>>111166383Yeah, I know. Doom's still shown to appreciate art. After all, he surrounds himself with all those wonderful pieces. But it's sort of a facade, that's the point. He acts like a Royal when he's a peasant. He speaks in the third person, he acts like a caricature, all to maintain an image. And we can see that it sometimes breaks down and he enjoys simple stuff (the Beatles thing is from Ewing's Loki). In Hickman's New Avengers he goes on this tirade about the "new money", and how he's an Aristocrat, and thus is "born better". But he ultimately wants to create a world with no clear classes and "steps" or divisions. Just "Doom", the "benevolent leader", and then everybody else. Damn countries, damn people and customs, they matter not to Doom because he is "above".
Meanwhile Stark, who dresses in normal suits, and is through and through new money, actually appreciates art and customs, he's not pretending. And while he tries to help the world, he doesn't have Doom's vision of "fuck everything, Imma make the world one". Whereas Doom wants to remove all struggle, Stark puts value on struggle. Which is weird since Doom always talks about how hardships shaped him, yet he wants to take away a key aspect of humanity from it. It's pretty interesting.
At least that's my take on it, from pages, issues and stories I can remember form the top of my head. It's a mix of contradictions and conflicts, that I thinks makes the characters a bit more complex and less of just cardboard caricatures. For example, Doom acts violently to the slightest hint of provocation and goes on those insane rants, because that's how he thinks he should be to make people respect him. Stark rarely looses his cool, but builds up anger slowly until he just says "I'll kill them all".
>>111166647>Doom is just a really chuuni guy with issues talking to people not already familiar with his own interestsMore or less, yeah. I wonder what else he's into, if he likes bloody John Lennon of all things.
