Could bad guys like Dr. Doom ruling the world be a bad thing?

[DCCoolness]

Let's say a super villain with a powerful amulet ruled the world. This guy will not hurt the innocent, only the guilty. He allows everyone to carry on their lives like normal, BUT if you commit a serious crime, you will be punished severely. There will be no more racism, stealing, and violence. Let's say this super villain can read minds around the world (telekinetic powers). If you even THINK about committing a crime, he will make your head explode with just a thought.

Criminals would be too scared to commit crimes. Seriously, would you be crazy enough to screw with a powerful god like man? Sure people can rebel and throw tomatoes, but they will be in serious trouble.

[Ravin' Ray]

Lawful evil people always justify world conquering with that well-known line that it is not a crime to want to rule the world.

[dzub]

for all the villainy, doom seems a pretty cool ruler.

[davew128]

Let's say a super villain with a powerful amulet ruled the world. This guy will not hurt the innocent, only the guilty. He allows everyone to carry on their lives like normal, BUT if you commit a serious crime, you will be punished severely. There will be no more racism, stealing, and violence. Let's say this super villain can read minds around the world (telekinetic powers). If you even THINK about committing a crime, he will make your head explode with just a thought.

Criminals would be too scared to commit crimes. Seriously, would you be crazy enough to screw with a powerful god like man? Sure people can rebel and throw tomatoes, but they will be in serious trouble.

It was done without ultimate power in the graphic novel "Emperor Doom" and in a What If? where he had the Beyonder's power. Without ultimate power he kind of got bored, with ultimate power the celestials attacked him. Ended badly for Earth.

[Zero Hunter]

Controlling a country is a lot easier than controlling the world, and controlling a big country is not an easy thing. Read the Warren Ellis Doom 2099 run to see what happens when Doom actually does take over just America. It did not end well for him.

[HaveAtThee]

Pretty much every despot with ambitions for world conquest in history delude themselves into thinking their designs are for the "benefit of mankind" or some other altruistic nonsense.

[Iron Maiden]

Controlling a country is a lot easier than controlling the world, and controlling a big country is not an easy thing. Read the Warren Ellis Doom 2099 run to see what happens when Doom actually does take over just America. It did not end well for him.

The Megacorps did have a hidden asset in John Herrod and realllly bad things happened to him when Doom got back on his feet again.

Much like Emperor Doom, Ellis had Doom making great improvements in the Corporate States of America. IIRC he gave the mutants their own territory in the Western US. He's even been shown to be an environmentalist since one of the first things he did when regaining power in Latveria of 2099 was to have these floating ant-pollution devices to cleanse their air of industrial pollution. He did the same in America plus was giving the citizens the equivalent of our free WiFi. More recently we saw when Doom ordered the rebuilding of Latveria after Sue's attack decimated parts of Doomstad that there are mosques along with churches being built in Latveria so there is religious tolerance being endorsed there. Doom rules like a very strict patriarch. You obey the laws and you've got no worries. Just don't screw up or you will get punished....severely.

One thing that Doom 2099 did much more effectively was to form alliances to get that coup off the ground. He got together groups like the mercenary Panther's Rage from Wakanda, Sharp Blue's Mercenary Elite and Indigo Eshun of the Cyber-drive Cadre. Currently, Doom had an on again/off again alliance with Namor and he used to have a less contentious one with Wakanda when T'Challa was still ruling. They used have more open channels of diplomatic relations as we saw in Priest's Black Panther but that was done away with by Doomwar. Mostly, Doom has been a lone operative of late and really hasn't had the time to spawn any world conquering schemes although Robinson hinted at a more interstellar plan is in the works in Fantastic Four.

[DrNewGod]

Dr. Doom would be an excellent chief executive. Order would be absolute. Life would be peaceful, and prosperous ... for anybody that didn't say something that annoyed him.

[MyriVerse]

for all the villainy, doom seems a pretty cool ruler.

Just so you know, it's established that Doom goes up to Random-Latverian-Woman-Du-Jour and rapes her. Not pretty cool. Not pretty cool at all.

[Hypestyle]

No thanks. Doom is too much of a megalomaniac in his worldview.

[Marvel_Is]

Doom has stolen peoples powers before. I don't think so.

[MagSeven]

Let's say this super villain can read minds around the world (telekinetic powers). If you even THINK about committing a crime, he will make your head explode with just a thought.

If that were the case everyone would be dead in a day.

[Iron Maiden]

Just so you know, it's established that Doom goes up to Random-Latverian-Woman-Du-Jour and rapes her. Not pretty cool. Not pretty cool at all.

Apparently you didn't read the story. Nothing happened between them because the Shroud showed up to save the day.. IMO that is just another bit of Englehart building up his new character by making Doom a dastardly villain who would invoke the droit du seigneur (which in itself is regarded as a myth but that's another issue) He frequently propped up his pet character Mantis in Avengers too.

[Gordonstar]

Dr.Doom seems ok to me. There's worse choices, like Magneto.

[Huntsman Spider]

Dr.Doom seems ok to me. There's worse choices, like Magneto.

Magneto wouldn't be that bad if you were a mutant or at least able to prove your case as someone who didn't bear hostility toward mutants. In his saner days, it's not the entire human race he wants to wipe out on sheer principle; it's humans who've shown themselves to be virulent bigots toward mutants with aspirations of genocide that would horrify a Nazi.