Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20171226210822

ElectricMayhemm wrote: My initial idea for Fantastic Four was to have them be SWORD agents who get bombared with Terrigen energy after flying through an interdimensional portal opened by Annihilus, who is out to colonize the Earth after all of the planets in the Negative Zone become uninhabitable. I'm not entirely sure how to fit him into that plot. Maybe Victor Von Doom can appear as the heir to the Latverian throne. I imagine someone of his high intellect and vast wealth might get involved with big scientific research projects like this, so maybe he gets involved with SWORD and the research mission that ends up giving the Fantastic Four their powers. I think at some point Annihilus could attack the SWORD base, and Doom would try to make some sort of alliance with him. Doom ends up getting scarred over the course of the film or maybe caught in some accident that gives him his powers, and when he returns to Latveria he kills his father and takes over. I just came up with that off the top of my head.

I'm not sure if I like Doom better as this mysterious foreign figure that comes into their lives and then it's revealed he has a prior connection to them in some in way, or as someone they know from the start whose origin is tied in with theirs.

I think we could bring Doom into Secret Wars pretty easily, trying to harness the Beyonder's power. I think in the end he could partially succeed in this, and then all the heroes and villains work together to defeat him, with a weakened Doom seemingly dying but then resurfacing somewhere else. If we really want to delve more into the supernatural stuff with Phase 4, we could even have Doom die and appear in Hell, meeting Mephisto. I could see Doom hatching a deal with Mephisto to gain some supernatural power. There's been a few stories like that in the comics, with Doom fighting demons and what not.

These are all just random pitches off the top of my head, though. So what's everyone's thoughts on how we approach Doom?