It’s Valentine’s Day, a day devoted to telling the love of your life how a lot they imply to you… which ought to actually be carried out your complete yr, however that’s irrelevant. However typically it’s good to additionally commemorate today with different folks in your life; or, in case you’re somebody as well-known as Robert Downey Jr., together with your followers and followers. That’s simply what the Iron Man actor did at the moment with a candy Valentine’s Day publish that had followers saying, “I really like you 3000,” and it was additionally particularly becoming for the upcoming Marvel films he has lined up.
“I really like you 3000” if, after all, the road Tony’s daughter Morgan says to Avengers: Endgame (which is streamable with a Disney+ subscription) after they’ve loved some juice pops collectively, and he later repeats it to her within the closing message he recorded earlier than you died. It’s a line greater than worthy of peppering into the feedback part of RDJ’s Instagram publish, notably for Image #2.
Sure, Robert Downey Jr. appropriately showcased his love for his spouse, Susan Downey, in an lovely illustration of the 2 of them as one another’s valentine’s with their faces now connected to kids’s our bodies. Downey used the third image to plug his espresso firm Pleased Merchandise, which he additionally did final yr when he celebrated profitable an Oscar. Nevertheless, it’s the primary image that’s instantly going to seize the eye of any fan who’s attuned to the MCU information cycle.
Final summer season, it was introduced that Downey will return to the franchise to play Physician Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, and there are even rumblings that he’ll cameo on this summer season’s The Unbelievable 4: First Steps. It stays to be seen if his tackle Doom will likely be a Tony Stark variant, however Downey is formally getting into his villain part after spending over a decade taking part in the superhero who launched the MCU. After all, we’re nonetheless a protracted methods off from seeing down his Physician Doom will look, however highlighting the Unbelievable 4’s arch-nemesis on this Valentine’s Day publish is a cute strategy to acknowledge his forthcoming return.
Robert Downey Jr. was introduced in to play Physician Doom after plans to characteristic Kang the Conqueror as the principle villain in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars had been scrapped following Jonathan Majors being fired. The Marvel multiverse will clearly nonetheless issue into these films since we’re in the course of The Multiverse Saga, however now it’s Doom who be inflicting the difficulty throughout a number of realities. Downey can even reunite with administrators Joe and Anthony Russo on Doomsday and Secret Wars, with that duo having additionally been absent from the MCU since Endgame.
Contemplating that Avengers: Doomsday comes on Could 1, 2026, it stands to purpose we’ll get our first have a look at Robert Downey Jr. as Physician Doom later this yr, whether or not that’s in a picture or a trailer. For now, I’ll simply be over right here wishing that Doom-themed chocolate containers had been really a factor.