Why is Doctor Doom so powerful?
Doctor Doom is very possibly the most brilliant human being in the Marvel Universe. He was created as the arch-villain for Reed Richards, who has been hailed as the smartest man on Earth, yet Doom is more aggressively active with his genius than is Reed. He has fashioned exotic devices that can do just about everything, from time travel to space travel to instantaneous spatial displacement (like beaming oneself from one place to another). His other great talent is the ability to apparently plan for every conceivable contingency. Doom is also a skilled sorcerer. Although he does not flaunt his mystic skills very often (as he believes that science is of equal or greater importance), and does not appear to be able to perform major rituals, he has been acknowledged as powerful and quick. He learned everything known by a secret order of monks in remote Tibet, to the point that he became their master, and he also studied for a short time under Dr. Strange. Before those events however, Doom h
