How Is Doom Strong Enough to Take On the God Holding the Multiverse Together? The Scoops and Theories Are Converging on a Book Called the Word of God.
By Jimigrimm
Here’s the question underneath every Avengers: Doomsday theory right now, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it: the last time we checked, the multiverse was held together by a god. Loki ended his show as what fans call the God of Stories, physically weaving every timeline from a throne at the end of time. That’s the being standing between Doctor Doom and everything Doom appears to want.
So how does Doom beat that?
For months the scooper world, the leak channels, and the theory videos have been circling pieces of an answer, and the pieces are starting to point at the same place: an ancient book, a borrowed sorcerer, and a war for a throne at the end of time. None of it is confirmed. All of it is worth knowing before December. So here’s the whole board laid out, who’s claiming what, which claims have receipts, and where the line between confirmed and rumor actually sits.
The Book: The Word of God
Start with the artifact, because it’s the piece with physical evidence behind it.
Cosmic Circus insider Alex Perez dropped the line in his February 2026 Q&A, and the context matters as much as the line itself. Asked what connects WandaVision and Agatha All Along to Doomsday, Perez said it comes down to the magic concepts those shows explored, naming the Darkhold, the runes, and the way Agatha absorbs magic as all relevant to something Doom does in the film. Then he closed the answer with one sentence: “All I can tell you is to beware the man who carries the Word of God.” Hold onto the runes in that answer, because a rune-covered floor is going to come back later in this piece, and Perez wired the runes and the book together in the same breath.
Then a receipt showed up in plastic. Hot Toys’ official Doomsday figure of RDJ’s Doom includes a concept-art-inspired magical book, and when fans assumed it was the Darkhold, Perez posted a correction on X: “concepts referred to it as the Book of God.” Now keep the two names apart, because the difference matters. The merch confirms a book exists, and the concepts call it the Book of God. Perez’s tease named the Word of God. The Direct, covering the correction, kept the question open: the Book of God could be an original creation for Doomsday, or it could be a take on the Word of God. That identification, Book of God equals Word of God, is the inference every theory below is running on. It’s a reasonable inference. It is not a confirmed one.
Here’s why fans made the leap, because in the comics, the Word of God’s lore reads like it was written for this movie. It debuted in 2017’s Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #4, a book thousands of years old containing power to create, destroy, and reshape reality itself. So dangerous that Merlin, the Merlin, guarded it in Camelot and imprisoned the mystics who came looking. And the detail that fits Doom like the armor: it looks like magic, but it’s actually science, technology from beyond our dimension, which mirrors Doom’s sorcery-and-machines hybrid exactly. One more detail from the comics, and hold onto it: the book wasn’t written by any sorcerer. It was created by an extradimensional being called the Author, and using it binds you to him. It leaves a mark on its users that connects back to its maker, and in the comics, the people who used it ended up under the Author’s control. The book has an owner. Everyone who uses it is borrowing.
The Team: Doom's Followers
The book is one pillar of the circulating picture. The second is who’s standing next to him, and this is where the scoopers have been busiest.
Daniel Richtman has built a claim across several reports: Doom’s right-hand man is a wizard who uses a sling ring, and per his later Patreon drop, wears a mask like Doom’s with a slot for a third eye in the forehead. Fans did the math instantly, a sling-ring sorcerer with a third eye is Doctor Strange, whose third eye is the Darkhold’s mark from the end of Multiverse of Madness, and scooper MAJESTIC_ucm removed the ambiguity, stating flat out that Doom’s right hand is the Doctor Strange of Earth-616. Our Strange. A third pointer sits in the casting chatter, and it comes with a fork worth naming: MyTimeToShineHello’s pre-reshoot cast list reportedly had Benedict Cumberbatch playing Boris, in the comics Doom’s loyal Latverian retainer, the servant who helped raise him, and not Doctor Strange at all. So one scooper chain says Strange is the right hand; another says Cumberbatch is playing somebody else entirely. Cumberbatch was absent from the official cast reveal and was never spotted on set, though multiple reports claim he filmed high-security scenes in the UK under the production codename Boris. And here’s the one piece of this that actually is settled: Cumberbatch himself told Business Insider in January 2025 that he’s in the movie, walking back an earlier claim that he was sitting it out. His presence is confirmed by his own mouth. Who he’s playing is the part nobody official has touched.
The same scooper thread names the rest of what it calls Doom’s five powerful followers: 616’s Wanda Maximoff, Clea, a Hulk the reports call Master Hulk, and a shapeshifter who wears Peggy Carter’s face. And right there sits the contradiction worth flagging, because it’s the clearest proof these are competing claims and not one script: Perez has separately described Peggy herself as a genuine follower of Doom, joining not out of malice but because she believes what Doom is doing will help her and her son fix the state of the multiverse, which in his telling is partially Steve Rogers’ fault. So one line of reporting says a shapeshifter wearing Peggy’s face; another says the real Peggy, with a reason that would break Steve’s heart. Both can’t be true. That’s the rumor economy working in real time, and it’s exactly why none of this goes in the confirmed column.
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If Strange kneeling to Doom sounds unthinkable, the theory crowd points to the receipts Marvel already printed: Multiverse of Madness ended with Strange’s Darkhold corruption literalized in that third eye, and Clea arriving to tell him his incursion was coming due. If that debt is what delivered Strange to Doom’s side, then a post-credits scene from 2022 has been loading this gun for four years.
And then the costumes showed up. Marvel’s own booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 ran a rotating Latverian Witch costume display: green on preview night, then orange, then purple, then Doom’s own costume taking over the mannequin, and the witch returning in green at his side for the final day. The dominant fan read on the colors was Infinity Stones, since purple, orange, and green are three of the six. A court of masked magic-users around Doom is already baked into the studio’s marketing, straight from Marvel’s own floor. Then, in early August 2026, leaked promotional images went further: Doom’s masked sidekick in full costume, black Latverian robes, metal gauntlets, a full mask with a circular slot centered on the forehead, captioned in the leaks as Boris, alongside promotional shots of the witches. The costume matches Richtman’s description down to the slot, which is why coverage read it as likely confirming his chain, and it’s the reading that reconciles the Boris fork above, a mask named for Doom’s most loyal servant with a socket built for Strange’s third eye. Keep it in the rumor column anyway. The images are leaks, not releases, they surfaced in an era when AI fakes are convincing enough that the outlets covering them said so out loud, and the alleged plot breakdown circulating alongside them is exactly the kind of thing this article is not going to reprint. If they’re real, they’re the strongest corroboration the right-hand-man reporting has ever gotten. If they’re not, the confirmed column below doesn’t move.
The Throne: Every Loki Theory in Circulation
Which brings it back to the god in the room. The theory landscape around Loki splits into three readings, and honestly, laying them side by side is the most useful thing anyone can do with them right now.
The heist reading, the loudest one: Doom takes the God of Stories’ power, and that’s what makes him strong enough to survive the multiverse’s collapse and build what comes after. It maps directly onto the 2015 Secret Wars comic, where Doom steals the Beyonders’ power to become god of Battleworld, and fans have long theorized the God of Stories replaces the Beyonders in the movie version. A circulating leak even sketches the route: Doom traces Loki’s path through the TVA, attacks the agency itself, and follows the trail to the throne at the end of time.
The gentler variant: Loki isn’t robbed, he gives it up, sacrificing his power to save the multiverse’s people, with Doom’s villainy living in what he does with the gift. Its advocates argue it fits Loki’s whole arc better than a theft would.
The out-planned reading, the quietest and maybe the coldest: Doom never needed Loki’s power at all, because a god holding infinite branches together alone, forever, is also a single point of failure, and single points of failure are what Doom studies. In that read, Doom’s strength is his own, built, not stolen, and Loki’s throne falls to strategy, not theft.
And the on-screen evidence that keeps all three alive: the trailer shows Loki off his throne, back in TVA field gear with an ID card, making what looks like a house call to Steve Rogers. The God of Stories doesn’t leave the loom for errands. Either he found a way to delegate, or, as one theory memorably put it, the tree is burning while its gardener runs for help. Add the rune-covered floor of Doom’s throne room, which fans read as timeline imagery, and the question stops being whether Loki’s role is central and becomes only which version of losing the throne we’re watching.
Where the Book Meets the Throne
Now put the two halves of the conversation next to each other, because this is where the fan record is visibly converging even though nobody official has said a word.
On one side: a god whose entire being is stories, holding the multiverse’s narrative threads together by will. On the other: a book whose lore is the power to write reality, create it, destroy it, rewrite it, made by a being called the Author. The theories circulating about Doom’s plan describe him collecting the tools to reshape reality itself. If the book in Doom’s hands really is the Word of God, doing what it does in the comics, then the shape fans are sketching is almost too clean: you don’t out-fight the God of Stories. You bring the thing that outranks a story, the pen it was written with.
And the lore’s fine print is the part worth thinking about hardest, because it cuts against Doom. The book binds its users to its maker. If Doom’s power runs through the Word of God, then somewhere behind the most dangerous man in the multiverse there may be an Author holding his leash, and that is exactly the kind of card a movie called Secret Wars gets dealt.
The Line, Kept Clean
Confirmed, actually confirmed: Loki appears in the trailer in TVA gear. Doom’s throne room has a rune-covered floor. The Hot Toys figure carries a book officially described in concept terms as the Book of God. Hiddleston is in the announced cast. Marvel displayed rotating Latverian Witch costumes at its own San Diego Comic-Con 2026 booth. Cumberbatch has said on the record that he’s in the movie. That’s the whole confirmed column.
Everything else, whether the Book of God is even the Word of God, the book’s role, Strange as the right hand, who’s under any of those masks, the leaked costume images, the five followers, Peggy in any form, the TVA assault, how Loki’s throne factors in, every reading of every theory above, is scooper claims and fan reasoning, from sources with mixed records, contradicting each other in at least one place we showed you. December 18 settles all of it.
So here’s what we actually want from you, because this one’s a thinking piece, not a verdict. Which reading of the Loki problem do you buy, the heist, the gift, or the out-planning? If our Strange really is standing at Doom’s right hand with a third eye, does that feel like betrayal or like the bill from Multiverse of Madness finally coming due? And the book: if the Word of God is real in this movie, who do you think the Author turns out to be? Drop it in the comments. The board’s laid out. Play it.
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