Thread:Mesektet/@comment-5964028-20190524135706/@comment-3581997-20190530043338

"Defeating Lord Recluse's plan to steal the powers of all the heroes on the planet was necessary at the time. After all, it wasn't YOU at the helm."

That is the description in City of Villains for villains who save the world, and really that describes Doom here. He does not do good for good sake, he does deeds that are practical for him. Can't rule the world if there is no world, is not a heroic ethos. Also we must be wary of the Sephiroth Folly as I call it - where we try to justify outright evil S.O.B.s by highlighting a select handful of actions to reconstruct an antagonist as a protagonist. As it is Magneto is only here because he always teams up with the good guys because he shares Xavier's desire to avoid a dystopia and their main beef outside of those situations is how to best avoid that dystopia. But Doom? He wants to rule the world - yes he thinks he is the most qualified but so do all megalomaniacs. We would not offer Emperor Palpatine a spot here, so lets not smudge that line. I still remember the bad-old-days when I first took up reigns here and there were articles on Doctor Doom, Sephiroth and bloody Deathstroke. None of that again.