Doom

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Doom refers to a state or feeling of impending and inevitable destruction and ruin, far beyond mere trouble. It can also mean the following things:

[edit] id Software property

See also Topics related to the Doom series.

Doom is a series of video games by id Software, and several licensed properties have been based on the series.

• Doom (video game), a first-person shooter computer game released in 1993
• Final Doom, a 64-level continuation of the Doom II story released in 1996
• Doom 64, first person shooter for the Nintendo 64 released in 1997
• Doom 3, a re-imagining of the first game released in 2004.
• Doom 4,
• Doom (film), a movie based on the computer game series of the same name
• Doom RPG, a role-playing game for mobile phones, based on the first-person shooter computer game
• Doom: The Boardgame, a board game adaptation of the computer game

[edit] Popular culture

Music

• Doom metal, a genre of heavy metal
• Black doom, a style of doom metal
• Doom (Japanese band), a Japanese thrash metal band
• Doom (UK band), a band credited with founding crust punk
• Doom (Job for a Cowboy album), 2005 album released by deathcore band Job for a Cowboy
• Doom (Mood album), a hip hop album by Mood
• MF DOOM, hip hop musician and producer

Other media

• Doom Trilogy, a series of text adventure games for home computers (beginning with Countdown to Doom)
• Mount Doom, a volcano in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Doctor Doom, a supervillain and ruler of a small country within the Marvel Comics universe
• Judge Doom, the villain of the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Black Doom, leader of the Black Arms in the Sonic the Hedgehog fictional universe
• Doom (professional wrestling)
• Doom, a Final Fantasy dark magic spell that causes the target to die in three turns
• Thulsa Doom, the snake-like villain played by James Earl Jones in the motion picture Conan the Barbarian

[edit] History

• dōm (pronounced "doom"), the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "judgment", "law"
• Doom book the Laws of King Aelfred, Legal Code of Alfred the Great, Code of Alfred 893
• Doom Book, a list kept in the 1930s by United States censor Will Hays
• Doom (painting), a painting that depicts the Last Judgment

[edit] See also

• Doomed
• Doomsday
• Legion of Doom (disambiguation)

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