Thing is, Black Panther has a a more powerful country, thus he's going to win a war 7/10, but Doom himself is much smarter and powerful. Whever I think of their interactions though, the first thing that comes to mind is (sadly) Hudlin's awful representation of him. There, Hudlin portrayed Doom as a common, racist, "white man", European King, disregarding everything about his past, much like Waid in Unthinkable. But, what I "love" about that (quite bad) interaction is this:
Black Panther's all "You designed that when you were 15? *****, I did that when I was 12..." and acts like it's some big, bad-ass "line" when in reality, it's damn hilarious. Doom, a Romani living in caravans with no teachers, a mother or a father, built such a suit with no instructions, help or anything really, at 15. Meanwhile, the Prince of the most advanced nation on Earth, with the best of the best teachers, with all the resources he needed, with all the classes he could get, built that at... 12.
It ain't much of an accomplishement is what I'm saying. Hudlin tried to write a "stupid", racist, caricature of Doom, but it back-fired to his face, so I guess that's a plus for me. It's why I rate Parker as a super-smart character, really. The dude built traces, web-fluid, etc, etc, with stuff from the trash and thrift shops. All the other "super-genius" characters had money, time and resources, whereas Parker had nothing. Just food for thought
Anyway, I'd much prefer Namor to be the Antagonist to a 2nd BP movie, with Killmonger organizing a coup in the 3rd one after the War turns out badly. It's just that seeing the best the Surface has to offer, go against the best the Deep has to offer, would be damn great to watch on screen.
Well, that's tricky one. After the Human Torch "died" in Hickman's F4, Marvel launched (the brilliant) Future Foundation. Doom had suffered brain damage at the hands of the Intelligencia, so Valeria (his god-daughter) promised to help him if he joined the FF. Hence, his first white costume, as seen here:
The second white costume (the one in my sig), is his "God Emperor" look, from when he killed the Beyonders and became God. Not "a" God, "THE" God/TOAA/God-God. He salvaged all he could with the power he had, and created Battleworld. Here:
Currently, Doom is walking around in a suit, with his face all healed and all, guest-starring in Invincible Iron Man, being without a throne, and trying to be a good guy. After re-starting the Omniverse Pre-Incursions, Reed fixed his face, and Doom finally let go of his grudge. Here:
I tried reading Invincible because I love Doom and Tony, but after 5 issues in, the Bendis effect was too strong, so I checked out. Solicits say he'll also be appearing in International Iron Man, though we're 2 issues in and he still hasn't showed up. Not that's any better written, truth be told.
