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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965), also known as RDJ, is an American actor. A son of a filmmaker, Robert Downey Sr and one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, his films as a leading actor have grossed over $14 billion worldwide. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. At the age of five, Downey made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 film Pound. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). Downey's portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and his first Academy Award nomination. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series Ally McBeal in 2000. He won a Golden Globe Award for the role. Downey was fired from the show in 2001 in the wake of additional drug charges. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003. Downey made his acting comeback in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond, and went on to star in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007) and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008). He also played Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, and in its 2011 sequel. Downey gained global recognition for starring as Iron Man in ten Marvel Cinematic Universe films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). Downey received acclaim for his role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), winning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for playing multiple characters in the black comedy miniseries The Sympathizer (2024). He made his Broadway debut that year, playing the title role in Ayad Akhtar's McNeal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Downey Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Robert Downey Jr.
Tony Stark
for Tony Stark in Avengers 4 Kang Dynasty
Suggested by super_wahrrior
1 year after Avengers 3 we see the world has been overrun with Kangs. Meanwhile only a handful of heroes are left as refugees such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Quicksilver, Wolverine, Antman, and Hawkeye. Eventually these heroes make a plan to get into Kang's ship and kill the main Kang and use the controls in his ship to send all the other Kangs back to their universes, but the plan goes wrong and Antman is killed leaving Captain America and Hawkeye to stop Kang while the other heroes hold back the other Kangs. Soon Captain America is on the ground and Hawkeye is knocked out and Kang is about to kill them until through a portal the Young Avengers show up from their universe to stop Kang. It all ends with Ironlad agreeing to turn into Kang if Kang leaves everything alone. Kang doesn't want to because this whole thing was about replacing his dying universe, but he realizes that Ironlad could be his successor and save his reality. The movie ends with Kang and Ironlad leaving and everything going back to the way it was before Avengers 3, but some things have changed like now New York is controlled by a Kingpin named Wilson Fisk and Antman has finished Ultron a lot sooner but now he is a lot different personality wise as in Hes a lot more angry and violent. Also, in this different timeline Hawkeye didn't escape Hydra and Zemo didn't move bases so S.H.I.E.L.D managed to shut down Hydra sooner and Hawkeye and Black Widow still joined the Avengers.
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