History Awesome / DoctorDoom

* A "What If..." story in which an InNameOnly ComicBook/FantasticFour (consisting of Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and ComicBook/GhostRider) is getting beaten by a group of supervillains, only for Doom to drop in and annihilate them. He then told them that Doom-and Doom ''alone''-is worthy of destroying the Fantastic Four, no matter who they are. That incarnation ceased their activities almost immediately thereafter.

* When Doom was in the time of Myth/KingArthur with ComicBook/IronMan, no tricks with their technology were needed to impress Arthur; the Seal of Latveria Doom wears as sovereign was enough for the proper respect.

* In Fatal Frontier, Doctor Doom [[spoiler: from the future of an alternate universe]] tells Iron Man that he plans to take over the multiverse.

** As expected of a planner nearly on par with Doom himself, Creator/JonathanHickman, [[spoiler: this statement foreshadowed Doom's identity as [[ComicBook/NewAvengers Rabum Alal, the Great Destroyer]] three years later]].

** At the end, Richards and Doom had a final confrontation. And it was awesome, for many reasons. Not the least of which was [[spoiler: Doom conceding at long last that which Doom always feared to speak aloud, that Reed Richards is a better man than him.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Doom:''' It's the same thing it's always been between you and I... '''YOU THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN I AM.''']]
--->[[spoiler:'''Reed:''' No, Victor. You're wrong. I've always believed you could be better than what you are.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Doom:''' No. I mean '''NOW'''. This moment. If you had this power, you think you could have solved it all--solved everything... You think you could have done [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SO... MUCH... BETTER...]] DON'T YOU? ''' ''DON'T YOU?!'' ''']]
--->[[spoiler:'''Reed:''' Yes. And we ''both'' know it, don't we?]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Doom:''' Yes, damn you... '''NOW DIE!''']]
* Though the significance would not be understood by the readers for a few months, Doom survived the reshaping of the multi-verse, and Doom's face has been restored. He even greeted ComicBook/IronMan without his usual armor. [[spoiler: And now the readers know that it was Richards who restored his face, rather than hold onto the enemity between them. Some might speculate that it was this act of seeming generosity that has sparked Doom's current, perceived, change of character.]]

* Doom once imprisoned the Purple Man, a villain capable of [[CompellingVoice making anybody do anything he ordered]], and used his powers to conquer the world. When the Purple Man told Doom he did not deserve to rule because he did not possess any powers, Doom ordered all his servants to leave the room, took down all the barriers holding the Purple Man, removed his mask, and dared him to lend credence to this charge. Note that the Purple Man was ''in a power amplifier that was boosting his abilities to planetary scale'' at the time.

* And, of course, let us not forget the time that Doom, [[ComicBook/SecretWars while being dissected by a god-like entity after being torn limb from limb in the course of a one-man assault on the same]], proceeded to ''kill'' said entity with Doom's one remaining hand and take his power for Doom's own.

-->'''Latervian Prime Minister:''' Any other man...

** In this same story, Doctor Doom ends up freeing the Earth from his control for the simple fact that having no one to oppose him was boring.

* As you can see from the page image here, it takes titanium guts to not only stand up to Franchise/Superman, but to actually manufacture a RulesLawyer reason ''why'' Superman can't do anything to him.

-->'''Doom:''' ''([[StealthHiBye appearing from absolutely nowhere]], grabs the man by the neck)'' Any other man... would not be ''Doom.'' ''([[NeckSnap breaks the man's neck]])''

* Also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. In ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'', when Latveria's people devolve into fighting each other under the ComicBook/RedSkull's HatePlague, Doom's attempts to restore order quickly devolve into more violence as he starts succumbing to the same. Until a homicidal thought against Valeria crosses his mind, at which point he quickly realizes that he is under telepathic attack. He immediately shields himself successfully, divines the attack's source and turns his thoughts to finding a solution for all Latverians.

* Doom rescued the soul of his mother from Hell. It required the assistance of the Aged Genghis and Comicbook/DoctorStrange -- but he did still achieve exactly what I wanted.

** In this same story, Doctor Doom ends up freeing the Earth from his control for the simple fact having no one to oppose him was boring.

* Also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. In Loki: Agent of Asgard, when Latveria's people devolve into fighting each other under the RedSkull's HatePlague, Doom's attempts to restore order quickly devolve into more violence as he starts succumbing to the same. Until a homicidal thought against Valeria crosses his mind, at which point he quickly realizes that he is under telepathic attack. He immediately shields himself successfully, divines the attack's source and turns his thoughts to finding a solution for all Latverians.

** Within the same sequence Doom delivers perhaps the only ''fully justified'' use of AGodAmI a mortal can make: Having soundly defeated a god, he has achieved 'symbolic' godhood, which aids his magic.