10 Things The MCU Needs To Do With The Fantastic Four
6. Don't Ground Doctor Doom
If the MCU has one weakness with their character writing, it's that its willingness to question established comic lore and storylines that is so often its secret weapon also saps away the color and personality from many of its characters, just look at Taskmaster in Black Widow.
This cannot be done with Doctor Doom, if Watts is to have any hope of this character being taken seriously.
The only reason a character with as silly a name as Doctor Doom has worked for so long is because comic writers have leaned into everything silly about this character. He is a melodramatic, pontificating, portentous Bond villain down to his marrow. He's the only Jack Kirby character who has never lost his original Kirby look of flowy robes and Greco-Roman iconography because it works for him.
This is a villain who screams "RICHAAAAAAARDS!!!!" from atop his dark castle while lightning strikes in the distance. But of course the real hook of Doom is that at no point does he lie about himself, being exactly as smart, exactly as powerful, and exactly as all around badass as he speechifies himself to be. Doing otherwise is to watch this character fail as he has in every other past movie incarnation.