>>121055685>>121057665I have my own headcanon. Doom's a perfectionist to an unhealthy degree who realises that he's not perfect. He desperately wishes to be the spitting image of an Ancient Greek statue, but he just isn't. The same way he wants to be the smartest genius that ever geniused, but Richards surpasses him. So he starts noticing things. A cleft chin which means the two sides of the jaw aren't exactly symmetrical. The nose's a bit fatter in the middle than he'd like. His hairline's recessed. Minor stuff that build and build as he pays attention to them. His paranoia starts getting to him. So when the scar comes around, it's not a case of him ruining his "perfect face". It's the justification he finally needs to hide all of his imperfections under a personally crafted mask. The eviller he becomes, the more punches he takes, the worse his face gets, through stress and damage.
For me it fits because I've always read Doom as the guy who's a nobody trying to become somebody. If you turn him into a super-beautiful, smarter-than-everyone, better-than-everyone-at-everything type of character he then loses the nuance. For example, I used to read all those headcanons and fanfics. Most of them were written by women who went
>oh yeah, he's like super-tall and super-buff with a huge cock and he fucks violently but like gently and he's very caring about m-I mean the OC and he invites random women to fuck and...It's just fanficcy garbage that delegates him to a power fantasy. The self-inserters who want to fantasize about being the bestest Chad ThunderCock, and the women who want to get fucked by that. It's just not good character development.
Like I said, IMO, Doom's just a nobody who clawed to the top. He's "average", but he's average, or a bit more, at everything. Richards is smarter. Strange is more magically talented. Black Bolt was bred to be a King. And so on. Doom's the guy burrying his "subpar" self in a suit of armour and trying to reate a myth for himself.
