Why does Doom hate Reed Richards so intensely?
Victor Von Doom and Reed Richards first met back in their college days, at Empire State University (ESU), located on 14th Street in New York City, although back then it was just called “State” University. Doom was involved in a project to create a machine that would allow his astral self to travel to Mephisto’s realm in order to locate his mother’s spirit, trapped there since he was a baby. Reed was snooping around and stumbled onto the equations Doom was using, and he thought he saw an error. Doom caught him shuffling through his private work, and refused to listen to him, kicking him out of the room. Doom went ahead with his experiment and his machine exploded, scarring his face. Doom was expelled for performing forbidden experiments. Doom has a particular weakness, which is his tremendous ego and vanity. He partially blames Reed for the destruction of his face. He was also in close competition with Reed throughout their time in school together, each pushing the other to new scholast
