Super villain Monday: Doom You Say

Out of all the bad guys in the Marvel Universe, the one that has the greatest spread ov enemies, the one who has fought the Fantastic Four, The Avengers, and hundreds of individual heroes.  The Red Skull and Magneto are trying to achieve some form of racial or genetic supremacy, Galactus jut wants to eat, some Gillian's want money, or immortality, some even want fame, and then there is Doom.

Dr. Doom's life ambition is power.  He doesn't care whether the power is political, scientific or magical.  If it will make him the most powerful being ever, he wants it, he wants it all.

Doctor Victor von Doom is a fictional supervillain that appears in publicationsby Marvel Comics. The son of Romani witch Cynthia Von Doom, Doctor Doom is the archenemy of the Fantastic Four, and the leader of the fictional nation of Latveria. He is both a genius inventor and a sorcerer. While his chief opponents have been the Fantastic Four, he has also come into conflict with the Avengers and other superheroes in the Marvel Universe.

Now, Doom has been the villain in many a cinematic Fantastic Four Film, and it has been both good and bad.  The best representations fo their best to follow the source material.  Deviation from that material leads to things slightly sucky to outright horrible.  

The Fantastic Four was groundbreaking in a thousand ways.   It had the first appearance of the Black Panther, The Silver Surfer, and The Inhumans,  it gave us Galactus, the Mole Man, and of course Doctor Doom.

The comic, created by the Marvel Gods called Jack and Stan.  Was at its core different, that's what made it special, and the villains needed to be special too.

Doom boasts neither powers nor inherent abilities - a rarity for any being in his genre of comic books. Victim of a troubled past, Victor's mother was taken from him early in life. Seemingly since that time, Doom has sought to prove himself to his peers. Chief among those is Reed Richards, the one man who has proved equal and better to Victor's astonishing intellect. Doom's irrational obsession and animosity towards Mr. Fantastic and his family might be his only fault, the one obstacle keeping his from truly achieving his larger desires - the conquest of all his surveys. The Latverian monarch's ambition might be kept in check by the Fantastic Four and their friends, but if anything, his lust for power grows every day, becoming more and more brazen. 

If his depth, characterization and legacy in the Marvel Universe weren't enough, Doom has one other accomplishment that few in the industry have managed - he's one of the inspirations for one of the most infamous characters in pop culture - Darth Vader.