Alternate versions of Doctor Doom
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This is a list of alternate versions of Doctor Doom from Marvel Comics' Multiverse.
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[edit] In mainstream comic continuity
- Victor von Doom is a disfigured super-genius. Doom creates a suit of power armor and various inventions in his efforts of world domination and the destruction of Reed Richards.
- Kristoff Vernard is the adopted son and heir-apparent to Victor von Doom. Following the apparent murder of Dr. Doom by Terrax, Doom's robots took Kristoff, and brainwashed him, also implanting him with Doom's mental patterns and detailed memories. Vernard believes himself to be the original Dr. Doom, and assumes the role, ambitions, and responsibilities of the Latverian ruler.
[edit] Alternate universe depictions
[edit] 1602
In Neil Gaiman's alternate-universe tale, Marvel 1602, Dr. Doom is "Count Otto von Doom", also known as "Otto the Handsome". A mastermind genius of physics and even genetics, Von Doom keeps the Four of the Fantastick imprisoned in his castle, continually tapping Richard Reed for knowledge. The Four eventually escape during an attack on Doom's castle by the other heroes of the time, which also leads to the scarring of his face.
Otto von Doom returns in 1602: The Fantastick Four, in which he plans to visit a city beyond the edge of the world, believing they have knowledge that could restore his face. He kidnaps William Shakespeare to record these events.
[edit] 2099
Doom (Victor Von Doom) is a Marvel Comics anti-hero featured in the Marvel 2099 comic book Doom 2099. The character is based on Doctor Doom, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The comic was written by John Francis Moore for its first two years and by Warren Ellis for its third.
[edit] Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse, Victor von Doom is an agent of the Human High Council and the Head of Security. His facial scar is the result of a mutant uprising in Latveria. Like his 616 counterpart, Von Doom remains a ruthless and ambitious man, though he does not express his counterpart's goal to rule the world and destroy all mutants.
[edit] The End
In Alan Davis' mini-series, Fantastic Four: The End, Dr. Doom appears as a four-armed cyborg with little of his humanity left. Doom breaks during the "mutant wars" and is now a killing machine, focused on the deaths of the Fantastic Four. He engages in final battle with the Four and is killed in an explosion when his powers react with those of Franklin and Valeria Richards. Doom is later revealed alive and conquers the Negative Zone after killing Annihilus and obtaining his power rod and immortality.
[edit] House of M
In the recent House of M continuity, Doom is still the ruler of Latveria, but his mother is still alive, he is married to Valeria, and he has adopted Kristoff. Reed Richards' test flight still encounters cosmic radiation, but rather than empowering Reed, Sue and John Jameson, who went up instead of Johnny Storm, the radiation kills them. Ben Grimm survivs, but his intelligence appears to be reduced. This inspires Doom to create a Four of his own, consisting of himself, the It (Grimm), the Invincible Woman (Valeria), and the Inhuman Torch (Kristoff). Due to Doom's arrogance and his brutality towards Grimm, the It betrays the team, Valeria and Kristoff are killed, his mother kidnapped, and Doom is left broken and humiliated. Doom tries to betray King Magnus only to be killed by mutant king.
[edit] MC2
In the Fantastic Five series, Doom is revealed to be held captive by the Sub-Mariner for ten years, after the destruction of Atlantis. Doom manages to escape, and uses the same device he once employed to imbue Terrax with the Power Cosmic on himself. He imbues this same power on his Doombots, and attempts to take over the world. Reed Richards challenges Doom to a psychic duel, using a device that will send the loser's mind to the Crossroads of Infinity. The two are so evenly matched that both are sent to the Crossroads, leaving their bodies as empty shells.
[edit] Iron Man
In an alternate future set in 2093, where King Arthur rules a renewed Camelot aided by Merlin, Doom meets his future double who relies on technology to extend his lifespan. He rejects him by pointing out that he would never do such a thing, for even if he seeks power, he always watches the cost of it. He then kills the older Doom. [1]
[edit] Marvel Zombies
The character appears briefly in the series. He was soon killed in a battle with the zombie heroes. It seems he might not be wearing his mask (his teeth are visible with only his cloak's hood covering the rest of his face).
In this version Doom was still ruler of Latveria. Doom has fortifies his castle to defend against the superheroes, and takes in refugees for the purpose of repopulating the planet once the situation is resolved. [2] Doom is forced to slay Dazzler when a zombie prisoner infects her.
Doom constructs a makeshift portal to allow the refugees escape to another reality. With only himself and Ash Williams remaining, he reveals he has been infected by the virus, and cannot go through the portal himself. Though tempted to eat Ash, he resists, allowing the man to escape, even giving him the ability to choose one of many realities. As Ash escapes through it, Doom destroys the device, trapped with the zombies.
[edit] Mutant X
In the Mutant X universe, Doom is a superhero and leader of his own super-team.
[edit] The Avengers: United They Stand
Doctor Doom appeared in #4 of the spin-off comic from the TV series, where he attempted to execute the Avengers and Black Knight.
[edit] Combat Colin
Doctor Doom made a, presumably non-canon, appearance in Marvel UK's Combat Colin strip. A superheroes convention is attacked by the robotic Steamroller Man. After Combat Colin and his sidekick Semi-Automatic Steve defeat the robot, its controller is revealed to be Doctor Doom, who explains that after years of being defeated by American superheroes he thought (wrongly) he could stand a chance against some incompetent Brits. The final panel shows Doom back in his lair, surrounded by newspaper cuttings detailing his past defeats and wondering how he would do in a fight with Thomas the Tank Engine.
[edit] Ultimate Doctor Doom
- See also: Ultimate Fantastic Four
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Doctor Doom is Victor Van Damme, a direct descendant of Vlad Tepes Dracula, and was part of the Baxter Building, a government think-tank of young geniuses, such as Reed Richards and Susan Storm. Van Damme in this continuity is no longer the 'Marvel-wide threat' that he is in the normal continuity (that role instead went to Magneto). He worked to help Reed Richards develop a teleporter to the "N-Zone," but reprogrammed its coordinates without telling anyone. This caused the accident that gave the Ultimate Fantastic Four their powers, though Victor maintains that the original Richards programming was so bad that even he couldn't fix it, and that it was this that led to the accident. Van Damme was caught in the same accident, and his flesh was changed into a metallic hide (with a somewhat reduced ability to perceive tactile sensations and pain), clawed hands, his legs transmogrified into demonic goat-hooved legs, and he re-appeared on Earth in Copenhagen.
For a time, he was the charismatic leader of a small micronation called "Free State", "Freezone", or "The Keep", a Permanent Autonomous Zone located in Copenhagen, Denmark, where citizens lived without rent in a shanty town under squatter's rights, and were given free comforts and necessities in exchange for loyalty to Van Damme. There, a dragon tattoo was given to new settlers, incorporating microfibers that interfaced with the brain and acting as a cunning mind control device. However, the Fantastic Four eventually freed them from Doom's control during their first battle, and all subsequently left.
During the Namor fiasco, the mother of Sue and Johnny Storm returned to New York. After the adventure, it was revealed that she possesses a similar dragon tattoo, and is presumably under Doom's control.
After the collapse of the Keep, Van Damme returned to Latveria, and in six months turned the country around. Latveria went from being a Third World nation to the ninth-richest country in the world. While seemingly happy, the citizens of Latveria are bearers of Doom's Dragon tattoos. He is revered by the citizens, who refer to him as "the good doctor".
In the same story arc, he switched bodies with Reed Richards in order to gain a life he felt was rightfully his, though leaving Reed with the wealth and control of Latveria; in his own form of honor, he felt this made him better than Reed. This turned out to be part of his scheme to gain recognition by doing what Reed couldn't do by saving Johnny Storm's life, by absorbing a parasite from him; however, the plan failed when Doom mispronounced part of the spell and caused the parasite to manifest a physical body, which it subsequently used to possess Doom's real body. However, Reed was able to return to the Baxter Building in Dr Doom's body and defeat the Zombie Fantastic Four, who had recently escaped captivity, revealing the truth about the switch as he prepared to sacrifice himself to return the Zombies to their world. However, Doom, refusing to let Reed be the one who saved the day in the end, transferred their minds back into their respective bodies, subsequently casting himself and the Zombie Fantastic Four back to the Zombie-verse asking only that he be remembered as the one who saved the world. This last part was not honored as the Fantastic Four received all the credit.
He has since reappeared in issue six of Ultimate Power, a crossover between the "Ultimate Universe" and the universe of the revamped Squadron Supreme, seemingly intent on taking over the Supremeverse. In issue eight it is revealed to be simply a Doombot (the first seen). As such his fate remains unknown.
According to Mark Millar, he wished to keep Doom's goat legs and editorial did not. In the end, they compromised - Doom still has the cloven feet, but they are covered by armored normal boots.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Ultimate Doom is a scientific genius, though unlike Richards he approaches science as an art rather than as a system. While the Fantastic Four's powers are compared to the four classical Greek elements, Doom has attained the power of one of the additional Chinese elements, metal - his body is almost completely solid metal, possessing no discrete internal organs, somewhat similar to Colossus (though Doom cannot switch back to a flesh-and-blood form). In his first post-transformation encounter with the Fantastic Four, he expelled the remains of his internal organs as a poisonous gas. It is unknown if he is still able to do this. He can grow and fling porcupine-like volleys of metal spikes from his forearms, and also possesses a regenerative power, but he cannot heal any wound caused by his own body. Thus, the scar Reed made on Doom's face remains, because it was done with one of his own spikes. Doom exhibits super strength as well, as he is able to break the arms off the zombie version of Ben Grimm.[3]
The Ultimate Universe's Doom is also an accomplished sorcerer. Richards discovers that Johnny did not get the life form inside him from the Negative Zone. Rather, Victor "summoned" the creature inside Johnny. Later, Doom used sorcery to exchange minds with Richards.[4]
Moreover, Ultimate Doom is one of the most powerful beings in that universe. When a parasitic life form is said to be heading straight for the most powerful being in the area, it bypasses Thor and goes to Doom's body.[5].
[edit] Warlock
On the original Counter Earth, Victor Von Doom is a genius, but not a villain. He appears in the original Warlock series. Von Doom's armor is now represented only by the metallic mask and the green hood/cape is gone.
