Recently, there was an announcement that RDJ will be brought back to MCU. RDJ will be introduced in the role of Doctor Doom who is a villain. But who is Dr. Doom? Where did he come from? What is the story of his existence? Is he powerful? What can he do? What is his reality? Let’s find the answers to all these questions together.
Who is Dr. Doom?
Doctor Doom’s real name is Victor Von Doom. He is the king of Latveria. He is one of the most brilliant minds in the world and also holds sorcerer skills. His aim has always been to make the world a better place. According to Marvel Comics, we get to see Doctor Doom’s origin story in many parts. Here we will talk about the stories told in the Books of Doom.
Background Story of Dr. Doom
Victor Von Doom’s father Wernher von Doom was a healer and his mother Cynthia knew sorcery. Both of them were members of a local Romani club named Zafiro. Baron King Lademir of Latveria was harassing both of them. To escape from him, the Doom Family kept running here and there. One day Cynthia used her sorcery and made a deal with Mephisto in which Cynthia would have to hand over her soul to Mephisto in return for which Cynthia would get powers but Mephisto betrayed her. Mephisto gave her powers but did not teach her how to control them. One day while fighting with the Baron’s soldiers, Cynthia used the powers given by Mephisto but due to the use of that power, all the children of the village were killed.
After this incident, the people of this village killed Cynthia. Before dying, Cynthia asked Wernher to keep Victor away from dark arts by any means. Werner hid all of Cynthia’s artifacts somewhere. In childhood, Victor had a girl named Valeria in his Zafiro Club. With Valeria, Victor was able to forget all his problems. A few days after this incident, Baron called Werner to heal his wife, but unfortunately, Baron’s wife died. After this, Wernher leaves the village with his son Victor. Baron’s soldiers chase them, but Wernher hides on a snowy hill with Victor. Due to staying in the snow overnight, Victor’s father Wernher dies of cold by the morning. Victor also sees a glimpse of his dead mother near his dead father in which he learns about the pact between Mephisto and his mother. Then the Baron and his soldiers come and take away Wernher’s body.
Origin of Dr. Doom
Now Victor had nothing left to lose. After this, Victor gets his mother’s spell books and artifacts with the help of which Victor tries to find his mother. When magic does not work, he moves towards science and with the help of his inventions does everything that his mother wanted to do for her people.
One night, while Victor is out for a stroll, one of the Baron’s soldiers stops him and puts a gun to his head. This enrages Victor and he starts fighting with the soldier and kills someone for the first time. This incident has a deep impact on him and he becomes troubled.
The Intelligent Doom
After a few days, an American General offers Victor to go with him to America where Victor will make something for the Americans and in return Victor will get a chance for higher studies. In America, the military general shows Victor his lab and gets him admitted to college. Victor had to make weapons for the general and study in college. But Victor was not the only one working in the military general’s lab, there was another bright and brilliant student with Victor whose name was Reed Richards. Reed had faith in Victor’s knowledge and Victor also respected Reed’s intelligence. On the other hand, Victor was making bots and bombs for the military general and along with that he was asking him for such equipment so that he could make his own lab in his dorm room. Although he did not respect American culture, he still goes to a party where he meets a girl. In a drunken state, Victor gets intimate with the girl and his hand reaches her neck. Victor was experiencing the same feelings that he felt when he killed Baron’s soldier. Victor controls himself and leaves the girl. And he also leaves from there. Victor gets back to his inventions and experiments. He was very close to dimensional traveling.
A few days later, Reed Richards goes to Victor’s dorm room where he notices some research papers on which some calculation errors were written. Victor scolds him for what he is doing in the dorm room without his permission. Reed tries to explain to him but Victor asks him to leave from there. After this, Victor sits in his personal dorm room lab and starts the machine he has set up. Victor mentally searches for his mother in hell for weeks. At one point, he even sees his mother. She was held captive by Mephisto. She tells Victor to leave. In the real world, this was an incident of just a few hours. At the end of it, the machine explodes, due to which Victor’s lab assistant loses an eye and Victor’s entire face is burnt. Actually, Mephisto had touched Victor’s face, due to which Victor’s face was damaged.
Doom Getting His Powers
After that incident, Victor leaves America, destroying all his inventions and lab equipment. After leaving America, Victor comes to Europe where he is haunted by dreams of his mother. In Europe, the KGB, the American military, and Baron’s people are after him. Baron, in collaboration with the American government, sends Victor’s childhood friend Valeria to him. Victor starts spending time with Valeria, but one day both of them are attacked. This time, a sorcerer helps Victor. The sorcerer sends Victor to a temple in Tibet. After months of climbing snowy mountains and facing dangerous animals, Victor reaches the temple of Tibet where he spends 5 years learning the mystic arts and mastering the technology there. He built a device there through which he got all the news of the world. Through this device, Victor also finds out about Reed Richards’ space vessel and also about Baron Lad Mir of Latveria.
Doom’s Revenge
After finding out everything, Victor builds an armor and mask for himself and names himself ‘Doctor Doom’. And along with a monk named Lerin, he sets out to take revenge on Baron Lad Mir. Doom came to Latveria and stayed in an empty castle in an empty village. This was the same village where his mother had killed the children with the powers given by Mephisto. Doom fought with the guards there, freed the prisoners, and told them to pass on the message to the people that everyone should kneel before Doctor Doom, the dictator of Latveria. Coming to his castle, Doom started making the same robots that he used to make for the military in America. Doom tracked down his old Zafiro Club and asked them to pass a holographic projector in which he was challenging the power of Baron Lad Mir. On doing this, one of them tried to stop him but Doom killed him. After this, everyone else agreed to him and soon the news spread that Doom had come to free the people of Latveria. And then a Rebellion Army was formed which was against Baron Lad Mir. Doctor Doom’s robots were with his Rebellion Army and one by one they won many places. Every day new rebels started joining Doom. Then Doom sent a holographic message to Baron Lad Mir to kneel before him. In Doom’s eyes, he will remain the same Baron, the Baron of Latveria who had killed Doom’s father Wernher. After seeing this message, the Baron broke the holographic device, called his soldiers, and set out to fight with Doom. But when the Baron reached there with his army, Doom and his Rebellion Army were already present there. Seeing Doom and his Rebellion Army, the Baron’s army left the way. Then Doom killed Baron Lad Mir in the same way as he had done the first murder.
Doom: The King of Latveria
When the Baron died, Doom took off his green cap and clock chain and himself became the king of that place. After all this, Victor confronted Mephisto and formed a pact with him. Every year Mephisto will give him a chance to free his mother but every time he fails, the more the people of Latveria will hate him. But even if he wins, his mother will be freed from Mephisto but where her soul will go from hell will not be in Doom’s hands, so in a sense, Mephisto will win. Doom agrees and every year he fights Mephisto to free his mother but he himself does not remember whether he ever won or not.
Conclusion
So this was all about Victor Von Doom aka Dr. Doom. We have seen 3 movies of Fantastic Four but still waiting for the better version of Dr. Doom. Hope we’ll see the best of Dr. Doom in upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps. As Marvel Studios announced the return of Robert Downey Junior as Victor Von Doom, If he will play this role, This villain will be the best villain of all time in MCU. According to comics, Dr. Doom is much more powerful than other villains and superheroes. How our superheroes will face him ? There is no iron man, Captain America, and Vision. It seems impossible to stop him. But we are marvel fans and we will always support our superheroes in every situation.