^^ Well in that case, since that scan you're highlighting represents Retcon Beyonder,
we can always say,
Beyonder sub-consciously allowed Doom to steal his power:
Simply because as an incomplete Cube Being
he had a compelling urge to satisfy the desire of others.
Doom's desire? I want your power Beyonder. 🙂
Originally posted by Mindset Weren't you the one saying Black Celestial Arc Galactus was the same as 616 Galactus?
Anyway, 616 Doom took Beyonder's powers, I don't see what big deal is.
I never said a Future version of 616 Doom is not 616 Doom,
cause you're right, it still would be, just like BCA G.
Here's the difference concerning Doom:
There Never was a 616 Doom (scarred-mystic-Reed rivaling Doom) in 616.
That Victor Von Doom (the original 616) was living a quiet life in McArthur's body.
Yes. 616 Doom's Mind and Personality (everything that makes him Doom)
was NOT, NEVER in the original SSI Battleworld universe.
Again, 616 Doom was on Planet Earth doing McArthur's wife,
while the heroes & villains were in another reality on Battleworld.
This is why Beyonder plucked a non-existent Doom,
because well ... there was none in the Present of FF #288.
This is exactly the reason a Timeloop anomaly was created.
The Present was finally here FF#288 (nearly Two years AFter SSI)
and the Doom from SSI was missing from Reality,
because he was obliterated at the end of SSI by Beyonder.
Mindset ... it's a technicality issue.
Again, I agree that 616 Doom would have been able to do anything his Future-self could do.
Only that technically speaking, in that particular Beyonder feat,
it wasn't exactly him.
To be honest, since original scarred 616 Doom didn't exist in the Future Beyonder plucked SSI Doom from,
just who in the hell was that Doom in SSI is the question?
It wasn't McArthur, since his mind/personality was in limbo,
and it wasn't original scarred 616 Doom since his mind/personality
was in McArthur's body,
so ... ?
Only thing we're left with is a non-existent Doom. hm