Ultimate Universe Doctor Doom to return
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It seems that the Ultimate Universe version of Doctor Doom is coming back in the new Ultimate FF title. He's on the cover to Ultimate FF #3 and according to an interview with the writer:
I haven't been keeping up with the Ultimate Universe for a while now, outside of some of the Ultimate Spidey TPBs, but I followed the original Ultimate Fantastic Four run and I always wanted to see a retcon to the terrible way Ultimate Doom was killed off in Ultimatum, so consider me intrigued. If that is retconned to be a Doombot/impostor, then he really didn't have much opportunity to do anything particularly evil in the UU, so this could be a chance to see a version of Doom as a good guy. Don't know either of the creators involved, but I'm definitely tempted to check this series out.
The mystery fifth character will be someone with a lot of bad blood with the rest of the team, but a key figure in saving the universe -- Fialkov said it represents the team moving past their differences, and learning to work together.
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Fialkov reveals that fifth member: The goat-legged Ultimate Doctor Doom.
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"And Doom is the greatest man who ever lived, as far as he's concerned," Fialkov added. "Many of the things he's being blamed for, he has no idea what they're talking about. We get to see where he's been, and a new origin that's changed him from who he was when we last saw him and the man he is today." It's a redemption story for both Doom and Sue Storm, Fialkov said.
I haven't been keeping up with the Ultimate Universe for a while now, outside of some of the Ultimate Spidey TPBs, but I followed the original Ultimate Fantastic Four run and I always wanted to see a retcon to the terrible way Ultimate Doom was killed off in Ultimatum, so consider me intrigued. If that is retconned to be a Doombot/impostor, then he really didn't have much opportunity to do anything particularly evil in the UU, so this could be a chance to see a version of Doom as a good guy. Don't know either of the creators involved, but I'm definitely tempted to check this series out.
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Date: 2014-03-14 08:59 pm (UTC)I'm really excited for "a redemption story for both Doom and Sue Storm", though!
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Date: 2014-03-14 09:22 pm (UTC)And the redemption story bit definitely has me very intrigued (though I haven't read anything with Sue in since the Ultimate Enemy trilogy, so I'm not really sure what she needs to be redeemed for).
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Date: 2014-03-14 11:22 pm (UTC)Oh man, BFFs-turned-enemies-turned-allies is such a great dynamic, I hope the comic delivers. (I think Ultimate Kang might have been future!Ultimate Sue? I'm not sure.)
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