According to the director of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Doctor Doom won’t appear in the movie. Don’t worry, this is just the latest lie in the Marvel press cycle.
July marks one of the most momentous arrivals in the history of the MCU: Marvel’s first family, the Fantastic Four. It’s also the only scheduled movie until Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which will tee up Avengers: Doomsday at the end of 2026.
Here’s the thing: unlike every other F4 film, Doctor Doom isn’t the main villain this time. It’s Galactus, a planet-devouring behemoth, and going by the movie’s trailers and the cast and crew’s comments, there’s been no mention of Latveria’s masked ruler.
However, it’s this simple: there’s no way that Doom doesn’t make an appearance. Perhaps it’s just a small cameo in a post-credits scene, but he has to show up.
Don’t trust what the Fantastic Four director said about Doctor Doom
In an interview with Empire, Matt Shakman was asked if Doom will appear in Fantastic Four. “Doom is not a part of my film and therefore not part of my purview,” he said.
There are two ways to interpret this. One, the Russo brothers directed Thunderbolts’ post-credits scene with the Fantastic Four’s spaceship arriving into the MCU’s main universe, so Shakman may not consider Doom’s appearance in a post-credits scene to be “part of [his] film.”
Two, and this is likely… he’s just lying. Directors and stars have had to conceal secrets in Marvel movies for years, but it’s become way more noticeable in the post-No Way Home era.
All three Spider-Men had to deal with never-ending questions about all of their involvement in the film – but Andrew Garfield arguably suffered the most, doing back-to-back press for other films in the lead up to the movie’s release in late 2021.
Garfield stressed over and over again that he wasn’t in No Way Home and fans would be disappointed if they were hoping to see him in a Spidey mask again. Of course, he wasn’t telling the truth.
It’s not unlike Shakman telling a purposefully worded white lie about Doctor Doom; he wants to protect (what will likely be) the movie’s big mic drop heading towards Avengers: Doomsday.
“Well considering it was the Russos who filmed the Thunderbolts post-credits scene, this doesn’t mean diddly squat tbh,” one user posted on X/Twitter. “Yeah, if he didn’t film the post-credits scene, and Doom appears, he didn’t lie, he is right,” another argued.
“It’s pretty common for the directors of other projects to direct the post-credits scenes, so I actually believe him but don’t think that’s necessarily the same as an explicit ‘he is not in the movie whatsoever,'” a third wrote.
In short, don’t expect to see a lot of Doctor Doom – but the chances of the movie ending without seeing his mask are near-zero.
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