Secret Wars Villain revealed *fixed*

Marvel is hyping up the upcoming Secret War event. The reason for the earth shattering, well earths shattering, has been revealed, he will be the big bad in the upcoming event book. See after the jump for spoilers as to who it is.
IGN has revealed the the Great Destoryer, aka Rabum Alal, is none other than Dr. Doom.
From IGN:

You might have heard that the Marvel Universe is ending in May, and the reason behind that is that something — or someone — has set off a series of “incursions” where parallel universes are crashing into each other, destroying both. The only way to save our universe is to destroy the opposing universe’s Earth, which as you can imagine has given the New Avengers aka the Illuminati quite a bit of grief. Destroying billions of lives to save your own just isn’t a heroic thing to do, after all.
After over two years and 70 issues of Avengers storytelling by writer Jonathan Hickman, the person known as Rabum Alal — the Great Destroyer — has finally been revealed as Doctor Doom. The reveal came in today’s New Avengers #31 (by Hickman and artist Kev Walker) when Doctor Strange was captured by the Black Swans and brought to their leader.
But it’s not the Doctor Doom you think it is. Let us *attempt* to explain, as a lot has happened to get us to this point.
The Illuminati learned quite a bit about the incursions from a character known as Black Swan. She was the first to mention Rabum Alal, her master that she and her kind revere on a religious level, and we’ve been wondering who it is ever since. She said that his birth set off the early heat death of an entire universe, and that started the chain reaction that’s causing all of the incursions.
As for how it can be Doctor Doom, that remains a mystery despite the reveal. Doom had his first taste of an incursion when his country of Latveria was attacked by “Mapmakers” — beings who take advantage of incursions by traveling to a parallel world and sapping it of its resources. After defeating the Mapmakers, Doom found one of their beacons and gave it to the Tinkerer to analyze.
Meanwhile, Illuminati member Namor recruited a team of supervillains — called the Cabal — to destroy any alternate worlds that threatened to collide with ours. When his team of bad guys became too much for him to handle, he reached out to Doctor Doom for help in New Avengers #24. Doom turned him down as a point of pride — “Doom is no man’s second choice.” — and we saw that this new information given to him by Namor along with Tinkerer’s beacon research was enough to set a new plan in motion.
In the pages of New Avengers #29, Doom put that plan into motion when he went on a journey into the multiverse with the all-powerful Molecule Man.
We hadn’t seen Doom again until today’s New Avengers #31 where he appeared as the leader of the Black Swans and looked distinctly different than the last time we saw him two issues ago. How could Doctor Doom be the great instigator to the conflict that started back in New Avengers #1 despite the fact that he only learned about it recently? That’s the big question.
But in the meantime, know that Doctor Doom has something to do with the upcoming death of the Marvel Universe and we are itching to figure out just what he’s up to.

The key issue to all of this, besides the recent Fantastic Four issues, is New Avengers #29 of course, that is if fans end up caring about Secret Wars.

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