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Objectivism doesn't work.
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That's sort of an exceedingly dumb way for Doom to attempt to conquer the world, though, isn't it?
Not at all. Military superiority has proven to be a very effective form of conquest in the past. Alexander The Great and Gengis Khan both got pretty damn far, and their empires only fell apart because a lack of organization after the deaths of Alexander and Khan. Hitler probably would have won WWII and conquered a vast portion of the world, if not the entirety of it, if he'd not enacted the final solution during the war and used the man power and resources from the camps for the war effort. **** like Death rays, that's dicy because it's basically a global hostage situation, and mind control, well, if it works it would be ideal, but from a storytelling standpoint, it's going to have to not be universal if there's going to be any conflict in the story, and from an in-universe perspective, it's a pretty big gamble on a pretty wacky idea. Even gaining power through political manipulation and machiavellian schemes, while they work, does require military might at some point to hold onto and expand your power base. With full on military conquest, it's pretty simple. You defeat their armies, execute their leaders, rename and/or destroy their cities, and everyone knows who's boss. Plus, WWIII with Doom as the main bad guy would make a pretty damn good event if Bendis doesn't write it.