Doctor Doom

**Doctor Doom** is a major antagonist from ***Marvel Comics,*** and the secondary antagonist of the **Shareholders Arc.**

## The Tyrant of Latveria

"On the behalf of my associates, the Shareholders, and all the prisoners of this dimension, I hereby discharge you from duty."

### Occupation

Ruler of Latveria

## Canon

Doctor Victor von Doom, aka Doctor Doom, is the Supreme Leader of Latveria and is adored by its people as a beacon of hope in dark times. He was born outside Haasenstadt, Latveria in a gypsy camp, where his mother soon perished as a result of a deal with the demon Mephisto. His father soon fled the camp with Victor in tow, and while Victor survived the biting cold of Latveria, his father was not so lucky. Doom vowed on that day to bend both sorcery and science to his will in a bid to rescue his mother from Mephisto's clutches.

Offered a scholarship at a prestigious university in New York, Doom would have his first encounter with both Ben Grimm and Reed Richards within its halls, two men he would have repeated fateful encounters with upon his ascension to the throne of Latveria. Doom became obsessed, during these days, with developing a machine capable of astrally projecting one's form into other dimensions in a bid to rescue his mother from Mephisto, and while Reed pointed out an error in Doom's calculations, Doom elected to ignore Richards and pursue the venture despite his warnings, fearing that Richards was attempting to upstage him. The machine malfunctioned and exploded upon activation, scarring Doom's face severely. Doom was soon expelled from the university for conducting unethical experiments, and so began a lifelong hatred of Reed Richards, both for his explusion and his disfigurement.

Bitter and disgraced, Doom began a pilgrimage across the world, eventually stumbling across a village of Tibetan monks who aided him in creating a suit of armour - the suit of armour he would come to be known for, along with a mask wrought in iron to hide his face. So eager was Doom to put it on that he placed it on his face while it was still red hot from the forge, burning his face even further and cementing his status not as Victor von Doom, but as Doctor Doom. Returning to his homeland of Latveria, armed with his new armour as well as his knowledge of technology and sorcery, Doom overthrew its government and established himself as Latveria's Supreme Leader, using the country's resources to further his plans of world domination and throwing him into conflict with the Fantastic Four.

During these conflicts, Doom performed such feats as perfecting a method of manmade time travel, proceeding to travel through time and glimpsing hundreds of thousands of potential realities, galvanizing his desire to conquer the world by demonstrating that the only timeline in which humanity thrived was under his sole rule. He put this theory to the test under the judgment of Bast, the Panther God of Wakanda, whose test he entered in a bid to claim Wakanda's supply of Vibranium - if the Panther God found even a trace of selfishness or impurity in Doom's heart, he would be scoured from reality where he stood. Doom, set in his convictions, informed the Panther God that should his crimes be measured against what mankind did to itself, "I am a saint." Stunned into silence, the Panther God departed, declaring that Doom had passed the test and the Vibranium was his to take.

Doom eventually succeeded in his initial goal of freeing his mother from Mephisto's clutches, with the assistance of the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Stephen Strange. Doom's scheme to free his mother required him to earn her undying hatred, and to accomplish this, Doom elected to force Strange to take her place in Hell. So disgusted by her son's actions was Cynthia von Doom that her soul was purified and allowed into Heaven -- Strange wondered if Doom had been aware of this outcome when the deal was struck, but Doom simply mused that his mother's hatred was a small price to pay for her freedom.

## Pre-Paradise

At the moment of his departure, Doom had been presiding over Latveria with an iron fist and planning yet another scheme for world domination, aware that he would likely have to face down the Fantastic Four in order to achieve his mission. Doom had defied death on many occasions by this point, either by Doombot or simply through sheer force of will.

## Plot Involvement

Immediately upon his arrival, Doom was contacted personally by Toffee, the leader of the Shareholders, and offered a position in their ranks - Doom initially refused, but brokered a deal with Toffee upon realising his plans for the Multiverse, agreeing that he would serve Toffee's ends as long as his universe was exempt from the Shareholder's dealings and he would be assisted upon his return in conquering his own iteration of Earth. Agreeing to the deal, Doctor Doom became a member of the Shareholders, initially a relatively low-ranking member in comparison to those such as The G-Man and Darth Vader, before quickly rising up the ranks.

After Darth Vader was dispatched to eradicate a threat to the Shareholders' power and did not return from the battle, Doom was selected by Toffee to act as the Shareholders' new Head of Security, essentially acting as Toffee's right hand and primary tool for the enforcement of his will.

Vader's whereabouts are currently unknown.

Almost immediately after he was instated as the Hotel's new Head of Security, he played a key role in the Shareholders' coup of the Management's offices, personally killing John in plain view of The Twelfth Doctor and other residents of the Hotel whom John had briefed on the "nature" of the Hotel's existence - whether this information was true or not has yet to be established for certain.

Upon the Shareholders' takeover of the Hotel and subsequent public announcement of the fact, Doom himself remained in the shadows, employing Doombots to enforce the law and answer queries in the chatrooms. However, Doom himself appears to have made an excursion to a catacomb deep beneath the Hotel itself, seeking an artifact of tremendous power...

The artifact in question was soon revealed to be the Soul Stone, Doom having personally embarked on a mission to retrieve it from its resting place in what appeared to be a repository of ancient and powerful artifacts, including a mysterious sword, gone from its place amongst the artifacts, as well as the Soul Stone itself. Tony Stark sprung into action to retrieve the Stone before Doom could, taking Blake Belladonna, Meta Knight, Striker and Cillian Bukowski with him. Finding Doom already within the Soul Stone's chamber, they exchanged a dialogue in which Doom explained his motivation. Doom explained that he resents Toffee, believing that their goals directly contradict one another, and resolving to betray Toffee at a pivotal moment using the Soul Stone as a weapon against him. Stark and his cohort refused the offer, and Doom, in response, seized Belladonna by the throat and reduced her to ash, sacrificing her soul in order to unlock the Soul Stone itself.

Doom escaped the catacomb after a brief battle with Stark and his allies, threatening Bukowski's life in order to do so, with the Soul Stone in his possession.

## Character Relationships

* ***Toffee*** - Toffee is Victor von Doom's employer and the leader of the Shareholders. As a result, Doom has sworn fealty to him, and carries out his will with impunity. However, Doom does not agree with Toffee's methods, and only joined the Shareholders because they suited his ends. Doom himself, although he does not make it public knowledge, dislikes Toffee's end-goal of eradicating all magic, believing it to directly contradict his means and desiring to put a stop to it by any means necessary.
* ***Bill Cipher*** - Doom and Bill Cipher rarely interact personally - Doom dislikes Cipher's childish attitude, and is chiefly responsible for maintaining the pocket dimension that Cipher is currently trapped in.
* ***The G-Man*** - Similarly to Cipher, Doom and the G-Man typically remain separated and out of each other's affairs - that being said, the G-Man's enigmatic nature and unorthodox demeanour unnerve Doom, to an extent.
* **Gilgamesh** - Doom holds an odd respect for Gilgamesh, believing the two of them to be remarkably similar in terms of philosophy and leadership, although he believes that Gilgamesh's ego is a glaring weakness.
* ***The Twelfth Doctor*** - Doom and the Twelfth Doctor were first introduced during the Shareholders' raid on the Management offices, the Doctor admonishing Doom for killing John in cold blood. When asked why, Doom retorted that his killing of John was a mercy, and that he performed the atrocities he did, ultimately, out of love for his people and his homeworld. Doom and the Doctor evidently hold animosity between them due to their differences in philosophy and Doom's perceived callous disregard for loss of life.