MCU fans may not have been blown away by the reveal of the Avengers: Doomsday pop-up coffee shop in London, but the viral event is actually deeper than it seems. True, it wasn’t the Doomsday trailer some had hopefully predicted, nor a reveal of more cast, which was also an outside bet, but this lower-level marketing campaign has been quite predictable in its stakes so far, so we shouldn’t have been surprised. But there is something here, because everything in the coffee shop’s menu suggests the comics-accurate origin we’re getting for Robert Downey Jr’s new MCU villain.
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As revealed by Nexus Point News, the coffee shop – renamed Dom Latveria Coffee – had four menu items, as follows:
- Fortunov – Single espresso
- The Rapprochement – Hot latte
- Cynthia’s Blend – Matcha latte
- Zefiro – Flat white
- Hassenstadt Dark – Americano
And each holds meaning for Doctor Doom: Cynthia is his mother; Hassenstadt was what Doom’s fortress town home Doomstadt was called before he took it over; Fortunov was the evil ruler he overthrew; Zefiro was the Romani tribe he grew up as part of; and the Rapprochement Festival is a holiday in Latveria that celebrates atoning for past sins. That last point is an interesting one given there’s some question over Doom’s motivations (and this hint might complicate his image as a straight villain). The others pretty much confirm which version of Doom we’re getting.
Doctor Doom’s Origin Story Seems Confirmed
While there was some speculation from some Marvel fans that Doom was going to be a variant of Tony Stark (hence why Robert Downey Jr was brought back), every reference in the Dom Latveria menu points to a very straight forward origin story. Stitching the elments together suggests the shape of that story: Victor was born to Cynthia, his beloved mother, who raised him as part of the nomadic Zefiro tribe, before they eventually settled in Hassenstadt, which Victor claimed as his own, renaming it Doomstadt. How we get to that point is, obviously, so far unclear, but in the comics, there’s a sense of Doom’s sense of morality that could inform what’s been speculated about his vision of himself as a hero.
In the comics, Fortunov was a despotic king who persecuted the Romani people, before he asked for help from Victor’s father, Werner, a healer, when his wife was suffering with cancer. When Werner failed, the family was forced to flee, but Doom grew with a vengeance, eventually overthrowing and killing the king, taking over his kingdom, and renaming his seat of power. The fact that we have a name check of the villain in Doom’s origin could be an interesting insight into what shapes the man. The sense of injustice and the desire to avenge sins would certainly paint the image of a more complex villain than Marvel fans might be expecting.
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