been nothing but a jerk to me since I got here right since you first met me you've been nothing but rude to me almost every single step of the way sure you respect me but you respect me Reg grudgingly and now you expect me to put my future on the line for this kind of crazy cockamamy experiment that you have and you don't even know if it's going to work the response of Doom it was difficult enough to ask Tony please do not make me beg and one of the things about Tony Stark is as most of you guys figured out from the MCU he's a relatively honorable guy and when I say honorable I mean you know he does some morally questionable stuff at times but at the end of the day he usually tries to make it up to you if he's somehow done you wrong and this is the exact same thing that happens here I never ask you to beg that's not who I am and so we're told that over the course of days these guys start working together right two students train their full concentration on the task at hand progress is steady if not without incident and so again it's a kind of back and forth because Stark is basically following the instructions of Doom tell me where this needs to go I will put it there that kind of a thing because at the end of the day it really is Doom's entire project Stark knows what to do right but it is Doom's project and so what Doom said says here is like ignore that particular device that you have it's simply a reciprocal power boost I'll explain more once the patent has cleared and so the response of Stark wow brilliant and paranoid you're some piece of work and so finally they finish this entire project Stark sits down because he's going to be the kind of test bed here and why wouldn't you right if there were an experiment that you could undertake that could give you telekinesis and the downside to the experiment is that nothing could go wrong then why wouldn't you do it worst case scenario you just stay the same and so what ends up happening is that restraints kick in they lock Tony Stark in place and then he's like what in the world is going on the response of Doom oh it's uh one of these things in case you prove to be dangerous and then he basically tells the truth about what's going on I'm almost sorry you've been a satisfactory assistant but this seemed the only way to secure the resources I require resources you take for granted it's really quite simple remember that circuit you questioned it will indeed redirect mental energy from your cerebral cortex into mind telekinesis was a ruse a carrot to dangle before your naive ambition but with one touch of a button our minds will switch bodies and everything that you have will be mine now this is the big difference between this story and Infamous Iron Man Infamous Iron Man was just Dr Doom taking up the mantle of Iron Man following the death of Tony Stark at the end of Civil War I the story that character assassinated Carol Danvers in this story Victor Von Doom is stealing the body of Tony STK they're swapping places but the fact is right the process goes off without a hitch security guards come running in because they're alerted to all this craziness that's going on Victor Von Doom emerges in the body of Tony Stark and says you know it was some crazy cockamamy experiment that he had he said he was trying to help people he forced me to be a part of this of course they take the side of who they think is Tony Stark because one he's a super rich guy right the halo effect and two because Victor Von Doom's not awake he can't tell anybody what was going on not only that it wipes his memories so for the rest of this video I'm just going to use the names Tony Stark and Dr Doom just know those names are switched and so what you do as with pretty much all whatif stories you follow the Watcher where he says questions become answers even as Solutions yield more riddles and two lives briefly joined by chance part once more following separate paths into an unmapped future the young man who was once Tony Stark arrives on latverian soil in Exile and disgrace with no money no memory he also finds no hope as an ocean away Victor Von Doom in the body of Tony Stark breathes freedom reveling in his new body the doors it will open the position it bestows a position of Honor opportunity and power now this is the best possible scenario for someone like Victor Von Doom being able to operate behind the scenes No One wiser to the fact that he's taken over the body of somebody else but all the resources that had grants him the technology the whole nine yards because again for those of you guys who are unfamiliar with Dr Doom what makes him so powerful is the fact that he's this perfect merger between technology and Magic not science and Magic technology and Magic which I guess depending on how you look at it the two are one and the same Science and Technology but the fact is right he merges those two things and is able to achieve a wide array of capabilities and so we're told weeks Past One Life spirals downward confusion and despair freeing inner demons hence the reason why this story is called what if demon and an armor it's based off The Old Demon and a bottle story line really a name only and we're told until untapped and perhaps unrealized metal Rises at last to confront those demons to Simply tell them no a word which is heard with increasing annoyance by quote unquote Tony Stark most often from a father who cannot understand why his only son has become so distant so insistent on control an unfortunate and never fully explained Industrial incident soon follows and no is heard no more of course Howard Stark was murdered right I mean that's obviously the implication here right and so we're told months become years as obstacles Loom and challenge medial jobs pay for squalid lodgings while tireless study earns respect and coveted scholarships now here's the coolest thing about Tony Stark right those of you guys who came for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that's your perspective of Tony Stark right you're not overly familiar with his character in the comics you're not far off but you're really not far off Tony Stark is one of those guys where the worst thing you could possibly do is back him into a corner because then what he's going to do is he's going to make you a project and he's going to go to work on you he'll go after you and anybody that you ever met right that guy can be super hardcore when he wants to be and that's exactly what's happening here even though Tony Stark is trapped in the body of Victor Von Doom he still has all his intelligence but more so than that now he's got purpose and meaning and that's what really makes him dangerous and so what we're told is that with this new drive and motivation the result is a PhD the first of several as the man with no memory the man fate would seek to dismiss becomes Dr Victor Von Doom while the man who had abandoned his own quest for titles pursues a different goal molding his own life through intimidation extortion and means less subtle ideas flow like Quicksilver from a brilliant if wounded mind medical advances and enhanced safety apparatus fuel efficient engines patents make the inventor a wealthy man and that wealth is funneled into economic growth making laveria free and strong but strength takes many forms and the man who would be Stark seeks them all and Obsession and in consuming devours all remnants of conscience a circumstance that will have resounding consequences it's really cool the way this plays out because what it effectively tells us is Victor Von Doom operating in the body of Tony Stark basically does whatever it is he needs to do in order to win borrow steal and kill of course he wouldn't beg but the fact is he is Burning Bridges everywhere he goes he is ruthless and he is relentless on the other side of the world Tony Stark in the body of Victor Von Doom is really more of a philanthropist right he's pursuing goals that make the world better and the reason why all this matters is because as Victor Von Doom is told Tony Stark out in Latveria and all this philanthropic work that he's doing it's chipping away at Stark Universal's profit and it's been doing it for years and their latest energy Advance the development of the arc reactor could be the last straw right Infinite Energy forever it would destroy every Energy company that exists out there and it would hit hard any company that has at least a good chunk of their resources devoted to energy development and so we end up finding out that basically Victor Von Doom has spies out in laveria spying on what Tony Stark is doing sending information back it's not enough that they can steal plans right or anything with regards to the Arc Reactor but the fact is Victor Von Doom makes the decision that the only thing he can do is just direct Espionage to take this new battle suit that he's developed which is essentially the Iron Man armor that he was going to sell to the US military But ultimately doesn't Dawn this thing travel to where Tony Stark is at and then literally obliterate The Arc Reactor right just destroy the thing on the spot and that's exactly what happens the the problem here is that of course Tony Stark has guys inside Dr Doom's offices right he has guys reporting back to him so he finds out Dr Doom intends to launch an attack he doesn't know the details of it but he knows one is coming and that's where you switch over to him with what isn't effect a Dr Doom battle armor suit but of course with Iron Man colors and he says this rescue suit may be of traditional latverian design but its composite elements are Cutting Edge puncture resistant polymer reconstruction Flame retarding cape for protecting the injured emergency crews will be able to work in complete safety in hazardous environments from chemical spills to explosions and so when you switch over to Tony Stark he's none the wiser to the fact that this attack is coming right he's just sort of showcasing this new suit that he's developed for himself right the rescue suit that it may be of traditional advian design but its composite elements are Cutting Edge but in the middle of this Exposition somebody comes running in and basically says we're under attack we're being hit at The Arc Reactor this of course leads to Tony Stark activating the suit and then in turn going out into the field now one of the things that he does make a comment about is that this suit was not designed for offense it was not designed to attack it's not a battle suit right it's literally just a suit of protection it's defensive but still it has all the capabilities that it needs to be able to protect itself and so when he takes this suit out there he comes face to face with Dr Doom and it's cool what happens is that Dr Doom relishes in everything that's been happening happening right he says there are many things you do not expect but that's another story as for your precious Arc Reactor I've downloaded the key technology into my battle suit much more practical than trying to extract it from Rubble because he literally blows the facility to Pieces right there's nothing left of this Arc Reactor technology short of what is in effect this super Advanced thumb drive that's in Dr Doom's possession following that he goes to leave right he says you can always rebuild a course but by then the Stark version will have cornered the market this was almost too easy now for a moment Tony Stark gives off this impression that he's almost just kind of ready to roll over right just roll over take it and just kind of accept his fate but he doesn't right he finds that metal in him and he says magnetism attractor beams Were Meant to lift debris from collapsed buildings but they should work just as well on Stark's metal armor and of course he fires it off but with Dr Doom's suit basically being this battle armor right this offensive suit it just starts firing off Rockets which is kind of cool but again you get this kind of back and forth and back and forth but Dr Doom just kind of ridicules this guy right he says you should have let me leave then I would have let you live your protective shell is formidable but it's wearing down and all I need is to make a single hole but all I needed was to lure you close enough to do this and fires off an energy blast that hits Tony Stark and sends them flying more Rockets come in I mean it's a fullon assault right like bullets coming in I mean it's kind kind of a war machine Iron Man hybrid with a suit of armor but then Tony Stark picks up on something he realizes this suit is able to react at lightning speed almost as if it follows his thoughts and that's when he realizes the suit itself Taps into the brain of Victor Von Doom so all he has to do is duplicate the frequency override his mental commands and that's exactly what he does and then he just prematurely activates the rockets in the back of the suit and blows the thing to Pieces following that Tony Stark just kind of Lords over Dr Doom as if he's defeated and the response of Doom if you let me live I will give you your life back and that's the kicker here Tony Stark didn't remember what had happened in the experiment he didn't remember that Dr Doom had forced them to switch places he thought he was always this guy right he thought he was always Victor Von Doom and Tony Stark was always Tony Stark he didn't realize what his identity was and that's what Doom tells him that experiment in college the one that cost you your memory it was not your doing but mine the machine I tricked you into using switched our minds but that can be corrected grant me amnesty Asylum and I'll testify to the truth you can have everything back Stark Universal your family Legacy your name and the response of Tony Stark here why would I want that name right like sure you have taken my body and the world believes you to be Tony Stark and they believe me to be Victor Von Doom but what's the name of Tony Stark in this world it's a name that is synonymous with greed cruelty and a lust for power I don't covet that the name of Victor Von Doom is a name for peace for compassion and for caring so no I'll keep the name Victor Von Doom and you can spend the rest of your life in prison and that's where the story ends here's the kicker cuz I know a lot of you guys are looking at this and you're saying but the good guy wins and Tony Stark is Dr Doom Dr Doom's a villain right okay cool imagine that the bad guy wins this story imagine it just plays out that way right imagine that like Dr Doom kills Tony Stark and Dr Doom walks away as the head of Stark Industries imagine it just goes that way and that your basis behind Robert Downey Jr's Dr Doom and the Marvel Cinematic Universe with that being said guys we're going to bring this video to an end hopefully you liked it if you did drop a like and I will catch you all later peace