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| Air date | October 25th, 2021 |
| Written by | AgentRedhead |
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Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom is a What-If? episode of Death Battle by AgentRedhead, featuring Lex Luthor from DC Comics and Doctor Doom from Marvel Comics in a battle between tyrannical intelligent megalomaniacs.
Interlude
(*Cues: Wiz & Boomstick - Brandon Yates*)
Wiz: All villains wish to conquer the world. Some try this using their brain, some try using their brawn, but only a select few have enough of both to truly be considered major threats.
Boomstick: Like Lex Luthor, owner of Lexcorp and enemy number one to Superman.
Wiz: And Doctor Doom, ruler of Latveria and main rival to Mister Fantastic.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Lex Luthor
(*Cues: Building Empires*)
Wiz: With most famous companies, they usually have an equally famous name associated with them. For Microsoft, you have Bill Gates. With Apple, there’s Steve Jobs, and for Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. In the world of DC Comics, however, there is only one real true business tycoon, synonymous with his own multi-billion-dollar company. The diabolical owner of Lexcorp Incorporated, Lex Luthor.
Boomstick: But if you couldn’t tell already, he didn’t start off that way. You want proof? Well, young Alexander Joseph Luthor was born and raised in a dangerous part of Metropolis called the Suicide Slum. And no, it’s not because it was the birthplace of the Suicide Squad.
Wiz: It was far more likely called that because of the kind of people that were living there, including Lex’s abusive father, Lionel. Not only did Lex suffer child abuse at the hands of Lionel, but also other future DC powerhouses, like Martian Manhunter, who had experiments and tests run on him.
Boomstick: Figures, it’s always the dads that are the cause of the problems. I know how you feel, buddy. Or at least I did, until the two of them got their memories wiped and sent to live in a tiny village in Kansas. Hell, it’s so small, it’s literally called Smallville, Kansas.
Wiz: Unfortunately, things didn’t go much better after their forced exit. Not much longer after they arrived, Lex’s parents would die in a sudden car crash.
Boomstick: You’d think this would be good luck, right? Nope! Turns out, Lex was just as much of an asshole as them, and rigged their car’s brakes, causing the crash himself!
Wiz: It’s true. While Lex didn't have much to his name, there was one thing that he could truly have for himself: His intelligence. In fact, it was this same intelligence that not only let him rig the car to send his parents off to early graves, but also take their remaining money, move back to Metropolis, and start up what would eventually become one of the most iconic companies in all of comic book history: Lexcorp.
Boomstick: Seriously, ask any random Metropolis citizen about Lexcorp, and it’ll be likely they’ve heard of one of its many, many branches. He owns all kinds of businesses, including hotels, banks, a supermarket chain, and even a videogame company called "Lextendo." I wonder how long it'll be before that one gets a lawsuit?
Wiz: With a massive fortune at his fingertips and a majority of Metropolis under his control, things finally seemed to be looking up for Lex. Unfortunately for him, good things never last, and soon, he would be face to face with a brand-new problem, one that all the money in the world wouldn’t be able to stop: The Kryptonian alien known as Superman.
Boomstick: Being the self-absorbed prick that he is, Lex wasn’t exactly too keen on having a new superhero show up out of nowhere, hogging the spotlight.
Wiz: And his hatred of the Man of Steel only deepened from there. With all the powers that Superman has, he seemed practically invincible! If humans were to rely on Superman to solve their problems, they would become a weaker race, easily dominated by other, more hostile species, including the very species that Superman was a part of.
Boomstick: And since trying to beat him by throwing dollar bills at him was a horrible idea, he decided to take matters into his own hands. While most people still saw him as a selfless, self-made man, Superman would be seeing his true self: A cold, calculating businessman, doing whatever it took to keep full control. I swear, this sounds so familiar...
Wiz: While Lex has invented many kinds of gadgets for taking on Superman, none are better suited for combat than his iconic Warsuit.
(*Cues: Where's My Hero*)
Wiz: Created on the planet Apokolips with the help of another one of Superman’s villains, Darkseid, the Warsuit is a highly powerful suit of battle armor that Lex can use to face Superman in physical combat.
Boomstick: Despite it looking like it was made out of junky kryptonite, this mean, green, super-smashing machine is anything but! It’s got all kinds of weapons in it, including laser cannons, machine guns, missiles, gauntlet blades, force fields, jet boosters, a suit taser, and lots of Kryptonite weapons, like beams, darts, and even a sweet-ass Kryptonite axe! Perfect for chopping down any giant threats that stand in your way.
Wiz: In recent times, the suit has also gained some more unique powers through it’s newest energy source, the Mother Box. This high-end alien technology is one of Luthor’s greatest assets, as it allows him to fire energy beams, perform self-repair, and even transfer himself to different locations through quantum folding.
Boomstick: Which in English means he can teleport. And considering it’s being used to go up against Superman himself, I’d say it’s pretty damn handy to instantly be in a new location just like that.
Wiz: On their own, the Warsuit and Mother Box are just basic tools. But when combined in the hands of someone as cunning as Lex Luthor, they’ve proven to be a match not only for Superman, but for other DC powerhouses as well.
Boomstick: But when it does hold up, it’s like a Swiss army knife of death! It can do everything from keep up with the orange Lantern Larfleeze, to shrugging off a planet exploding and punches from Superman, to shanking Batman. I did say it was a Swiss army knife of death, after all. The only problem is, well... it doesn’t exactly hold up well over time. If it takes enough damage, it’ll completely break down, turning even more trashy than it already is.
Wiz: However, despite the Warsuit’s immense technological power, not all of Lex’s weapons come from it. If he needs to, Luthor can use some of his own on hand gadgets, which include a heat ray, holograms, a bubblegum shield, a matter transmitter, robotic duplicates known as Lexbots, and a protective shield that, when touched, turns its victim two-dimensional.
Boomstick: Which I thought was kinda pointless, since he’s in a comic book, which is already two-dimensional, but then I saw that it just laminates your ass instead, so then it made more sense.
Wiz: It’s not easy for an opponent to attack you when they’re swinging around in 2D circles as if they were on a merry-go-round. However, there is one more weapon Luthor possesses, which technically isn’t even a weapon at all, but instead an enhancement meant to turn himself superhuman – the Everyman Project.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, if you didn’t think Lex Luthor, a guy who decides to piss off Superman for fun, was insane before, you’re definitely going to after this.
Wiz: The Everyman project was an experiment designed to give regular people superpowers, similar to those of Superman. Once he saw that this worked for regular humans, he would be sure to give the powers to himself.
Boomstick: Oh, sure, let’s just pull random people off the street and give them superpowers! What could possibly go wrong with that?
Wiz: That’s not even mentioning all the different powers you could get from it. Some people could turn invisible, others had super-strength, and some could even manipulate light! Thankfully, with the help of Natasha Irons, the Everyman Project was destroyed, and Lex’s dreams of having Superman-style powers were dashed, while also leaving him with only six months to live afterward, as his genes were not suited for the project.
Boomstick: Poor guy. The one time he tries to do something for himself, and he finds out his genes just weren't compatible. In fact, pretty much every attempt of his to try and outdo Superman blows up in his face. And you would think that with how many times he’s tried, he wants Superman dead more than anything, right? Wrong!
Wiz: It turns out, Lex didn’t exactly just hate Superman – he was also just really jealous of him.
Boomstick: Yeah, remember that whole thing about Lex hating Superman hogging the spotlight? Well, when your archenemy is a guy who can tank supernovas like they’re nothing and lift goddamn infinity, it’s kinda hard to not be jealous of someone like that. Suddenly, wanting to have the same kind of powers as good old Kal-El makes slightly more sense.
Wiz: But it takes more than just powers like those to call yourself the enemy of Superman, and Lex definitely has the feats to prove it. Lex is strong enough to snap the neck of Brainiac, fast enough to tag Kid Flash Bart Allen, and tough enough to survive a planet exploding.
Boomstick: Plus, there was the time that Supergirl just straight up threw him to the moon! Ha! Beat that, Jeff-
Wiz: Uh, Boomstick? He is... also going to space.
Boomstick: Oh, son of a bitch!
Wiz: And, unsurprisingly, he was smart enough to deduce the identities of both Superman and Batman.
Boomstick: Yeah, Luthor’s power in the business world is pretty comparable to his literal power. But don’t let that fool you, because just like any tycoon, he's got his fair share of failures.
Wiz: Right, beneath all of the fancy gadgets and powerful suits of armor, he’s still just a mortal man, and can be taken down through any regular means.
Boomstick: Like the time that Gorilla Grodd shot him in the chest with a sniper rifle, which knocked him out of a helicopter! Oh, or the time that Superman just threw the Lexcorp building on top of him! How was he even still alive after that?
Wiz: Because when it comes to Lex Luthor, the strongest thing about him is his desire to be better than Superman. In fact, after Superman became incapacitated, he even took up the name Superman himself for a while.
Boomstick: Really? He became the one thing he strived to destroy? Hey, maybe he’s not so bad after all, then.
Wiz: No, he definitely still is. After Superman returned, Lex returned to his regular self, doing what he does best – ruling over Metropolis with his mayoral iron fist, plotting the downfall of the Man of Steel. As long as he’s still out there, Luthor will always keep fighting.
Lex: People aren't important. Not as a whole. Everyone runs around like they've got a big S on their chest for special, but the actual gift of genius, of work ethic, of aspiration, is rarer than a white tiger. That's why you see people in history rising above the masses. Those are the changers. Those are the doers. You are not important. You're not. I am.
Doctor Doom
(*Cues: Galactic Empire*)
Wiz: Latveria. A fictional country located within Eastern Europe. While not completely hidden from the public unlike places such as Wakanda, details about this isolated location remain somewhat shrouded in mystery.
Boomstick: But one thing is definitely for certain: This is not your ideal vacation spot. I mean come on! it’s hard to find, it’s got cold-ass weather, and half the cities have the word “doom” in the name! Can you guess what kind of madman would wanna rule over a place like this?
Wiz: That madman is not just any madman. He is the Baron of Iron, the arch-villain of the Fantastic Four, and one of the most dangerous supervillains to ever live. He is... Doctor Doom.
Boomstick: With a name like that, you would think he grew up as some kind of scientific test tube baby, or a summoned demon child from Hell, right? Well, you’d be... kinda right, actually.
Wiz: Victor von Doom was born to a tribe of Latverian Romani people. Growing up as a Gypsy inside the Latverian walls, his childhood wasn’t exactly the best. His father was the leader of the tribe, and a highly skilled doctor, while his mother was... a witch.
Boomstick: A witch? Like, the witch that rides on a broom, casts spells, and has a cackle that makes your skin crawl?
Wiz: In a way, yes, except she also happened to work for the demon Mephisto. So, more like a sorceress.
Boomstick: Yeah, imagine those kinds of parents coming in for career day. Pretty sure all Hell would break loose. But hey, as long as Victor ate all his vegetables and finished his homework, I’m sure he got along with his parents just fine, right?
Wiz: Unfortunately for Doom, his parents were both lost when he was just a child. While his father died from simple frostbite due to banishment by the Baron, his mother had her soul taken away by Mephisto, due to a deal gone wrong. Now an orphan, Victor was forced to wander the streets of Latveria alone.
Boomstick: But hey, life wasn’t all bad! In order to honor his parents, he attempted to do what any kid his age would do: master both science and magic. And while that’s a hell of a goal for a kid, he actually did it!
Wiz: By combining what he knew of technology and sorcery, Victor was able to create a wide array of inventions, which he then sold to his fellow citizens. Unfortunately, many of these inventions would soon break down after he had left, making them little more than trash.
Boomstick: And once everyone began to realize these “miraculous inventions” were little more than trash, they formed an angry mob and attempted to kill him. Standard angry mob stuff, really.
Wiz: However, while they thought they had defeated Doom, they had actually just discovered one of his most notorious inventions: the Doombots.
Boomstick: These things are like Doom’s personal get out of jail free cards when it comes to dying in a fight. Seriously, every single time you think Doom’s been killed, it’s really a Doombot.
Wiz: Despite Victor’s reputation as a conman, his skills and prowess were enough to earn him a scholarship from the Empire State University. Once there, he began work on his ultimate invention: A device that would bring him down to Hell, in order to rescue his mother’s soul. Unfortunately for Doom, the device would end up scarring Victor even more.
Boomstick: Yeah, both figuratively and literally. See, he didn’t notice that there was a miscalculation in the device, and when his classmates Reed Richards and Ben Grimm tried to tell him, he just brushed them off. So, when Victor tried to use it, it kinda... blew up in his face.
Wiz: Victor was traumatized by the incident. In addition to obviously being expelled, the explosion miraculously left him with a single scar. Despite its small size, Doom felt it had ruined his perfect face. After the dust settled, Victor ran away to the Himalayan mountains, and joined up with a group of Tibetan monks. Once there, he soon tasked them with building him a suit of armor that would enhance his physical capabilities, while also hiding his face from the rest of the world.
Boomstick: And don’t be fooled by this first one, because it’s basically the rough draft to what would eventually become his finished product. Over the years, Doom would enhance the suit through all kinds of magic and technology, and in time, it would grow to become one of the most overpowered suits in all of Marvel. He wasn’t just Victor von Doom anymore. Now he was... Doctor Doom.
(*Cues: Legion*)
Wiz: Just the thing for a college dropout to do: Go crazy, take over a group of monks, have them build you a suit, and then start calling yourself a doctor.
Boomstick: Hell, he went so crazy, that once the mask was finished, he put it on before it even cooled down! Mad scientist probably suits him better.
Wiz: You better not call him that to his face, or else he might just show you what the suit can do.
Boomstick: Oh, believe me Wiz, I know what the suit can do. Doom’s armor grants him increased strength, speed, and durability, can absorb energy, and comes with such tools as jet boosters, electric shockers, force fields, a cloaking unit for sneaking around, and even pieces of the True Cross that Jesus Christ was crucified on, just in case he's afraid Dracula will show up one day.
Wiz: In addition, the armor also comes with some more advanced tools, such as bombs that can transport people seconds into the past, bombs that turn you into chrome, the molecular expander, which is able to directly change the size of any object he chooses, and the Cosmic Power Siphon, which lets him drain energy from his opponents, and even steal the powers if he so desires them. But as impressive as his armor is, it isn’t the only thing that Doom takes into battle.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, have we mentioned that this guy’s also a magician? He’s so good at casting magic, that he’s actually second in line to be Sorcerer Supreme, just behind supernova survivor Doctor Strange himself! He can levitate, teleport, travel through time and dimensions, cast mystic barriers, hypnotize people, and even switch brains with the Ovoid Mind Transfer. God damn, how much power does this guy want?
Wiz: Considering that after he got the basic suit, he immediately went back to Latveria, then overpowered and killed the Baron who was responsible for his father’s death, and became the new dictator, I’d say he wants a lot of power. And he definitely got it.
Boomstick: Yeah, that and a massive ego. But to his credit, the people of Latveria surprisingly loved Doom as a ruler, so suddenly getting full of himself kinda made sense. And of course, what’s the next big step for a supervillain after getting all your new powers? Try to take over the world!
Wiz: But not for the reasons you might think. Well, besides ruling the world, because who could pass that up? After time travelling to the future, Doctor Doom eventually realized that he was the savior of mankind. After convincing the Panther God of Wakanda to look into all the possible futures, what he saw was amazing. Out of all the possible futures, the only one as close to world peace as possible was the one where Doom was the ruler.
Boomstick: But of course, the superheroes weren’t too keen on having a tyrant for a ruler. Especially not Mister Fantastic, who you may recall was Doom’s classmate in college. Naturally, since Reed is an actual doctor while Doctor Doom just gave himself a doctorate after conquering Latveria, he’s not too happy with him constantly foiling his plans.
Wiz: That’s putting it lightly. While Doom is the archenemy of the Fantastic Four, he has a special hatred for Reed. Doom sees Richards as nothing more than an arrogant, prideful weakling, and will do whatever he can to completely destroy him, regardless of who gets in his way. Even when he was being dragged down to Hell, instead of trying to escape, the only thing he wanted to do was harm Mister Fantastic as much as possible.
Boomstick: Holy shit, talk about a sore loser. You’ve gotta be one hell of a hero in order to go up against a guy that was modeled after Death itself, and with the kinds of things he’s done, Doom’s not fooling around. I mean, this is a man who can break through an Adamantium coffin, think faster than a supercomputer, survive telekinetic attacks from the Silver Surfer and the Purple Man, overpower the Hulk, and kill a lion in one punch. Without his suit! Can anything stop this guy?
Wiz: Well, he does seem to have a bad habit of losing important powers and weapons at the worst moments, likely due to how surprisingly easy he is to trick.
Boomstick: Yeah, like the time he managed to obtain the Power Cosmic, but then lost it right as he was about to win. Where was your supercomputer brain on that one, Victor?
Wiz: In addition, Doom’s massive ego mentioned earlier has played a role in many of his defeats. He’s insanely arrogant, and often underestimates his opponents. No doubt this problem worsened after he managed to become the God Emperor for a while, until who else but Reed managed to steal his powers away.
Boomstick: Aw, but don’t worry! After having spent some time as the ruler of everything for a while, Doom actually had a change of heart, and became a good guy for a while! By taking up the role of... Iron Man? I mean I guess it makes sense, since they’re both armored fighters, but still, weird choice.
Wiz: But eventually, all good things must come to an end, and Doom soon returned to being the diabolical, cunning leader of Latveria that we all know and love to hate. If Victor could just keep his ego under control, keep hold of his arsenal long enough to finish the fight-
Boomstick: And not go crazy at the sight of a squirrel! God knows they can drive people crazy, and Doom's no exception.
Wiz: Then the world will always have the looming threat of Doctor Doom.
Doom: It is time to clear the board of unfinished gambits, and put the remaining pieces... away. You see, my sense of fair play extends only to the limits of the match -- and now that the game has concluded, I have no qualms whatsoever about multiplying the odds... in my favor.
Death Battle
(*Cues: The Red Capes Are Coming – Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice*)
In the middle of a harsh snowstorm, two of Doctor Doom’s guards were standing outside of the entrance of Castle Doom. As the two are patrolling, a shadowy figure seems to come into the distance.
Doom Henchman 1: Intruder! Fire at will!
The two attempt to fire their guns at the figure, but the bullets appear to do no damage to him.
Doom Henchman 2: What the hell? Nothing’s happening!
As the two continue to fire, the figure continues to step forward, soon coming face to face with the two guards. As the scuffle continues, the figure quickly disarms and defeats the guards, leaving them a crumpled mess on the ground before kicking open the door and stepping inside.
Luthor: For how hard this place was to find, you would think there’d be tougher security...
Lex Luthor mumbles to himself, looking around the seemingly barren castle. But soon, Luthor comes face to face with the owner of the castle, Doctor Doom.
Doom: Halt. You are trespassing on Latverian soil. Leave now and you will not be harmed.
Hearing this, the CEO of Lexcorp lets out a laugh.
Luthor: Me, trespassing? Far from it. I simply came here to offer you a deal.
Lex responds, continuing to step closer to the Latverian Monarch, his hand outstretched for a handshake.
Luthor: You simply hand over the rights to your land, no backstabbing or trickery of any kind, and I won’t turn you into a pile of scrap metal. Do we have a deal?
Doctor Doom grips Lex’s hand, seemingly agreeing, before lifting Luthor into the air and tossing him into a nearby column.
Doom: You fool! Doom surrenders to no one!
Lex stands up from the attack, hardly fazed.
Luthor: Very well then. We tried things the easy way...
(*Cues: Bane’s Theme – Batman: Arkham Origins*)
He says, before pulling out a gun and aiming it at the dictator.
Luthor: Now we do it my way.
The Lexcorp CEO fires the gun, to which Doctor Doom responds by pulling out his own gun and firing back, the bullets colliding with each other and rendering each other useless. Not deterred, Lex continues to fire his gun, while also charging forward. Doctor Doom still manages to deflect the bullets, but ultimately ends up slammed into by Lex Luthor hard, sending him crashing into the wall behind him.
Luthor: Hmm… taking over this place will be easier than expected!
Lex says, before Doom emerges, hardly fazed from the attack.
Doom: You wretch! Those who face Doom in battle will be destroyed!
He exclaims, before sending a barrage of mystical blasts towards Lex. Seeing that his foe was nowhere near defeated as he thought, the corrupt CEO activates his suit’s force field, laughing.
Luthor: You really expect to harm me with blasts such as those? Pitiful.
He boasts, before slowly charging forward and slamming into the Latverian Dictator once again, the two now going through several walls of Doom’s castle as the Lexcorp CEO begins to punch and kick Doctor Doom throughout the different rooms, before blasting him into the wall once again, the stone wall destroying and crumbling around him. Lex jumps and hovers over to the pile of broken stone smiling, only to hear the sound of something behind him. It was Doom, having teleported out of the pile of wreckage and levitating above Luthor. Before he can react, Doom conjures a powerful lightning blast, sending it right into the back of Luthor and causing him to cry out.
Doom: Incompetent fool, you face no mere man. You face DOCTOR DOOM!
Doom then uses his molecular expander to send a barrage of boulder-shaped molecules down at Lex, each one breaking upon impact with him and continuing to crush him more and more. Once Luthor was buried under a pile of the enormous boulders, Doom launched his ultimate attack.
Doom: Foot Dive!
The Sovereign ruler launched straight for Luthor’s head, and while Luthor managed to break free of the boulders and dodge, Doom simply punched him back into the air, before launching into another attack.
Doom: Foot Dive!
He exclaims, sending Luthor to the ground once again with another dive kick, then launching into a series of powerful blows to the warsuit, which slowly begins to break. Once Luthor begins to see his warsuit breaking down, he pulls out his gauntlet blades and begins to counter most of the Masked Menace’s attacks, before gaining the upper hand once again, landing a kick squarely in Doom’s chest and sending him backward.
Luthor: Well, it seems you have some fight in you after all!
He says, before pulling out his enormous Kryptonite axe.
Luthor: Let’s just see how much longer you can hold on.
In response, The Armored One summons his laser staff, and the two charge at each other once again, launching and parrying each other’s attacks, until Doom finally manages to stun Lex.
Doom: Got you!
With the enemy of Superman on his last ropes, Doom laughs, and proceeds to jam the staff through his neck, then punching a hole straight through Luthor.
Doom: Imbecile. An ordinary man like you had no chance.
He says, pulling his hand out from Luthor’s body, only to reveal that what Doom had destroyed wasn’t Luthor, but a Lexbot.
Doom: Wh-What? What is this?!
A lance blast soon strikes Doom in the back, as the real Lex Luthor appears with a cocky smile on his face.
Luthor: I call it a Lexbot. It’s a near-perfect mechanical replica of myself, to distract my opponents.
Doom: I-Ingenious…!
Luthor: What else do you expect from one of the greatest minds in the world?
The mayor of Metropolis says, before typing in Doom’s coordinates, as several satellites begin to prepare fire.
Luthor: Oh, that’s right. The same thing that happens to others who take on Lex Luthor: Death!
The mine under Doom’s body soon explodes, sending Doom into the air as a large laser is fired from the satellite, striking The Great Destroyer all at once and leaving his body little more than scraps on the ground. Luthor lets out a laugh, before hearing the sound of another teleportation behind him.
Luthor: What…?
Sure enough, the Doom that was destroyed along with the Lexbot was just a Doombot. The real Doctor Doom is now hovering above the DC megalomaniac, arms crossed and seated in his throne.
Doom: What a farce. To think I wasted a perfectly usable Doombot on you.
(*Cues: Doom’s Throne – Marvel Ultimate Alliance*)
Luthor, now enraged that he fell for the same trap that others have fallen for before, unleashes his flamethrowers on Doom. In response, the real Latverian Dictator jumps from his throne, unleashing another foot dive.
Doom: Foot dive!
It hits the corrupt CEO right in his center, breaking him out of the warsuit and sending him stumbling across the room. Not content yet, Doctor Doom then grabs the already weakened Lex Luthor and begins to levitate.
Doom: Pathetic! A normal man as yourself has no chance against a god like Doom!
Breaking out of the castle and into the still harsh blizzard, Doom uses his free hand to deliver another series of hard punches to Luthor as he struggles to free himself. A hard punch soon sends him falling down to the snow below. Doom then charges forward, firing lasers aimed right at Lex’s heart.
Luthor: You may be a god...
Luthor says, slowly standing up, his eyes begin to glow red.
Luthor: ...But I’ve fought them!
Activating his Everyman Project powers, Luthor dodges the lasers, leaping and flying into the air and taking hold of The Armored One, before punching him into the sky and delivering devastating punches and kicks to Victor.
Luthor: I’ve studied them! I’ve analyzed them! I’ve even defeated those damned gods before! You are nothing!
Once his boast was over, he unleashes an enormous beam of energy, sending Doom crashing back down to the main room of his castle once again, with Luthor landing right in front of him, his fist clenched in his remade warsuit, thanks to the Mother Box.
Luthor: Face it, Doom! It’s over! I’ve won! Your efforts to destroy me have failed, Victor!
Luthor goes to deliver the final punch, but Doom soon catches his hand, catching him by surprise.
Doom: Failed?
Luthor, unable to escape his iron grip, tries using his other hand to land a punch, but Victor manages to catch that one as well. Unable to free himself, The Armored One begins to drain energy from the warsuit, leaving it helpless once again, and leaving the DC megalomaniac vulnerable.
Doom: Doctor Doom does not fail!
Doom then headbutts Luthor, making him stumble back. He attempts to summon some kryptonite weaponry but finds himself unable to do so. With little choice, he breaks out of the warsuit just as the Marvel Megalomaniac throws his chrome mutation bombs, which detonate and cause the suit to become made out of chrome, rendering it useless.
As the two clash supervillains clash, Doom unleashes his ultimate trump card: The Ovoid Mind Transfer. Soon enough, the two supervillains suddenly find themselves in each other’s bodies. With himself now in the vulnerable Luthor’s body, Doom stops wasting time, using his strength to rip both of Luthor’s legs off of his body, before quickly swapping back to his own body. Once Luthor realizes what’s happened, he cries out in pain.
Luthor: NO! This is impossible!
Luthor cries, attempting to reach out for Doom in one last attack. Doom lets out a laugh as he kicks the remains of Luthor in the chest, sending him outside, before beginning to lift the entirety of Castle Doom up into the air.
Doom: Far from it. Though you were a somewhat worthy adversary, your challenge was destined to fail! You, Lex Luthor, are just like the powers of the Gods!
He shouts, before throwing the castle down on Luthor, ultimately crushing his torso. Doom soon hovers above where Luthor once stood, landing and turning away from the crumbling building in triumph.
Doom: ...Beneath me.
Results
(*Cues: Credits – LEGO Marvel Super Heroes*)
Boomstick: Damn right, Luthor lost! You don’t fuck with a guy that toots as he pleases! *Boomstick goes to toot into a replica of the horn, but Wiz grabs it and throws it behind him.*
Wiz: This was a surprisingly close matchup. Both Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom are extraordinary geniuses, capable of battling some of the smartest minds in their respective universes. In addition, their strength and speed feats are very comparable, with Lex just barely having more consistent strength and speed feats.
Boomstick: Yeah, having a guy like Superman as your arch-enemy kinda makes you tough to go against. And yeah, Doom’s fought guys like The Hulk, who on his weakest days can still lift a one hundred and fifty billion ton mountain no problem, but Lex has traded blows with the likes of Kyle Rayner, who once held back the Big Bang! You know, the thing that created the entire DC Universe, which is at least a trillion lightyears in length?
Wiz: Their speeds were about the same, with Luthor again taking the edge, thanks to keeping up with Larfleeze, who can cross this same universe in under an hour. This puts Lex’s speed around five quintillion times light speed. Doom’s main opponents usually didn’t rely on high speed, and more on their strength, so Luthor seemed to have the advantage there, as well.
Boomstick: The one solid reaction feat in Doom’s corner was being able to deflect Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer, which flew Thor across Marvel’s universe. And while Marvel’s universe is smaller than DC’s, it’s still a frickin’ universe, so I’d say it was going pretty fast.
Wiz: Marvel’s universe is known to have a diameter of at least one trillion lightyears. In order to travel to the edge of this universe in such a short timeframe, it would have to be moving around two quintillion times the speed of light. Impressive, just not compared to the five quintillion that Lex had.
Boomstick: Sadly for old cue-ball, that’s where his advantages seem to end, because Doom’s arsenal is huge! Yeah, Doom couldn’t counter some of Lex’s weapons, like the laminating shield, and Lex could counter some of Doom’s, but he just had a wider gap in the number of weapons that he couldn’t counter, like his chrome bombs, his time-shift bombs, and especially that mind swap trick.
Wiz: And in the case of their power sources, Victor had him beat here, too. While the Mother Box is one of the most advanced pieces of technology ever seen, Lex never really seemed to master all of it’s true potential. In addition, Doom’s Cosmic Power Siphon could steal any of its energy and keep it for himself.
Boomstick: Ha! That’s what you get for stealing those forty cakes! Bet they were delicious, too...
Wiz: Focus, Boomstick. The Siphon has drained powers from the likes of the Silver Surfer and Galactus, with no defined limit. Yes, Lex could probably still gain more power with the Mother Box, but nothing stopped Doom from just stealing all the energy again.
Boomstick: Yeah, the Mother Box is a great power source, but that’s where the problem comes from: When you fight against someone who can steal your energy, it’s also a great power source for them.
Wiz: And with their strength, speed, and durability so evenly matched, it was only a matter of time before Doom’s arsenal began to overwhelm Lex, turning the fight in his favor.
Boomstick: Poor Luthor. He put up a good fight, but thanks to all of the Lat-variables, now he’s nothing but a Lex-corpse.
Wiz: The winner is Doctor Doom.