Men in metal masks: Iron Man and Doctor Doom stories that are ripe for the MCU

With Robert Downey Jr returning to Marvel movies as Doctor Doom, we take a look at some Doom and Iron Man stories it might draw inspiration from.

They both wear iron masks. One is a genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist. The other is a genius, ruler, sorceror megalomaniac. On paper, Iron Man and Doctor Doom could not be more different from one another. But are they really?

The two Marvel characters recently came back into the limelight thanks to the seismic announcement that actor Robert Downey Jr is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) not as Iron Man but as Doctor Doom.