>>128414415Oh, don't get me wrong, this is purely how I rad it. I don't hink Cantwell was going for something as nuanced as that, but the scene in pic related is what made me look at it that way. In his mind, I'm sure the point is
>lmao Doom's too angry to accept a GUD future and so, like, he stays BAD in his ANTIQUATED CASTLEBut I saw it differently. You take a man like Doom, you make him face such a person, and of course he'll loathe him. Doom begins the series in a melancholic state, which is why he's weak to the songs of those peaceful visions. At his core he's still a Yuropoor gyppo LARPing as a Royal. I do think he believes himself to be an Aristocrat in the Aristotelian sense, but he is motivated by this need to show the world that he's not some nobody. Even his rivalry with Reed I always took as not sheer and utter hatred, but a need for conflict, mixed with anger and respect, merely masked as hatred. Doom needs the FF and in some ways they are his "family". The same way Strange, Stark and Namor are the closest thing he has to "friends".
The thing that people don't get is that ultimately Doom is a nostalgic and sentimental man. So his inner romantic, burried deep underneath the fearsome armour, wants to live the life of his counterpart. But the more he learns about it, the more he loathes it and sees it as fake. Humanity becomes pussified, history is destroyed, conflict becomes obsolete and all the poetry and nostalgia dies for the future to live. Doom sees Vic as a weak man who sold his principles just to live as a sellout. And it's important to note that Vic is still an arrogant, smarmy cunt; he just gets his ego boost in a different way. Much like the Globohomo Elite, he acts as a god but acts coily about it. Doom sees a liar and he cannot handle it.
Ultimately that's what the end, IMHO, means; Doom accepts his role. He does what needs to be done. He does "bad" things. He's still the "hero", but in antiquated sense, because that's what he is.
