10 WHAT IF…? Comics Marvel Needs To Adapt For Season 2
4. What If... Tony Stark Had Become Doctor Doom?
Season one of What If...? showed that there can be multiple versions of different characters that fans of the MCU can love. T'Challa as Star Lord, Captain Carter, and Doctor Strange Supreme were among the most popular of the show's first nine episodes, but what if two huge characters literally swapped minds.
In another universe, Tony Stark was roommates with one Victor von Doom. The latter, mad with jealousy over Stark's resources and privilege, and anger at how little he appreciated them, tricked the would be Iron Man into trading places. Doom took Stark's body, and the benefits that came with his name, while Stark, in Doom's body, was sent penniless back to Latveria.
However, Tony worked from the ground up to become Doctor Victor von Doom, and used his mind to create scientific breakthroughs and fuel the economic growth in Latveria. Doom in Tony's body however, used intimidation, extortion, and violence to carve out his own legacy. The two ended up with rival businesses, with Latverian tech chipping away at Stark's profits.
The finale of the story comes as Stark takes the Iron Man suit he built to sell to the highest bidder to attack Doom, who in turn uses the suit he built as protection for emergency workers to fight back. Tony in Doom's body and Doom in Tony's body come to blows over their rivalry, with Stark's Doom winning the day. This would certainly be something to see on screen in season two.