It's really difficult for me to take Doom seriously because of things like that. But then that guy in things like Infinity Gauntlet, he's like the freaking most stupidly strong villain ever for no particular reason. I just don't get it.
He's kinda got a Bad Guy Batman deal going on. He's not incredibly "powerful" like in the sense that Thor or the Hulk are powerful. He's pretty ordinary guy with a burnt *** face (Yo, Harvey). He's just really ****ing smart, has access to a **** ton of money, runs a country, and has the engineering genius to rival MacGyver. Things only get worse when he hooks up with Morgan le Fey and gains access to stupid magic potential.
He runs interesting counterpoint to the DC Hero and I still get a kick out of thinking about the contrast. Doom's flaw is always and will always be his arrogance, not any lack of ability. Batman does not really have that problem. Both of them have roughly the same ability in hand-to-hand combat (Doom's suit pushing up to about the same strength as Spiderman) and Doom is probably smarter than Batman, although the point of their intelligence remains the same. They are both able to outthink, outplan, and otherwise outwit opponents that are much mightier than they by virtue of their mental ability, peak physical condition, inventions for the task, and iron will.
Also seems the logical result of mental gifts in a strong willed individual is a rigid code of honor.
Doc Doom may always be my favorite comic book character. There's a lot of them I like, but it would take something for him to be dethroned on my list.
Unrelated, but my favorite Doom story is still when he faced down Purple Man (mind control guy from Daredevil) and essentially said, "I ****ing dare you." Ten seconds later, Purple Man's freaking out, Doom's not listening to him. Gets quite for a second and Doom says something that amounts to "Yeah, that happened. Don't try ****ing with me again."