Warning: comprises spoilers for One World Beneath Doom #1!

The rumors are true: Marvel simply killed off two traditional foes of Captain America. For over 80 years, Captain America has confronted down grave threats to the nation and Earth, however two stand above the remaining: the Pink Cranium and Baron Zemo. Each villains are ruthless fascists who homicide indiscriminately. But now, in One World Beneath Doom #1, each of those villains meet brutal ends.

One World Beneath Doom #1 is written by Ryan North and drawn by RB Silva. Physician Doom has someway seized management over each nation on Earth. Opposing Doom is Baron Zemo, who marshals his HYDRA forces to march on Latveria. Shortly afterward, Zemo seemingly allies himself with Doom. Nonetheless, it’s all a ruse, as Doom in actuality killed Zemo and changed him with a robotic. As Doom slaughters the HYDRA troopers, he confesses to not solely killing Zemo, but additionally the Pink Cranium.

Each males had been “proud, unrepentant Nazis” who posed a risk to Doom’s imaginative and prescient for the world.

One World Beneath Doom Is The Grasp Stroke for Marvel’s Finest Villain

The Pink Cranium and Baron Zemo Confronted Physician Doom’s Wrath

These two kills kick off Marvel’s large One World Beneath Doom crossover occasion, and show that Physician Doom means enterprise. In final 12 months’s Blood Hunt, Doom usurped the title of Sorcerer Supreme from Physician Unusual. He then retreats to Latveria earlier than rising at the start of One World Beneath Doom, the place he addresses a world seemingly caught in his thrall. One World Beneath Doom sees the villain in the end obtain his targets of domination, and his “carrot and the stick” method seen within the first challenge has hooked the folks of Earth–however not the Avengers, nor different villains.

That Baron Zemo and the Pink Cranium could be first on Physician Doom’s “hit record” mustn’t come as a shock to followers. As Doom rightly factors out, each the Pink Cranium and Zemo are Nazis. The Pink Cranium reported on to Hitler, and Zemo’s household has lengthy ties with the Nazis as nicely. Each villains hold the fascist spirit alive in all the pieces they do, and have change into a few of Marvel’s most vile villains. Doom’s household was the Romani, a bunch closely focused by the Nazis through the Holocaust. Doom has not forgotten what the Nazis did to his folks.

Physician Doom’s Plans for Conquest Make Him a Fascist Too

Physician Doom’s Hatred of the Pink Cranium Is Comprehensible

Whereas Physician Doom’s hatred of Nazis and HYDRA is justifiable, his personal actions in One World Beneath Doom #1 will not be. Doom decries Zemo and the Pink Cranium for being fascists, however seizing management of a planet and stomping out all types of dissent falls underneath the fascist umbrella as nicely. Doom is imposing his absolute will on Earth, ruthlessly killing those that disagree with him: within the first challenge’s opening pages, Doom detects an rebellion and instantly dispatches Doombots to quell it. Whereas followers have no idea how Doom killed the Pink Cranium, he crushed Zemo’s head.

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Physician Doom has multitudes, and his killing of those two traditional Captain America villains proves it. In true Physician Doom trend, he spins their killings in his favor: he tells the world that the Avengers and others had been making an attempt to place Nazis and fascism down for many years, however Doom did it in a day. Physician Doom made himself look good on the expense of another person, all within the identify of fronting his agenda of conquest. Doom makes use of his private hatred of Nazis as a entrance to kill off two potential rivals to his twisted imaginative and prescient.

One World Beneath Doom #1 is on sale now from Marvel Comics!