Don't suppose you have scans of that scene where BP refuses to share the cure for cancer with the rest of the world do you? Sure that's Hudlin's run though, not Priest's.
Ah, okey. :) It takes a special kind of hero to come face to face with doctors and leaders from all over the world after discovering the cure to cancer, and, after being offered the ability to write his own cheque as the cost of sharing, he tells them to go screw themselves.
The special kind of hero being someone with the sadistic mindset of Stardust the fucking Space Wizard. Seriously, the richest nations in the world offering ANYTHING for the ability to cure one of the worst conditions plaguing mankind, and he refuses to even consider sharing? What?!?
He could have asked them to help out people in Africa by providing better healthcare, jobs and famine relief, things that he berates from for not doing anyway, but his myopic view is far more important than the millions of lives he could potentially save.
And really, if, say, England discovered penicillin at a time when no one else could replicate it and refused to share it with anyone else, how long before every other country in the world gangs up on them and declares war?
Embarrassed as I am to have this fact immediately to hand, he called himself "Von Doom" in the "Doomquest" story arc in Iron Man #150. ("An open drawbridge and no guards. I've researched Morgana for months, and carelessness is not her way. But then, neither is it the way of Von Doom!") So it's rare, but there is precedent.
In fact, hilariously, it's just occurred to me that "Von Doom" could be what he calls himself when he's intentionally talking about himself in the third person. Because, you know, "Doom" is just for regular everyday talking about himself in the third person, so he needs to bump it up an extra level of formality when he's actually using that rhetorical device for a reason.
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scans_daily2012-08-26 05:18 am
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T'challa phones a friend in Avengers #59, from about the same era:
Way more interesting than Doom being suddenly portrayed as racist.
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The special kind of hero being someone with the sadistic mindset of Stardust the fucking Space Wizard. Seriously, the richest nations in the world offering ANYTHING for the ability to cure one of the worst conditions plaguing mankind, and he refuses to even consider sharing? What?!?
He could have asked them to help out people in Africa by providing better healthcare, jobs and famine relief, things that he berates from for not doing anyway, but his myopic view is far more important than the millions of lives he could potentially save.
And really, if, say, England discovered penicillin at a time when no one else could replicate it and refused to share it with anyone else, how long before every other country in the world gangs up on them and declares war?
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Quite right. Thanks for the scans!
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In fact, hilariously, it's just occurred to me that "Von Doom" could be what he calls himself when he's intentionally talking about himself in the third person. Because, you know, "Doom" is just for regular everyday talking about himself in the third person, so he needs to bump it up an extra level of formality when he's actually using that rhetorical device for a reason.