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DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 1m

I only wanted you to be a better man.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 1h

So you believe in destiny as I do. It began with us both… it is appropriate that it ends this way as well.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 2h

My own conscience is my greatest enemy. Richards is, in fact, a near 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 for my existence.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know this despot. I only knew a young man back in graduate school named Victor von Doom.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 4h

I have been far and learned many things, Richards. And of all living men, only you can truly appreciate my genius.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 5h

I am most impressed, Richards. While hardly the equal of my own vast armory, your weapons are rather sophisticated for a man who claims to be dedicated to world peace.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 6h

Perhaps it is fate that the powers of my greatest enemy could not be harnessed by me… the only mortal who was Richards’s better.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps it is fate that the powers of my greatest enemy could not be harnessed by me… the only mortal who was Richards’s better.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 8h

His own man, Richards. A piece of him is missing, you know how that feels, how that’s felt for years. You toss and turn at night, missing that sliver of intelligence that would put you on par with Doom.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 9h

Doom: I see a lot of your father in you.
Valeria: I was worried you were going to say I reminded you of you.
Doom: Oh, you are stern, like me. Yet you are compassionate and weak like your father.
Valeria: Shut up.
Doom: But only one of us could bequeath you that confidence.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 10h

Von Doom looked up from the chessboard and saw that Richards was staring out the window and, half-smiling, watching a yellow and black bird perched on the branch of a nearby tree.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 11h

On the contrary, my dear Richards…

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 12h

And to the man whom I once called friend... Victor von Doom... I would leave 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴: my class ring, from Empire State University.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 13h

I know I shouldn't wonder at Reed's deductions. At this moment, with my cosmic awareness, I do recognize that, of the two of us, he has always been the smarter man. His intelligence is rather humbling.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 14h

Oh? And how do you propose to stop me, Richards? With physical force?

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 15h

“You remade the world and all its people in your image.”
“You admire that?”
“It’s a remarkable achievement.”
“Come to join me, then?”

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 16h

Once again, we stand together at the threshold of a great moment, Richards.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 17h

Today the hand of Doom holds the life of Reed Richards in its palm. So long as that is true, no other soul, living or dead, will break the iron grip of Doom!

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 18h

Valeria: There was nothing you liked about him? Nothing at all?
Doom: He was arrogant. I could see that right away. Rude. Never knew his place. A little, puffed-up peasant. And always with his rowdy, uncouth friend, Grimm.
Valeria: We're talking about you and my father.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 19h

This is what always causes your fall, Reed. Abandoning the good because you desire the perfect. I understand now--I know what this is. It's the same thing it's always been between you and I...

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 20h

“If we worked together, we could solve this. We could end this war.”

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 21h

I feel that you and I, even though we clearly disagree, are working at the same level, and I thought: what a gift that we have found each other in this environment. Genuinely, I was looking to help you.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 22h

Oh Victor, I've missed you.

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 1d

“You remade the world and all its people in your image.”
“You admire that?”
“It’s a remarkable achievement.”
“Come to join me, then?”

DoomReed Quote Bot @doomreedbot.bsky.social · 1d

I thought if Victor was... was 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 I was dead... That he would somehow rise 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 his petty jealousies, his pursuit of 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, to be the man I thought he could be. Like 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 Victor.