The world of comic book super heroes is something we all can come together and say we love and we know that this world couldn’t exist without some kind of villain to be there and wrong was was already right. Just as a cop needs to catch a robber, a super hero needs to catch a super villain. To continue my series on favorites, I have to think to myself and wonder: Who is my favorite super villain?

Just as I did for my favorite super hero, I need to think of what I would judge my favorite super villain on. Is it his super power (because that is really what makes him “super”)? His ability to fight with this enemies? Why he is a villain and was it an accident? There are hundreds of factors that come into deciding who your favorite super villain is, and I know exactly what mine are and who my favorite is: Dr. Doom.

Call me cliché but Dr. Doom is pretty damn awesome bad guy if you ask me. He makes the perfect super villain for numerous reasons in my book.

Basic history: Growing up in Latveria, Doom is a pretty gifted guy. He’s asked to study in America. After meeting Reed Richards, his face gets all screwed up by an experiment gone wrong–one Reed Richards warned him would not work. After being expelled from school after an accident, Victor von Doom travels the world and ends up creating his world-famous armor and iconic mask. He swears revenge on those he believed caused his accident, aka Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Eventually, Doom gains powers of the occult and every so often he gets the powers of people like the Silver Surfer. To top it all off, as we all know, Doom is outrageously smart–rivaling almost that of Reed Richards.

He has every quality of a bad guy. Doom’s sickening egotistical character makes him that more evil. His constant wanting to just destroy all that is Reed Richards just because gives me more of a reason to make him my favorite super hero. He has such a damn personal vendetta against Reed Richards, and really the rest of the Fantastic Four, just makes him who he is. Even his name sounds scary. Whether your saying Victor von Doom or Dr. Doom his name just instills that “I’m a bad guy through and through.” And with that said, when you think of it, Dr. Doom never ever shows a soft side and if he has it’s only to get some kind of gain in the end. He’s just plain evil and that makes him my favorite. I figure, if you’re going to be a bad guy, why not do it wholly and to the furthest extent. Not to say that Dr. Doom is killing millions of people a day, but he’s pretty damn evil nevertheless.

The cool part about Victor von Doom is that he is he set all the standards for what a super villain and arch enemy should be in modern comics. He has some personal vendetta against someone for no real reason, but he is stuck on it. He has his own country to rule and take refuge in. He has a ton of minion robots to send out and fight for him and command to do his every will. All of these things come together and for me he kind of just defines what a a super villain and an arch enemy should be.

My fascination with Dr. Doom came from reading Ultimate Fantastic Four. I know the story of who Dr. Doom is and why he is who he is changed a lot, but even still his belittling of Reed Richards and his superiority complex stayed in the book so when I finally made the jump over to the 616 universe and started reading Fantastic Four about 3 years ago I loved the character that is Doom. When I came into the world of the Fantastic Four, Doom wasn’t around too much, but nevertheless his appearances were so good I couldn’t help but love him.Even to this day, Doom is unchanged and is far ore bad ass than any other bad guy I can think of (well, maybe Doc Ock, but I haven’t read too much other than Ultimate Spidey so I can’t judge for the 616 universe).

So, who is your favorite super villain?