Warning: Contains spoilers for Devil's Reign: Superior Four #2
Victor von Doom is one of the most powerful — and popular — villains of the Marvel Universe, a master of both science and the magical arts, a ruthless conqueror and ruler. In the latest issue of Devil's Reign: Superior Four, however, it is revealed that his most accomplished version is also the most powerful variant of another villain, Doctor Octopus.
In Devil's Reign: Superior Four by Zac Thompson, Davide Tinto, and Matt Milla, Doctor Octopus gains access to one of the most dangerous pieces of technology on Earth: the Fantastic Four's Forever Gate. This portal to the Multiverse allows him to assemble a team of his own variants, who are also alternate versions of other Marvel heroes: Hulk (Otto Banner), Wolverine (Otto Howlett), and Ghost Rider (Otto Blaze). His initial plan is to assemble a Council of Ocks to rival the Council of Reeds, the now-defunct organization made by several versions of Mr. Fantastics. But after finding out that there is only a finite number of Doc Ocks in the Multiverse (3,000), Otto decides to follow a much more reckless plan and gamble with reality itself. Killing other Octopus variants will create branch timelines where even more versions of Otto will spawn in the wake of the murders, creating an army that could take over the Multiverse.
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Armed with this knowledge, the Superior Four team embarks on their crusade, but they do not expect that opposition could come from yet another version of Octopus, the most powerful one in all of reality: a version mixed with the Doctors Doom and Strange known as the Supreme Octopus. After becoming the Sorcerer Supreme of his
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