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Doctor Doom
Victor Von Doom
Fighting: Remarkable
Agility: Excellent
Strength: Remarkable
Endurance: Monstrous
Reason: Amazing
Intuition: Incredible
Psyche: Amazing
Health 155
Karma 140
Resources Incredible
Popularity -75
Powers
Hyper-Invention: Monstrous ability to comprehend/design/repair technology.
Equipment
BATTLE SUIT: Doom's personal battle armor has the following powers and effects:
* Body Armor: Doom's armor has Amazing material strength and provides Incredible protection from physical attacks and Amazing protection from energy attacks, including heat, cold, radiation, electricity, and lasers.
* Force Field: The armor can generate an Unearthly intensity personal force field. Doom cannot attack while the force field is active.
* Flight: Doom's armor is equiped with a retractable jet backpack, which provides flight at Incredible speed.
* Blasters: Doom's primary armament are a pair of gauntlet mounted particle beam emitters which cause up to Monstrous force or blunt attack damage, or stun with up to Amazing ability, at a range of 7 areas. The blasters can also be used as an area attack, affecting everyone in an adjacent area at -2CS damage. Area attacks cannot be dodged, but intended targets can escape its effects by leaving the area of effect.
* Laser Beam: This is a gauntlet mounted laser, causing up to Amazing energy damage at a range of 7 areas.
* Tractor Beam: The gauntlet mounted tractor beam exerts Amazing strength up to 7 areas distant. It is generally used to pull an opponent or object towards Doom, or hold an opponent or object in place. Note that the Tractor Beam cannot cause any damage by itself. A strength FEAT roll is required to break free of the Tractor Beam's power.
* Lightning Beam: This gauntlet mounted electroblaster causes up to Amazing electrical damage or stuns opponents with Incredible ability at a range of 3 areas.
* Electric Touch: The armor can channel electricity along its surface, causing Monstrous electrical damage or stunning with Amazing ability on contact.
* Disruptor Beam: These gauntlet mounted electromagnetic/gravitic wave emitters disrupt electrical fields, rendering electronic equipment powerless for 1-10 turns with Amazing ability at a range of 5 areas. A successful power FEAT roll against the intensity of the disruptor negates the effect. The disruptor ignores body armor but not force fields. However, if the force field is generated by an electronic device, the disruptor can affect it with power rank ability.
* Pain Inducers: On contact, Doom's gauntlets can channel powerful nerve disruptors which cause excruciating pain to living opponents. An opponent touched by the pain inducers must make an Endurance FEAT roll: a White result means he is rendered unconscious for 1-10 turns; a Green result means all FEATs involving Fighting, Agility and Strength are at -2CS for a full turn; a Yellow result means all FEATS involving Fighting, Agility and Strength are at -1CS for a full turn; and a Red result means the character is able to shrug off the effects. Note that characters who are suffering a loss of strength as result of the pain inducers will have the damage they cause from physical attacks reduced accordingly (example: if Doom touches the Thing with his pain inducers and the Thing rolls a Yellow Endurance FEAT, his strength is reduced to Amazing for one full turn). The pain inducers ignore natural body armor (such as the Thing's rocky epidermis) but not artificial body armor or force fields. Clothing does not impede the pain inducers unless it is several inches thick.
* Sensors: Doom's armor provides infravision and enhanced hearing, with Incredible ability. The armor is also equipped with radar, sonar, sonic, thermal, infra-red, and radiation detection units. Each has a range of 100 miles and functions with Amazing ability. While the sensors are active, Doom cannot be blindsided. Doom's armor also can detect hazardous gases, chemicals, and particles, estimate height, weight, and distance, and estimated times of arrival based on velocity with Amazing ability. If the sensors are inactive or disabled, Doom's Intuition is reduced to Excellent. This does not affect his Karma.
* Communicators: The armor is also equipped with an all band radio communicator, several personal cell phone lines, a wireless modem, a wireless fax imaging system, several private frequency lines, and an AM/FM radio. The armor can link up with global satellites to enable communications around the world, with Monstrous ability.
* Computers: Doom's armor has a built-in housekeeping computer of Monstrous ability that controls and monitors most suit functions and processes data from his headquarters in Latveria.
* Air Supply: Doom's armor contains enough compressed air for 1 hour of normal breathing (this is shortened if the armor is operated at high pressure). The oxygen tanks automatically replenishes itself when exposed to breathable air. It takes approximately 5 turns to completely replenish the air supply.
* Life Support: Doom's armor provides a complete nuclear, chemical, biological environment for 30 days by filtering air.
* Von Doom almost never removes his personal armor, but without it, his stats are:
Fighting Excellent
Agility Good
Strength Typical
Endurance Good
Reason Amazing
Intuition Incredible
Psyche Amazing
Health 46
Karma 140
Special: Doom will often design specific weapons for a given encounter if he anticipates a battle. The more he knows about the strengths and weaknesses of his opponent, the more effective the weapon will be. Doom will usually be equipped with a number of weapons specifically designed to combat the original members of the Fantastic Four.
# Magic: Doom is an adept sorceror, trained by Dr. Strange. He has displayed the following mystical abilities: Crimsom Bands of Cyttorak: Remarkable
# Dimension Travel: Limited to Mephisto's Realm, but he needs at least an Excellent rank aid to break though dimensional barriers.
# Eldritch Bolts: Doom can fire blasts of mystical energy that cause upto Amazing damage
# Eldritch Shield: Remarkable
Talents
Robotics, Computers, Cybernetics, Engineering, and Electronics talents, Time travel technology, Occult Lore
Contacts
Doom is the monarch of the pocket European realm Latveria. He often uses superhuman beings as his pawns, but has no real contacts beyond his lackeys and servitors.
History
Victor was born to noted healer Werner von Doom and Cynthia von Doom, a witch. Some accounts state that Cynthia von Doom died when he was still a baby, others suggest she survived until at least his adolescence and may have inadvertently gave Victor von Doom the idea for his future green attire by buying him a green cloak. Werner von Doom was later to die, shielding young Victor, in a snowdrift while being chased by the local Baron's men, after Werner was unable to use even his healing skills to aid the Baroness. Victor von Doom was very embittered by this experience.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #247. Art by John Byrne.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #247. Art by John Byrne.
While a child, he discovered his mother's magical artifacts and von Doom began his studies into the occult as well as developing his innate scientific abilities. Either due to tales of his sheer brilliance or due to the technical sophistication of an insurgency campaign against the Baron led by Doom, his astounding reputation came to the attention of the dean of science at Empire State University in America, and von Doom was offered a full scholarship. At Empire State, von Doom first met both Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, two men who would go on to become his enemies in later years as Mister Fantastic and the Thing, respectively. Richards, in particular, represented a substantial threat to Doom's self-perceived superiority. Doom began conducting hazardous extra-dimensional experiments.
The focus of Doom's research was to construct a trans-dimensional projection device with which he could communicate with his dead mother. There was a flaw in the design which Richards pointed out to him, but Doom's pride prevented him from accepting Richards' advice and fixing the device before testing it. The machine worked perfectly for two minutes and 37 seconds, in which time Doom discovered that his mother was trapped in Mephisto's Hell. Then the device exploded, permanently damaging Doom's face; the most recent retelling of Doom's origin attests that this was the work of Mephisto striking at him, and by some accounts, the facial damage amounted only to one cheek being marked with a long, jagged scar, a scar that Doom's incredible vanity magnified into a hideous disfigurement. Refusing to acknowledge his own fault in the matter, Doom blamed Richards for the accident, finding it easier to believe that Richards had sabotaged his work out of jealousy than admit to his own imperfection.
Doom was expelled from school afterward, and traveled the world searching for a cure for his scarred face, which he viewed as a symbol of his failure. Eventually Doom discovered a village of Tibetan monks amongst whom he lived for a number of years. Mastering their sorcerous disciplines, he took control of the monastery, and had the monks assist him in crafting a suit of body armor. In his eagerness to finish donning the suit and begin his new life as "Doctor Doom," however, he donned the armor's freshly-cast mask before it had been properly cooled, ensuring that, if his face had not been seriously disfigured before, it now most certainly was. This suit would become his trademark, and thanks to his technological enhancements, it puts him on par in terms of personal power with most superheroes in the Marvel Universe. After this, he returned to his homeland, overthrew the standing government, and crowned himself king. Ruling with an iron fist and an equally strong will, Doom began to redirect the small nation's resources to help him realize his goals.
Dr. Doom vs Mr. Fantastic. Art by Salvador Larroca.
Dr. Doom vs Mr. Fantastic. Art by Salvador Larroca.
Doom was briefly deposed by Zorba, a prince from the royal family Doom had previously overthrown. After months in exile, Doom managed to convince the Fantastic Four to aid him in taking back Latveria by showing them that under Zorba's corrupt rule, the nation had fallen into crime and poverty. When Zorba learned that Doom had returned, he ordered his robot forces to massacre his own people to prevent a coup led by Doom. Realizing that Zorba was a greater threat to the Latverian people than Doom, the team reluctantly agreed to assist their enemy. Doom soon killed Zorba and reclaimed his throne, but in the process, one of his loyal Latverian subjects was killed before his eyes. Doom adopted the fallen woman's son, Kristoff Vernard, and raised the boy as his heir. In addition, as Doom considers his genius and leadership to be priceless assets to the Earth, he used Kristoff as a fallback plan to be used in the unlikely event of his premature death. When Doom was indeed seemingly killed, his robots enacted this plan and copied Doom's knowledge and memories into young Kristoff's brain. For a time, Kristoff even believed himself to be Doom, but eventually realized the truth and submitted to the true Doom's rule. Kristoff seems to be the half-brother of Doom's hated rival Reed Richards, though none of the three seem to be aware of this fact.
In 2003, Doom realized he was unnecessarily limiting himself by focusing on technology, and only occasionally his magical birthright. He sold his childhood sweetheart's soul to a trio of demons in exchange for unlimited magical ability and new leather armor made of her skin. As a direct result of this storyline, Doom was confined to Hell, but was later recovered by Reed, who intended to trap him in a small Möebius strip dimension forever. To effect his escape, Doom's consciousness possessed Ben Grimm, forcing Richards to kill them both. Ben Grimm was later brought back from the dead, while Doom's consciousness returned to his imprisoned body.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #536. Art by Mike McKone.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #536. Art by Mike McKone.
When the hibernating Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, fell to Earth, it passed through time and space, momentarily breaching the gateway to Hell itself, providing Doom a way to escape. Upon his return to Earth, Doom regained control of Latveria, and used its forces to locate the crash-landing site of Mjolnir and attempt to seize its power for himself. Later, a Doombot was taken down by Reed Richards, Henry Pym, Iron Man, She-Hulk and others in New York City; whether or not it was sent by Doom himself remains to be seen, as does his role in the overall conflict.[1] Doom was not invited to the wedding of Storm and the Black Panther; however he did send a present: an invitation to form an alliance with Latveria, using the Civil War currently going on among the hero community as a reason to quite possibly forge an alliance between their two countries. When Black Panther, on a diplomatic mission to other countries with Storm, did show up in Latveria, he presented them with a real present, and extended another invitation to form an alliance with Black Panther. He demonstrated behavior very uncharacteristic of him, however, which may or may not become a plot point later. Panther spurned the invitation, detonating an EMP that blacked out a local portion of Latveria before Doom's robots could destroy his ship. Doom, enraged, attacked the Panther. Panther's costume turned into Light Armor as he fought back. Storm assisted her husband to retreat. Panther argued against Storm assisting him, and Doom mocked the two of them, ending the fight and sending them on their way. The two made up and continued on their journey, planning on visiting the Inhumans on the moon next. Doom is then shown collaborating with the Red Skull on a weapon which will only "be the beginning" of Captain America's suffering.[2] Doom gave the Skull the weapon because the Skull gave Victor pieces of technology from an old German castle. The castle was owned by a "Baron of Iron" centuries prior, who had used his technological genius to protect himself and his people. The map the Red Skull used to find the castle bore a picture of Doom. Doom states that the technology the Skull gave him is more advanced than what he currently has, and that he will become the Baron of Iron in his future.
Victor Von Doom
Fighting: Remarkable
Agility: Excellent
Strength: Remarkable
Endurance: Monstrous
Reason: Amazing
Intuition: Incredible
Psyche: Amazing
Health 155
Karma 140
Resources Incredible
Popularity -75
Powers
Hyper-Invention: Monstrous ability to comprehend/design/repair technology.
Equipment
BATTLE SUIT: Doom's personal battle armor has the following powers and effects:
* Body Armor: Doom's armor has Amazing material strength and provides Incredible protection from physical attacks and Amazing protection from energy attacks, including heat, cold, radiation, electricity, and lasers.
* Force Field: The armor can generate an Unearthly intensity personal force field. Doom cannot attack while the force field is active.
* Flight: Doom's armor is equiped with a retractable jet backpack, which provides flight at Incredible speed.
* Blasters: Doom's primary armament are a pair of gauntlet mounted particle beam emitters which cause up to Monstrous force or blunt attack damage, or stun with up to Amazing ability, at a range of 7 areas. The blasters can also be used as an area attack, affecting everyone in an adjacent area at -2CS damage. Area attacks cannot be dodged, but intended targets can escape its effects by leaving the area of effect.
* Laser Beam: This is a gauntlet mounted laser, causing up to Amazing energy damage at a range of 7 areas.
* Tractor Beam: The gauntlet mounted tractor beam exerts Amazing strength up to 7 areas distant. It is generally used to pull an opponent or object towards Doom, or hold an opponent or object in place. Note that the Tractor Beam cannot cause any damage by itself. A strength FEAT roll is required to break free of the Tractor Beam's power.
* Lightning Beam: This gauntlet mounted electroblaster causes up to Amazing electrical damage or stuns opponents with Incredible ability at a range of 3 areas.
* Electric Touch: The armor can channel electricity along its surface, causing Monstrous electrical damage or stunning with Amazing ability on contact.
* Disruptor Beam: These gauntlet mounted electromagnetic/gravitic wave emitters disrupt electrical fields, rendering electronic equipment powerless for 1-10 turns with Amazing ability at a range of 5 areas. A successful power FEAT roll against the intensity of the disruptor negates the effect. The disruptor ignores body armor but not force fields. However, if the force field is generated by an electronic device, the disruptor can affect it with power rank ability.
* Pain Inducers: On contact, Doom's gauntlets can channel powerful nerve disruptors which cause excruciating pain to living opponents. An opponent touched by the pain inducers must make an Endurance FEAT roll: a White result means he is rendered unconscious for 1-10 turns; a Green result means all FEATs involving Fighting, Agility and Strength are at -2CS for a full turn; a Yellow result means all FEATS involving Fighting, Agility and Strength are at -1CS for a full turn; and a Red result means the character is able to shrug off the effects. Note that characters who are suffering a loss of strength as result of the pain inducers will have the damage they cause from physical attacks reduced accordingly (example: if Doom touches the Thing with his pain inducers and the Thing rolls a Yellow Endurance FEAT, his strength is reduced to Amazing for one full turn). The pain inducers ignore natural body armor (such as the Thing's rocky epidermis) but not artificial body armor or force fields. Clothing does not impede the pain inducers unless it is several inches thick.
* Sensors: Doom's armor provides infravision and enhanced hearing, with Incredible ability. The armor is also equipped with radar, sonar, sonic, thermal, infra-red, and radiation detection units. Each has a range of 100 miles and functions with Amazing ability. While the sensors are active, Doom cannot be blindsided. Doom's armor also can detect hazardous gases, chemicals, and particles, estimate height, weight, and distance, and estimated times of arrival based on velocity with Amazing ability. If the sensors are inactive or disabled, Doom's Intuition is reduced to Excellent. This does not affect his Karma.
* Communicators: The armor is also equipped with an all band radio communicator, several personal cell phone lines, a wireless modem, a wireless fax imaging system, several private frequency lines, and an AM/FM radio. The armor can link up with global satellites to enable communications around the world, with Monstrous ability.
* Computers: Doom's armor has a built-in housekeeping computer of Monstrous ability that controls and monitors most suit functions and processes data from his headquarters in Latveria.
* Air Supply: Doom's armor contains enough compressed air for 1 hour of normal breathing (this is shortened if the armor is operated at high pressure). The oxygen tanks automatically replenishes itself when exposed to breathable air. It takes approximately 5 turns to completely replenish the air supply.
* Life Support: Doom's armor provides a complete nuclear, chemical, biological environment for 30 days by filtering air.
* Von Doom almost never removes his personal armor, but without it, his stats are:
Fighting Excellent
Agility Good
Strength Typical
Endurance Good
Reason Amazing
Intuition Incredible
Psyche Amazing
Health 46
Karma 140
Special: Doom will often design specific weapons for a given encounter if he anticipates a battle. The more he knows about the strengths and weaknesses of his opponent, the more effective the weapon will be. Doom will usually be equipped with a number of weapons specifically designed to combat the original members of the Fantastic Four.
# Magic: Doom is an adept sorceror, trained by Dr. Strange. He has displayed the following mystical abilities: Crimsom Bands of Cyttorak: Remarkable
# Dimension Travel: Limited to Mephisto's Realm, but he needs at least an Excellent rank aid to break though dimensional barriers.
# Eldritch Bolts: Doom can fire blasts of mystical energy that cause upto Amazing damage
# Eldritch Shield: Remarkable
Talents
Robotics, Computers, Cybernetics, Engineering, and Electronics talents, Time travel technology, Occult Lore
Contacts
Doom is the monarch of the pocket European realm Latveria. He often uses superhuman beings as his pawns, but has no real contacts beyond his lackeys and servitors.
History
Victor was born to noted healer Werner von Doom and Cynthia von Doom, a witch. Some accounts state that Cynthia von Doom died when he was still a baby, others suggest she survived until at least his adolescence and may have inadvertently gave Victor von Doom the idea for his future green attire by buying him a green cloak. Werner von Doom was later to die, shielding young Victor, in a snowdrift while being chased by the local Baron's men, after Werner was unable to use even his healing skills to aid the Baroness. Victor von Doom was very embittered by this experience.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #247. Art by John Byrne.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #247. Art by John Byrne.
While a child, he discovered his mother's magical artifacts and von Doom began his studies into the occult as well as developing his innate scientific abilities. Either due to tales of his sheer brilliance or due to the technical sophistication of an insurgency campaign against the Baron led by Doom, his astounding reputation came to the attention of the dean of science at Empire State University in America, and von Doom was offered a full scholarship. At Empire State, von Doom first met both Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, two men who would go on to become his enemies in later years as Mister Fantastic and the Thing, respectively. Richards, in particular, represented a substantial threat to Doom's self-perceived superiority. Doom began conducting hazardous extra-dimensional experiments.
The focus of Doom's research was to construct a trans-dimensional projection device with which he could communicate with his dead mother. There was a flaw in the design which Richards pointed out to him, but Doom's pride prevented him from accepting Richards' advice and fixing the device before testing it. The machine worked perfectly for two minutes and 37 seconds, in which time Doom discovered that his mother was trapped in Mephisto's Hell. Then the device exploded, permanently damaging Doom's face; the most recent retelling of Doom's origin attests that this was the work of Mephisto striking at him, and by some accounts, the facial damage amounted only to one cheek being marked with a long, jagged scar, a scar that Doom's incredible vanity magnified into a hideous disfigurement. Refusing to acknowledge his own fault in the matter, Doom blamed Richards for the accident, finding it easier to believe that Richards had sabotaged his work out of jealousy than admit to his own imperfection.
Doom was expelled from school afterward, and traveled the world searching for a cure for his scarred face, which he viewed as a symbol of his failure. Eventually Doom discovered a village of Tibetan monks amongst whom he lived for a number of years. Mastering their sorcerous disciplines, he took control of the monastery, and had the monks assist him in crafting a suit of body armor. In his eagerness to finish donning the suit and begin his new life as "Doctor Doom," however, he donned the armor's freshly-cast mask before it had been properly cooled, ensuring that, if his face had not been seriously disfigured before, it now most certainly was. This suit would become his trademark, and thanks to his technological enhancements, it puts him on par in terms of personal power with most superheroes in the Marvel Universe. After this, he returned to his homeland, overthrew the standing government, and crowned himself king. Ruling with an iron fist and an equally strong will, Doom began to redirect the small nation's resources to help him realize his goals.
Dr. Doom vs Mr. Fantastic. Art by Salvador Larroca.
Dr. Doom vs Mr. Fantastic. Art by Salvador Larroca.
Doom was briefly deposed by Zorba, a prince from the royal family Doom had previously overthrown. After months in exile, Doom managed to convince the Fantastic Four to aid him in taking back Latveria by showing them that under Zorba's corrupt rule, the nation had fallen into crime and poverty. When Zorba learned that Doom had returned, he ordered his robot forces to massacre his own people to prevent a coup led by Doom. Realizing that Zorba was a greater threat to the Latverian people than Doom, the team reluctantly agreed to assist their enemy. Doom soon killed Zorba and reclaimed his throne, but in the process, one of his loyal Latverian subjects was killed before his eyes. Doom adopted the fallen woman's son, Kristoff Vernard, and raised the boy as his heir. In addition, as Doom considers his genius and leadership to be priceless assets to the Earth, he used Kristoff as a fallback plan to be used in the unlikely event of his premature death. When Doom was indeed seemingly killed, his robots enacted this plan and copied Doom's knowledge and memories into young Kristoff's brain. For a time, Kristoff even believed himself to be Doom, but eventually realized the truth and submitted to the true Doom's rule. Kristoff seems to be the half-brother of Doom's hated rival Reed Richards, though none of the three seem to be aware of this fact.
In 2003, Doom realized he was unnecessarily limiting himself by focusing on technology, and only occasionally his magical birthright. He sold his childhood sweetheart's soul to a trio of demons in exchange for unlimited magical ability and new leather armor made of her skin. As a direct result of this storyline, Doom was confined to Hell, but was later recovered by Reed, who intended to trap him in a small Möebius strip dimension forever. To effect his escape, Doom's consciousness possessed Ben Grimm, forcing Richards to kill them both. Ben Grimm was later brought back from the dead, while Doom's consciousness returned to his imprisoned body.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #536. Art by Mike McKone.
Cover to Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #536. Art by Mike McKone.
When the hibernating Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, fell to Earth, it passed through time and space, momentarily breaching the gateway to Hell itself, providing Doom a way to escape. Upon his return to Earth, Doom regained control of Latveria, and used its forces to locate the crash-landing site of Mjolnir and attempt to seize its power for himself. Later, a Doombot was taken down by Reed Richards, Henry Pym, Iron Man, She-Hulk and others in New York City; whether or not it was sent by Doom himself remains to be seen, as does his role in the overall conflict.[1] Doom was not invited to the wedding of Storm and the Black Panther; however he did send a present: an invitation to form an alliance with Latveria, using the Civil War currently going on among the hero community as a reason to quite possibly forge an alliance between their two countries. When Black Panther, on a diplomatic mission to other countries with Storm, did show up in Latveria, he presented them with a real present, and extended another invitation to form an alliance with Black Panther. He demonstrated behavior very uncharacteristic of him, however, which may or may not become a plot point later. Panther spurned the invitation, detonating an EMP that blacked out a local portion of Latveria before Doom's robots could destroy his ship. Doom, enraged, attacked the Panther. Panther's costume turned into Light Armor as he fought back. Storm assisted her husband to retreat. Panther argued against Storm assisting him, and Doom mocked the two of them, ending the fight and sending them on their way. The two made up and continued on their journey, planning on visiting the Inhumans on the moon next. Doom is then shown collaborating with the Red Skull on a weapon which will only "be the beginning" of Captain America's suffering.[2] Doom gave the Skull the weapon because the Skull gave Victor pieces of technology from an old German castle. The castle was owned by a "Baron of Iron" centuries prior, who had used his technological genius to protect himself and his people. The map the Red Skull used to find the castle bore a picture of Doom. Doom states that the technology the Skull gave him is more advanced than what he currently has, and that he will become the Baron of Iron in his future.