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8/6/2025, 9:25:48 PM
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>I thought Doom loved and cared for the Latverian people??
It's one of the most frustratingly inconsistent parts of Marvel writing. SOMETIMES Doom is an authoritarian asshole and egotist, but he provides Latveria with a Wakanda-tier standard of living out of pure pride and ego, and it's meant to be a "Which is better? Freedom or Safety?" dilemma where the people of Latveria don't really care that they can't vote or have democracy because the things that western liberal democratic politicians campaign on or make promises to achieve, they already have.
>Freedom vs Security
This is usually how it's presented when Doom is dunking on other heroes or calling them out as hypocrites, like during Krakoa when the X-Men violated international law and sent forces inside Latveria's borders to try and remove all the Mutants in it by force: Latveria was basically the only country that DIDN'T sign Krakoa's bullshit treaties giving all mutants in the world diplomatic immunity in exchange for recognition and their magical cancer curing plants they held hostage to strong-arm the world into letting them do whatever they want. Doom reveals that Latveria's mutants don't WANT to leave and he calls out how retarded it is for Charles to demand EVERY MUTANT in Krakoa be considered a full Diplomat with Diplomatic Immunity and how shameless that is as a demand to give them full legal immunity, and then when people DON'T give them diplomatic immunity they break the law and ignore sovereign borders anyways like with Latveria.
Other times, when Doom is more directly villainous and is the primary antagonist rather than a side character, Latveria is shown to be needlessly, pointlessly cruel and undeveloped. Despite being a supergenius and super-wizard, Latveria is depicted as a soviet-style eastern european shithole, and the conflict is "Doom is evil, but he's the lawful ruler of Latveria, do we have the right to intervene/cause an international incident?" with that as the issue
>I thought Doom loved and cared for the Latverian people??
It's one of the most frustratingly inconsistent parts of Marvel writing. SOMETIMES Doom is an authoritarian asshole and egotist, but he provides Latveria with a Wakanda-tier standard of living out of pure pride and ego, and it's meant to be a "Which is better? Freedom or Safety?" dilemma where the people of Latveria don't really care that they can't vote or have democracy because the things that western liberal democratic politicians campaign on or make promises to achieve, they already have.
>Freedom vs Security
This is usually how it's presented when Doom is dunking on other heroes or calling them out as hypocrites, like during Krakoa when the X-Men violated international law and sent forces inside Latveria's borders to try and remove all the Mutants in it by force: Latveria was basically the only country that DIDN'T sign Krakoa's bullshit treaties giving all mutants in the world diplomatic immunity in exchange for recognition and their magical cancer curing plants they held hostage to strong-arm the world into letting them do whatever they want. Doom reveals that Latveria's mutants don't WANT to leave and he calls out how retarded it is for Charles to demand EVERY MUTANT in Krakoa be considered a full Diplomat with Diplomatic Immunity and how shameless that is as a demand to give them full legal immunity, and then when people DON'T give them diplomatic immunity they break the law and ignore sovereign borders anyways like with Latveria.
Other times, when Doom is more directly villainous and is the primary antagonist rather than a side character, Latveria is shown to be needlessly, pointlessly cruel and undeveloped. Despite being a supergenius and super-wizard, Latveria is depicted as a soviet-style eastern european shithole, and the conflict is "Doom is evil, but he's the lawful ruler of Latveria, do we have the right to intervene/cause an international incident?" with that as the issue
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