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Real Name: Victor Werner von Doom
Codename: Doctor Doom
Aliases: Doom, Doom Rex, Doctor of All Dictators, Destroyer of Worlds, Victor the First
Nicknames: Doc, Doc Doom, Doctor Iron Doom, Doomie, Doom the Destroyer, President Metal Man, Vicky Boy, The Infamous Iron Man
Status: Active
Reality: Earth-PRN101
Age: 37
Place of Birth: A Romani camp outside of Haasenstadt, Latveria
Citizenship: Latverian
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2 (1.88 m), 6'7 (2.01 m) (in armor)
Weight: 225 lbs (102.06 kg), 415 lbs (188.24 kg) (in armor)
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Relationship Status: Single; formerly involved with Valeria Karela
Occupation: Scientist, Adventurer, Sorcerer, and Supreme Leader of Latveria; former member of the Future Foundation
Education: College studies in science and engineering (expelled before degree completion); self-educated to graduate level and beyond in most sciences; self-taught knowledge of the mystic arts of magic
Relatives: Werner von Doom (father, deceased); Cynthia von Doom (mother, deceased); Boris Karela (unofficial adoptive father/guardian); Kristoff Vernard (ward, adopted son)
Affiliation: The Cabal (on-and-off member); formerly Future Foundation, ally of Namor the Sub-Mariner
Base of Operations: Castle Doom, Doomstadt, Latveria
Superhuman Abilities: Doctor Doom was introduced to the mystic arts by his mother, a mage of both Romani and Latverian blood. After years of developing his abilities, Doom can create energy blasts and force-fields, cast a variety of magic spells, summon hordes of demonic creatures at his will, teleport to anywhere on Earth and even other dimensions, can nullify the powers of other superhumans for a short period of time, control the five elements (water, earth, fire, air, and aether), and heal himself and others from injuries. Because of his mystic powers, Doom also possesses minor psionic abilities, such as telekinesis, hypnosis, and technopathy. However, Doctor Doom's most dangerous weapon is his high intellect as he has constructed hundreds of high-tech gadgets, including a time machine, a device that can grant people superpowers, and many types of battle robots, most notably his "Doombots," exact mechanical replicas of himself.
Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #5 "Prisoners of Doctor Doom" (April 1962)

The tale of Doctor Doom begins long ago in the small Balkan nation known as Latveria. Outside of the country's capital city Haasenstadt, Victor von Doom was born to Cynthia and Werner von Doom, who were both members of the Zefiro Clan. Typically referred to as "gypsies" by the outside world, the Zefiro were a peaceful tribe of Romani Latverian wanderers and masters of the mystic arts; however, their nomadic and occultist nature was often the result of harassment and persecution from the iron-fisted government under the rule of King Vladimir Fortunov. While most of them simply accepted this oppression, Victor's mother, Cynthia, couldn't not. After years of seeing her people beaten and their valuables were taken by the King's forces, Cynthia von Doom performed an arcane ritual in an attempt to give herself the power to push back against her people's oppressors. However, the ritual caught the attention of an eldritch abomination of unknown origin--only known as the hell lord Mephisto. Although she feared the cost, Mephisto convinced Cynthia to accept ITs power, saying that her people could finally have a home and a future and that her young son, Victor, might one day become a king.

And so, Cynthia von Doom accepted the devil's satanic power into herself and turned her sights on the soldiers under King Vladimir who assaulted her people, often in ways too horrible to describe. She offered the king and his barons an ultimatum--to repay his debt to the Zefiro and make recompense for his crimes or else suffer her demonic vengeance. When King Vladimir sent his soldiers to liquidate Cynthia in retaliation quietly, the witch struck back with eldritch might. But she soon discovered that while Mephisto had granted her power, she lacked the control to wield it properly. Even worse, the cost of Mephisto's gift was higher than Cynthia ever imagined, as the devil took and devoured the souls of the slain soldiers' children as payment.

Crushed by the weight of what she had done, Cynthia renounced her dark powers, only to be struck down by the sword of a village guard. Mortally wounded, she managed to escape the village and was found several hours later by her husband, Werner, just outside her camp. Before she died, Cynthia told her husband what had happened and begged him to keep their 4-year-old son Victor safe. However, her confession could not save Cynthia von Doom from damnation because as she died, her soul was dragged into the fiery pits of Mephisto's Hell.

Intending to honor his wife's wishes and protect his son, Werner von Doom attempted to destroy Cynthia's chest of potions and magical items; however, no matter what he tried, the chest always returned without any harm onto it. Instead, he hid the chest among his mundane belongings.

Although the Zefiro elders feared him due to his mother's past, Victor von Doom lived peacefully with his old childhood love Valeria Karela, granddaughter of the Dooms' close family friend Boris Karela. This was until Victor's father was summoned by King Vladimir. The king's wife had fallen ill, so Werner, a healer of some repute, was tasked with saving her life. Werner did what he could to ease the woman's suffering and make her comfortable, but despite the king's threats, he knew that the cancer that plagued her body was beyond his ability to treat. Soon, King Vladimir's wife died from her cancer, and Werner immediately fled back to his camp, fearing Vladimir's wrath upon him and his son. Blaming von Doom for his wife's death, King Vladimir, supported by a loyal contingent of Latverian soldiers, came to the Zefiro camp and tore it in their search for Werner von Doom. But Werner and his son Victor, now age 11, had already escaped to the Latverian alps. In the snowy mountains, they were forced to spend their night out in the elements after their horse ran off. Werner wrapped his son in his clothing, leaving him exposed to the extreme cold weather. Werner and Victor were eventually found by Boris, who brought them back to his village. There on his deathbed, Werner put Victor in the care of Boris. His words were a warning of protection involving Victor. Boris presumed that Werner believed he was being told to protect the world from his son. Furious over his father's death, Victor vowed to get revenge eventually.

As Victor entered his teenage years, Boris then showed him his father's legacy: his collection of herbs and potions that he used to cure the ill, hoping the boy would carry on his father's craft. Searching through these meager possessions, Victor also came across the chest containing his mother's various mystical artifacts. These he showed to Valeria, and while she feared their use, Victor then spent his years mastering the arts of both science and sorcery.

Now a grown man, Victor von Doom became a master of both science and magic and vowed to use these skills to gain enough power to enact his vengeance on King Vladimir and all of those who wronged his family and people. This drew a wedge between him and Valeria, who feared that Victor was growing out of control. Victor started off by using his skills by using dark magic that he learned from his mother's scrolls to defend the Zefiro from harassment by King Vladimir's soldiers and the local lords, styling himself as their leader and protector. This earned him enmity among Latveria's ruling class but attempts to capture and execute Doom for his crimes always failed, thanks to his various devices that allowed him to evade capture. One of his early forays into robotics included a robot that he had a stand-in for himself before a firing squad--this would become the basis for the Doombots in the near future.

Eventually, stories of Victor von Doom's scientific prowess reached the United States of America. The U.S. government recruited him into the Department of Defense to help them create new military weapons against hostile nations and other threats. They also offered him a membership at the Future Foundation, a government-sponsored think tank headed by Dr. Franklin Storm. Victor immediately accepted the offer, seeing this as a new challenge, choosing to leave his homeland and his old love, Valeria, behind.

Upon arrival at the Foundation's central laboratory in Central City, California, Victor mostly kept to himself and his work, viewing his colleagues as intellectually inferior to his own genius. During this time, he met another young genius named Reed Richards, who took interest in Doom's work, although Doom was uninterested in forming a friendship with Richards, who he viewed as a rival. Despite their rivalry, Reed Richards and Victor von Doom saw each other as intellectual peers, constantly debating esoteric theories that amazed the head professors of the Future Foundation.

Thanks to the profits he made with his work in both the Future Foundation and the U.S. Military, Victor began work on a teleportation device that he called the Time-Platform, using his studies of alternate dimensions to reach the hellish realm that his mother's soul is trapped in so he could try to rescue her from her eternal prison. One day, when Doom left his lab for a break, Richards happened upon his notes for the Time-Platform and noticed a flaw in the calculations. However, when Doom caught Richards looking at his notes, his pride and ego prevented him from acknowledging Richards's warnings, and he continued the experiment. The Time-Platform worked for a few moments, allowing Doom to be briefly transported to Hell, where he saw the spirit of his mother, who begged him to turn back. However, Mephisto discovered Doom's intrusion in ITs realm and touched his face, which led to a chain reaction that caused the experiment to literally blow up in Doom's face as he returned to the mortal realm. The failure of the Time-Platform caused great damage to the Future Foundation's lab and left a hand-shaped scar on Doom's face. When Doom claimed his experiment was tampered with by Richards, the Future Foundation's star pupil, he was expelled by the Foundation, and his work with the military was terminated to protect their integrity.

After being expelled from the Future Foundation, Victor von Doom traveled the world for a number of years until he one day collapsed on a Tibetan mountainside, where he was rescued by a clan of monks. After he nursed back to health, Victor remained in Tibet, where he quickly mastered the monks' disciplines and then the monks themselves. Seeking to menace the world that he felt wronged both his life and his family, Victor decided to "rebaptize" himself under a new name. Forging himself a suit of armor, complete with an iron mask that covered his scars, he declared that Victor von Doom was dead and Doctor Doom was born....

As Doctor Doom, he eventually returned to his home country of Latveria and began a revolution against King Vladimir's rule, taking an interest in the welfare of the Zefiro people he descended from. Thanks to his arsenal of advanced technology made by him, along with an army of Doombots, Doctor Doom easily overthrew King Vladimir and declared himself as the Supreme Leader of Latveria in an astonishingly fast campaign of violence, establishing his own palace--Castle Doom--at the center of Haasenstadt (now renamed "Doomstadt"). Under Doom's leadership, Latveria was quickly transformed from a backwater country into a thriving technological powerhouse, though the outside world often questions the free will of its citizens at large. Nowadays, he's openly opposed to the United States, especially its premiere superhero team, the Fantastic Four (due to his old rivalries with Reed Richards). Several supervillain and terrorist attacks in the U.S. have been blamed on those directly connected to Doom, but the precarious nature of the political state in Latveria and its surrounding countries and Latveria's own development of advanced weapons of mass destruction make any action against the state and Doctor Doom himself impossible.

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Though years later, Doom would steadily softened somewhat after shorty attaining untold power in dubious events or aiding his enemies against larger threats, he's still the metal masked dick that we all know and love.

After nineteen entries of heroes, I felt that it is right for the twentieth to be the first villain for this project. Doom's design takes inspiration from Green-Mamba as I liked the idea of him looking more like a proper dictator, but still have some of the traditional Doom appearance, with his mask, hood, and cape. He's wearing his battle armor underneath his clothes, as you can all see with his right sleeve rolled up to show his gauntlet. Extra fun fact, the pose that I drew Doom in is directly based on Reinhard von Lohengramm from the classic Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime (1988-1997) as a final touch to the dictator look.

Fantastic Four © Marvel Comics

Description
Real Name: Victor Werner von Doom
Codename: Doctor Doom
Aliases: Doom, Doom Rex, Doctor of All Dictators, Destroyer of Worlds, Victor the First
Nicknames: Doc, Doc Doom, Doctor Iron Doom, Doomie, Doom the Destroyer, President Metal Man, Vicky Boy, The Infamous Iron Man
Status: Active
Reality: Earth-PRN101
Age: 37
Place of Birth: A Romani camp outside of Haasenstadt, Latveria
Citizenship: Latverian
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2 (1.88 m), 6'7 (2.01 m) (in armor)
Weight: 225 lbs (102.06 kg), 415 lbs (188.24 kg) (in armor)
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Relationship Status: Single; formerly involved with Valeria Karela
Occupation: Scientist, Adventurer, Sorcerer, and Supreme Leader of Latveria; former member of the Future Foundation
Education: College studies in science and engineering (expelled before degree completion); self-educated to graduate level and beyond in most sciences; self-taught knowledge of the mystic arts of magic
Relatives: Werner von Doom (father, deceased); Cynthia von Doom (mother, deceased); Boris Karela (unofficial adoptive father/guardian); Kristoff Vernard (ward, adopted son)
Affiliation: The Cabal (on-and-off member); formerly Future Foundation, ally of Namor the Sub-Mariner
Base of Operations: Castle Doom, Doomstadt, Latveria
Superhuman Abilities: Doctor Doom was introduced to the mystic arts by his mother, a mage of both Romani and Latverian blood. After years of developing his abilities, Doom can create energy blasts and force-fields, cast a variety of magic spells, summon hordes of demonic creatures at his will, teleport to anywhere on Earth and even other dimensions, can nullify the powers of other superhumans for a short period of time, control the five elements (water, earth, fire, air, and aether), and heal himself and others from injuries. Because of his mystic powers, Doom also possesses minor psionic abilities, such as telekinesis, hypnosis, and technopathy. However, Doctor Doom's most dangerous weapon is his high intellect as he has constructed hundreds of high-tech gadgets, including a time machine, a device that can grant people superpowers, and many types of battle robots, most notably his "Doombots," exact mechanical replicas of himself.
Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #5 "Prisoners of Doctor Doom" (April 1962)

The tale of Doctor Doom begins long ago in the small Balkan nation known as Latveria. Outside of the country's capital city Haasenstadt, Victor von Doom was born to Cynthia and Werner von Doom, who were both members of the Zefiro Clan. Typically referred to as "gypsies" by the outside world, the Zefiro were a peaceful tribe of Romani Latverian wanderers and masters of the mystic arts; however, their nomadic and occultist nature was often the result of harassment and persecution from the iron-fisted government under the rule of King Vladimir Fortunov. While most of them simply accepted this oppression, Victor's mother, Cynthia, couldn't not. After years of seeing her people beaten and their valuables were taken by the King's forces, Cynthia von Doom performed an arcane ritual in an attempt to give herself the power to push back against her people's oppressors. However, the ritual caught the attention of an eldritch abomination of unknown origin--only known as the hell lord Mephisto. Although she feared the cost, Mephisto convinced Cynthia to accept ITs power, saying that her people could finally have a home and a future and that her young son, Victor, might one day become a king.

And so, Cynthia von Doom accepted the devil's satanic power into herself and turned her sights on the soldiers under King Vladimir who assaulted her people, often in ways too horrible to describe. She offered the king and his barons an ultimatum--to repay his debt to the Zefiro and make recompense for his crimes or else suffer her demonic vengeance. When King Vladimir sent his soldiers to liquidate Cynthia in retaliation quietly, the witch struck back with eldritch might. But she soon discovered that while Mephisto had granted her power, she lacked the control to wield it properly. Even worse, the cost of Mephisto's gift was higher than Cynthia ever imagined, as the devil took and devoured the souls of the slain soldiers' children as payment.

Crushed by the weight of what she had done, Cynthia renounced her dark powers, only to be struck down by the sword of a village guard. Mortally wounded, she managed to escape the village and was found several hours later by her husband, Werner, just outside her camp. Before she died, Cynthia told her husband what had happened and begged him to keep their 4-year-old son Victor safe. However, her confession could not save Cynthia von Doom from damnation because as she died, her soul was dragged into the fiery pits of Mephisto's Hell.

Intending to honor his wife's wishes and protect his son, Werner von Doom attempted to destroy Cynthia's chest of potions and magical items; however, no matter what he tried, the chest always returned without any harm onto it. Instead, he hid the chest among his mundane belongings.

Although the Zefiro elders feared him due to his mother's past, Victor von Doom lived peacefully with his old childhood love Valeria Karela, granddaughter of the Dooms' close family friend Boris Karela. This was until Victor's father was summoned by King Vladimir. The king's wife had fallen ill, so Werner, a healer of some repute, was tasked with saving her life. Werner did what he could to ease the woman's suffering and make her comfortable, but despite the king's threats, he knew that the cancer that plagued her body was beyond his ability to treat. Soon, King Vladimir's wife died from her cancer, and Werner immediately fled back to his camp, fearing Vladimir's wrath upon him and his son. Blaming von Doom for his wife's death, King Vladimir, supported by a loyal contingent of Latverian soldiers, came to the Zefiro camp and tore it in their search for Werner von Doom. But Werner and his son Victor, now age 11, had already escaped to the Latverian alps. In the snowy mountains, they were forced to spend their night out in the elements after their horse ran off. Werner wrapped his son in his clothing, leaving him exposed to the extreme cold weather. Werner and Victor were eventually found by Boris, who brought them back to his village. There on his deathbed, Werner put Victor in the care of Boris. His words were a warning of protection involving Victor. Boris presumed that Werner believed he was being told to protect the world from his son. Furious over his father's death, Victor vowed to get revenge eventually.

As Victor entered his teenage years, Boris then showed him his father's legacy: his collection of herbs and potions that he used to cure the ill, hoping the boy would carry on his father's craft. Searching through these meager possessions, Victor also came across the chest containing his mother's various mystical artifacts. These he showed to Valeria, and while she feared their use, Victor then spent his years mastering the arts of both science and sorcery.

Now a grown man, Victor von Doom became a master of both science and magic and vowed to use these skills to gain enough power to enact his vengeance on King Vladimir and all of those who wronged his family and people. This drew a wedge between him and Valeria, who feared that Victor was growing out of control. Victor started off by using his skills by using dark magic that he learned from his mother's scrolls to defend the Zefiro from harassment by King Vladimir's soldiers and the local lords, styling himself as their leader and protector. This earned him enmity among Latveria's ruling class but attempts to capture and execute Doom for his crimes always failed, thanks to his various devices that allowed him to evade capture. One of his early forays into robotics included a robot that he had a stand-in for himself before a firing squad--this would become the basis for the Doombots in the near future.

Eventually, stories of Victor von Doom's scientific prowess reached the United States of America. The U.S. government recruited him into the Department of Defense to help them create new military weapons against hostile nations and other threats. They also offered him a membership at the Future Foundation, a government-sponsored think tank headed by Dr. Franklin Storm. Victor immediately accepted the offer, seeing this as a new challenge, choosing to leave his homeland and his old love, Valeria, behind.

Upon arrival at the Foundation's central laboratory in Central City, California, Victor mostly kept to himself and his work, viewing his colleagues as intellectually inferior to his own genius. During this time, he met another young genius named Reed Richards, who took interest in Doom's work, although Doom was uninterested in forming a friendship with Richards, who he viewed as a rival. Despite their rivalry, Reed Richards and Victor von Doom saw each other as intellectual peers, constantly debating esoteric theories that amazed the head professors of the Future Foundation.

Thanks to the profits he made with his work in both the Future Foundation and the U.S. Military, Victor began work on a teleportation device that he called the Time-Platform, using his studies of alternate dimensions to reach the hellish realm that his mother's soul is trapped in so he could try to rescue her from her eternal prison. One day, when Doom left his lab for a break, Richards happened upon his notes for the Time-Platform and noticed a flaw in the calculations. However, when Doom caught Richards looking at his notes, his pride and ego prevented him from acknowledging Richards's warnings, and he continued the experiment. The Time-Platform worked for a few moments, allowing Doom to be briefly transported to Hell, where he saw the spirit of his mother, who begged him to turn back. However, Mephisto discovered Doom's intrusion in ITs realm and touched his face, which led to a chain reaction that caused the experiment to literally blow up in Doom's face as he returned to the mortal realm. The failure of the Time-Platform caused great damage to the Future Foundation's lab and left a hand-shaped scar on Doom's face. When Doom claimed his experiment was tampered with by Richards, the Future Foundation's star pupil, he was expelled by the Foundation, and his work with the military was terminated to protect their integrity.

After being expelled from the Future Foundation, Victor von Doom traveled the world for a number of years until he one day collapsed on a Tibetan mountainside, where he was rescued by a clan of monks. After he nursed back to health, Victor remained in Tibet, where he quickly mastered the monks' disciplines and then the monks themselves. Seeking to menace the world that he felt wronged both his life and his family, Victor decided to "rebaptize" himself under a new name. Forging himself a suit of armor, complete with an iron mask that covered his scars, he declared that Victor von Doom was dead and Doctor Doom was born....

As Doctor Doom, he eventually returned to his home country of Latveria and began a revolution against King Vladimir's rule, taking an interest in the welfare of the Zefiro people he descended from. Thanks to his arsenal of advanced technology made by him, along with an army of Doombots, Doctor Doom easily overthrew King Vladimir and declared himself as the Supreme Leader of Latveria in an astonishingly fast campaign of violence, establishing his own palace--Castle Doom--at the center of Haasenstadt (now renamed "Doomstadt"). Under Doom's leadership, Latveria was quickly transformed from a backwater country into a thriving technological powerhouse, though the outside world often questions the free will of its citizens at large. Nowadays, he's openly opposed to the United States, especially its premiere superhero team, the Fantastic Four (due to his old rivalries with Reed Richards). Several supervillain and terrorist attacks in the U.S. have been blamed on those directly connected to Doom, but the precarious nature of the political state in Latveria and its surrounding countries and Latveria's own development of advanced weapons of mass destruction make any action against the state and Doctor Doom himself impossible.

XXXXXX

Though years later, Doom would steadily softened somewhat after shorty attaining untold power in dubious events or aiding his enemies against larger threats, he's still the metal masked dick that we all know and love.

After nineteen entries of heroes, I felt that it is right for the twentieth to be the first villain for this project. Doom's design takes inspiration from Green-Mamba as I liked the idea of him looking more like a proper dictator, but still have some of the traditional Doom appearance, with his mask, hood, and cape. He's wearing his battle armor underneath his clothes, as you can all see with his right sleeve rolled up to show his gauntlet. Extra fun fact, the pose that I drew Doom in is directly based on Reinhard von Lohengramm from the classic Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime (1988-1997) as a final touch to the dictator look.

Fantastic Four © Marvel Comics