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There's a long relationship between videogames and alternative music, from early first-person shooter Doom to games like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Guitar Hero.

But sentimental pride in their “burden of leadership,” nonsensical dithering and a gathering fear that the surroundings hold impending doom to them personally, make even crafting the usual gibberish impossible.

At San Diego’s Comic-Con last week, Marvel unveiled its strategy: Robert Downey Jr. will return to the franchise as Doctor Doom to replace Kang in the new “Avengers” film, now dubbed “Avengers: Doomsday.”

What happened in January 2021 with the pandemic-threatened mall chain GameStop, the subject of Craig Gillespie’s enjoyable finance comedy “Dumb Money,” is a case in point: a struggling business’s share price becoming a proxy class war between secretive hedge-funders counting on its doom to line their pockets, and a scrappy, social media culture of low-level investors trying to boost its value and destabilize Wall Street.

From Doom to Call of Duty, first-person shooters have been immensely popular for decades.