Marvel is paying upwards of $100 million to bring Robert Downey Jr. back in Avengers Doomsday,

and the news has lit the internet on fire.

But the question on my mind is, was it worth it?

Well, we did the research and crunched the numbers, and the answer is gonna surprise you.

But not for the reason you might think. Hello, Internet. Welcome to Film Theory, the show that wants its own cool mask.

Can we make that happen? Is that a thing we can do?

It's no secret that marvels in a bit of a lull right now.

Tragedy struck and took one of their rising stars, COVID and the strike shut down the entire industry,

and they had several underwhelming movies and disappointing Disney Plus shows back to back.

Even Deadpool wasn't shy about making fun of them for this.

Welcome to the MCU, by the way. You're joining at a bit of a low point.

And just looking at our own numbers internally, Marvel content just doesn't perform like it used to.

There was a time where we counted on MCU predictions and analysis as a backbone for our channel,

but now? I love Marvel and covering their movies, but we have to pick and

choose our battles because Marvel burned a lot of their trust with their audience. I actually

wasn't planning on doing anything related to Comic-Con until I saw the news of Downey's

astronomical payday, but this is just too big for Marvel and Disney and the film industry

at large. We had to cover it. Yeah, in hopes of pulling an Uno Reverse card to turn their fortunes around,

continuing the momentum from Deadpool and Wolverine,

Marvel announced that they're replacing Kang the Conqueror

as the main villain for their next Avengers movies with the iconic Doctor Doom,

played by Iron Man himself, the one and only Robert Downey Jr.

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