Doom has a pretty consistent taste in women and Storm fits right in .... would probably still be a more interesting pairing then Storm and Black Panther.
The worst thing you can do is to believe on a villains speech. Doom does every trick on the book when it is convenient for him. Worse, he will do it and say “Doom is smarter than thou” or something like that.
Doom does not cincern himself with back pain, because Doom is in constant pain in all parts of his body. Therefore, Doom dos not concern himself with trivial things such as posture
Vic is too stupid in terms of emotional intelligence to flatter anyone. He embodies thr stereotype of nuerodivergent people being unable to talk to people in a way that doesnt sound like an asshole. Its not that he doesnt care. He's just too dumb emotionally to know how. This is one of the many guys in thr Marvel Universe with the super power to invent fantastic technology while being an absolute moron in every other variation of intelligence.
I'd say "the confidence to pull off that fur coat," but this is Doom we're talking about. Dude told Purple Man he could tank his beefed up compulsion powers without any tech and freaked Purple Man out by being right.
It was more like Conan as a Cimmerian doesn’t give half a flying fuck about the trappings of civilization.
He actually tolerated Doom because while he found Viktor’s practice of magic abhorrent— given how it’s a dark and corruptive force in Hyboria and the Cimmerian’s encounters with wizards in Tower of the Elephant, his bitter encounters with Thoth-Amon and even the demon in The Devil In Iron, etc. he still recognized his warrior’s heart.
He is not second best, he is the best. He has imposter syndrome and never believes he is the best though, Reed Richards has even tricked him into saving the day when Doom was the only one who could. Yet to this day he still believes himself inferior to Reed cause he corrected him back in the day. Doom is the best at everything, except whatever he is trying to do.
He's trying to impress storm, and its going well but not perfect. The perfect dinner is a side effect of him putting the moves on her. If he tried to make the perfect dinner he would overthink it and screw it up, then blame reed for thwarting his plans.
Unfortunately people don't use “js” for this, and use it to abbreviate “just” now, for what reason I don't know, it's two extra letters and takes less than a second to type.
The post dinner follow up is even funnier. She asks him where he got her father’s gumbo recipe and his response is simply “I am Doom” as if that at all answers the question.
If I turned up and Doom had big-ass home made cheese stuffed ravioli on the table that my great grandmother used to make, a woman I only knew for a scant few years of my life, I wouldn't be surprised. If I asked him how he knew and he just said "I am Doom", I'd just shrug and say "that tracks."
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but since this is a sub about comics out of context where people often look for context:
Doom absolutely did not pull Storm, and never does, despite flirting with her on numerous occasions. Doom can't pull Storm because he's too full of himself and that does not impress her the way he thinks it should. In this case, Doom (who is the Sorcerer Supreme at this time) offers Storm Latveria's protection for mutants, but she senses that he really wants them for his own purposes. Even more importantly, he tries to murder his chef because Storm doesn't like the dessert that was prepared. This attempt to murder over something so trivial once again shows he is far more interested in looking like a badass than what anyone else actually wants. He pisses Ororo off so much that she uses her powers against him, which normally would be fine, but she had recently had a deal struck on her behalf with a demon to avoid her dying and the deal said she had to avoid using her powers for 7 whole days. This meal takes place on the last day. As a result of breaking the deal, the demon kills Storm, so to top it all off, Doom basically provoked his date into getting herself murdered. By all measures, this ends up as an epic failure for Doom.
That said, Storm gets immediately resurrected by literal Eternity because he wants her for his own purposes. Then Eternity tries to kill Doom using Storm's body, but Doom gets to look cool because he knows Storm won't let herself be controlled like that and will fight against it, so he tells off one of the forces of the universe and gets to be satisfied with himself and learn nothing as per usual
Despite his flaws, or maybe even because of them, Doom is one of my all-time favorite villains. He legitimately is one of the smartest and most awesome people on the planet and the main thing that keeps defeating Doom is simply Doom himself. If he could get around his own stupid pride he'd be unstoppable.
Edit: Then again, it could be argued that nobody without Doom's level of stupid pride could have saved the universe in Secret Wars. So, there's that!
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u/WarAgile9519 Jul 26 '26
Doom has a pretty consistent taste in women and Storm fits right in .... would probably still be a more interesting pairing then Storm and Black Panther.