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What will I be doing to celebrate? I'll continue to read Dark Reign.
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I think to celebrate, maybe I'll go to a comic shop and pick up a trade... seeing as I haven't cracked open a comic in ages.
Good list up there. My head is swimming with all the great characters that Marvel has brought up through the years.
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Mentioning, arguably, the lamest villian in the Marvel Universe....Rocket Racer. Thanks Marvel, you stole my childhood and 30 cents in the same move.
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Please. Dr. Bong is by far the lamest Marvel Villain.
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1. Tony Stark is a natural genius of the most fantastic order and built the Iron Man armor from scratch, using technology and science that he developed and doesn't exist in our world.
2. Bruce Wayne inherited the GDP of several industrialized nations and total access to the resources of the world's premier technological and industrial firms.
He was also trained by a number of people too awesome to exist in the real world in disciplines just as equally awesome and non-existing. Unless you can find a one arm kung-fu master that can kill people with a single blow or an actual magician who channels the 5th dimension, or a shaman who can teach you to fool your brain into operating at 110% capacity with 4 hrs of sleep every other night, you will never get near the type of training that the Batman has had, even if if your entire life totally committed to it.
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I'm just really eager to crush dreams...
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I thank Marvel for introducing me to a very nightmare-inducing villain
/shudders
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Doom finds this comment... adequate.
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@Belabras:
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Doom has been rebooted more times than my 1992 windows PC. Evil genius - check. Deposed king - check. Reigning king - check. Power armor - check. Master of magical arts, maybe atlantean sorcery - uh... check. Deal with demons for evil power - um what?
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When Secret Invasion just started, I thought Dr. Doom was going to step in to clean up the Skrull mess with an army of Doombots. Imagine the superheroes having to deal with the fact that the world loved a villain they've fought for years? And on top of that, the heroes themselves would feel pretty shitty about Doom having had to jump in to save their asses. It would've made a lot more sense than what we got.
I feel like we've had Norman Osborn shoved down our throats. He was an A-class villain, but not on a world scale. Osborn Industries was a local chemical plant in NYC and Spider-man was his biggest problem. When did it go from that to an international "OsbornTech" and becoming the most powerful man in the world?
Dr. Doom would have made much more sense. He's been involved in some way at every step of Bendis' story: Secret War began in Latveria, the symbiotes unleashed on NYC came from Doom's satellite, and now he's part of the Cabal. I suppose it could make for a nice plot twist if Doom grabs the reins of the Cabal away from Osborn...
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That reminds me of another thing: isn't it about time to update Doom's armor? I don't mean the appearance; I'm talking about the features. Doom and Richards are the smartest guys on Earth, at the super-genius level, whereas Stark is "just" a genius. With all of his updates to the Iron Man armor in the past few years, it doesn't make sense that a smarter guy wouldn't be upgrading his as well. I have a story idea I'd love to pitch to Marvel where Doom steals the Extremis tech, uses it on himself, and takes it to a level Stark never dreamed of. Of course, considering how easily the Skrulls nullified Stark's Extremis upgrades, it seems the bite has been taken out of that particular development.
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Speaking of helping the entire world, I wish there was more emphasis on Latveria being the happiest place on Earth. Wakanda is portrayed as a technological paradise, but shouldn't Latveria be one as well? Doom could easily win over the hearts of the world population if they saw how healthy Latverians were, and what advanced gadgets they all had! Where battles with the FF failed, Doom could take over the world using capitalism!
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I hear Dr. Doom still has flashbacks to the time he tried to fight her, and lost so spectacularly.
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Don't mess with her, she's nutty.
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Trailblazers for human exploration!
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