Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom has already been butchered on screen once – when Julian McMahon portrayed a terrible version in the previous Fantastic Four franchise – and the same is set to happen again, with Toby Kebbell’s version looking absolutely terrible in the upcoming reboot.

Although he isn’t going to be a blogger/hacker as was first rumoured and feared, his origins are being changed immensely yet again.

He’ll be Latverian – which is good – but he will also have been adopted and brought up by Dr. Franklin Storm – which isn’t so good, as it means he won’t have his Romani Gypsy beginnings and, as such, will be missing the mystical side of his character for a second time.

Doom is almost as adept at magic-use as he is at science in the comic books and he gets his powers from the gadgets in his suit and his use of spells. In this movie, he will get his powers from the same source as the Fantastic Four, just like McMahon’s version – although this time it will be the Negative Zone, as opposed to a cosmic storm.

Doom is a legendary comic book villain with masses of fans – it’s about time they were given a live action depiction that is faithful to the original version.