Fans of the fantastic quadruple had an interesting job on films. There were Made more attempts to adjust the franchise for the comic book Marvelwith a different level of success. While none of the films was fantastic, there is a bright spot in the 2005 Fantastic Film Film and its 2007 followed, "Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer" and it is an Australian-American actor Jululian McMahon.

The deceased performer, who unfortunately died on July 2, 2025, at the age of 56, climbed to fame playing a feminine plastic surgeon Christian Troy on Drama with Ryan Murphy soap "Nip/Tuck" And he was caught as the evil Victor von Doom in director Tim View in the films "Fantastic Four". Films are a kind of chaos from the scenario point of view, but McMahon gives a really perfect performance as Victor von Home - both disguised and unmasked. (DOOM should be of Romanian descent and McMahon does not fit that condition, but that's really for that.)

Playing DOOM was looking for a very specific approach, relying in a clean party at more evil moments, while also a character with whom the audience could empathize. Doom is a pretty complex villain, to the point that he is almost anti-hero, and McMahon has clearly understood the task. Sometimes you want to see Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) as some of the beauties of Victor's smuggling, but other times his face is tragically tragic and even relevant. Perhaps playing a decoction-but-sympathetic surgeon Christian was the perfect practice of showing such charismatic bad in the setting, because he sincerely kills him.

Although the "Fantastic Four" films did not have to give their actors the best writing to work with it, McMahon still brought a huge amount of pathos to the character. Like many of the real great villains in the history of the cinema, he understands the role seriously even when not taken seriously. How Raul Iaulia playing M. Bison in "Street Fighter" Or Frank Langela as a skeleton in 1987 "Masters of the Universe", McMahon took a vital role in a pretty stupid movie and gave her absolutely everything to do something. I am honest: there are times in both films where more than a fantastic four are rooted for him, no matter how fun "Captain America" ​​Chris Evans has Nyoni Storm.

Toby Cabel did what he could have with Victor von Doom in the 2015 Jos Tran version of Fantastic Four, but never feels as passionate or entertaining as McMahon takes over. Robert Downey, Runior, will take another version of the role next in the Chinese Marvel Universe, probably through some multi -mass chanigening, where Tony Stark is somehow an accident instead of Ole Victor. While Downey once audited for the part of Doctor Doom in 2005Losing McMahon, he worked honestly for the best because we had to see McMahon really shows his chops. (He could also hurt Downey's chances in the "Ironoela" just a few years later, and That is The best casting of comics of all time, so it would have been criminally.)

Here's something about acting: while we often tend to think about "great acting" like those moments with huge emotional influence and dramatic moments, one of the most important parts is really just to make the audience break their disbelief. When you play a very realistic character in the ground drama, that's one thing, but the approximation of the audience Buy something like a "fantastic four" Takes a lot more fineness. For Victor von Dum and McMahon, it is a tonal walk -in, which requires both vulnerability and a little melodrama, and he takes it out with a pan.

It is unlikely that anyone will ever declare the "fantastic four" and "Rise of Silver Surfer" masterpieces, and while "Nip/Tuck" was glorious fun, it was also a cable channel soap. Both were made much better than McMahon is in them, carrying both charm for days and the right amount of bad guys talent. Rest in peace, sir. Be seriously missed.