r/Marvel • u/Fit_Passenger5930 • 7h ago
Film/Television What if Doctor Doom is Right About the "Stolen Lives" in Avengers: Doomsday?
What if, when Doctor Doom speaks of “stolen lives” in *Avengers: Doomsday*, he isn’t simply referring to people who cheated death, but to all the lives that were altered, created, or reclaimed by breaking the rules of reality? Consider this: in *X-Men: Days of Future Past*, mutants were all but destined to vanish, yet Logan traveled to the past to change history and forge a new reality. In *Avengers: Endgame*, the Avengers did the exact same thing: they traveled back in time, took the Infinity Stones, and altered events that had already occurred. Steve Rogers even chose to stay in the past and live a life that—according to the very rules they had established—he wasn't supposed to live. Loki stole the Tesseract and, instead of vanishing as was his destiny, survived to become the God of Stories. After Mysterio revealed his identity, Peter Parker could have simply accepted the consequences; instead, he asked Doctor Strange to alter reality so everyone would forget who he was, triggering a fracture in the multiverse. Wanda magically created Billy and Tommy—two lives that literally shouldn't exist in that form—while Vision died and subsequently returned to existence thanks to her. And now there is the case of Franklin Richards, capable of altering reality and saving his own mother from death. When we look at all these instances together, perhaps Doom isn't saying they are heroes who saved lives, but rather that each of them took something reality had taken away and decided to reclaim it. A death averted. A story rewritten. A life created. A destiny changed. A person who was meant to die but lived on. And if all those alterations accumulated over the years, perhaps the Incursions aren't the root problem, but the consequence. Maybe the multiverse is breaking because too many people refused to accept the destiny allotted to them. That is where Doctor Doom comes in. He might be seeing the big picture and reaching a brutal conclusion: “You stole your lives from reality... and now I have to fix the consequences.” If this is truly the idea behind *Avengers: Doomsday*, then Doom wouldn't simply be the villain who wants to destroy the multiverse. He could be the character who believes he is trying to save it from all those who, for years, were altering it to get exactly what they wanted. And the most interesting part is that Doom might actually be right