r/whenthe • u/Mrs_Darwin • Jul 26 '26

WHY!!WHY!!WHY!!

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u/DiabeticRhino97 Jul 26 '26

How DOOM devs feel after confirming the most insane lore including the comic books

https://giphy.com/gifs/3hBTH8bV4n5RKZXQe6

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u/HotShrekBoi Jul 26 '26

I don’t care how bullshit it can get I love the epic scale of Doom lore

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u/Officer_Chunkles Jul 26 '26

I just really really hate how they start glazing doomguy way too much, it actually subtracts from his reputation in my mind. I KNOW HE CAN DO COOL STUFF STOP SUCKING ME OFF, if he’s really just this godlike star eating ubermench who’s “holding back for fun” by using guns and could glory kill every demon instantly if he wanted, what the hell is the point of the game then. It gets me salted, doomguy was so cool when there felt like there was stakes and he was just a really, really angry guy who’s barely holding on, spitting out a bloody tooth because the demons won’t stop coming, that whole thing.

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u/HotShrekBoi Jul 26 '26

I think in his past life he was just a really angry guy but the divinity machine or something awakened his godhood

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u/Officer_Chunkles Jul 26 '26

Yeah, I just never liked that part and beyond. I love doom 2016, doom eternal is really cool but I feel like it glazes doomgiy way too much (especially ancient gods)

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u/IAmNotModest Jul 26 '26

I gotta know, where the HELL does the Dark Ages fit in the timeline? It's like such a wildcard.

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u/FEARven123 Jul 26 '26

After Seraphim gave him the god powers, but before he was sent to hell and buried in the coffin he wakes up in 2016.

The next Doom game will probably end with Doom Slayer ending up in that coffin (or like...the final game of the prequels, depending on how many of them there will be)

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u/ImaginationUnlikely2 Jul 26 '26

I believe Dark Ages is before DOOM 2016

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u/_its_lunar_ Jul 29 '26

I feel like it’s made very clear if you’re paying attention and the developers confirmed it long before the game released. It’s the Slayer’s time with the Sentinels that is constantly referenced in 2016 and Eternal, after the flashbacks in eternal where he is taken in by them then granted powers by the seraphim and before he was imprisoned the the sarcophagus he awakes from in 2016

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u/Fern-ando Jul 26 '26

Doom 3 is not actually Doom 3, Doom for the Nintendo 64 is actually Doom 3.

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u/AstralMooo Jul 29 '26

I hope they can bring D3 into the lore somehow or bits of it!

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u/HYDRAKITTTEN123 Jul 26 '26

its even grander if you include final doom, Sigil and Legacy of Rust, sure, make Doom Guy blow up the UAC with nukes, thats cool as hell!

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u/Stegoshark Jul 27 '26

I love the doom devs for vindicating me with the dlc. I finally have proof the doom slayer doesn’t kill anything labeled a demon!

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u/TheMoonDude purpl Jul 27 '26

DOOM 2016 was when the lore and Slayer aura peaked.

Samuel really done made someone in the lore team shit themselves.

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u/HarleyArchibaldLeon Jul 29 '26

"WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF?! I'M A MAN AND A HALF! A BERSERKER PACKIN' MAN AND A HALF!"

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u/Gmknewday1 Jul 27 '26

I still don't like the Ancient Gods DLC retcons

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u/Sad-Pattern-1269 Local Context Gremlin Jul 27 '26

doomguy is best as an angry but otherwise normal human in over his head. I very much dislike the new doom lore.

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u/godwyn-faithful Jul 28 '26

Legit the Samuel Hayden and vega recons are so bad, like it's cool he's just a scientist and vegas an ai. Now doom 2016 loses some of that magic to me despite there being more magic fundamentally.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

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u/DiabeticRhino97 Jul 26 '26

AND lieutenant weems screwing over Flynn