One World Under Doom # 8 ends with a brutal death by a beloved character
Marvel’s One World Under Doom is wrapping up it’s run with this week’s One World Under Doom # 8 released and ends with a rather brutal note! Spoilers for issue 8 written by Ryan North and RB Silva!
This issue begins with the Future Foundation including Doom’s beloved goddaughter Valeria try to make contact with him to try to talk some sense to him which ends in utter failure. Doom realizes that this is an opening he has not seen and locks Val out before they can communicate with him again.
Meanwhile in the realworld, the battle between the gathered heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and the X-Men as well as Spider-Man isn’t going according to plan with Doom winning and overcoming every attack they throw at him from Iceman’s massive iceblast to Storm’s weather manipulation, nothing is working.
Dr Doom eventually gets fed up with this attack (especially that big moment where Beta Ray Bill’s Stormbringer finds Ben Grimm aka the Thing to be worthy) and uses his armor as blast shrapnel..
Taking a moment to recover, he hears a familiar voice and turns to that direction only to find his goddaughter fatally injured; losing a leg from the blast and that last panel also showing that she lost her head.
So for the shock, I’d say Marvel is still playing that game (although DC Comics is also doing something similar with their DC KO book right now) and at this point, these character deaths mean little to nothing rather than to shock readers and move the plot forward but by the end of the book you’ll see that they will be bring back their toys back the way they found it and neatly return it to their original state.
In the case that this will stick, that’s where I would go back and religiously read the book. I want to see how Doom reacts to this, how Reed as a dad reacts to his failure, how the Fantastic Four will react to another death in their family and how the superhero community will react to finding out that Doom had killed Valeria Richards.
