Black Doom

Black Doom

**Black Doom** is a guest antagonist who appears in the Sonic Adventures episode, The Black Arm Invasion. He is the sinister leader of the Black Arms and the oldest member of his species. The Black Arms are Black Doom's own spawn and appear to operate with an insect-like hive intelligence, seemingly preventing any attempts to challenge Black Doom for leadership. He presents an almost religious front and shows little respect for humanity due to its sins against each other and the planet Earth.

In fact, his philosophy is little more than egotistical justification for his own evil deeds. Following his return to Earth in the present day, he wanted to enslave the humans and use them as suits for him and his army to survive sunlight so they can take over Earth for eternity, but met his defeat at the hands of Shadow the Hedgehog.

## Appearance

In his general appearance, Black Doom is pretty menacing and unaging with his species having otherworldy demon-esque traits. He has a legless body with three red bestial eyes, a set of twin wide horns that have spines on his scalp, three-fingered talons, and no lips. For his attire, he wears a dark colored and gold robe with two drapes hanging from the back, and having jewels adorned on a loose necklace. His telepathic voice has an echo-effect to it.

## Personality

Black Doom is presented as a highly ruthless, sadistic, manipulative, and power-hungry tyrant. He regards humans as pathetic creatures that have led to the destruction of their own planet. Black Doom has neither affection nor sympathy for anybody or anything, including his own army and his creation, Shadow. He gladly took the lives of his own army in order to destroy Scarborough, the city he choose for the site of the comet when it was teleported down by the powers of Chaos Control. Black Doom has a dark lord persona in which he committed horrible atrocities throughout the story, such as attacking six cities and killing millions, blowing up an entire City, and torturing the humans and having his army possess their bodies. He also does not forgive any mistakes or failure, no matter how difficult the task on Shadow's part may be.

Black Doom's plans for the planet Earth extend much further than simply controlling the planet. His main goal is to take control of the planet and then have him and his armies use the humans as their own suit to survive sunlight, which he states are a great energy source for them. According to Doom, once the planet is under his control, the humans will be under his control. It seems Doom wants to conquer the planet as a step closer to conquering the entire universe. He has no respect for humans, as he sees them as fools who have committed crimes against themselves, and believes of using them as a suits for his race.

While Doom *claims* that he has Shadow's best interest at heart, he does not care for him at all and is only interested in his power. He often tried to manipulate Shadow in order to turn him against humanity, but this caused Shadow to see Black Doom as his ultimate enemy in the end. Doom sees Shadow as his portal to the Chaos Emeralds and his unusual skills would make him a great addition to the army. Doom often used Shadow to do tasks that would give him an advantage, such as destroying the human's data servers so information could no longer be transferred among the humans, awaking the temples to be used as weapons, and even attempting to assassinate the government.

Unlike other Sonic villains such as Eggman, Black Doom is completely devoid of any sense of humor. He is quite arrogant, claiming that he not only rules the universe, but that he is the strongest being in the universe as well. Despite all this power, he is still defeated by Super Shadow, which ironically was his fault, as he left the Chaos Emeralds with Shadow when he warped away to control the city, believing their power was useless against him.

### Friends/Allies

* Black Arms (servants)
* Mephiles the Dark (creation and biological son)
* Black Death (partner and deceased)
* Shadow the Hedgehog (formerly and biological stepson)
* Professor Gerald (formerly and slave)

### Enemies

* Shadow the Hedgehog (Arch-enemy and Biological stepson)
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Tails the Fox
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Amy Rose
* Sticks The Badger
* Rouge the Bat
* E-123 Omega
* Blaze the Cat
* Vector the Crocodile
* Charmy Bee
* Espio the Chameleon
* Mighty the Armadillo
* G.U.N.
* Humanity
* Professor Gerald (slave and deceased)
* Dr Eggman
* Egg Pawns

## Trivia

* This is the only animated series to feature Black Doom.
* When Black Doom Tortured Shadow, it was a reference to the Teen Titans Episode, Birthmark, when Slade tortured Raven.
* Black Doom is reprised by his main voice actor, Sean Schemmel.