One of Doom's most well known attributes is his thirst for power. Throughout numerous storylines, we have seen him trying to steal it from others or create his own.
During the Secret Wars storyline, he actually succeeds in absorbing the power of the Beyonders and creates a brand new multiverse in his image, crowning himself "God Emperor Doom. Thankfully, Reed and other heroes are able to rise up and overthrow him, fixing the multiverse, but it's a storyline that helps prove why Doom is one of Marvel's more formidable villains.
Stan Lee will forever be remembered for what he gave the world in the form of all these wonderful characters.
Alongside such artists as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Lee would co-create almost the entire Marvel Universe, including a lot of its supervillains. Lee had been asked many times over the years who is favorite was, and he would always state Doctor Doom was. Back in , he even said:. Everybody thinks he's a criminal, but all he wants is to rule the world. Now if you really think about if objectively, you could walk up to a policeman, and you could say, 'Excuse me, officer, I want to tell you something: I want to rule the world.
The character Mephisto is not one many non-comic book readers know. Thanks to hints in WandaVision, the character has become a little more well known of late. Essentially, he is the Devil of the Marvel Universe, residing over a dominion he calls Hell.
He also procures and tortures souls. One such procurement is the soul of Cynthia Von Doom, the good doctor's mother. Doom became obsessed with trying to free her soul, and so made a deal with Mephisto whereby he could summon him once per year to a fight, and if he won, Mephisto would need to release her, but if not, then the people of Latveria would grow to hate Doom with each failed attempt. Unfortunately, Doom is never able to defeat the powerful Mephisto, but his mother's soul goes on to be saved by Doctor Strange.
Well there you go, 10 things you didn't know about Doctor Strange. With Fantastic Four being confirmed as an upcoming project under the ever widening umbrella of Marvel Studios, hopefully we will finally get to see an interpretation of the Doom on the big screen which does him justice.
How many of the above did you know? Do you know any others? Doctor Doom Marvel. Diplomatic Immunity. He Killed Ant-Man's Daughter. Was Almost Sorcerer Supreme. But instead, Doom asks that he stands as his best man at his upcoming wedding. Of course, Reed is appropriately shocked by the request -- and with good reason. Mister Fantastic and Doctor Doom have a complicated history, to say the least.
For decades, the two have been rivals at their best, and sworn enemies at their worst. Doctor Doom is the Fantastic Four's greatest foe, and they have fought one another on dozens of occasions. Over the years, Doom and Reed and his family have put their differences aside, finding common ground to fight side-by-side from time to time. But despite that, they have always returned to being enemies. Victor and Reed share an important bond that spans nearly the entire history of the Marvel Universe.
They are similar in many ways, yet completely different in others. They are two sides of the same coin, and their rivalry will likely never come to an end. But for the time being, Doctor Doom seems to have put his hatred of Richards aside in order to ask him to fulfill this very important role on what is to be the most important day of his life. This actually says a lot about the villain and his relationship with Reed.
Doom may have loyal subjects, but he isn't one to keep the company of friends. However, this plan backfires when the rest of the team attempt to rescue Reed, resulting in Doom transferring his spirit into Sue, Johnny and Ben respectively, forcing Reed to kill his best friend to stop his greatest enemy. When Mjolnir , the hammer of Thor, fell to Earth, it passed through time and space, momentarily breaching the gateway to Hell and providing Doom with an escape route. Upon his return to Earth, Doom regained control of Latveria, used its military to locate Mjolnir, and attempted to seize its power for himself, believing the hammer had chosen him to be its wielder by freeing him from Hell, but he soon discovered that he was not worthy.
Doom himself may or may not have been responsible. In another ploy to gain leverage during this time of disunity, Doom proposed an alliance between Latveria and the Black Panther 's country of Wakanda. Black Panther and his new wife, Storm , however, saw through Doom's intrigue. So Doom sought to align his country with another.
Following the destruction of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis , Doctor Doom made Latveria into a refugee camp for the Atlanteans [67] and struck an alliance with Loki in his plot to manipulate Thor to unwittingly release his Asgardian enemies. Iron Man led S. This arrangement was interrupted when the Mighty Avengers arrested Doctor Doom and incarcerated him for crimes against humanity.
Doctor Doom and Iron Man managed to return all three to the present. Doctor Doom was released from prison by the Fantastic Force , a group from a distant future returned to the present.
The Fantastic Force kidnapped Doom and the Human Torch to use them as a power source for a time travel device that was made from the dead body of Galactus. The whole plan of the Fantastic Force was led by the future Sue Storm. In what should have been a happy ending, Doctor Doom killed the future Sue Storm, to "restore his honor. Doom, who loathed Dracula, refused to acknowledge his regal standing. Morgan le Fay traveled to present day Latveria to punish Doctor Doom for failing to come through on his end of their bargain.
Norman Osborn rescued Doom from mystical paralysis, and they linked their armours to access Doom's time cube in order to go back in time and stop Morgan le Fay.
Doom either could not or would not destroy le Fay, despite having the power to do so, because her future was intertwined with his. Instead, Doom sent her back in time, forcing her to battle her way back to her present, and thereby distracting her from fighting Doom and the Dark Avengers. Doom showed contempt for Osborn and his "ignorance" to the time stream and went back to the present and undid all that le Fay had done to the Dark Avengers.
Then Doom magically restored Latveria and rebuilt his castle with use of the time cube. After his initial capture and release for crimes against humanity, Doom revealed that he had been taught everything by a master, someone that was far more powerful and evil than he himself, and that he would soon be returning. When his master, the Marquis of Death , arrived, he was displeased with what Doom had been doing in the two decades since his departure.
He expected Doom to be the vicious ruler of the Earth, not the ruler of a small country constantly defeated by heroes such as the Fantastic Four. After playing with his mind, he beat Doom and banished him to the Pliocene Age to die.
With his new apprentice, the Marquis of Death began to torment the Fantastic Four as punishment, but was defeated by them. When Richards chose not to finish off his defeated foe, the Marquis' Apprentice, revealed to be Doom, did it for him. Doom waited for years in the past using all his knowledge and sorcery to survive. He then became the Marquis' Apprentice once more and waited for the moment that the Marquis would be weakened enough for him to gain his revenge, and it came when he faced Mr.
Doom declared that all rivalries between him and Richards had long been settled to his satisfaction. When the Asgardians moved from Asgard , which was floating above Broxton , Oklahoma , to Latveria on Loki's suggestion, Doom secretly began capturing Asgardians, experimenting on them to discover what gave them their immortality.
He even mutilated some Asgardians by converting them into cyborgs, serving his twisted ambitions. He set these cyborgs loose upon Balder and company.
However, Thor came to avenge his people and engaged Doom in combat. After realizing that he could lose, Doom fled and entered the weapon he had been working on: a new version of the Destroyer Armor.
He reengaged Thor and began to beat him down, with Thor unable to hurt him. Realizing that Doom's armor was powered by a battery, Thor held off Doom until the suit's power finally ran low, forcing Doom to retreat. Doom had one last meeting with Norman and his Cabal, but still refused to side with Norman.
To show off his power, Norman unleashed his 'secret weapon' on Doom and defeated him. But Doom was obviously prepared for this sort of attack, as he had sent a Doombot in his place. Doom had made it clear that no one could control him. When Doom learned of a xenophobic group of Wakandans known as the Desturi , he began his plans for gaining access to the vast amounts of vibranium located in Wakanda. Vibranium has the ability to be magically charged and has infinite power potential, something Doom had figured how to use to make himself virtually unstoppable.
Doom developed nanite cameras which were dispersed into all Wakandans, making them unknowing spies for Doom. With all the security information of Wakanda available to him, he was able to gain access to the vault that contained the country's vibranium. In a last ditch effort to stop him, T'Challa rendered all Wakandan vibranium inert and useless. Long ago, Doom betrayed the Leader and his super-villain group the Intelligencia.
The group later reformed and planned to 'lobotomize' their competition and capture eight of Earth's greatest minds, including Doom. Doom was captured by the Intelligencia using the Hulk Robot. When the Young Avengers helped Magneto find his daughter Wanda , they found her with no memory of her past and betrothed to Doctor Doom. He was revealed to have played a part in increasing the power levels of the Scarlet Witch, leading to the events which disassembled the Avengers and the alteration of reality known as M-Day.
When the Young Avengers traveled back in time with Wanda, they were able to restore her memory, and thus her powers. Back in the present, Doom stole Wanda's powers in an effort to become fully omnipotent. He offered to make perfect the lives of all those present and even revive the dead, only if he became the king of the world.
The Young Avengers, the Avengers and the X-Men refused, instead battling him until his new powers overloaded, leaving him powerless again.
He escaped, teleporting himself away after taking responsibility for all of Wanda's actions, stating that she was only a puppet, and only he was powerful enough to create that kind of chaos. After the death of the Human Torch, Doom joined the Future Foundation with the condition that Reed Richards would restore the intelligence he lost at the hands of the Intelligencia.
There, with the help of the Future Foundation, they rebuilt Reed's " Bridge ", a device that allowed Reed to peer into alternate realities and travel to them at will. Rather than taking his chance to escape, Doom stayed and fought for Latveria. With no knowledge as to how he survived the blast from the Mad Celestials, Doom woke up in the middle of the ruins of the Interdimensional Council of Reeds , where Valeria had left him a present: the full army of lobotomized Doctor Dooms from alternate realities who were previously captured by the Council, along with two Infinity Gauntlets from other universes.
With these resources, Doom created the Parliament of Doom. Doom journeyed to the universe that one of his Infinity Gauntlets had belonged to, which was now empty and desolate, and used the gauntlet to breathe life into it anew.
He separated magic and science, creating the basic rules for their existence, created new lifeforms and made himself their ruler. On a world where science and magic were wed, his creations turned on him and six rulers divided Doom's Infinity Gems between them. Reed and Nathaniel Richards entered this universe to save Doom after being told by Valeria that he was in grave danger.
They managed to convince five of the rulers to pardon Doom and managed to escape the clutches of the sixth, bringing Doom back to their universe. Upon their return, Doom declared that he and Richards were even again. After his return, Latveria became the site of an incursion , a collision between Earth and one of its alternate universe counterparts.
This incursion was different however, in that it was controlled by a mysterious group known as the Mapmakers , who had rigged the other Earth to explode and wished to mark Doom's Earth for potential expansion. Doom fought off the Mapmakers with the help of his adopted son Kristoff Vernard, whilst unbeknownst to him, the Illuminati blew up the other Earth.
After the incursion ended, Doom was alerted to a rock that had fallen from the sky, which was in truth the Mapmakers' beacon. Doom contacted Reed Richards and Stephen Strange in order to confront them about the Illuminati's presence in Latveria and the incursion, but to his fury, they refused to give him answers and Reed warned him not to contact him in regard to the incursions again. After imprisoning Loki due to the manipulations of an older Loki , Doom discovered that his people were fighting one another and rallying against him.
After beginning to have bad thoughts himself, Doom realized that Latveria was under a telepathic attack. He used a spell to protect himself, and discovered that the Red Skull had been responsible for this attack. Meanwhile in Castle Doom, Loki had been freed by Valeria, who used his truth sword Gram to release a "truth wave" which stopped the telepathic influence over Latveria. Doom journeyed to Genosha with the rest of the villains that were recruited by Magneto.
They destroyed one of the Skull's Stark Sentinels , which was keeping some of the heroes who had defied the Skull captive. Doom and the Scarlet Witch began to cast an inversion spell to alter the moral compass of the Skull in order to defeat him. The spell was successful, but it accidentally also affected everyone else on the island. After the island was covered by the spell, all of the villains disappeared without a trace, including Doom.
Doom returned to Latveria, changed into a selfless and kind man due to the spell, ready to make amends for his past sins. With the help of an Avengers team assembled by Valeria, Doom managed to get hold of a portion of the Scarlet Witch's powers, which he used to make right one of his past misdeeds, the murder of Cassie Lang , and bring her back to life. Wanda managed to finally confront Doom, who was saved by Magneto and Quicksilver. While Magneto and Pietro tried to convince Wanda not to cross the line and take Doom's life, Doom fled to another dimension, [88] where he made a pact with a demigod to bring Doctor Voodoo back to life.
After teleporting to New York, where the inverted heroes and villains were fighting, the inverted Red Skull helped Doom and Daniel cast the spell, which successfully brought almost everyone back to normal, including Doom.
Victor took advantage of the confusion brought by the re-inversion and abducted the Red Skull to Latveria, for experimentation. Over the following months, Victor worked with a team of scientists to reverse-engineer one of the pieces of a Mapmaker he gathered from the incursion that took place in Latveria. The Mad Thinker successfully managed to map their entire network. Doom planned to use the Molecule Man , whose energy frequency matched with the beacon's, to oppose whatever was the origin of the incursions and the decay of the multiverse.
Doom and the Molecule Man travelled twenty-five years into the past to an alternate reality to witness the origin of said reality's Molecule Man. The journey affected Molecule Man's mind, restoring it from its chaotic state, and he told Doom of his origins. The Molecule Man was a singularity across every single universe, a "bomb" created by the Beyonders to detonate across the entire multiverse at once.
If a Molecule Man died, his universe died with him. If every Molecule Man died at the same time, every universe died simultaneously with them, and that was the Beyonders' goal. The Molecule Man killed his counterpart, which set off the early death of his counterpart's universe, and caused the incursions.
The Molecule Man convinced Doom that in order to thwart the plans of the Beyonders, he had to embark in a mission to kill Molecule Men. Even if Doom's actions resulted in a similar result to the Beyonders' plans, the destruction of realities, Doom's course of action attempted to save all that he could from the destruction, as setting off some of the Molecule Men earlier would diminish the charge of the explosion the Beyonders had planned.
Doom would also capture Molecule Men from other universes in order to create an even greater bomb with which he would destroy the Beyonders. Eight years after the beginning of his journey, when Doom had killed thousands of Molecule Men, he encountered one who would be the first of his Black Swans , a cult he would form around the religious concept of himself, under the identity of "Rabum Alal" the "Great Destroyer".
They destroyed other Earths during incursions as an offering to Rabum Alal and to buy more time for other universes for every Earth destroyed during an incursion two universes and one of the Earths were saved. In the present, when Doctor Strange and the Black Priests traveled to the Library of Worlds to find Rabum Alal, who had been believed to be one of the main causes of the decay of the multiverse, Doctor Doom presented himself.
In a last ditch attempt to save the multiverse, Doom took Strange and the Molecule Men to confront the Beyonders. When the multiverse finally perished in the final incursion between Earth and Earth , [96] Doom used the power of the Beyonders to salvage the remains of several realities and build a patchwork planet named Battleworld , which was ruled under his iron fist, with the help of Stephen Strange, who was Battleworld's sheriff.
As eight years went by, Doom and Strange managed to twist the memories of their inhabitants, to the point they would no longer remember what had existed before Battleworld. Even though he was an omnipotent ruler, Victor ultimately felt he was failing his duty as a god, he thought he wasn't capable of properly inspiring his people, and even though Battleworld was the perfect world he wanted, he considered himself its only flaw.
The relative monotony of Doom's reign was interrupted with the discovery of an empty vessel in the domain known as Utopolis , a life raft that had been built by the survivors of Earth, the villainous Maker and the Cabal. The vessel kept them in suspended animation for the eight years that passed, and had allowed them to survive the end of the multiverse and end up on Battleworld.
Sheriff Strange recognized the design of the raft, which was that of a similar vessel he had found three years earlier and had kept hidden in his Isle of Agamotto.
When Strange investigated the vessel of his proprietary, he freed its occupants, the survivors of Earth, among which were Mr. Fantastic, Namor and Black Panther.
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