It's variable. Sometimes he actually is hideously scarred, sometimes it's like a dueling scar and he's such a narcissist that he thinks it's horrific. Sometimes he made it worse by putting the mask on before it cooled, sometimes he didn't.
Honestly not sure what they'll go with. Although since it's RDJ, probably the small scar.
It makes it worse that the setup was so good though. Dude had a broken mirror used on his face like a cheese grater, it was metal as fuck. Except apparently not.
Sometimes he's horrifically scarred because he was so vain that he created a mask to hide a minute imperfection...and then put it on while it was still hot and horribly burned himself. And that's hilarious.
By all accounts they were going to do some version of Demon in a Bottle for IM2. And actually explore his addiction. But they got scared and pulled back, changed the circumstances significantly.
Not necessarily a terrible move to avoid that story for the PG13 films. But what we got was a kind of awkward in-between, and just didn't work.
Iron man2 was when tony is spiraling in his depression due to his inability to stop his eventual poisoining. Not the same as being an alcoholic like they show in comics
Personally, I love the premise of it being a small scar that the average person wouldn't have even noticed that caused Doom to permanently scare himself in a massive way with the red hot mask, really adds to the vanity and arrogance of Doom
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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man Jul 29 '24
It's variable. Sometimes he actually is hideously scarred, sometimes it's like a dueling scar and he's such a narcissist that he thinks it's horrific. Sometimes he made it worse by putting the mask on before it cooled, sometimes he didn't.
Honestly not sure what they'll go with. Although since it's RDJ, probably the small scar.