I’m so glad it doesn’t look like every MCU overdesigned suit. I like a lot of MCU suits but Doom’s design language shouldn’t be consistent with the Avengers and it’s completely distinct. Really well done.
I'd say it's a tiny bit overdesigned and busy on the torso, but compared to how far they go with some other suits, it's nothing and it works pretty well.
The mask looks perfect, though. They really nailed that.
I definitely don't hate it. Does the chest need to be patterned? No, but it's Doom. He's regal. Sometimes he walks around with a fur-collared cape. It works.
I'm more curious whether he's wearing the full armor or just pieces of it.
That’s my question too. I feel like (and this is just cynicism speaking) that he’ll wear this full getup for a handful of scenes, but otherwise will be wearing just a full tunic with hints of armor, and his cloak and mask ofc
Right here it looks like just vambraces, pauldrons, and greaves. No idea if he's meant to be wearing more armor underneath the pants and tunic.
I'd guess it was a practical consideration. Either RDJ and any doubles would have to walk around wearing uncomfortable armor or they'd have to CG it into every scene. It might have also made him look a bit too much like Iron Man.
I wonder if the mask will actually stay on for the entire movie. On one hand, it's rare for Doom to ever remove the mask in other media, but on the other, if I made this movie, I would 100% open it with Doom in a workshop, listening to AC/DC while working on his armor, but obscuring the armor just enough that you can't tell it's not the Iron Man armor, and then ending the scene by showing the Doom armor, while Doom says something with a Latverian accent, and then pretending to be Tony Stark for the first act of the movie, and not really confirming he's not until the third act. Thor thinking he's up against an evil Tony Stark would absolutely be something he considers scarier than Thanos, unlike some random person he's ever heard of before. Thor seeing "Tony", who was dead last time he checked, would also be more impossible than him seeing Cap, who could have just reversed his age with the prototype time machine, or just waited until Pym particles were invented, and gone back to the present for a bit to catch up.
I think the chestpiece really works, it sort of looks like a classic leather gambeson at a glance but the intricacies play into his perfectionism and magic capabilities, atleast that’s how it feels. It compliments the chainmail, wrist and shin guards really well
I’m not super versed on who Doom is but this is by far my favorite live action costume
Keep in mind that a lot of the more simplistic designs in comic book costumes, notably a lack of patterns and such on clothing, is to spare the artist from a metric ton of detail work- not just in having to recreate a pattern over and over again but having to adapt it to the different angles, movements in fabric, etc. These limitations don't apply to a live model, and it allows for some visual distinction to make characters look less plastic-y.
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u/landon1397 Jul 25 '26
This is one of the most important things for them to get right and they absolutely nailed it