this summer Marvel Studios created chaos when it announced that Robert Downey Jr is making his back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe the actor is set to play super villain Dr Doom in a new appearance on the happy sad confused podcast to promote his new series cows Jeff Goldblum also addressed Robert Downey Junior's returned to the MCU Downey was an important part of the franchise as he played Tony starkiron man for over a decade until his ultimate sacrifice in 2019 Avengers endgame the news of his return was met with mixed responses but Goldblum believes it was excellent news Goldblum made his Marvel debut in 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 and his character got a bigger role in 2017 Thor Ragnarok he also appeared in a deleted scene from 2022 Thor love and thunder asked whether there is a possibility for him to reprise his role as The Grandmaster in a future Marvel project the actor replied if there is it's in your cards in the future cards while speaking about Marvel the news of Downey's return came back excellent news Goldblum answered I think I vaguely heard the yes yes I'd heard Whispers on my peripheral yes channels Victor fondom I like that name if my name had been Victor Von Doom I'd be along further along than I am now that's a great name or Von to anything or van Robert Downey Jr's MCU return explained Marvel Studios revealed that Robert Downey Jr will return to the MCU during this year's San Diego ComicCon the news also included bringing back the Russo brothers who helmed the two previous Avengers installments instead of returning as Iron Man by using a Multiverse loophole Downey will take a different role as the super villain Dr Doom he is set to appear in the next two Avengers movies 20 SS Avengers doomsday which was previously known as Avengers the Kong Dynasty and 2027 Avengers Secret Wars Downey recently addressed his return as Dr Doom and explained how everything happened fij and I kept in touch we're Pals the actor explained during an appearance on the Hollywood reporters Awards chatter podcast John favro and fij and I have kept in touch I'm also close with the Russo Brothers the actor explained I had an idea outside the Cinematic Universe for how I could be of service to what's going on in the Parks Susan and I were sitting down with fij at one point and he said it just keeps occurring to me that if you were to come back and Susan was like wait wait come back is what he continued then we both realized over time that it was another thing that just disapproves any doubt anyone could ever have about fij a very sophisticated creative thinker about how can we not go backwards how can we not disappoint expectations how can we continue to beat expectations and he brought up Victor Von Doom and I looked into this character and I was like Wow and later on he goes let's get Victor Von Doom right let's get that right