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Real Name: Victor von Doom
Occupation: Monarch
Legal Status: Ruler of Latveria
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Near Doomstadt, Latveria
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Cynthia von Doom (mother, deceased), Victor von Doom II (clone, deceased)
Base of Operations: Castle Doom, Latveria
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Hyper-Invention: Monstrous Reason when inventing, designing, or constructing new devices, robots, weapons, or energy systems.
Mind Transferal: Amazing rank
Ritual Magic: He has the following Typical spells:
- Oimension Travel: Limited to travel to Mephisto’s realm
- Summoning: Good ability to summon and control supernatural beings.
- Sympathetic Magic (Voodoo): Feeble rank
Force Field: This Monstrous intensity field has a maximum radius of 8 feet.
Kinetic Bolt: These can be fired from the gauntlets and faceplate. The bolts on the faceplate, if detached, can be used as a propulsion system to attain Good airspeed.
Electricity: This blast does Unearthly damage to anyone in contact with the armor. People within 10 feet of the blast suffer Incredible damage.
Rocket: Twin atomic jets on his waist give him Excellent airspeed.
Self-Sustenance: Internal stores and recycling systems give him the ability to survive for several weeks in hostile conditions such as deep space.
Weapons:
Mauser: This ordinary looking hand gun is modified to accept special ammunition devised by Doctor Doom. Such ammo is varied with each job. Past examples have been explosive and tranquilizer bullets.
Doctor Doom's Castle:
Doctor Doom is headquartered in Castle Doom, a huge 110 room castle built in the 16th Century by the Latverian nobleman Count Sabbat. The castle overlooks the Latverian capital of Doomstadt (formerly Haasenstadt). Taking occupancy soon after usurping the throne from King Vladimir, Doom has dwelled in the castle ever since, with the excepion of a brief period of time when the usurper Prince Zorba reigned.
Among its many rooms, the castle contains Doom’s living quarters, his many laboratories, his art museum, his robot factory, and his prisons. Castle Doom has a permanent staff of 300, overseeing the castle’s upkeep and Doom’s personal needs. Only 50 of this staff are human; the rest are robots.
Talents:
Dr. Doom is a combination of budding sorcerer and world-class scientist. His Reason is Monstrous when dealing with inventing, engineering, robotics, or weapon or energy systems.
Contacts:
Druid has several Occult Lore contacts around the world. He presumably has the Mythology contact with the Celtic pantheon, but rarely calls upon them. By special rituals he can call upon the spirit of his ancestor Amergin, and possibly other descendents as well, to answer questions.
Role-Playing Notes:
Dr. Doom is a dangerous egomaniac. He will ruthlessly eliminate any one who opposes him. He holds grudges forever. However, his incredible ego forces him to honor any commitments he makes, even if the promise goes against his intend ed goal. He believes that only he is truly able to rule the Earth. He is also obsessed with finding Cynthia’s spirit and returning her to life.
History:
Victor von Doom was born to Werner von Doom, a gypsy healer, and Cynthia von Doom, who is said to have been a witch. While Victor was still an infant, his mother was killed under as yet unrevealed circumstances. Later, when Victor was still a child, his father was hunted by the authorities for his failure to cure a Latverian baron’s wife of terminal cancer. Werner von Doom and his son fled, but the father died of exposure to cold. Anguished by his father’s death, the young von Doom vowed to make the entire world pay for the loss of his parents.
While in the care of Boris, a friend of his father’s, the young von Doom discovered his mother’s legacy to him: a chest containing herbs, medicines, and objects said to have magical powers. It was on discovering that chest that von Doom decided his mother must indeed have been a witch. He saw these artifacts as his means to gaining power and began learning their uses. Von Doom also began developing his own innate scientific abilities. For years he traveled the countryside, peddling clever devices and potions he had created to the gullible, knowing that they would turn worthless soon after he left. Meanwhile, he continued to increase his knowledge. As his obsession with gaining power and vengeance grew, von Doom became increasingly distant from his childhood sweetheart, a young, beautiful gypsy woman named Valeria, much to her distress.
The dean of science at State University in America heard of von Doom’s astounding reputation and offered him a scholarship. Traveling to America to take advantage of the university’s lab facilities, von Doom met Reed Richards, a brilliant science student. Sometime later, von Doom was in the midst of testing a device for inter-dimensional communication when Richards paid a visit to von Doom’s headquarters. Not seeing von Doom about, Richards examined his notes on the experiment and discovered an error in his calculations. Enraged at finding Richards going over his notes, von Doom refused to listen to Richards’ warning and ordered him out of his quarters. Von Doom proceeded to use the device, hoping it would enable him to communicate with his dead mother whose spirit, he believed, was trapped in some hellish netherworld. The machine malfunctioned and exploded, injuring von Doom. While convalescing, he was expelled from the university and formed the irrational belief that Richards was responsible for the machine’s failure. Von Doom discovered that the explosion had left a long, thin scar along one side of his face. The egotistical von Doom believed that this slight injury had in fact totally ruined his face, and he soon left America for the remoteness of Tibet where he hoped to find both refuge from the sight of man and the hidden secrets of Oriental sorcery.
Discovered by an order of monks in Tibet, he lived with them for a number of years, learning their secrets, and eventually becoming their master. The monks helped him create a suit of armor and metal mask which he now wore in his new guise as Doctor Doom, in which he intended to conquer the world. In his urgent desire to proceed with his plans of conquest and revenge, von Doom donned his newly cast mask before it had completely cooled, thereby permanently damaging his entire face.
Leaving the monks, the self-styled Doctor Doom returned to Latveria and soon overthrew the existing monarchy of that small Balkan nation and installed himself as absolute monarch. Doom established a nation of peace and prosperity ruled by a stern dictatorship. Sequestered in the royal castle overlooking Doomstadt, he began to use his mastery of science to create the means to achieve further conquests. Eventually his schemes brought him into conflict with his former college rival Reed Richards, who was now known as Mister Fantastic, and who was leader of the Fantastic Four. Richards and the Fantastic Four have proven to be Doom’s most frequent opponents over the years.
Recently, Doom bestowed vast cosmic energies upon Tyros, an alien who had once, under the name Terrax, been a herald of the planet-destroying Galactus. Doom sent Tyros to destroy the Fantastic Four, who were aided in fighting him by the Silver Surfer. Tyros’s own cosmic power began to consume his own body as he grappled with the Surfer, and finally there was a tremendous explosion in which the bodies of both Tyros and the nearby Doom were destroyed. But Doom had managed to preserve his own consciousness by transferring it into the body of an onlooker named Norman McArthur, using a psychic technique once taught him by the alien Ovoids.
Doom’s consciousness once again inhabits its original body, which has been reconstructed, and is exactly as it was before it was destroyed in the Surfer-Terrax battle.
Doctor Doom’s life has been shaped by three goals which he continues to pursue today: to destroy his hated rival Reed Richards, to rule the entire world, and to rescue his mother from the netherworld.
Dr. Doom is currently engaged in a guerilla war with Dr. Doom II (Kristoff von Doom). Dr. Doom’s ego convinced him that there should always be a “Dr. Doom” even if the original died. Young Kristoff became Dr. Doom’s ward when his mother was killed while under Dr. Doom’s protection. Kristoff was taken to live in Castle Doom. When Dr. Doom’s Doomsmen robots believed Dr. Doom had been killed by Terrax, they initiated mind-altering procedures that replaced Kristoff’s personality and memories with those of a younger Dr. Doom. This ersatz Dr. Doom II believes he is the real Dr. Doom and the true Doom to be an imposter. Because Kristoff controls the Doomsmen, they believe this as well. The Doomsmen have thus far been able to prevent the real Dr. Doom from regaining access to any of his hidden labs or bases. Because of this, Dr. Doom has had to seek sanctuary in various countries in exchange for his services. He recently helped the Black Panther construct a gigantic robot panther to serve as a guardian for Wakanda.