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This video is all about the big, the bad, the brilliant Doctor Doom.
Multiple versions of him.
I’ll be listing our top 10 alternate versions of Doctor Doom but before I want to ask what
your favourite alternate version of Doctor Doom is.
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10 Dictator Doom.
In House of M, Scarlet Witch uses her reality warping powers to alter reality so that the
mutants have all the power.
Magneto rises up and Doctor Doom decides, although he is not a mutant, to join his side.
Although the two never fully trust each other, the alliance ends up being a profitable one,
with Magneto winning his fight and Doctor Doom returning home to New Latveria and becoming
their new ruler.
He also marries his childhood sweetheart Valeria and still adopts Kristoff as in earth 616.
Using a combination of mystics, technology and cosmic rays, Doom turns Valeria into the
Invincible Woman, Kristoff into the Inhuman Torch and creates a metallic liquid which
he uses to create armor and weapons for himself.
He also recruits Ben Grimm, transforming him into “It”.
Together these four make up the Fearsome Four.
9 Doctor Doom Goes to the Future.
In Iron Man vol 1 issue 205 of Iron Man.
Doctor Doom and Iron Man from the present are transported by an artefact to the future,
specifically 2093.
In this future they are in Camelot where Merlin and King Arthur need their help… in space.
This adventure is pretty silly and fantastic and includes the unpaving of a rebuilt suburban
area to reveal the magic lake where Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake reside.
Iron Man vs future Iron Man and Doctor Doom destroying future Doctor Doom.
Why?
Because future Doctor Doom is reduced to a head and some organs encased in Doom-like
armor and present Doom is disappointed in him.
Doom even uncovers Iron Man’s secret identity but forgets it when they are transported back
to earth.
Both Stark and Doom actually forget the entire adventure.
Which might be for the best.
Sounds like a wacky time.
8 What If Doctor Doom was Iron Man?
In this edition of the famous Marvel What If series, this is the question we get an
answer to.
In this one-off, Stark and Doom go to school together and Doom, envious of Stark’s wealth
and potential success, swap minds with him.
He then erases the memory of the former Tony Stark, now in Doom’s body.
The two go their seperate ways.
The mind of Stark builds up Doom’s name and creates the successful Doom Industries.
Meanwhile the mind of Doom turns Stark Industries into a place that is often associated with
the words greed, power and lust.
In this series we get to see the Iron Man suit as built by the mind of Doctor Doom.
[insert picture of green Iron Man suit from What If: Iron Man issue #1, page 15.
Link in script.]
Doom and Stark eventually meet again and fight resulting in the defeat of Doom’s mind in
Stark’s body.
Doom then reveals to Stark the mind swap that happened in school.
He offers to swap back with Stark but Stark refuses, saying that Doom has ruined the Stark
name and reputation and that he himself now prefers to be Doctor Doom.
7 Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness.
That’s right, we get to see zombie Doctor Doom.
Eventually.
At first Doctor Doom is actually doing some good in this comic.
He has a castle where is trying to keep survivors safe from the zombie apocalypse.
Though he somewhat selective in who he lets in.
His original plan is to protect them, keep them alive and later repopulate the earth
once the zombies are gone.
In this comic he even runs into Ash Williams from the Evil Dead verse.
He ends up imprisoning Ash because he was acting like an idiot.
But Ash escapes and it is soon revealed that the infection has penetrated the castle.
Doctor Doom becomes infected but is able to transport the survivors to an alternate universe
before the infection takes over.
He then destroys the device before letting the infection consume him.
6 Earth X, Doctor Doom.
This is the reality where Doctor Doom becomes a sort of metal angel with wings.
How does this happen?
The earth is experiencing a food shortage and the UN decides since they are not making
enough food on land.
So the UN decides to harvest more from the sea.
This angers Namor an Atlantean, especially because he was not even consulted.
Namor then asks Doctor Doom to wage war against the humans and offers that Doctor Doom can
rule earth when they win.
Doctor Doom agrees to help him.
During the battle the Fantastic Four come to stop Namor and Doom.
Both Johnny Storm and Namor perish in the fight and Doom considers destroying Susan
Storm to hurt Richards even more, using a bomb he keeps in his suit that has a second
function, to teleport Doom and his armor to safety when used.
Doom decides to go ahead with this plan but the bomb malfunctions and kills both Susan
and Doom.
The two go to the underworld where Captain Marvel is trying to creating an uprising to
defeat Death.
Doom unknowingly helps Susan Storm become resurrected which in turn is what Captain
Marvel wanted.
Doom joins up with Captain Marvel who then succeeds in his uprising and creates a place
known as Pleasure.
Doom is given wings and joins the Avenging Host which guards Pleasure.
5 Ultimate Doom.
In Earth 1610, Victor Van Damme goes to school still with Reed Richards but works with him
on his teleporter.
After Reed Richards programs the coordinates to the N Zone, Van Damme changes them, resulting
in an accident which leaves Van Damme disfigured, turning his skin into a metal hide.
Although Damme continously claims it was Richards’ faulty programming that caused the accident,
which was so bad apparently that even Damme could not fix it.
In this reality, Doctor Doom ends up becoming the leader of a small nation known as the
Keep in Denmark.
He offers the poor populace comfort and security in exchange for their loyalty.
What they don’t know is their loyalty is being taken by Doom through mind-controlling
Snake tattoos that he insists the citizens have.
4 Doom Becomes Galactus.
Marvel Two-in-One is a series that saw two pretty big firsts, Doctor Doom working alongside
Reed Richards to protect the galaxy and Doctor Doom merge with consumer of planets, Galactus.
Now I know what you’re thinking, Doom is always looking for more power, so was he really
playing nice with Reed Richards?
And you’re right.
Doom seems to have only been helping Richards to get to Galactus.
Before Galactus could devour the earth, Doom merged with Galactus using Ovoid technology.
The two merging preserves the earth.
But at the expense of every other planet being destoryed.
3 Count Otto Von Doom, the Handsome.
In the comic series Marvel 1602, Doctor Doom is known as Otto Von Doom, the Handsome.
In this series he becomes disfigured by seeking the templar’s secret.
He ends up getting his hands on this secret with help from his ally, Natasha Romanov but
it blows up in his face.
Literally.
He then begins wearing metal armor and a mask to hide his disfigurement.
He is also still the nemesis of the Fantastic Four know as the Four from the Fantastik in
this series.
Doctor Doom gets up to quite a bit of trouble in 1602, he journeys to a lost city at the
edge of the earth, kills Elizabeth the first, and kidnaps William Shakespeare.
2 Good Guy Doctor Doom.
Doctor Doom first appears in this reality in the 1976 comic Marvel Premier issue 2.
In this series, Doctor Doom still went to school with Reed Richards but is not enemies
with him.
In fact the two became friends after Richards helped him following Doom’s disfigurement.
Doctor Doom is does not wear his traditional costume in this series but instead wears a
suit with a lab coat over top and a metal mask. [cut to image from Warlock #5 page 13,
link in script] This is probably the closest to a superhero that we see Doctor Doom in
the comics.
Doom even has a direct line to the president and uses it to warn him about an imminent
devastating earth quake.
He becomes friends with Adam Warlock and even sacrifices himself to save Adam in Warlock
issue 7.
1 God Emperor Doctor Doom.
This is probably the coolest version of Doom.
In this verse, Doom is a God who after the collision of two different earths, absorbs
all the power from both universes and becomes omnipotent and almost completely indestructible.
In this version Doom uses his powers to create Battleworld, where Doctor Strange is his right
hand man and Sheriff.
Battleworld is the fusion of bits and pieces of different worlds together, a frankenworld
if you will.
Here God Emperor Doom meets an alternate version of Susan Storm who comes from a universe where
there never was a Reed Richards.
She falls in love with Doom and ends up having two children with him.
Although God Emperor Doom still gets defeated in this series, Reed Richards tries to help
Doom by changing his memory so he believes that Richards is dead and by curing his disfigurement.
Despite being defeated this series, it ends with Doctor Doom smiling.
I feel like all of these versions of Doctor Doom are pretty brilliant.
That is actually my favourite thing about Doctor Doom--how intelligent he is, no matter
what the version.
His plots also always tend to be ingenious.
Let me know if you have a favourite Doctor Doom supervillian plot in the comments below.
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