
Dr Doom or his full name Victor Von Doom is the main antagonist of the series and the Fantastic Four's greatest enemy. He is voiced Paul Dobson who played his army the Doombots , Captain Ultra and Mole man
Backstory[]
When Victor was in school, he and Reed were good friends, and later, when Doom was successful and dating Susan , Reed asked to take the FF up to the Von Doom Space Station, but he messed with the shields and changed 5 lives forever. Sooner, Reed proposed to Susan, which made him Doom's biggest enemy yet.
Personality[]
Doom, like any other enemy, is ruthless, cunning and intelligent and would destroy the Fantastic Four and take over New York at any cost.
Appearance[]
Dr. Doom has a dark green chest protector which is covered with a lighter green cloak. He has bright, green eyes and his face is covered with a silver mask.
Powers & Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Superpowered Alpha Human Physiology / Transcendent Mortal Physiology
- Mystic Esper Physiology / Supernatural Human Physiology / Superior Mystic Human Physiology / Transcendent Wizard Physiology
- Magic: Doctor Doom was introduced to the mystic arts by his mother (who was of Romani and Latverian blood). He further developed his abilities by traveling through time and learning lost Dark Arts from individuals such as Morgan Le Fey. After Dr. Strange stepped down as the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Doom was amongst the candidates considered suitable to replace him. However the majority of his powers came from the Haazareth Three, and upon angering them most of his sorcery was removed and he was trapped in Hell as punishment. While they enhanced his powers he could achieve the following:
- Mystical Blasts: Doom's mystical expertise was only the minor magics of the Earth.
- Mystical Force-Fields
- Invoke Entities
- Spell Casting
- Power Granting
- Spell Creation
- Spell Reversing
- Summoning: Doom could summon hordes of demonic creatures.
- Teleportation
- Magical Teleportation
- Dimensional Travel: Doom could travel to other dimensions, including accessing the dreamtime.
- Mystical Ensnaring
- Mystical Portals
- Healing: Doom is able to heal himself and others from injuries.
- Banishment
- Time-travel; via Time Platform
- Power Absorption
- Elemental Manipulation: Doom could create a blizzard within seconds.
- Telekinesis: After being sent to the dawn of time by Marquis of Death, Victor claimed that he spent a millennium transforming his body and mind, mastering long lost dark arts. This resulted in him to being able to use notable telekinesis as well as levitate himself.
- Power Nullification: Doom has repeatedly blocked the Fantastic Four's powers via sorcery.
- Magical Energy Manipulation
- Romani Magic
- Cosmic Object Manipulation
- Energy Object Manipulation
- Magic Combat
- Meta Magic
- Physical Attack Reversal
- Order Magic
- Miracle Performing
- Science-Magic Mastery
- Science-Magic Mixture
- Quantum Manipulation
- Energized Combat / Magic Combat
- Mad Science Manipulation
- Conceptual Technology Manipulation
- Technomagic
- Science-Magic Manipulation
- Alchemy Mastery
- Super Science
- Craftsmanship Magic
- Mechanical Ability Mimicry / Mechanical Replication
- Holo-Technology
- Scientific Arts
- Technological Magic
- Personal Magical Technology
- Reality Warping Technology
- Scientific Magic
- Ability Mastering
- Evil Arts / Dark Arts
- Antithetical Power Link
- Enchantment
- Invoking Prayer
- Life-Force Warping
- Scientific Wizard
- Ethnic Magician
- Magic: Doctor Doom was introduced to the mystic arts by his mother (who was of Romani and Latverian blood). He further developed his abilities by traveling through time and learning lost Dark Arts from individuals such as Morgan Le Fey. After Dr. Strange stepped down as the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Doom was amongst the candidates considered suitable to replace him. However the majority of his powers came from the Haazareth Three, and upon angering them most of his sorcery was removed and he was trapped in Hell as punishment. While they enhanced his powers he could achieve the following:
- Psionics: Throughout his history, Doom has mastered some minor psychic abilities. Those skills originate from his encounter with aliens and mutants, naming the Ovoids and the Marquis of Death. Doom once claimed that he had evolved as a being, though it is not clarified how or to what extent and in later issues this seems to have been ignored by writers. The following powers however are usually considered to be a part of Doom's skillset. Finally, those skills are the result of personal mental development and are not to be confused with magic.
- Mind Transference: By training with an alien race, Doom has gained the ability to switch his mind with that of another nearby human being with whom he has made eye contact, a process which he learned from the alien Ovoids. Doom once changed his body with Human Torch. However, Doom prefers his own body and only uses this transference power as a last resort.
- Hypnotism: Doom is able to hypnotize individuals, as he did with a kraken on Counter Earth.
- Technopathy: Doom can exert technopathic control over certain machines, most notably the Doombots, but can control other technologies too, as he did with his suit's charger, describing his ability as latent telepathy.
- Absolute Psionics
- Imaginary Entity Creation
- Willpower Link
- Superpower Manipulation
- Echolocation
- Psychic Immunity
- Mind Exchange
- Morality Manipulation
- Metallic Body: As a result of being exposed to the same cosmic storm that gave the Fantastic Four their powers, most of his body was transformed into a metallic substance that was described as an "organic metallic alloy, stronger than titanium or steel and harder than diamonds", and gained related and unrelated powers:
- Superhuman Strength: His transformation gave him a degree of superhuman strength, able to overpower, lift and throw fully grown adults, able to go toe-to-toe with the Thing and send him flying.
- Superhuman Durability: His transformation has also given him superhuman durability. Victor's level of durability is quite high, being unharmed by bullets, blasted multiple times by Susan's shields, taking multiple hits from Ben, being crushed against a bus by a car thrown by Ben, a steel block falling down on him and falling down multiple stories immediately afterwards with no apparent damage. He was even able to survive Johnny going supernova till his opponent collapsed due to the strain, with his metallic body only appearing reddish and partially melted due to the heat.
- Superhuman Immunity: Doom has proven that he has an extremely high tolerance for heat, as he was able to still move after the Human Torch went supernova until he was rapidly cooled.
- Superhuman Stamina: Doom can take unbelievable amounts of punishment, taking a tremendous beating at the hands of the entire Fantastic Four with only a loud scream (sounding more of anguish than of pain, though), and has never technically been shown to tire.
- Electrokinesis: He can absorb and fire bolts of electrical energy. He can absorb electrical energy from various sources. He electric bolts are of such strength that they leave a gaping hole in a normal human's body and are capable of blasting away the Thing and consequentially generate such intense heat that they can melt or even vaporize solid steel. He can seemingly even control electricity within electrical circuits, as whenever he become emotional, electrical devices around him behaved erratically.
- Electromagnetism: Though not one actively used or demonstrated, Doom seemingly possesses the power of electromagnetism due to his electrokinetic power and metal body. While receiving his powers, he was shown to vibrate metallic objects in close proximity to himself.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Using his electrokinesis, Doom is able to heal his injuries within a much faster rate. However, this is speculation.
- Energy Beam Projection/Electrogenesis: Doom has shown to be capable of projecting intense, electric blasts able to disintegrate a normal person. He has also shown he can blast an almost-invisible blast of "Force" (similar to Susan Richards' ability) this was used against the Silver Surfer.
- Electric Conductivity
- Electric Heating
- Magnetism Manipulation
- Cosmic Energy Absorption: Doom can absorb cosmic energy as well.
- Enhanced Regeneration: As a side effect of his ability to absorb cosmic energy, Doom can use it to heal his injuries.
- Magnetic Human Physiology
- Mystic Esper Physiology / Supernatural Human Physiology / Superior Mystic Human Physiology / Transcendent Wizard Physiology
Abilities[]
- Supernatural Mind
- Hyper-Genius Intelligence: Doctor Doom's most dangerous weapon is his intellect. He is one of the top mortal minds on the planet. Doom even cured Ben Grimm of his Thing form. Doom has constructed hundreds of devices, including a working time machine, devices which can imbue people with powers, and many types of robots. His most frequently used robots are his "Doombots," exact mechanical replicas of himself. They look like him, talk like him, and even act like him. Individually, Doombots have an advanced AI (artificial intelligence) so that each one believes itself to be the real Doom. As a safety measure, each Doombot has a dampener program that is triggered whenever the real Doom (or another Doombot) is nearby. These "body doubles" appear when Doom cannot be present or is unwilling to risk his own life, and are often responsible for Doom's seeming return from certain death. Another common type of robot used is the Servo-Guard, the police force of Latveria. Doom specializes in all levels of physics, robotics, cybernetics, genetics, materials science, weapons technology, biochemistry, and time travel. He also has natural talents for leadership, strategy, politics, and manipulation. He has been shown as a prodigious electrical and mechanical engineer, admired by Tony Stark, an inspired theoretician with extensive knowledge of parallel universes and dimensions, and even a practiced neurosurgeon, having surgically separated Hulk from Bruce Banner. His knowledge extents to virtually any scientific field and his mind is said to work as fast as a sophisticated computer.
- Polymath
- Gifted Child
- Encyclopedic Knowledge
- Master Martial Artist: During his time in Tibet, Doom was presumably trained in martial arts by the monks. He is vastly skilled in many combat techniques, both armed and unarmed. He has been trained by the best sword masters on Earth and can achieve very powerful nerve strikes. His combat skills are so great that he managed to kill a lion with his bare hands, to be indistinguishable to Daredevil while in his suit, and to wield Captain America's shield as skillfully as Steve Rogers himself. He was also able to defeat Black Panther in close combat even when his suit was depowered and incapacitate Taskmaster on pure hand to hand, without the aid of technology or magic.
- Peak Human Conditioning: Doom has trained his body to the level of the finest human athlete. He is well-built, fast and agile. He has also displayed great reflexes and equilibrium. Victor once claimed that he was training and building himself physically for years, so as to be ready to face the demonic beings called from Mephisto during their annual confrontation. His physical strength and durability match even those of Daredevil.
- Indomitable Will: Doom has phenomenal determination, fearlessness, and strength of will. Indeed, he has the strongest will on Earth. Hence, he was able to resist psychic attacks from Emma Frost and the mind control of the Purple Man using only his will, to reject the mystical armor that the Soulsword provides the wielder on sheer willpower alone and while he was tortured in Hell, he refused to let a single audible indication of pain exit his mouth. Doom's willpower could be considered even godly as, after having stolen the Beyonders' omnipotent abilities for himself, he was capable of creating an entire new planet from the remnants of incursion points between collapsing worlds, that new planet was Battleworld. He held this world together with his will.
- Highly Influential Connections: As Monarch of Latveria, Doctor Doom has access to technological and military hardware. He also has command of conventional military forces; see Doctor Doom's Generals.
- Charismatic leader: Doom is able to attract people's positive attraction, especially on the citizens of Latveria, even when his plans are failing. He is also a skilled politician and strategist and has occasionally been the leader of numerous teams, including the Cabal and the Fantastic Four.
- Political Mastery
- Diplomatic Immunity: (formerly) As the leader of a sovereign nation, Doctor Doom often visits the United States or the United Nations for political reasons. He enjoys diplomatic immunity during these trips, and his embassy is considered foreign soil. He has even been escorted by Captain America himself. After renouncing his status as ruler of Latveria, it is likely he lost this status.
- Overwhelming Influence
- Monarchy Inducement
- Rhetoric Mastery
- Evil Magic Ruler
- Scientific Ruler / Scientist Supreme
- Fear Mastery
- Military Manipulation
- False Patriot
- Propaganda Mastery
- Political Mastery
- Artist: Doom has shown himself to be a talented artist. He painted a duplicate of the Mona Lisa while using Layla Miller as his model.
- Enhanced Musicianship
- Pianist: Doom has shown himself to be a talented pianist. He has played various compositions of his own creation.
- Flawless Artistry
- Painting Mastery
- Enhanced Musicianship
- Master Swordsman: Doom has been shown being proficient in sword combat, having been trained by the best teachers - until he overcame them all - and being able to out-duel Warlord Krang in swordsmanship.
- Science Ruler / Lordship / Mad Scientist
- Weapon systems and vehicles proficiency: Victor is highly proficient in the use of weapons, mostly those of his own creation, such as battle suits, ray weapons and bombs, but he also utilizes rifles, guns and grenades with great aiming ability. He has also been shown as a capable driver of vehicles such as the Excavator, the Gyroscopic Aircraft, the Doom Cycle and the Doom Copter.
- Device Mastery
- Dark Science
- Supernatural Advanced Technology
- Science Mastery
- Science Prodigy
- Crime Mastery
- Multilingual: Except English, he speaks all languages spoken in Latveria, those being Latverian, German, Hungarian, and Romany and possibly several others.
- Global Villain
- Boundless Villain
Weaknesses[]
- Ego: It has been shown in the past that Doom can be manipulated by pandering to his sense of superiority, especially over Reed Richards. Spider-Man was able to gain his assistance concerning unknown technology by saying Reed could not figure it out. This ego is also the main reason for his vendetta against Reed, as he cannot accept that Reed understood his equations better than he did.
- Because his body or enchanted armor is is of metal, he can't swim or float in water & can drown. Plus, if exposed to any level of cosmic/plasma heat, he can overheat & get rapidly cooled down with water.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
- Titanium Armor: Dr. Doom's original armor is a nuclear-powered, computer-assisted battle suit. It was magically forged at a monastery in Tibet, but since then has been repaired by normal (technological) means.
- Enhanced/Supernatural Strength: The armor gives Dr. Doom the ability to lift (press) several tons. He has held his own against Spider-Man and Hulk in hand to hand combat. The armor also grants him such strength he can pulverize a diamond with no effort.
- Enhanced Durability: The armor is fashioned of a high-strength titanium alloy enchanted with magic and has been shown durable enough to take a blast from the Infinity Gauntlet to point-black range, with little to no harm. The armor managed to withstand a massive explosion of energy at ground zero , from the Marquis of Death - which destroyed the entire capital of Latvia and the rest of the country.
- Video Communicator: Built into the right wrist is a video communicator, which he can use to stay in contact with his bases from any point on Earth.
- Electric Shock: The outer surface of the armor can generate a massive electric shock on command.
- Electrical Field: Also known as Electrical Force Field, the Electro-Magnetic Amplifier and Neural Disruptor, this mechanism allows Doom to generate a point-blank electric shock causing enormous damage to anyone daring enough to touch Doom - for example, someone in melee with him. It also affects, to a lesser extent, nearby people not in direct contact with Doom's armor. Anyone affected is susceptible to falling unconscious. Doom used this device to kill his clone and also to knock down Elvin Haliday and even Colossus, who had resisted previous attacks. It was however not enough to stun The Thing in the later's mutated, "spiky" state.
- Magnetic Polarity Controllers: Besides manipulating metal, this device allows Doom to redirect Magneto's power against him.
- Teleportation device: Doom's armor is able to teleport him across a short-range of distances
- Link to Doom's Time-Platform: An invention Doom can use to travel through time
- Flight: Dr. Doom's suits of armor are upgraded to give him the power of flight without the use of jet-packs.
- Jet-Packs: The typical suit of armor has twin jet-packs mounted at the waist, though other suits (or modifications of the original suit) contain a single jet-pack mounted on the back.
- Concussive Blasts: Concussive bolts of force can be fired from the gauntlets, fingertips, palms and faceplate of the armor, though the mask only generates force blasts when it is not being worn.
- Disintegration Beams
- Electrified Fist: Whenever Doom engages in melee combat, he can electrify his gauntlet to cause additional damage.
- Finger-Blaster, also known as Miniature Finger-Gun: Doom's early armor had a weapon in the tip of the index finger in his gauntlet. This was not a powerful energy shot: Spider-man protected himself against it with an ad-hoc web shield. Spider-Man later clogged the gun with his web.
- Force-Field: The suit's best defense is the force-field generated by the armor, which has a maximum radius of eight feet (and so can encompass others); Doom cannot attack without lowering his force-field.
- Infrared Vision: Infrared scanners in the helmet allow the wearer to detect heat sources, permitting night vision and the ability to see invisible persons (unless they do not give off or can somehow mask their heat signature).
- Recycling System: The armor is self-supporting, equipped with internal stores and recycling systems for air, food, water, and energy, allowing the wearer to survive lengthy periods of exposure underwater or in outer space.
- Sensor Systems: Optical scanners in the helmet allow the helmet's eyepieces to be used as high-powered telescopes, and parabolic ear amplifiers fitted inside the helmet allow Doom to detect extremely faint sounds and unusual frequencies within the audible range for humans.
- Vacuum Resistance: Doom's armor allows him to survive in space, underwater or at toxic environments.
- Solar Energy Absorption: A thermo-energizer allows the armor to absorb and store solar and heat energy, and use it to power the armor's other systems; this system can only be used while the force-field is deactivated.
- Thermal Units: This device hidden on Doom's gloves allowed him to spray a cloud of yellow mist with special properties to nullify invisibility powers of a character in an area. Once this enemy was located, Doom could easily change to a different attack.
- Personal Adapters: Using this device Doom can absorb multiple forms of energy.
- Special protection against other machines: Doom's armor is impervious to some of his other devices, such as the Disintegrator. His suit was also unhackable by the Extremis
- Splinters of the True Cross: Doom claims that his armor contains splinters of the True Cross, along with other such defenses (presumably to protect him from undead enemies, i.e Dracula) Considering Doom's capabilities to time travel, there is possibility of this being true.
- Optional systems: The following devices could be added to Doom's armor at his whim, but Doom himself only carried them if he felt he would need those:
- Energy Fist
- Fingertip Darts
- Image Projector
- Inhibitor Ray
- Instant Hypnotism Impulser
- Intensified Molecule Projector
- Ionic Blade
- Knuckle Rockets
- Mini-Missile Launcher
- Nerve Impulse Scrambler
- Neuro-Space Field
- Sleeping Gas
- Refrigeration Unit
- Sonic Drill
- Stun-Shocker
- Physics Defiance
- High-Tech Exoskeleton
- Glowing Hands
- Atomic powered blaster: A different bolt that can be shot from the fingertip of his right gauntlet.
- Torpedo Hurling: If Doom, wearing his armor, fell into the open see, he could move his armor like a torpedo, hurling himself in a chosen direction through the ocean and even to the surface. Doom has not shared the technology to perform this movement with anyone. When using this feature, Doom removed his green cloak and robes, which were soaking due to his aquatic predicament.
- Technomagical Object
As a genius-level inventor and monarch of a sovereign nation, Doom can attain many other pieces of equipment as needed. See also: Technological Achievements, Doctor Doom's robots.
Weapons[]
Doom often carried a "broomhandle" Mauser pistol, which he used to dispatch targets "unworthy" of his other means of attack.
- The Tactigon
- Doom created a series of robots called Doombots which he programs to follow his ever will including to take out the Fantastic Four. He also created other devices.
- Emotion Technology
- Antimatter Extrapolator:
Transportation[]
- Time Platform
- Flying Fortress
- Aerosub
Appearances[]
S01E01_ Doomsday
S01E04_ Doomed
S01E12_ Bait & Switch
S01E13_ Annihilation
S01E17_ Doomsday Plus One
S01E20_ Out of Time
S01E22_ Shell Games
S01E25_ Doom´s Word Is Law