100 days of enemy recs: 39. DOOM

[melannen]

Do you not already know of DOOM? Surely there is no need to explain DOOM to you! But if I must, I shall, ignorant personage.

Victor Von Doom is one of the classic Marvel villains. Doom is associated mostly with the Fantastic Four (And thus, due to how the rights were split up, has not yet appeared in a live-action movie. nope, no movies for Doom. This will probably change now that Disney has the FF back though.) Doom is definitely a bad guy, generally, but if you had to pick a Marvel character to rule Earth with an autocratic and megalomaniac iron fist, Doom would probably be your best choice. Doom's experienced, Doom is actually fairly good at it, and Doom does truly care about the people under Doom's protection and their well-being. Also Doom has the power of science AND magic, which means Doom can do pretty much whatever needs doing. (These are also good reasons to date Doom.) Doom's personal pronouns are Doom/Doom. (Ditto).

Doom also has a tendency to be inappropriately close with heroes. Mostly Reed Richards, who Doom went to school with (at least in some continuities) and has been best mad science nemeses with ever since, with occasional forays into allies and/or being godfather to his daughter. Reed/Doom is another one of those obvious long-standing enemyships that doesn't have as much fanfic as you'd think. But there was also a phase awhile back in the comics where Doom made a turn toward the reformed and got super flirty with Tony Stark, so there's a fair amount of fic for them too.

• Written Proofs (1139 words) by shrift
  Fandom: Fantastic Four (Ultimateverse)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Underage
  Relationships: Reed Richards/Victor Van Damme
  Additional Tags: Humor, Mathematics
  
  Science is sexy.



• Put A Spell On You (3351 words) by Traincat
  Fandom: Fantastic Four (Comicverse)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Reed Richards/Victor von Doom
  Additional Tags: Ritual Sex
  
  Magic is also sexy.



• How to woo your ex-enemy and fall in love: a guide by Doctor Doom and Iron Man (10118 words) by laireshi
  Fandom: Marvel 616, Iron Man (Comic)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Tony Stark/Victor von Doom, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (Implied)
  Additional Tags: Angst, Fluff, Falling In Love, Getting Together
  
  Tony makes bad choices. Sometimes.

Also I wanted to throw in a Sue/Namor rec here, because if you're going to mention Doom/Reed you gotta mention Sue/Namor too. But for some reason nearly all the Sue/Namor fic on AO3 has the share button turned off. But pretend there's a Sue/Namor rec here anyway!

Comments

[hannah]

The comics did a pretty good job of flirting with Storm/Dr Doom a couple of times.

Also, did you read the one Marvel graphic novel where he took over the world? I mean legit took over the world.

[melannen]

Do you mean Emperor Doom or is there another one? Emperor Doom was one of the first graphic novels I owned! The Purple Man kinda makes it weird though.

Doom/Ororo is very good (Doom/Sue Storm is also a thing so must specify) but a) Ororo has so many villains in love with her, she has her own entry if I get to it, and b) there is 0 fic (well, one abandoned wip AU). Which is tragic.

[hannah]

Emperor Doom, yes! The panel of Doom commenting on his greatest flaw always makes me smile.

You could do at least three X-Men related posts without any repeating characters or pairings. It's utterly delicious for this trope.

[melannen]

Yes! 90% of my X-Men comics knowledge is from Jay and Miles, and I don't know the comics fandom very well, so the rep on my list is probably going to be mostly Ian McKellan/Patrick Stewart, with some Ororo/Callisto if I can find any. (and the Deadpool movies as their own thing.) But there are many, many options.

[hannah]

Pretty much any pairing with Emma Frost counts as the trope, when you think about it.

[melannen]

Pretty much every pairing with Wolverine counts, too. And that covers the rest of the Marvel universe. :P

[petra]

Hannah: ...does Doctor Doom's armor run Doom? The game. Hannah: Surely it must.
Petra: Melannen's post or happy coincidence?
Petra: Because I gotta say, today's enemyslash post made me go, "Doom the GAME? Oh."
Hannah: Her post.
Petra: Then yes, Doom's armor definitely runs Doom so Doom can play Doom when Doom is bored.

[melannen]

I was never able to get very far on Doom the game, alas. 3D FPS was not my thing. And I don't think anyone writes enemy slash for it? (This set is going to be very low on gaming fandoms, I'm afraid.)

I don't know though, I feel like Doom might have been so personally offended by the stereotypes in Wolfenstein (just because you do dark magic in a creepy Eastern European castle doesn't mean you're a Nazi!!) that Id Software was banned in Latveria. The armors probably run Latverian Doom, which is better because it was coded by the real Doom.

[petra]

*dies laughing* Headcanon thoroughly accepted. (It's worth noting that my net exposure to Fantastic Four is basically nil. I'm working with pure fannish osmosis here.)

[melannen]

My most recent Doom knowledge is via Squirrel Girl and Agent of Asgard,and tbf I don't think either of them take Doom *entirely* seriously...

[dhampyresa]

I love Doom. He's my favourite :') Have you read Triumph and Torment? (Doom and Strange teamup to rescue Doom's mom from Hell.)

Does Doom/Loki count as an enemy ship? I mean, it's not not... Edit for Lady Loki Icon.