00:00This week, at New York Comic Con, Marvel built a laboratory for a villain who still hasn't been
00:05fully unmasked on screen. Inside it, Thanos' shattered helmet, Ultron's head, a broken piece
00:13of the Silver Surfer's board, Cyclops' visor, and a sample of something that was never supposed to
00:19be in this universe, a piece of the Venom symbiote. Marvel didn't explain a single item,
00:25but the message is hard to miss. Doctor Doom isn't building an army, he's collecting,
00:32and one Avenger is already in that collection, possibly two.
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00:42opens on December 18th, so subscribe, and let's get ready for it together. First, what's actually
00:49confirmed? The display ran during New York Comic Con, October 8th through 11th,
00:55and outlets report the same lineup. The Venom sample, Cyclops' visor, the Silver Surfer's
01:01broken board, Ultron's head, and Thanos' helmet. Notice what those things have in common. Each
01:08one is left over from a hero or villain who lost. That isn't a lab, that's a trophy room,
01:14and the man behind it has a history. Victor Von Doom, the genius sorcerer king of Latveria,
01:21has been the Fantastic Four's great enemy since the early 1960s. In the comic's 2015
01:27Secret Wars, he stitches the wreckage of dead universes into one planet called Battleworld
01:33and rules it as God Emperor. Robert Downey Jr. now plays him. So, who's already in the
01:39collection? Start with the case we can actually point to. In the post-credits scenes of Avengers
01:45Endgame Encore, released September 25th, Doom reportedly comes for Bruce Banner, who'd been
01:51hiding miles underground after going savage in Spider-Man Brand New Day. And he takes
01:57him. One Avenger collected. Then there's the case nobody has proven. Brand New Day ends
02:04with one post-credits scene. Ned's Spider Tracker app, a Spider-Man signal, and the words,
02:09Spider-Man will return. Where that signal is coming from is still debated. Some read it
02:15as Peter somewhere far from Earth. Others, as a different universe's Spider-Man. The source
02:21video makes a bolder claim that the tracker's glitch matches the camera glitch before Banner's
02:26abduction, meaning Doom took Peter first. Interesting. But that's a theory. Marvel hasn't
02:33confirmed Spider-Man is even in Doomsday. Which brings us back to that vile. In the mid-credits
02:39scene of No Way Home, Eddie Brock gets yanked back to his own universe, and a piece of venom
02:45stays behind on Earth-616. Nobody ever picked it up on screen. Brand New Day didn't mention
02:51it. So where did it go? Apparently, into a case in Doom's lab. Why would he want it?
02:58Look at what symbiotes do. In the original 1984 Secret Wars comic, Peter Parker found the black suit
03:05on Battleworld, inside an alien machine. It made him stronger, and angrier. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man
03:123 gave Tobey Maguire the same arc, until he tore the suit off and it bonded with Eddie Brock instead.
03:19An angrier Spider-Man is an easier Spider-Man to steer. So the theory goes. This time, Doom plays the
03:26machine and hands the suit to Tom Holland's Peter himself. And if you think that theory holds up,
03:31tap the like button. It genuinely helps us reach that 10,000. The source video goes further,
03:38arguing that Tobey's and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man would have to fight a symbiote-controlled
03:43Tom Holland in Secret Wars. That is pure speculation. Other rumors put all three Spider-Men on the same
03:50side. So be honest. Does that fight feel right? Or too convenient? Tell me in the comments.
03:57Why collect heroes at all? Because of Battleworld. In the comics, Doom splits his planet into domains,
04:04each under a ruler he chose. A scooper now reports the movie does the same. Thor, Hulk,
04:10and Shuri each get a kingdom, while a resistance wanders the domains looking for whatever breaks
04:15the spell. The source video adds Spider-Man, which fits, since the comics have a spider island with
04:21Spider-Man as its baron. Hulk is accounted for. Spider-Man, maybe. Thor and Shuri? Not yet. None
04:29of it is confirmed. Now the helmet. In Secret Wars number 8, Thanos storms Doom's Citadel and orders
04:36him to kneel. Doom asks one question. Does he have the Infinity Gauntlet? He doesn't. So Doom pulls out
04:43his spine. But Thanos turned to dust in Endgame, so how does Doom have his helmet? The likeliest answer
04:50is a variant, killed in Secret Wars with the helmet kept as a trophy. Unconfirmed, but it explains why
04:57it's displayed like a warning. Cyclops' visor raises another question. The trailers keep showing the same
05:03few X-Men, while Storm and the original Jean Grey are missing. Reports say flashbacks will explain it.
05:10Those X-Men were killed in the incursions, and that's why the survivors stopped hesitating about
05:15destroying other worlds. Which is where the film reportedly begins. In Tobey Maguire's universe,
05:22Earth 96,283, as it collides with the X-Men's Earth 10,005, Wolverine, Deadpool, and Magneto arrive
05:31with a device meant to destroy Peter's world before the collision destroys both. It's raining. The Daily
05:38Bugle's sign is in ruins. Peter keeps stopping Wolverine from activating it, and, per Scooper James
05:44Mack, pleads with them, even mentioning his daughter. The source video adds that Wolverine stabs him. I
05:51couldn't find that in better-sourced coverage, so treat it as unverified. Insiders say the first 10
05:57minutes land like a punch. Here's where people split. One world or two? Would you have made Wolverine's
06:04choice? Say it in the comments. I genuinely want to know. And if you're still with me, now's a good
06:10moment for that like. Finally, who stands beside Doom once Battleworld exists? A leaked plot shared
06:17on Reddit and X has him commanding an army of Thors, with Doctor Strange as second in command,
06:23and Yelena Belova third. That mirrors the comics, where the Thor Corps polices Battleworld and Sheriff
06:29Strange is Doom's right hand. It also echoes concept art that leaked in March 2025 from a Marvel
06:36artist's account. Doom on a throne. Sue Storm and Franklin beside him. Strange, a woman resembling Yelena,
06:44and a prisoner kneeling. The Russo brothers said that art wasn't theirs. The source video reads the
06:50prisoner as Reed Richards. Possible, but unconfirmed. As for Strange, Cumberbatch first said he wasn't
06:57in Doomsday, then admitted he'd got that wrong. Rumors put him behind a mask as Boris, working for
07:04Doom. Marvel hasn't confirmed it. The source's theory? Strange is playing the long game, like in
07:10Infinity War, and eventually betrays Doom. Doom wouldn't forgive that. So what is Doom really
07:17collecting? Not trophies. Pieces. A Hulk to rule. A Spider-Man to steer. A symbiote to steer him with.
07:26A helmet that shows what happens to anyone who kneels. If the theories hold, they're all pieces
07:32of the world he's about to rebuild. The collection began with Banner. The question now is who's next?
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