Reed Richards == Mr. Fantastic, the fellow from Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four series. Genius scientist, plastic stretchable body.

The comparison Fnord's trying to make is with Victor von Doom, who was a college classmate of Reed's and disfigured in a lab accident during a spate of one-upmanship, eventually becoming Dr. Doom, ruler of a small Eastern European dictatorship and creator of Doombots to do his nefarious bidding.

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