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Oh, Jesus.
Apr. 8th, 2008 12:34 pmComics are embarrassing me again.
You may've heard of Victor von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom. He's been around a while. Like many good villains, he's frequently more interesting than his antagonists.
He is one of your honourable villains (a murderous tyrant, yes, but a classy one). He is undeniably brilliant and driven. He is arrogant--as Lewis Lovaugh observes here, he's prejudiced in that he's superior to everyone because they're all not Doom. He is eloquent and poised, and given his history--gone to hell to fight the devil for his mother's soul, wrenched the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer, built time machines, can at the *very* least hold an intelligent discussion with Dr. Stephen Strange on matters mystical, and found a way to steal the powers of the Beyonder (an entire intelligent universe)--can be taken as fairly unflappable.
This is a not-bad example of Doom's dialogue[1], except that Doom would not be confused about someone showing him flying commercial; Doom would simply comment in a cutting fashion on the ignorant misapprehension or petty mudslinging of the foolish peasant responsible for the erroneous depiction.
Ranting like some adolescent Nice Guy(TM) revenge fantasy, scribbled out in a notebook after That Bitch turned you down for That Date?
Not so much Doom.
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[1] Apparently he uses an iMac. I am amused.
You may've heard of Victor von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom. He's been around a while. Like many good villains, he's frequently more interesting than his antagonists.
He is one of your honourable villains (a murderous tyrant, yes, but a classy one). He is undeniably brilliant and driven. He is arrogant--as Lewis Lovaugh observes here, he's prejudiced in that he's superior to everyone because they're all not Doom. He is eloquent and poised, and given his history--gone to hell to fight the devil for his mother's soul, wrenched the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer, built time machines, can at the *very* least hold an intelligent discussion with Dr. Stephen Strange on matters mystical, and found a way to steal the powers of the Beyonder (an entire intelligent universe)--can be taken as fairly unflappable.
This is a not-bad example of Doom's dialogue[1], except that Doom would not be confused about someone showing him flying commercial; Doom would simply comment in a cutting fashion on the ignorant misapprehension or petty mudslinging of the foolish peasant responsible for the erroneous depiction.
Ranting like some adolescent Nice Guy(TM) revenge fantasy, scribbled out in a notebook after That Bitch turned you down for That Date?
Not so much Doom.
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[1] Apparently he uses an iMac. I am amused.
