DOOMSDAY
Three universes. One collision. One man who thinks he can fix it by owning all of them.
Loki holds the branches
A real tree: every strand splits, and splits again. Hover a limb and click to snap it — the whole subtree dies and fresh growth erupts from the wound. Gold limbs carry lore: the first click reads it, the second severs it.
Kang, and the man who replaced him
This saga was built around a different villain entirely. Click the throne to watch Doom overwrite it — which is, almost exactly, what happened in real life.
The man the film is named for
Sorcerer and scientist, certain both are the same discipline. Move across the mask to shift him, or cast a spell below.
Doom's defining trait in the comics is not malice, it is engineering. He treats a collapsing multiverse the way an engineer treats a failing bridge: identify the load, replace the structure, book the casualties as a line item.
That is what makes him worse than Thanos. Thanos wanted balance and was willing to kill for it. Doom wants a solution that works, and he has usually already built it before anyone finishes arguing.
What separates Doom from every other genius in Marvel is that he refuses to pick a lane. A peer of Reed Richards in the lab and a peer of Strange in the mystic arts, and he considers the distinction a failure of imagination in everyone else.
In the 2019 run reportedly informing Downey's take, he is tormented by visions of a perfect world he cannot reach. A man who can see the correct reality and cannot get to it will eventually try to build it out of the wrong ones.
Latveria matters. Doom is a head of state, so his crimes are foreign policy and his experiments are national projects. He does not skulk. He legislates.
In Hickman's Secret Wars he does not conquer Battleworld so much as administrate it. Gods, barons, a legal code, a church. The horror of God-Emperor Doom is not that he rules badly. It is that it functions.
Strange saw this coming
He looked forward through the Time Stone and counted. Click the Eye to run the search again.
On Titan, Strange used the Time Stone to look ahead through fourteen million six hundred and five outcomes of the war with Thanos. Exactly one of them ended with a win. He then spent the rest of Infinity War deliberately engineering that single branch, including handing over the stone and letting half the universe die on schedule.
In Multiverse of Madness he dreamwalks, meets the Illuminati of Earth-838, watches a version of himself executed for the damage that variant caused, and is told at the end that he has triggered an incursion. Strange is the MCU character most responsible for the multiverse being cracked open, and the only one who has already been shown the bill.
Thanos, the stones, and the price
Click a stone to read it. The story runs along the bottom, in order.
Six singularities that predate the universe, each governing one aspect of existence. Assembled, they let the wearer do essentially anything, once, at enormous cost. Thanos collected all six and used them for a single sentence of a plan.
Thanos vs every Avenger
The last time a whole roster went at one man and lost. Click the stage or a beat on the right to run that moment.
Doom vs Kang vs Thanos
Three men who each decided the universe was theirs to edit. A conqueror, a collector, and an engineer, put in one room.
Doom vs every Avenger
December's actual question. He does not brawl with them — he processes them, one counter at a time.
Sentry & the Void
Lewis Pullman returns as Bob Reynolds. The power of a million exploding suns, and a shadow that comes with it. Click the figure to flip him.
Robert Reynolds is, on paper, the strongest thing in the room — a Superman-scale hero whose strength has been described as rivalling Thor or the Hulk. In Thunderbolts* he was the emotional centre rather than the muscle: an addict with a split mind who could not be trusted with what he could do.
He ends that film having beaten the darkness with help, and joins the New Avengers. The post-credits scene, set fourteen months later and directed by the Russos themselves, has him admitting he will not risk becoming the Sentry again.
The Void is not a separate villain. It is the same man. Every time Bob reaches for the power, the shadow comes with it, and in Thunderbolts* it was capable of swallowing a city.
Pullman has said his teammates will not let him out of their sight in Doomsday, because they know what happens if he is caught in the wrong hands or left unsupported. In a film about a man collecting realities, an unstable nuclear option that walks and talks is not a hero. It is an asset someone will try to acquire.
Every hero, in his hands
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Where the collisions land
Drag to spin. Click a marker on the globe, or pick a site from the list.
The roster
Hover any panel and the power breaks out of the frame. Click for the dossier.
The comics behind it
Feige confirmed Doomsday draws from a run where universes collide and different Earths meet. Four books do the heavy lifting.
The four-minute briefing
Click a step to run it in the simulator above.
What's actually going to happen
Six open case files. Click any one to expand the reasoning and the evidence behind it.
Build your squad
Pick who you send at Doom. The moment you choose anyone, the war room grades the team below — role coverage, threat rating, what you are missing, and how it actually ends.
NO SQUAD SELECTED
Pick at least one name above.
The verdict appears here once you have picked someone.
The Doomsday Arena
A real 1v1 fighter. Arrow keys or W A S D, or the on-screen pads — they work on phones too. Every fighter now uses their own power on HEAVY, and Doom hits like the title character. Best of three.
THE DOOMSDAY ARENA
Pick a fighter for each side. Best of three rounds, sixty seconds each. Land hits to build meter; a full bar unlocks the special.
A / D or ← / → move
W or ↑ jump
S or ↓ block
F light G power
H special
← / → move
↑ jump
↓ block
J light K power
L special
Two idiots on a ledge
The file ends here. What follows was recovered from a rooftop camera, has no bearing on anything, and is the only part of this dossier anyone actually enjoyed.
A fan dossier. Everything here is reporting, comics history, or clearly labelled speculation — and the speculation is the fun part, not the point.
A leak. Nobody involved has read a script. If a line here turns out to be right in December, that is a coincidence with excellent timing.
Page 13 has the six theories ranked by how much evidence actually supports them. Page 14 lets you send a team at Doom and watch it not work.