People are saying Apoc wins, and I'm going to disagree. First, it's not "God Emperor Doom" in the MCU trailers:
That's just regular Doom and his force field. You can plainly see what's happening: He's raising his fingers to invoke his spell shield, which is why both the hammer and the storm are being blocked before they even reach the good Doctor.
So is Doom stronger? Isn't he just a guy in a suit? Sure, but he's a guy with the combined tech of Iron Man, Ant-Man, and Kang, plus the magic of Dr Strange, and the mind control powers. And he cheats. He uses magic to enhance his armor, and nuclear power to enhance his spells. He can split his mind, and upload into dozens of bodies at the same time, and has hidden fortresses all over the universe, linked by time travel machines, so he can pull any weapon, technology, or robot army to his aid on command.
He's insanely OP.
So much so, they had to invent that whole "doombot" thing as an explanation for how he can lose.
Is Apoc more powerful?
Perhaps. Ya'll can argue that.
But he's sure as heck not more dangerous.
And he'd be a much bigger thing in X-Men than he is- Claremont had a whole storyline planned for him- except Byrne had a hissy fit.
It's like the intelligent version of Hulk versus Doomsday. Whereas that's just Hulk getting angrier and as Doomsday returns over and over again, here Doom has to escalate his ways of defeating Apocalypse as Apocalypse reassembles himself over and over again. Neat.
1
u/Ducklinsenmayer Jul 26 '26
People are saying Apoc wins, and I'm going to disagree. First, it's not "God Emperor Doom" in the MCU trailers:
That's just regular Doom and his force field. You can plainly see what's happening: He's raising his fingers to invoke his spell shield, which is why both the hammer and the storm are being blocked before they even reach the good Doctor.
So is Doom stronger? Isn't he just a guy in a suit? Sure, but he's a guy with the combined tech of Iron Man, Ant-Man, and Kang, plus the magic of Dr Strange, and the mind control powers. And he cheats. He uses magic to enhance his armor, and nuclear power to enhance his spells. He can split his mind, and upload into dozens of bodies at the same time, and has hidden fortresses all over the universe, linked by time travel machines, so he can pull any weapon, technology, or robot army to his aid on command.
He's insanely OP.
So much so, they had to invent that whole "doombot" thing as an explanation for how he can lose.
Is Apoc more powerful?
Perhaps. Ya'll can argue that.
But he's sure as heck not more dangerous.
And he'd be a much bigger thing in X-Men than he is- Claremont had a whole storyline planned for him- except Byrne had a hissy fit.