Doomwar is a 2010 Crisis Crossover event series by Marvel Comics, written by Jonathan Maberry with art by Scot Eaton.
Spinning out of the events of Black Panther 2009, Doctor Doom attempts to conquer Wakanda for it's Vibranium.
Doomwar presents examples of:
- Check and Mate: Doctor Doom is presented with this scenario by the hands of Black Panther.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted. The series reveals that Doctor Doom actually does use his technology to make money, albeit secretly. Ever wonder how he's able to fund his various schemes or afford to construct all that incredible technology (including his never-ending army of Doombots)? Turns out he's involved in thousands of perfectly legal businesses, and has made a killing in patents for robotics and medical research.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Doctor Doom is horrified that T'Challa would resort to rendering all Wakandan vibranium inert and useless just to defeat him.
- Exact Words:
- When T'Challa attempts to recruit the X-Men for help, Cyclops says that he cannot sanction X-Men involvement as it would make them look like global aggressors. However, he later confides that that doesn't mean he would stop them going of their own accord. Sure enough, Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler are already packed by this stage.
- Later in the same arc, the final lock on the vibranium vault is described that "Only by purity unencumbered by pretense shall you pass". To everyone's shock Doctor Doom manages to open the lock, because he is purely committed to his goals.
- Fiction 500: T'Challa was an example until Doctor Doom pulled some crap. T'Challa is king of Wakanda, meaning he legally controls the trade and distribution of Vibranium (Captain America's shield is made of that stuff and Adamantium), and according to the comics, Vibranium costs $10,000 per gram. According to issue #1, the Wakandan vaults have 10,000 tons of it. Do the math: it's all worth $9.7 trillion, more than the GPA of the nonfictional world. Unfortunately, a plot by Doctor Doom to loot the Vibranium forced T'Challa to use a failsafe that rendered the stockpile inert and potentially worthless, but that doesn't mean it will always be.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Doom constructs a suit made of vibranium that, thanks to magic, allowed him to control any item with even a spec of Wakandan vibranium anywhere in the world. However, this ends up being his downfall, as T'Challa uses a device that uses Doom's connection to all Vibranium to render it inert. This also has the side-effect of trapping him in a suit of armor that was now useless.
- Honor Before Reason: Black Panther is guilty of this, when his own god Bast came to him in his dreams and told him of a better future for the world with Doctor Doom ruling it, which he ignored for the sake of his own moral high ground before destroying the world's supply of vibranium to keep Doom from getting his hands on more of it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Some people such as Hunter are not thrilled with T'Challa's actions to end the "Doomwar".
- One-Winged Angel: Doom builds a larger, mystically-enhanced suit of armor out of Vibranium.
- Pure Is Not Good: Pulled off by Doctor Doom of all people. When faced with a challenge from the goddess Bast that requires "purity without pretense" he offers himself up for judgement and passes as while she finds his methods repulsive she cannot deny the purity in his desire to bring about world peace.
- Sinister Surveillance: T'Challa exposits how Doom spied on his country to organize a coup by bugging his people with nanotech through their food. This turned every citizen and confidant into a spy, and T'Challa couldn't examine them closely because of self-destruct mechanism that activated when the feed is cut.
- Taking the Bullet: S'Yan sacrifices himself to protect his sister in-law Ramonda from Doctor Doom's men.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Shuri's at her worst and most ruthless during the arc, as she along with her brother gladly slaughters the Wakandan ruling council working with Doom and murders various Wakandan guards with impunity. When forming an offense against Doom, she sacrifices many of her own considerably small forces for minor and ultimately meaningless gains, much to T'Challa's displeasure. She even goes out of her way to kill an unarmed guard simply because the guard was in her way and rebuffs any What the Hell, Hero? remarks from her allies with an I Did What I Had to Do excuse.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Doom has a moral imperative to Take Over the World; he genuinely believes that he can solve all of humanity's self-made problems and made them all things of the past once he is recognized as the sole sovereign ruler who alone has the wisdom to create such a paradise. The Panther God recognizes that Doom's cause in this is just.
- Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: The series reveals that Doctor Doom actually uses thousands of legal businesses to fund his evil schemes. Turns out he was able to use his scientific know-how to make a fortune in medical research and technological patents.
