Is that the one where he accidently burns his own face?
Kinda. Here's the greentext version:
>Doom's a gypsy
>his tribe moves from place to place
>his mom does weird **** like summoning demons
>villagers get scared
>"waaaaah, why do they hate us"
>his mom ****s up a spell and kills all the babies in Latveria
>the villagers get angry and kill Cynthia
>"waaaaah papa, why do they hate us"
>Baron's wife is ill so he calls on Doom's pops
>Doom's pops fails
>Baron hunts him down
>Pops freezes to death
>Doom sweas REVENGE
>years later an American Scout comes
>he notices Doom and gives him a scholarship to the same Uni as Richards
>makes him work for the US millitary as well
>Doom goes there
>he wants to save his momma from Hell
>Reed says "hey those calculations are wrong"
>"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE get outta my face Ameritard REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
>machine blows up
>gets expelled
>stray-monk-pretending-to-be-a-drunk finds him and makes him go to Tibet
>takes over an order of monks
>puts the hot mask on
>goes to Latveria
>starts a revolt
>kills the Baron
>becomes King
Now that we've got that out of the way, just let me point out the problems in this mess:
1. No gypsy looks like Doom or his mother. The "travelling nomads" aren't the romanticized American version. They look like this:
This particular guy is from here. He and his wife stole achild, passed it off as theirs and were trying to sell it. Stealing kids and then selling them for organs in the Black Market is pretty common practise by them around these parts.
2. Where did a Gypsy man who lives in the Balkans get a surname like "Von Doom"?
3. If you alternate between countries every few months, why the hell would you love Latveria enough to take it over? Why not try a different country? Surely you've stayed in others as well. And it's not like Eastern Europe has any major defenses. All the neighboring countries would've been the same.
4. Where the hell did a poor, Eastern European country get a Baron and rulling Royal Family? We barely have functioning governments here, let alone Kings & Queens.
5. Why the hell would the Baron ask a random gypsy to cure his wife? Didn't he have a Royal Doctor? Couldn't the Baron import one from say, Germany? Was Werner that good of a Doctor? Where did a travelling gypsy become such a good Doctor? Did the Baron count on his mystical knowledge? Even if that were true (which is not since Werner condemns Cynthia's occult studies), why would you trust the man whose wife killed all the babies of your nation?
6. What is an American Scout doing in the damn Balkans? A Gypsy Camp of all places? Am I seriously to believe that the US doesn't have enough geniuses already? That they're so desperate that they're outsourcing to Eastern Europe? Even if it's just a case of "we'll give him a bed and he'll give us killer robots", Doom's best feats were little ice bombs. Reed was building... God knows what during that time. Stark had graduated from MIT at 15.
7. Am I seriously to side with the witch who KILLED BABIES instead of the villagers? Racist portrayal of the people here aside, it makes a lick of sense. If you play with fire, you'll get burned. You can't blame the others for pushing you away so they do not get burned too... I know Marvel loves them an "underdog" story, but to portray everyone as stupid fools and the gypsies as the unsung heroes is beyond insulting. It's like making a Black Panther flick where Hunter beats T'Challa and leads Wakanda to greatness.
Needless to say, I prefer the Ultimate Origin. He's a descendant of Dracula and his father grooms him to become a modern conqueror by ten. He's much more laid back during his time at Baxter with the F4, and doesn't have the third-person speak. He still has the Doom-isms, but is actually even more heroic than the 616 version, as he willingly gave himself up to the Zombie Dimension to protect his world. The Goat Legs that people ridicule were added because according to folklore, people touched by the Devil developed such deformities, which makes sense considering the whole Dracula thing.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, that while 616 Doom had more wankery, Ult!Doom was actually better developed and showed a whole lot of promise. Plus,his Latveria was beautiful, not like the ugly, melancholic 616 Version.