8 Things The Doctor Doom Movie Must Do

Origin stories aren't always a terrible thing, unless we're talking about seeing a radioactive spider taking a bite out of Peter Parker for the sixth time, or Superman's escape pod cashing down on a Kansas farm.

Doctor Doom's backstory is a little different, in the sense that we've never seen it told accurately on screen, and the solo film presents the chance to set this right.

Doom was born to a witch mother who dies at the hands of Faustian demon Mephisto, while his father was a physician who freezes to death on a mountainside, cradling young Victor, after escaping the wrath of a Latvarian nobleman called the Baron.

Telling this forgotten chapter of the character's story would help the audience appreciate the tragic nature of his formative years and root for him when his rivalry with Reed Richards begins in the United States.

Fox's Fantastic Four films had their reasons for tying Doom's transformation to the cosmic event which gave the heroes their powers, but his true origin is more grounded and would hit home harder.

Victor attempts to create a machine that can commune with the dead, only for it to blow up in his face and leave him disfigured after he ignores Reed's warning that his calculations are off.

This is the origin we want to see in the upcoming solo film, but it needs to leave plenty of time to flesh out Doom's rise to power as the ruler of Latveria.