With the Marvel Cinematic Universe heading to ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, Doctor Doom is clearly in the spotlight. With Marvel teasing a villain who blends advanced science with devastating magic, the stage is being set for one of the most dangerous antagonists the franchise has ever seen.
However, under the hype, there is a loose thread that is still there, one character whose presence is suddenly glaringly absent.
Doctor Doom’s Arrival Highlights An Unfinished MCU Story
Kit Harrington‘s Dane Whitman, aka Black Knight, was introduced in ‘Eternals’ without much noise. His journey barely began before Marvel seemed to move on. Now, when Doctor Doom enters the limelight, that incomplete storyline no longer seems like a creative oversight. It feels like an opportunity that the MCU cannot afford to miss. Doctor Doom is not a villain who is simply power-hungry. Marvel has positioned him as a unique hybrid: a master of both technology and mysticism.
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Doom’s magical ability is not a hobby in the comics, but rather his core. His experience in sorcery is a result of years of study, forbidden rituals, and even time travel. Doom’s history has one of the most interesting chapters associated with Camelot. Contrary to a mere myth, Camelot is a real place in the Marvel Comics, and it is highly connected with time travel, ancient magic, and fate.
Doom notoriously went there, and he was taught dark arts by Morgan le Fay. This is important since the MCU is evidently drifting towards Doom’s mystical aspect. If ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is going to explore magic-heavy conflicts rather than purely cosmic or technological ones, the Avengers will need allies who understand that world. And there, Black Knight becomes much more than an afterthought.
Black Knight’s Absence Is Becoming Impossible To Ignore
Dane Whitman’s MCU entry has been in a time freeze since ‘Eternals’. The after-credits scene foreshadowed his relationship to the Ebony Blade, a cursed weapon bound to ancient magic, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. It was a vow of something more dark and more mythological. That promise is yet to be fulfilled five years later. Black Knight’s history in the comics is intertwined with Camelot.
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Whitman once lived in the past as his ancestor, Sir Percy of Scandia, one of the Knights of the Round Table and the first to wield the Ebony Blade. That sword was not merely made, but it was given by Merlin himself. That common mythology forms a natural narrative transition between Black Knight and Doctor Doom. The two characters are both connected to Camelot. They both have powers based on ancient magic. And they both know that the past is as dangerous as the future.
Storytelling-wise, Black Knight may provide the Avengers with the much-needed insight into Doom’s background. He could give context, warnings, or even personal experience of the forces that Doom has accessed. Instead, the MCU might pursue the comics and have Dane trapped in ancient Camelot. This will put him right in Doom’s path and make him a significant figure before ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’.
