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Mrph1 MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-06-30 14:12:22

Doom fails on the "hated by fans" measure - he's got a lot of fans out there, and has supported his own book several times.

Both of them fail on the Character Focus measure - "Put into big scenes for no reason" doesn't apply.

Doom is, as you say, one of the Big Bad characters of the setting. He gets involved in things because he can, and because he's a sorcerer/scientist/monarch who's frequently caught up in Evil Versus Oblivion plots. Trying to destroy the world he and his nation live on will usually get his attention.

The Sentry may be a God-Mode Sue, but that gives other characters plenty of in-universe reason to involve him. And, as noted, he started out as a title character. Arguably mishandled since, but...

I'd say cut.

Mightymoose101 Since: Oct, 2009
2023-07-01 01:15:45

The Doctor Doom example reads more like complaining than anything else. Just from the first example listed, Doctor Doom was the villain of the 2015 Secret Wars both because it's a callback to the original event where Doom was one of the central villains, and because the event was a culmination of most of what Hickman had done at Marvel at the time, including his Fantastic Four run.

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