| “ | Just remember - ALL CAPS when you spell the man name. | „ |
| ~ One of DOOM's most iconic lyrics, from ALL CAPS. |
| “ | Mic check. | „ |
| ~ DOOM at the beginning of DOOMSDAY. |
MF DOOM, also referred to as Metalface (when singing), Metalfingers (when producing), "Villain" or simply DOOM, is the most iconic alias of the late hip hop legend Daniel Dumile.
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 by the late Daniel Dumile, who also created his other lesser-known personas, such as King Geedorah.
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 Madlib (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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 his henchmen with his outfit and send them to commit crimes in his name.
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