Doom has been on quite the journey in his life, but one of his meaner feats came during his early stages of supervillainy.
Despondent and left to travel the world after falling out of university, Victor encounters an ancient group of Tibetan monks. Weak and on the verge of death, the monks bring Doom back from the brink and nurse him to good health. Doom, having learnt all he can from the mystical group, then forces them to fashion him a mask made of iron, setting himself on a path to become Marvel's most feared villain and the one with the fiercest aesthetic.
It's the quintessential Doom moment. And while he's undoubtedly done worse in his career, this moment from Lee and Kirby's early Fantastic Four comics encapsulates what makes the character so enjoyable in the first place.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
