Doctor Doom will be the main villain in both 2026's Avengers ... Doctor Doom and Iron Man in the comics that would make one ...

The reason the Avengers will need Iron Man in Secret Wars Marvel needs an excellent reason to extract an Iron Man from any timeline and port him to the present-day of the Secret Wars events.

Furthermore, it was also an exciting step on the road towards The Avengers. Tony Stark's reckless behavior in Iron Man 2 might have been fuelled by what he thought was his own impending death ...