Doombots
Doombots are robots that feature in Marvel Comics.
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History
Doombots were a series of robotic creations that were built by and in the form of Doctor Doom. (Fantastic Four v1 #5)
An early version of a Doombot as a mechanical man made in the likeness of Victor von Doom. It was used to take Victor's place when various noble Latverians became angered at his creations and ordered his execution. The robot duplicate was placed before a firing line and destroyed thus exposing its true nature whilst the real Victor managed to escape. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #2)
Doctor Doom later sought an alliance with the masked hero Spider-Man and summoned him to his hidden laboratory. Unknown to the hero, a Doombot was sent in his place for the negotiation and had foreseen that the meeting would go wrong. This came to pass with Spider-Man rejecting Doom's offer and attacked the robot with webs. It was then that the real Doctor Doom revealed himself though Spider-Man escaped the scene. The Latverian monarch had the hero tracked in order to be brought before him but instead in advertently kidnapped a child disguised as the hero. Spider-Man came to intervene to save the boy leading to a second confrontation with Spider-Man who came to entangle Doctor Doom in webbing. However, a Doombot emerged to ambush the Wall-Crawler and attempted to force him into the path of a disintegrator. The hero then used his extraordinary strength to throw the Doombot which collided with Doom himself. In the aftermath, Doctor Doom came to escape the laboratory whereupon the Fantastic Four arrived on the scene. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #5)
A Doombot was also used when Prince Rudolfo and his men raided Castle Doom in an attempted coup. They found themselves surrounded by apparently several doppelgangers of Doom: One of them was a Doombot, broadcasting his vision to Doom, and the others were shimmering holograms. Rudolfo's men identified the solid Doombot, mostly because it was attacking them, and focused their fire on it. Although they destroyed the Doombot, they also fell prey to Doom's Hypno-Probe; and Doom sent his voice through the broken head of the Doombot to mock his prisoners. (Astonishing Tales v1 #1)
Meanwhile, four other Doombots took care of the Embassy situation. After executing Ambassador Leopold for doubting Doom's designs, the Doombots captured the Fantastic Four, separated them in four different cells and confronted each hero individually. The Doombots were soundly defeated but, while fighting, they affected the heroes with Doom's Inhibitor Ray, preventing the heroes from directly attacking Doom. Once Doom took control of the situation, he dismissed the Doombots and personally met the Fantastic Four - not to destroy them, but to recruit them in an attempt to recover the Latverian throne. (Fantastic Four v1 #246)
Following the marriage of Black Panther and Storm, the couple were invited to Latveria by Doctor Doom. T'Challa managed to determine that the Doom he had met was simply a Doombot and was ready to leave until the real Doctor Doom arrived at the scene. He intended to ally himself with Black Panther highlighting the threat of the continued fighting in the United States as a result of the Civil War in the superhero community. T'Challa refused and intended to leave when the couple were surrounded by Doombots. This led to battle where Storm attacked the Doombots and Black Panther battled Doctor Doom himself until he allowed tem to depart after seeing he had caused some strife in the pairs relationship. (Black Panther v4 #19)
An army of Doombots were dispatched to defend Castle Doom against the Mighty Avengers with 77 such robots confronting the superhero team with the machines being defeated. (Mighty Avengers v1 #9)
A rogue Doombot attacked New York City with Ms. Marvel intercepting it leading to an encounter with Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Together, they managed to defeat it whereupon Cage learnt that the Doctor Doom he was battling was one of these robots. Upon arriving at the scene, the Thing took out its operational system to ensure that the machine was deactivated. The Doombot was then sent to Tony Stark for study as reports were coming in that Doctor Doom had become mentally unstable. (New Avengers v2 #8)
After Von Doom abandoned the throne, Latveria fell into strife as division struck the country with a civil war erupting. General Karadick found the Doombot Protocol and had someone reprogram them to serve as his soldiers. A number of Doombots were sent after the new Iron Man who was revealed to had been Victor Von Doom beneath the Iron Man Armor. (Infamous Iron Man v1 #4) A number of them were programmed to attack Riri Williams who had come to Latveria as Ironmaiden and was involved in a fight with Lucia von Bardas. (Invincible Iron Man v3 #9) A group of Doombots activated in Castle Doom to attack the Wrecking Crew when the team of supervillains were seeking to loot the abandoned building. (Invincible Iron Man v1 #597)
A highly advanced Doombot was discovered by the Vridai who mistook it for the actual Doctor Doom. They later captured Wiccan and wanted the sorcerer to awaken the Latverian dictator. During that time, Billy Kaplan came to determine that the Vridai prisoner was an automaton and animated it with his will. He then used the Doombot against the Vridai when his comrades came to rescue him. (Strikeforce v1 #3)
A Doombot pretended to be Doctor Doom during a diplomatic mission to the United States. This unit was attacked by assassins secretly hired by Countess Karkov. Spider-Man came to determine that it was a Doombot which attacked him but was later destroyed. This incident led to a mass deployment of Doombots against the United States for the attack made against Doctor Doom. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #32) Ultimately, Spider-Man convinced Doctor Doom that he was being manipulated by outside parties in order to trigger a war between nations. Thus, he called off the attack but then the Doombots started attacking key landmarks in the United States where they caused billions of dollars worth of damages though no loss of life. Unknown to anyone else, the Doombots had been hijacked remotely by Katarina Karkov in order to attack the United States so that hostilities would grow against Latveria. Rather than admit his Doombot network was compromised, Doctor Doom simply gave the impression that he had ordered the attack but ensured that no loss of life came as the result of it. In the aftermath, nations flocked to Symkaria and provided funding as the world began to turn against Latveria after the attack. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #36)
During the Last Annihilation, the Dread Lord Dormammu was summoned into the universe where he possessed the body of Ego the Living Planet. This allowed the Faltine to summon an infinite army of Mindless Ones to invade the cosmos. He came to target five spiritually important worlds that were to be the basis for a giant pentagram that he intended to use to merge the universe with his Dark Dimension. The planets being targeted were Hala, Skrullos, Spartax and Chitauri Prime with Doctor Doom joining a team of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Doctor Doom came to negotiate with the Rigellians to gain use of one of their terraforming assistance platforms which was used to build an army of Doombots that helped in the battle on the Chitauri homeworld. (Guardians of the Galaxy v6 #17)
At Wernerstad International Airport, Doombots stationed at customs encountered Eddie Brock who had entered the country under the name of 'Charles Allan'. His presence was detected leading to him to unleash a Symbiote against the machine interrogating him causing the other Doombots to attack him. (Venom v5 #24)
Overview
In appearance, Doombots were robots that were built to resemble their creator Doctor Doom. (Fantastic Four v1 #5)
Their operational system was located in their chest rather than in a unit's head thus allowing it to reboot itself if the head was damaged. (New Avengers v2 #8)
One of their armaments was the ability to discharge powerful electric blasts and were able to adjust the voltage. In some cases, these blasts was capable of stopping the heart of an organic target. They could re-configure their weapon systems by shapeshifting their arms into high-energy doomblasts. (Venom v5 #24)
They were governed by the First Law of Doombotics that dictated to suffer no enemy of Doom to live. Directive One allowed them to execute the offending target. (Venom v5 #24) Doombots were programmed to adapt to the actions of their targets. (Black Panther v5 #9)
One model of Doombots were known as the B-Series robots. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #20)
Members
- Andro :
- Antonio : a Doombot created by a group of Latverian students in the Savage Land with the intention of using it to repair the alien machines of that region to ensure its continued operation. (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl v2 #23)
- Emperor Doombot :
- Doombot : an unnamed Doombot sent to attack New York only to be defeated and repaired by Hank Pym who implanted a micro-black hole within the androids chest to keep him compliant who later reluctantly joined a team of Avengers consisting of artificial intelligences that seek to stop the danger of a Human/AI war. (Avengers A.I. v1 #1)
- Mechadoom : created as part of the basis for a new line of Doombots to serve Kristoff Vernard after he usurped the identity of Doctor Doom. Dangerous technology was used in its construction where it was built to improve itself per its creators wishes. However, the Doombot fled its creator and assumed the name of Mechadoom. (Deathlok v2 #4)
- Vincent Doonan :
- Doombot 7 : a machine placed in charge of the Doombot legions and was responsible for overseeing entry of travellers into Latveria at the Wernerstad International Airport. Under its watch, Eddie Brock came to sneak into the country and its failure led to the machines head exploding after realising its failure in a report to Doctor Doom. (Venom v5 #24)
Notes
- Doombots were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where they made their first appearance in Fantastic Four v1 #5 (July, 1962).
Alternate Versions
- In Fantastic Five v2 #3 (2007), an alternate version of Doombots appeared in the Marvel Comics 2 reality set in Earth-982 in the Multiverse. After discovering a new way to harness the Power Cosmic, Doctor Doom transferred that energy into his Doombots. The human body could not contain those cosmic energies indefinitely, but a series of robots could, and they provided Doom with a small army of nigh-invincible soldiers with which he could conquer the world.
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, robotic doubles of Doctor Doom were used on multiple occasions but were never referred to as Doombots.
- In Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, the mechanical minions used by Victor Von Doom were referred to as Doombots but were not robotic copies of their creator.
- In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, these robots made an appeared in the animated television series as antagonists. In "The Private War of Doctor Doom", they were deployed on a coordinated strike on Avengers Tower and the Baxter Building where they attacked the heroes in order to capture Wasp and the Invisible Woman.
- In Avengers Assemble, Doombots appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "The Serpent of Doom".
Video games
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Doombots appeared as antagonists in the setting of the video game.
- In Marvel Heroes, Doombots appeared as antagonists in the MMORPG video game with various different models present.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Doombots appeared as antagonists in the setting of the Facebook video game.
Appearances
- Fantastic Four v1: (1962)
- Amazing Spider-Man v1:
- Black Panther:
- Mighty Avengers v1:
- New Avengers v2:
- Avengers A.I. v1 #1: (2013)
- Unbelievable Gwenpool v1:
- Invincible Iron Man v3:
- Runaways v5:
- Amazing Spider-Man v5:
- Strikeforce v1:
- Guardians of the Galaxy v6:
- Venom v5:
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