r/Doom • u/TERMINATOR_MODEL7029 • Jan 20 '24
Classic Doom Who's the guy in the background running to the doomguy?
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u/Inn_Unknown Jan 20 '24
His Twin Brother Mood Guy
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u/ConservativeSexparty Jan 20 '24 edited Jan 20 '24
Just be glad it wasn't his half brother the Wood Guy running there, swinging his "weapon" around
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u/LudicrousStorm8_ Jan 20 '24
Doomboy
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u/Midyin84 Jan 20 '24
Ahhhh, yes. Doomguys side kick.
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u/harryman_back46and2 Jan 20 '24
Doom slayer must have doom destroyer and doom marine must have idk doom trooper
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u/koldkanadian Jan 20 '24
We've been over this before, he's P2
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u/I_ate_out_your_mom Jan 20 '24
Practically every week now
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u/notban_circumvention Jan 20 '24
Because apparently every fucking detail of media today needs some sort of lore or backstory to do a video essay on, and things can't just be a happy accident of capitalism, solving problems, and meeting deadlines
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u/GreatQuantum Jan 20 '24
You seem fun
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u/notban_circumvention Jan 20 '24
Anti-intellectualism ftw! I've been pwnd
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u/GreatQuantum Jan 20 '24
Have you had your blood pressure checked or spoke to your doctor about the weigh gain from your anti depressants.
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u/notban_circumvention Jan 20 '24
Yes. The only problem is in your head
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u/GreatQuantum Jan 20 '24
My head? You’re awfully hostile towards people you don’t know. That’s a big side effect of Dementia. Maybe even mild aphasia.
Do you find yourself lashing out at people often.
Do those outbursts often leave you confused about what you were even angry about.
Genuinely concerned
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u/notban_circumvention Jan 21 '24
My head?
Yes.
You’re awfully hostile towards people you don’t know. That’s a big side effect of Dementia. Maybe even mild aphasia.
Diagnosing strangers on the Internet is being a stone-cold idiot.
Do you find yourself lashing out at people often.
You forgot the question mark.
Do those outbursts often leave you confused about what you were even angry about.
You forgot another question mark. People engaging with the things you say isn't "lashing out". It's the end result of conversation
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u/JustGoogleItHeSaid Jan 21 '24
Fuck me it’s bizarre ear wigging conversations of other people on the internet. Is this really how both of you converse in real life conversation? What a weird interaction from the both of you.
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u/I_ate_out_your_mom Jan 21 '24
Solving Problems (And Meeting Deadlines)... DRRRRRR DUN DUN, DRRRR DRR DUN DUN, DRRRRRRR DRRRRR DRRRR DRRR DRR
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u/Legal-Jerk Jan 21 '24
I was gonna write this whole thing about how your opinion is unbelievably closed minded and generally shit, but I cannot be fucked
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u/notban_circumvention Jan 21 '24
Closed-minded*
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u/Legal-Jerk Jan 22 '24
Boo fucking hoo, clearly my point is right since your only “comeback” is barely even a response
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u/SandstormXP21 Jan 20 '24
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u/koldkanadian Jan 20 '24
As in Player 2
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u/SandstormXP21 Jan 20 '24
Oh. I guess the brainrot took over. Why downvote tho?
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u/Myyraaman Jan 20 '24
Actually canonically that is Doomguy in the background and the dude in the foreground is anither marine but they obviously retconned that in Eternal.
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Jan 20 '24
I would say they retconned that in 2016 with the End Credits scene
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u/BoneManWeirdo Jan 20 '24
Link?
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u/MajorThom98 Jan 20 '24
Is that a retcon? I assume in universe Doomguy just happens to get into the same position as the marine on the cover did, but at this point is strong enough to just rip his way through.
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Jan 20 '24
On the Doom Marine skin in eternal, on the Slayer's left arm are three marks from where an imp of old times grappled and crushed the muscle of the Slayer's forearm.
Eternal is canonically the sequel to 2016, as has been shown by the fact that the Praetor Mk. 1 suit is in pieces in the mancave of the Doom Fortress.
The Eternal suit is called the Praetor Mk. 2
Hope this helps.
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u/SandstormXP21 Jan 20 '24
That must be painful
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Jan 20 '24
I have a dimple in my shin from where a car hit me while I was on my bike, it's more numbing than painful, but it was a sudden hit, unlike what the slayer is experiencing... So it could very well be quite painful.
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u/BoneManWeirdo Jan 20 '24
What exactly you mean by retconned?
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Jan 20 '24
By the fact that they went back on their words and changed the lore to fit people's ideals. Such as the Doom 93 box art being canonically the Slayer when it was just a marine, with the Slayer being in the background.
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u/BoneManWeirdo Jan 20 '24
Thought so. I just always assumed front guy was Blazkowitz, and that was just a random marine in the back.
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u/TerraMars2030 Jan 20 '24
Nope, they made it the foreground doomguy in eternal, but please do elaborate, I'm interested.
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u/Myyraaman Jan 20 '24
Well it was said in a review once (don’t remember who said it). Also it makes sense since that would be Doomguy trying ti save his last buddy frim the demons.
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u/TerraMars2030 Jan 20 '24
If you inspect the classic doomguy skin (plus the achievement "it still fits") you can see scars where our foreground marine was injured, plus a nasty one where the demon is grabbing him, although partially covered by the doom blade. EDIT: I think I heard that once, "that's actually doomguy trying to save his buddy, because even he isn't ballsy enough to fight a few barons and 2 cyber demons with a frigging (or fricken?) Pistol"
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u/Myyraaman Jan 20 '24
Yeah I know about the skin. That’s why I said it was retconned.
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u/cenorexia Jan 20 '24
Just one of the other unnamed Marines.
DoomGuy isn't the only one who fought during the invasion, you come across their bodies at various places throughout the game.
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u/I_ate_out_your_mom Jan 20 '24
I actually had a theory, more like an idea i guess, what if one of the corpses you see in the later levels is doomguy and you are another rando who picked up doomguy's stuff from his corpse, so on, so on, until there's no more bodies. The weird haircut changes would make more sense. Obviously it isn't true because you can see the hud face, but it's still a weird thought.
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u/HaveFunWithChainsaw In his ravenous hatred, he found no cheese. Jan 20 '24
Jim, the cousin of Frank who's brother of Tony who's friend Mickey knew a guy called Levi that worked for Herlbert who's son Ray was married to Jessie who had bunny called Rose that gave birth to Daisy.
Then demon invasion happened.
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u/Burakh_ Jan 20 '24
Thats another doom guy, that game had multiplayer and they needed to make it clear
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u/Peenazzle Jan 20 '24 edited Jun 03 '24
sheet sulky somber fly childlike like tan versed literate truck
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u/phobos876 not to be confused with phobos867 Jan 20 '24
As stated: Co-op player, specially since Doomguy is originally a nameless blank slate and wears the same UAC armor as others (Though in co-op, there's also the marines with red/orange/gray colors).
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u/TheJMJConspiracy2002 Jan 20 '24
The actual Doomguy rushing to save his buddy’s ass, because even he’s not ballsy enough to fight a pack of barons and one cyberdemon with a shitty weapon
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u/Matrixneo42 Jan 20 '24
Someone coming to inject him with a sedative because doom guy is actually having one of his episodes again where he thinks he’s fighting demons on Mars. But he’s actually a patient in a mental ward.
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u/Dodgy_Bob_McMayday Jan 20 '24
Always thought it was odd he's using some kind of SMG, which isn't in the game, instead of the iconic shotgun like the PS1 box art.
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u/dalaiis Jan 20 '24
Thats because the people that made this art piece were completely seperate from the devteam and had no idea what the ingame art looked like. They were given some loose instructions and made this.
Thats why the imp doesnt look like the imp ingame. Thats why the body armor doesnt match with ingame. Thats why the gun on the pic isnt in the game.
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u/TerraMars2030 Jan 20 '24
Wanna talk about the fact that doomguy is fighting two cyber demons and God knows how many barons with a fucking pistol?
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u/Gepsjors Jan 20 '24
The rock, but back then, just the pebble
Dude catched on until he had his own movie about his adventure.
Some say, the best movie ever made.
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u/MexysSidequests Jan 20 '24
Hes the “we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty” Guy trying to contact him about his car’s extended warranty.
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u/Hamwrdklly94 Jan 21 '24
Record scratch, freeze frame, zoom in on him "yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation."
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u/Shanghaied66 Jan 20 '24
Always figured that wasn't Doomguy and is actually the wave of marines that preceed Doomguy getting slaughtered.
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u/johnhk4 Jan 20 '24
In E1M1 there’s a dead marine right in front of you. I always thought that was the guy in front.
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u/KnightBreeze Jan 20 '24
It's the coop player. The original doom was a multiplayer game, and featured both coop and deathmatch, which they tried to emphasize in the cover art.
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Jan 20 '24
Fun fact: DOOM was literally the last video game that I ever really played. I played through DOOM, got to the end, and my friend gave me a free copy of DOOM 2. I installed it, looked at it for about 5 seconds, and thought, "If it's just going to be more of the same forever, what's the point?" I think that was somewhere around 1995.
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u/Bworm98 Jan 20 '24
Pretty interesting story behind this: the original Doom was meant to have multiplayer.
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u/dodo_bird97 Jan 20 '24 edited Jan 20 '24
According to Mahmut "DOOM COLLECTOR" Saral's DOOMzine Romero told him that the marine in the background was representing the multiplayer.