One World Underneath Doom has given readers one thing they’ve needed to see for some time now — Doom ruling the world. Doctor Doom was capable of develop into the Sorcerer Supreme on the finish of final 12 months’s Blood Hunt, and has used that energy to develop into the Emperor of the world. Doom has typically transcended villainy, and One World Underneath Doom has proven that Doom could be a nice chief, all whereas beating each enemy in his manner, just like the Implausible 4 and the Avengers. One World Underneath Doom #4 brings Doom his subsequent problem — the darkish lord Dormammu. Doom is exceedingly highly effective and crafty, however battling in opposition to Dormammu is a problem not like something that Doom has confronted up to now. So, Doom decides to go old style in opposition to Dormammu.
Doctor Doom was solid within the crucible of battle, rebelling in opposition to the facility of Latveria’s Baron and wresting the throne of his house from him. Doom isn’t only a supervillain going after groups of heroes, however he’s additionally a world chief, that means he must defend his homeland. Doom has created a military of Doombots, all to assist him even up the chances along with his foes. Nonetheless, Doombots serve one other function as properly, one which Doom makes use of in opposition to Dormammu. Doom goes old style for this combat, utilizing all of his sources to get some type of benefit.
Doctor Doom Has Lengthy Used Doombots to Idiot His Enemies
Doctor Doom has two kinds of Doombots. There are the purple ones that he makes use of as cannon fodder in opposition to enemies after which there are those that appear to be him. Doom makes use of the latter within the combat in opposition to Dormammu at first, tricking the darkish lord into pondering that he had the higher hand in opposition to Doom. Doom comes at Dormammu from behind and smashes him with a hammer, all whereas making a sly MCU reference by telling Dormammu that he didn’t come to cut price. It is a fairly widespread Doctor Doom tactic, and the principle motive he makes use of the Doombots that appear to be him. Doctor Doom likes to check his foe earlier than going up in opposition to them, and that often means throwing the lookalike Doombots at enemies. Doom spares no expense with these Doombots; not solely are they armed with the identical type of highly effective weapons that Doom is, however their AI is ready to idiot Doom’s foes into pondering they’re really preventing Doom. Doom has used Doombot lookalikes for the whole lot from fights to diplomacy. An attention-grabbing little tidbit about Doombots is that there’s an thought that the majority of Doom’s extra embarrassing losses are all due to Doombots. Doom will typically ship Doombots out in order to not waste his time with lower-level heroes, in addition to utilizing them to trick his extra highly effective foes.
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Doom’s use of the Doombot is fairly sensible, however as soon as Dormammu summons his demons, Doom appears to make an enormous mistake — he doesn’t name in additional Doombots to assist him take care of the chances. This will likely seem to be one thing of an oversight on Doom’s half; there’s no motive for Doom to combat a bunch of demons himself when he has armies of highly effective robots on his facet. Nonetheless, this isn’t certainly one of Doom’s hubristic strikes, believing that he can beat Dormammu by himself, and it isn’t a mistake. The top of the problem reveals that Doom had one other job for his Doombots. See, Dormammu started his assault on Earth by teleporting all the heroes to the Darkish Dimension, so even when they needed to assist Doom, they couldn’t. Doom forged three spells initially of the combat and the final one was to teleport his military of Doombots to the Darkish Dimension, the place they may assist the heroes escape. Doom was really pondering a number of steps forward, utilizing his Doombots in an clever manner.
Doom’s Use of the Doombots Is Sensible
Doctor Doom’s Doombots have lengthy been an essential a part of the villain’s repertoire. Doom has been preventing in opposition to a number of foes because the starting of his supervillain profession, and the Doombots have allowed him to even up the chances. One would assume that the Doombots would have performed an enormous position within the battle in opposition to Dormammu, however apart from that first bait and swap, it looks like Doom forgot about how helpful the Doombots could possibly be in battle. Nonetheless, that was all part of his plan, utilizing the Doombots to do one thing that nobody would have guessed he’d do — save the heroes and use them to his benefit.
Doom is a grasp of technique, and his use of the Doombots in opposition to Dormammu exhibits off simply how nice a tactician Doom will be. He solely makes use of the Doombots in a manner that everybody anticipated as soon as, after which permits himself to get crushed very badly, all so nobody would determine his true plan with the opposite Doombots. As soon as once more, Doom exhibits that an previous canine can use previous tips and new ones so as to defeat his foes.
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