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The Comic Book

  • Complete Monster: See here.
  • Designated Villain: Hercules in the 2020 series. Rick Jones and a few others call him a brutal authoritarian madman, but from what we see, the people of Dystopia are not oppressed or living in fear under his rule, and while he was portrayed as being hedonistic, it was not to a Caligula-like extent, going by things like his interaction with Vapor and the shot of him saving civilians after the Maestro attacks them with his Dogs of War.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Doctor Doom is a Latverian conqueror who managed to survive nuclear armageddon by travelling through time. Collaborating with the Maestro, he plots to Take Over the World and rule over the remains of humanity with an iron fist. To that end, he approaches the Pantheon and manipulates them into serving his goals with the pretense of deposing the Maestro's rule. Briefly ruling Dystopia in the Maestro's stead after he was imprisoned by the Pantheon, Doom announced his position of power as the gamma-powered tyrant wiped out both the Pantheon and A.I.M., eliminating all threats to their joint rule. Anticipating that the Maestro would try to kill him, he takes an antitoxin to avoid death by poisoned wine during a brief luncheon, which is followed by a fight between the two dictators. Although his armor is destroyed and he is brutally beaten by the Maestro, Doom exploits the distraction of his facial scars to retrieve his mask and teleport to safety. Just as cunning and manipulative as the Maestro, Doctor Doom was a formidable opponent to the former Hulk on both a physical and intellectual level as well as a competent dictator in his own right, at least until he is subject to one humiliating indignity after another in World War M.
  • Narm: The comic should be named "War and Peace", or "Bellum et Pax" if you want to sound cool by using Latin words. But... "War and Pax"? Even if it ends up being a case of Fun with Acronyms ("PAX" meaning "Post-Apocalyptic Existence") it still sounds like corny Gratuitous Latin nonetheless, especially coming from such a serious character.
  • Strawman Has a Point: After Hulk overthrows Hercules, he announces his intention to take his place as the new Maestro. A couple of citizens question why it should be Hulk and why not let it come to vote. When Hulk points out Herc wasn't voted Maestro, they weakly retort that it was a "different" time then. Yeah... all 5 minutes ago.

The film

  • Memetic Mutation: "Who left Snoopy in the vestibule?"Explanation 

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