#DOOMSlayer

[abatilus]

[narklos]

Go away mum

[naruhoudo]

New suit goes hard

[1mm4d13]

He wants to be Guts so badly

[aerodumb]

Ok, so, personal headcanon: I think that Doomguy's love for bunnies and toys can be extrapolated to anything small, and V1 is small. He would find it funny to see a short robot being such a menace

[hertist-art]

[DOOM] Slayer Vacation

Date: 3/23/2024

[morthern]

Pretty

[ryanthel0ser]

We're so back oh my GOD

[1stprototype]

巽

[pirate-queen-boy]

the most dissapointing part of DOOM Eternal is that we never got to see the Doomslayer make this face:

[but-a-humble-goon]

"Master Chief and Doomguy would be best friends." Master Chief was an abducted child supersolider created to crush human rebellions who is unerringly loyal to the fascist military that created him. Doomguy canonically beat his commanding officer to death for ordering him to shoot civilians. No they would not.

[bluescarabguy]

Been rewatching a whole YouTube playlist about DOOM, and it's got me thinking about Doomguy as a hero

Because despite being the executor of possibly the most brutal violence and carnage ever put on a TV screen...Doomguy's force is never directed at a fellow human being. People have described the Slayer's one and only goal, his purpose, as "to exterminate each and every demon in existence", but I think I'd view it more as "his purpose is to protect innocent lives, period".

Still probably the greatest piece of characterization in these games is the very beginning of DOOM 2016, the leadup to the title screen. Doomguy enters that elevator from the intro facility to the start of the game proper, and Hayden starts telling us about how "oh, they only had the best of intentions when they started mining Hell for energy. Sure, it's all gone bad now, but it was worth the risk, I assure you!". As Samuel tries to convince us that this was all for the greater good, he only had people's best interests at heart, Doomguy simply looks at the corpse of a security guard on the floor of the elevator (who definitely didn't sign up to the possibility of being disemboweled by hellspawn), looks up and is visibly shaking with fury as he presses his fists together, and then smashes the speaker Hayden's talking through, transitioning us to the game's title card.

Absolutely perfection. Tells you everything you need to know about Doomguy's motivations and resolve without a single word. Though if he had said anything, it'd probably just be quoting Ripley from Aliens: "Bad call? THESE PEOPLE ARE DEAD! Do you realize what you've done here?".

Everyone in these games is constantly trying to tell Doomguy that sacrifices have to be made for the greater good, and he utterly refuses to entertain that notion when human lives are concerned. Not to mention that, while the games play with the metatextual conceit that Doomguy doesn't give a shit about the lore or narrative or bigger picture, he's just there to slaughter evil (the same way most Doom players and indeed Doom co-creator John Carmack view story as merely window dressing for gameplay)...if you headcanon that Doomguy actually IS reading all the logs and lore that he's picking up as collectibles, you know he's aware that all of the higher-up decision makers at the UAC are straight-up demon worshippers attempting to bring about the apocalypse, and thus nothing they say can be trusted.

As far as Doomguy is concerned, there's no compromise when it comes to innocent lives. If one innocent person has to die in order to uphold the established system, the system is to be violent ripped down and smashed into the dirt, never to be rebuilt. That's how he feels about Hayden's UAC, that's how he feels about Khan Maykr's plans in Eternal. That's WHY his fight is eternal, because he'll fight anyone, even those he once fought alongside, if they choose to say, to end this post on a joke, "some of you may die, but that is a risk I'm willing to take".

[gregemann]

playing doom 2016 and eternal :))

[naruhoudo]

rip + cheese

[abatilus]

Doom X dead space Remake art

[monstersmashorpass]

SMASH OR PASS: Doom Slayer, Doom Eternal

POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR DOOM UNDER CUT bc we don't know when its revealed in game lol

Please reblog for greater sample size, as per usual!

SO YEAH he is 2000+ years old and is a demigod, according to the DOOM wiki

so we're accepting based on that lol