Looks like Victor Von Doom will achieve his lifelong goal of controlling the Earth in the Marvel Universe. And he’s going to do it as the new Sorcerer Supreme!
‘ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM’
This week saw the release of Blood Hunt #5, the final chapter of that Marvel event. Of course, no Marvel event truly ever concludes, and there will indeed be a follow-up event called “One World Under Doom,” and it will begin in November, just in time for the holiday season!
However, you don’t have to wait until November to get started celebrating the ascension of Doom to world owner. As reported here at MajorSpoilers.com, Marvel is releasing a series of Doom-related covers. It all will feature covers for a variety of MCU titles, including Daredevil #14, Storm #1, Immortal Thor #16, Venom #38, Wolverine #2, Avengers #19, Iron Man #1, Amazing Spider-Man #60, and Captain America #14. And all this will be taking place in the month of October, apparently getting us ready for “One World Under Doom” the following month.
There is a description for all this that Marvel has released:
He’s the master of the dark arts, the Lord of Latveria, one of the world’s most brilliant scientists, and now—the SORCERER SUPREME! Readers witnessed this startling development in last week’s Blood Hunt #5. Marvel’s latest crossover event concluded with Doctor Strange transferring the mystical title to Doom so he could remove the Darkforce barrier and end the vampires’ reign! Doom succeeded where Marvel’s heroes failed, but his quest to save the world has only just begun… Revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM overtakes the Marvel Universe in 2025! As you prepare for this startling status quo shift, hail Doom and all his superiority with these bold covers!
Based on Doom’s previous activities, will this be a good thing or a bad thing, this Doom taking over the world? The answer, hopefully, is a little bit of both.
MARVEL SHOULD THANK MARK WAID
Of course, I’ve read Marvel Comics for decades now, and Doctor Doom was a technological genius on par with Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four for nearly all of it. It wasn’t until Mark Waid took over the FF’s title that I really saw Doom finally step out from under Reed’s technological shadow and turn to magic instead.
I guess Doom was tired of Reed winning all the time by using technology, so he turned to his mother’s mystical heritage for tools to attack the FF. At first in this storyline, Reed was flummoxed by magic and its use, but eventually, he used his genius to figure out how magic operated and turned that against Doom.
I thought Doom would return to technology after being bested by Reed when it comes to magic, but this new development seems to indicate that Doom just added magic to his arsenal. I hope this isn’t the only tool he uses moving forward.
See, my favorite Doom stories don’t involve the FF. Instead, they involve the hero I personally think is the best opposite number for Doom, and that is Iron Man. That’s why it was particularly ironic to me when, during the recent SDCC, they had Robert Downey, Jr., unmask as being Doom. I immediately harkened back to all the times Iron Man took on the other guy in Marvel that work a suit of armor—Doom! Made sense to me!
Personally, I don’t think Doom would have ventured into magic if it hadn’t been for that Waid storyline. Marvel needs to thank Mr. Waid for making this whole turn of events possible.
HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST?
I know that I tend to harp on the fact that these kinds of events really don’t last long enough to suit me. Based on previous turns and twists in the Marvel Universe, I expect this making Doom into the Sorcerer Supreme to last maybe a few months to, at the most, a year if that long.
If you are going to make a change this significant, it ought to last for a few years minimum! We’ll just begin to explore what this all means in a month or two no matter how many issues you release. More is better, in this kind of thing, to me!
I bet Reed will come up with some unbelievable device to thwart Doom’s abilities or some such thing before long. Of course, when movies and TV shows from Disney return to the airwaves, if Doom is large and in charge, well, that wouldn’t go over very well at all, so I don’t expect it to be represented there.
I always want to run a contest to see exactly how long this change in Marvel will last. The winner would be a no-prize, of course, but I bet someone would get it right. I bet it also won’t last long enough to please me—nothing like this ever does!
It’ll be WAY out of character if Doom just gets tired of everyone coming to him with problems for him to solve, like world hunger and other things puzzling humanity in the real world. “Too easy,” he’d say in the books. Nahh, they can’t do that!
Doom is this odd mix of villain and hero, kind of a noble bad guy that Marvel likes. I buy into the old adage that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The House of Ideas doesn’t, though.
This all reminds me of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which Kai Winn, a baddie everyone loved to hate on the show. She was the spiritual head of the Bajoran world, and yes, she was a nasty. However, she was still a very good leader, which surprised a lot of us who watched that program. Never mind that this kind of thing can happen in real life!
So, how will this whole event shake out? One thing is certain—no matter what happens, it will lead into the very next Marvel event, no matter what that is! Other than that, I expect Doom to be a heroic villain, someone who fixes certain things and messes up others. Just what will be what? We’ll have to read the books to find out!
What do you think? How will Doom react to finally getting his dreams fulfilled? How will Marvel react to Doom getting his dreams fulfilled? How long will Doom actually be the Sorcerer Supreme anyway? Whatever your opinions, be sure to share them in the space below!
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