Maybe that's why he's so mad. Doom palled around with this guy to learn what he needed and left him. He's Doom, he doesn't need to follow orders. But then the Hooded Man shows up, looking for payment. I can see that sort of betrayal being completely in-character for Doom.
So I saw a magazine page from Wizard or some place on s_d. I am not sure of the legality of linking a magazine scan... It is about Mark Millar's one-man event in 1985, Fantastic Four and Wolverine. In the article, the big bad guy is revealed, sort of.
Dr. Doom's dimension-traveling master-- The Hooded Man! He travels through realities killing everyone and according to the interview, is pissed that Doom has not killed everyone on Earth. Does Doom need a master? It seems completely against the character.
Dr. Doom kills the guy. That's the only thing that could happen.
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I'm reminded of the discussion of the New Gods and the multiple worlds, and whether there are (for example) 52 Darkseids. It's canon that there is only one set of New Gods, i.e. that there are no alternate versions of Apokolips or its inhabitants. I wonder if this hooded man is an alternate Doom, gone insanely powerful, who makes his alternate selves destroy their universes as a price of joining in the union of this collective Doom-gestalt. Our Doom is certainly scheming against him, but he's facing some enormous amount of equally brilliant and more powerful versions of himself.
But Doom would never destroy the world. He wants to rule it, not kill everyone on it.
Perhaps OUR Doom doesn't destroy, but Gestalt-Doom believes in the Darkseid-style idea that perfection is the absence of life.
the guy was doom's mentor and master, and mentions him being older than Doom. I don't really see how alternate universe Doom could be older than 616 Doom.
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