Victor Von Doom on the surface is a supremely skilled scientist and engineer, he starts to fall for his best friend Reed’s girlfriend Sue. The three of them, plus Sue’s brother Johnny, and Reed’s friend Ben, decide to go into space to clear an obstruction on a space station. All five are hit by a solar storm and contract different abilities, Victor gets the worst of it though, his mind also becomes warped beyond belief. His anger leads him to turn on Reed and Sue, and take over a plot of land in the Middle East, which he calls Latveria.
