Robert Downey Jr. may have left the world of Marvel behind since the death of Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame, but the actor has been debuting his heroic new blue hairdo on his social media accounts, causing the star to go viral. Downey Jr. is said to be heading back into another of his well-known franchises, Sherlock Holmes, but it is clear that his new hairstyle has nothing to do with that upcoming role as the Arthur Conan Doyle detective and seems to be the actor in chilled out family mode, which no one can begrudge him.

In a post on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, Downey Jr. and his wife Susan celebrated their son’s little league baseball team in a short video, during which the Dr. Doolittle actor turned the camera on himself, showing off a very short and very blue hairdo. This was followed by a photo of the couple together, giving a better look at the style reminiscent of some of Downey Jr.’s older buzz cut looks, but this is the first time he has decided to go quite so colorful.

In the post, Downey Jr. commented, “Congrats are in order for the Malibu Little League 2022 AAA Champs. Big thanks to Coach Alfano, Coach Sullivan, and Coach Mark. Dodgers brought the heat!!!” Of course, it didn’t take fans long to change the subject entirely to give their opinions on his new appearance, and most of them seemed to be on board with blue.

Sherlock Holmes 3 is in Development, with a Universe to Follow

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It has been over a decade since Robert Downey Jr. played Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective, and obviously, during that time he became better known as the founding father of the MCU and The Avengers, but with that role behind him, Downey Jr. has clear plans to not only bring a new sequel to his version of Sherlock Holmes, but expand it into its own universe. He previously said:

The shared universe around the character is being developed under the Team Downey production banner that the actor and his wife formed, and Susan was quick to acknowledge that now could be the perfect time for the project to move forward thanks to the boom in HBO Max. She added:

“At this point, we really feel that there is not a mystery-verse built out anywhere, and Conan Doyle is the definitive voice in that arena, I think, to this day. So to me, why do a third movie if you’re not going to be able to spin off into some real gems of diversity and other times and elements?”

“We think there’s an opportunity to build it out more. Spin-off characters from a third movie, to see what’s going on in the television landscape, to see what Warner Media is starting to build out, things with HBO and HBO Max. I do think that the decade of tutelage and observation, what we were both able to have with Marvel, watching them build out and see all the opportunities, was invaluable. It was like a master class,”