| “ | Just remember - ALL CAPS when you spell the man name. | „ |
| ~ One of DOOM's most iconic lyrics, from ALL CAPS. |
| “ | "Ay, yo, yo, yo, you can't stand right there." In his right hand was a man's worst nightmare. | „ |
| ~ MF DOOM in Rhymes Like Dimes. |
| “ | When the smoke clears; you can see the sky again - there will be the chopped-off heads of Leviathan. | „ |
| ~ DOOM in Strange Ways. |
| “ | Can it be I stayed away too long? Did you miss these rhymes when I was gone? |
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| ~ DOOM at the end of That's That. |
MF DOOM, also referred to as Metalface (when singing), Metalfingers (when producing), "Villain" or simply DOOM, is the most iconic alias of the late underground hip hop legend Daniel Dumile, as well as the main protagonist of the albums produced by him under the alias.
He was a rapping self-proclaimed supervillain who mastered the English language and would produce songs featuring incoherent tirades and iconic rhymes and flow. The persona was based on many other villains throughout time, such as the Phantom of the Opera, Destro from G.I. Joe and most notably the iconic Marvel villain Doctor Doom.
He was created and portrayed by the late Daniel Dumile, who also created his other lesser-known personas, such as King Geedorah and Victor Vaughn.
Appearance[]
In real life, DOOM would often wear your average rapper clothes, those being a jacket, shirt and baggy pants. He'd also often wear a cap that wouldn't fit on his head properly due to the mask getting in the way. He also often sported a beard, although this wasn't as common in cartoon depictions of him as it was in real life. DOOM would wear a plethora of masks that all harboured a consistent design of being shiny metal masks with large eyebrow muscles above the eyes, a triangular forehead and two pieces of metal extending on each side of where DOOM's mouth would be.
Across the animated music videos, DOOM was often depicted as an African-American man with green clothes and a mask made of metal that concealed his face (excluding his eyes, mouth & cheeks), however, DOOM never really had a consistent design, with his only consistent factor being his iconic metal mask.
In the iconic ALL CAPS music video, MF DOOM was depicted as a regular scientist who underwent a horrifying lab accident alongside another scientist (who would become the character Madlib, who was based on the rapper & producer of the same name) and transformed into a large, hulking man with giant muscles and hands, and afterwards donned a large green trench coat, a brown fedora and the iconic mask, and carried a now immobile Madlib (now a small red alien-like creature who was telekinetically supplying DOOM with his powers) around in a large golden chest.
On the album cover for MM... FOOD and official music video for Vomitspit, DOOM was depicted as a shorter, scrawny man with golden teeth, a green hoodie, blue jeans, an orange vest and a more rectangular metal mask with square eyeholes and no forehead piece, which displayed a bizarre third eye in its place.
Personality[]
DOOM often portrays himself in his songs as a sleazy, womanising, violent and ruthless gangster with a love for money, women, intercourse and violence, as well as a clear talent for stringing rhymes and innuendos together efficiently. He often makes clear his distaste for fraudster rappers who write checks their asses can't catch, and makes clear the lengths he'll go to to get the bag. Despite his tough demeanour, DOOM is shown to be rather childish, as KOOKIES from MM...FOOD and BATTY BOYZ from Born Like This revolve entirely around masturbating to porn ads like a juvenile and calling the Justice League "gay", respectively, although he still often presents himself as an intelligent and charismatic man with a plan and a horde of impressive rhymes up his sleeve. His songs almost always contain Frankenstein's Monster-esque skits before, during and after DOOM's lyrics, often consisting of voice lines from old superhero cartoons and crime dramas strung together to resemble citizens, authority, other criminals, and other parties discussing the character of DOOM with reverence and often fear.
Controversies involving the character[]
MF DOOM garnered some controversy after performing a stunt where he would send faux rappers wearing his mask in his place, disappointing fans who paid money to see him. These came to be known as "DOOMposters". This is ironic, considering that DOOM's entire gimmick was that he was a comic book supervillain, and the villain DOOM was inspired by and is almost always compared to, Doctor Doom, would also equip robots with his outfit and send them to commit crimes in his name. DOOM said in an interview that he, at one point, considered sending a white man in his place.
DOOM would later catch heat from the LGBTQ+ community after the release of the track BATTY BOYZ from his final standalone album, BORN LIKE THIS, due to the track's blatant homophobia in the form of insults aimed at iconic superheroes like Superman, Batman, Robin and others. As problematic as the lyrics were, Dumile later said in an interview that it was just another aspect of the DOOM persona, stating that the pot-bellied villain had beef with everyone, from the queer to the superhuman, and promised that in reality, he himself had no qualms against queer folk. Despite this, few still deem DOOM to be a bigot based on what they heard in BATTY BOYZ.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- DOOM's iconic mask was based on a helmet from the Gladiator films.
- Many DOOM fans went to see Gladiator 2 when it was revealed that the popcorn bucket resembled the helmet that inspired DOOM's mask.
- In the popular online FPS Team Fortress 2, a community-made cosmetic was made for the game's fourth class, the Demoman, resembling the Gladiator helmet, correlating with the Demo regularly being portrayed as a knight on account of the "Demoknight" subclass. It was referred to as the "Vaudeville Visor", referencing DOOM's Vaudeville Villain. Some fans refer to Demo in this getup as "MF BOOM".
- Clips from old cartoons featuring (or referring to) Doctor Doom would often be taken out of context in DOOM's music to make it sound like him. In That's That, a clip referring to Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was also used in the same way.
- DOOM's name, while being a reference to Victor Von Doom, was really derived from Daniel Dumile's nickname, "Doom", short for Dumile.
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