Listeners, it’s Doomsday on the Empire Podcast. Many of you requested that we record a special episode devoted to the news after the shocking Hall H reveal at San Diego Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. will be joining the MCU again, presumably not as Tony Stark but rather as the renowned Latvian supervillain Doctor Doom. We were sadly unable to accomplish it. Thankfully, we more than make up for it in this week’s episode, as Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, and Amon Warmann lock themselves in the pod booth and spend a significant portion of the movie news segment speculating wildly about the news and its implications. Here’s a handy timecode if you’re an MCU skeptic so you can skip the lengthy portion.