Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 (cover dated July 1962) and has endured as the archenemy of the Fantastic Four.

Doctor Doom is the self-proclaimed moniker of Victor Werner von Doom, the monarch of the fictional eastern European country of Latveria. Born to a Latverian healer and a Romani witch, Doom spent his life mastering both science and sorcery and led a revolution to claim rulership of Latveria. Doom combines advanced technology and dark magic in pursuit of his goals to bring order to humanity through world domination and prove his intellectual supremacy over Mister Fantastic—his old college rival and the leader of the Fantastic Four—whom he blames for his disfigurement in a laboratory accident. His magically forged suit of armor provides superhuman strength, flight, and high-tech weaponry, while his command of the mystic arts grants abilities ranging from energy projection to dimensional travel. Doom's diplomatic immunity as head of state has historically shielded him from prosecution for crimes committed outside Latveria. The character was conceived by Kirby as a figure of approaching death (entirely encased in metal and stripped of human mercy) and by Lee as a study in arrogance as its own undoing.