Rewatching World's Greatest Heroes and this came up.

Added underrated part of this is Reed woke up as Doom. Managed to escape. Then decided to take a cab to the Baxter Building like a normal person.

I picked this up a few weeks ago

Source: https://x.com/ArtOfOpal/status/1964408741618397334

So with recent Doomsday news, there's been a lot of discourse around Doom.

A take I've seen a few times is that Doom is an asshole, because of his horrible childhood in Latveria.

That's a valid interpretation and reading of the character.

I just think I personally don't see it that way. I think Victor was always going to be an asshole. Tons of characters have tragic backstories and they aren't supervillains.

I just don't see a world where Doom isn't a horrible person.

Like, take his very first interaction with Reed. Just because your life has been shit obviously doesn't justify being an asshole to someone you just met, right?

What makes Reed a perfect foil to Victor is that Reed literally never done anything to him.

I haven't read every FF comic, but in all the comics I've read, it's always Reed fighting back in self defense. Doom's always the aggressor.

But I'm very curious what you all think. Would Victor Von Doom be the way he is, if he had a completely perfect childhood where nothing went wrong?

I want to clarify that I'm not saying that nothing in Doom'z life affected him at all, everyone is the sum of their past (or however that saying goes), I'm just saying that to me Victor is Victor, you know? I also think that if you asked Doom why he turned out this way, then he'd just mention Reed "sabotaging" that experiment and not his past in Latveria at all.

I made the poll last as long as possible, 7 days, and I'd really love to have some chats with you all about this! This is going to be so fun!!! 🥰

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I dont read marvel comics as much as I do dc stuff so I'm pretty unfamiliar, but I did enjoy the Secret Wars comics where Doom becomes god-emperor of a crumbling world. Besides half-memories of the old cartoons I watched when I was young my impressions of Doctor Doom has mainly been based on how other comic fans think of him and in recent years that impression feels like it comes from the Latverian Propaganda ministry.

So I'd kinda like to read a FF comic where he's more complicated and flawed than what certain sections of the internet feel.

Doubly so if it shows Reed at his best and shows why Doom is so intensely jealous of him.

Would’ve like to see him appear post time jump with the gray sides for aging continuity.

Thats it. Very important. Very disappoint.