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Doctor Doom
Victor von Doom
A monarch who is both a sorcerer and an engineer, and who is written as believing his own arrogance is simply accuracy.
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Commonly got wrong
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Commonly believed Doctor Doom's mask hides horrific scarring.
Actually The scarring is repeatedly established as minor — a single mark. He put the mask on while it was still red-hot, and wears it out of pride and self-definition, not disfigurement. Reading him as a scarred victim misses the character.
The feat ledger
Armour-mounted blasters plus sorcery, which is the combination nobody else uses
Personal force fields hold against cosmic-level attack
Builds a working time machine and uses it repeatedly
Steals the Beyonder's power and holds it, briefly becoming the strongest being alive
Doombots let him appear anywhere without risk, so a defeat may not be him at all
Rules Latveria as a head of state, which grants diplomatic immunity
Absorbs the Power Cosmic from the Silver Surfer
His scarring is stated to be minor, and the mask is pride rather than necessity
Continuities
Claims on this page are tagged by canon. Blending them is the most common error in both wikis and AI answers.
- Earth-616 — The main Marvel Comics continuity
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