Marvel dominated in 80s

Marvel dominated in the 80s and early 90s, but today I would but them roughly even with each other. During the rought part of the 80s, DC basicly survived on the loyalty of buyers to Superman and Batman.

DCs catching up has more to do with Marvel going down hill then the improvements in DCs comics. Since their peak in the 80s, the quality of Marvels writing has gone down. The stories are more politically correct, more black/white and the stories more shallow then before.

Just compare the XMen's two great villians, Magento and Apocalypse. Magneto is a villian, but if you know his background you can understand why he feels the way he does. Much of his motivation is a desire to protect the mutants that is so irrationally strong that he is willing to destroy the rest of humanity to do it. He is designed such that you generally approve of his goals, if not his methods.

He also generally goes about achiving these goals in a manner that has at least some chance of working. From trying to build a haven for mutants away from humanity to training his own teams of mutants, you can see how his actions are aimed at achiving his goals.

Apocalypse on the other hand seeks to survive, gather power and rule the planet. Why? Because he can, he really has no deeper motivations. He really is nothing more then a bandit that has stumbled across power sufficent to reshape the world around him.

Luckily for humanity, he is fairly stupid though. If he used his vast power and technology in a sensible manner he would have taken over the planet long ago. Instead he regularly embarks on inane plans that are designed more to trigger stories then achive his goals.

Jay

Apparently if Professor Xavier hadn't stopped Apocalypse, then Apocalypse would have taken over the world. That was the whole plot of the series. Wolverine and Cyclops got into a battle that cost Cyclops an eye and Wolverine a hand. X-Man was born from Cyclops and Jean Grey's DNA. The Dark Beast was born, without Prof X's guidence. Etc.

Doctor Doom is another classic Marvel Super Villian. He seeks to make the world better by ruling it. He figures that being Emperor of the planet would bring about world peace and an end to hunger. That those in power stand in his way. He also seeks to free the soul of his dead mother from that bad place that Mephisto rules over. But mostly it is the rule the world plan that he follows. He makes robots called Doombots that look like him, and sometimes they get defeated. Ben Grim was often quoted as saying "I wonder if Doctor Doom was a real guy or a robot?" many times. Also his hatred for Reed Richards leads him to clash with the Fantastic Four a lot. Sometime happened between them in college and Doom blamed him for the accident that scared his face. In a "What If" comic book, they had Doom as a hero, who actually listened to Reed and double-checked his formula and it didn't blow up in his face and he wore gold armor and battled for good. So it is possible that Doom could be a hero. They also did this in the Doom 2099 comic book, that had Doom go up against villians.

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