Victor von Doom (Earth-21399)

Early Life
Viktor Domashev was born in 1942 in a small Romani camp outside the Serbian city of Zrejanin. His father, Werner, was an apothecary while his mother, Cynthia, was a fortune teller with strong ties to the occult.

Viktor's best friend and first love was a baron's daughter, known only as Valeria. When Valeria's pregnant mother became sick, the Baron enlisted Werner and Cynthia's aid in treating her, desperate not to lose his beloved and his unborn child. Unfortunately, the disease was beyond the Domashevs' powers to cure, and both the Baroness and her unborn child died. The Baron, in his grief, blamed the Domashevs for their deaths and ordered them arrested.

When the stormtroopers came knocking, Cynthia attempted a summoning ritual in a desperate effort to protect her son from the rapidly approaching troopers. The entity Cynthia called forth killed all the troopers as she had hoped, but then swiftly afterwards grabbed its summoner and dragged her, screaming, through the portal back to whence the demon came. Viktor witnessed the entire ordeal and was traumatized.

Viktor and Werner were forced to flee the scene, knowing the troopers would come back looking for them. Stuck in the high mountains on a cold winter's night, Werner's last act was to shield his son from the bitter cold, succumbing to frostbite in the process.

College in the United States
Viktor was eventually rescued by a man named Boris and taken into his care. Viktor, a witness to the brutality of World War II, dedicated his life to destroying the evils of the world. Following in his father's footsteps, he honed his scientific and political knowledge to a razor's edge, but in the process grew to believe himself without an intellectual equal.

In 1961, Viktor was awarded a scholarship to NYU, which he gladly accepted, seeing an opportunity to prove his intellect to the Americans. His roommates during his time at the university were Reed Richards and Benjamin Grimm; Viktor took a swift disliking to both his roommates and would get highly offended whenever Reed discovered errors in his theses and calculations, refusing to accept that Reed was his true intellectual equal. After one particularly bad outburst, Viktor left NYU to pursue further research elsewhere – preferably alone.

Becoming Doctor Doom
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