#sorry de falco you made a masterpiece but even masterpieces have sone issues

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

Like, thing is, I fucking love Doctor Doom as a villain. The aesthetic, the backstory, the personality, the armor, the fucking magic and technology mish mash, the standards when it comes to what he does and does not do, dude has shards of the true cross embed in his armor that's rad as fuck.

But on the other hand, I also don't really want him as a hero? Like, I like him as a, Say, Vegeta, I think he's been that for a while, Valeria cool evil uncle who has mellowed out so he's not going to, say, try to sink the west coast or some shit, maybe take over the faustian bargain for hero in need gig from that DICK Mephisto, definetly not going to be too much of a ass about it, or at least not as much of a ass as that DICK Mephisto, while also not becoming a good guy who gets invited to the year event and has to play nice with the lot of them.

And I definetly don't want him as the "misunderstood villain" or "the guy who makes the trains run on time," like... Yes, Latveria is probably one of the most secure fucking country in the Marvel World, Mutant Hatred is at an all time low, people have literal free everything from healthcare to wifi with a top notch literacy and robotics program, but it's also a absolute dictatorship under a literal mad scientist warlock megalomaniac supervillain, and I feel like MAYBE we shouldn't go for some sort of weird "Doctor Doom is actually the only guy who can save the Marvel World from itself" message because, Again, love the guy, maybe wouldn't really hate living under him even despite the doombot secret police death squads compared to the farce that is my country, but it's still a absolute fucking dictatorship, under a single, mortal till proven otherwise man, that crumbles under its own weight the second he "dies."

After all, wasn't the alleged point of Secret Empire how "dictatorship under a single, strong man is BAD"? What's different from that aside from the fact Von Doom isn't a Nazi and in fact canonically rejects those bastards' ideology on principle due to him being, you know, Romani and shit?