Thing Killing Doctor Doom Became So Much Darker With Its Final Twist

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After the Thing killed the Fantastic Four’s nemesis Doctor Doom in the Ultimate Marvel universe, the revelation of a shocking truth made the act even darker. The Fantastic Four have always had a famous rivalry with Victor von Doom, an enmity that extended into the Ultimate Marvel universe. Following the horrific events of Ultimatum, Ben Grimm travels to Latveria where he kills Doctor Doom for seemingly orchestrating the tragic events. This non-heroic moment is made worse when Ben is surprisingly confronted years later by an alive Victor, who reveals the person Ben actually killed is not who he thought.

The Ultimate Marvel universe was created to reimagine Marvel characters in a modern context, unsaddled from years of confusing continuity. It allowed creators to explore directions or interpretations of characters that would not be possible in the mainstream Marvel universe. When the Fantastic Four experience their historic accident, Victor van Damme is also involved. The transformation leads to him becoming the sovereign ruler of Latveria and sworn enemy of his former Baxter Building associates. At one point, Victor is believed to have perished, sacrificing himself to the Marvel Zombies universe to save the world from a plan of his own design. Despite this public incident, Doctor Doom reappears in the Ultimate Power series and is later revealed to have orchestrated the events of Ultimates 3, which lead into Magneto’s worldwide destruction and genocide in Ultimatum. In Ultimatum #5 by Jeph Loeb and David Finch, the brooding Doctor Doom is visited by the Thing who has been informed of Victor’s influence in everything. Although his beloved Latveria has been lost due to Magneto’s manipulation of global weather, Ben believes