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Earth-808 would diverge from Earth-616 during the years that Victor von Doom attended State College. In this reality, when his classmate Reed Richards found incorrect calculations with Doom's device to contact he afterlife, Doom reacted to the news differently. Unlike on Earth-616, Doom listened to Richard's warnings and the two would worked together to make the necessary corrections. With the device working properly, Doom accessed the neither world and learned that his mother was suffering in the afterlife.

With a new devotion in life, Doom thanked his friend Reed Richards and quit college to focus his time on learn the occult arts in the hopes of freeing his mother's soul. Seeing tutelage by a remote sect of Tibetan monks, they taught them all they knew and constructed for him a golden suit of armor. Then one night, Doom succeeded in casting a spell that freed his mother's soul from the neitherworld. This however, did not go unnoticed as his mother's soul was owned by the demon lord Mephisto who sought to get revenge against Doom for stealing one of his slaves.

Doom meanwhile traveled to his native Latveria and used his armor to attempt to oust tyrannical ruler Rudolfo from the Latverian throne. In the battle, a bullet fired from Rudolfo bounced off Doom's armor and mortally wounded the ruler. Following Rudolfo's death, Victor took over rule of Latveria, freeing those enslaved during Rudolfo's rule, including his childhood love Valeria. The two were soon wed, however their marital bliss was short lived.

After their wedding, they drove through Latveria to the cheers of its people, only for their trip to be halted when Mephisto stepped in. Plucked to Mephisto's realm, Doom learned that in punishment for freeing his mother's soul, Mephisto had taken all of Latveria. Doom attempted to fight the hell-lord to win his people and his land back but failed. Mephisto told Doom that he could have his land back if he replaced the soul that he had liberated and offered him a choice: The soul of Doom or that of his newly wed wife Valeria. Doom, his pride to strong and still having a great vision for his people and the world, was unable to sacrifice himself and offered up the soul of his true love in exchange for the freedom of his people. Accepting the deal, Doom was returned to the very moment he was taken away and found that Valeria was now gone.

With the people of Latveria wondering what happened to their new queen, Doom rushed off to his castle. There he was sequestered for the one moment each year where he had the opportunity to cast a spell where he would challenge Mephisto in order to save the soul of Valeria.[1]

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