Victor Von Doom: Doctor Doom Appreciation 2019

[Kintor]

In honour of Doctor Doom #1 releasing tomorrow I think this is a good opportunity to highlight an aspect of Doom lore often overlooked - music. Comics by their very nature lack sound, you'll never hear a triumphant orchestra or ominous synth work coming from the page but artists in other mediums have sought to give Doom some fitting theme music.

It's true that Doom never appeared in the MCU and those Fantastic Four movies are a joke but that's not important here. In the 90s the Japanese video game developer Capcom entered into a partnership with Marvel to create several fighting games, based on the 2D Street Fighter gameplay style, featuring iconic Marvel characters. One of the first was 1995's Marvel Super Heroes, notably because it included Doctor Doom as the penultimate boss fight at the end of the game.

Marvel Super Heroes also gave us this music:



Arguably this is the most memorable track in the game. All synth, powered by an arcade circuit board but nevertheless delivers a theme worthy of Doom. Any player skilled enough to get this far would have to face Doom underwater in a high tech submarine. That low beat in the background is meant to mimic the sonar ping of the submarine. Beyond that it's an intense and intimidating piece of music, grand and unforgiving because you're not fighting a mere street brawler anymore, you're fighting for survival against one of the greatest villains of all time.