Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20171227035242

I have a different idea of how to incorporate him in the first movie. Perhaps Doom is a mysterious foreign backer on the project they don't actually meet at first, they just know that the project is partly funded by the King of Latveria. That way Doom can have some established ties to SWORD and maybe even SHIELD before he goes full super-villain. When Annihilus and his aliens invade Earth, the FF discover that the source of their invasion seems to be coming from Latveria. They end up going there, and get captured by Doom's forces. They learned that Doctor Doom and the Latverians have made contact with the Negative Zone, and they formed an alliance to help them take over the world in exchange for Latveria's safety and for some advanced alien technology. Doom can either be normal at this point and obtain his armor from Annihilus, or he can already be the Doom we all know. Either way, they end up defeating Annihilus and his aliens, but barely escape from Latveria alive afterwards. Latveria cuts ties from SWORD, and threatens war against the United States if they ever interfere with them again. I also think Doom could come up in Avengers 3 pretty easily, maybe with Ultron trying to take over Latveria, and that would further set him up for his big role in Secret Wars.