Black Doom

Black Doom (ブラックドゥーム Burakku Dūmu?) is a fictional character, and antagonist in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, debuting as the main antagonist in Shadow the Hedgehog. He is the sinister leader of the Black Arms and the oldest member of his species. The Black Arms are Black Doom's own spawn and appear to operate with an insect-like hive intelligence, seemingly preventing any attempts to challenge Black Doom for leadership. He presents an almost religious front and shows little respect for humanity due to its sins against each other and the planet earth.

Black Doom's philosophy is a little more than egotistical justification for his own dark deeds. Following his return to earth in the present day, he wanted to enslave the humans and use them as food for him and his army, but met his defeat at the hands of Shadow the Hedgehog.

Canon media

 * Sean Schemmel

Fanon media

 * Robert Carlyle (Shadow and Rouge; voice and motion capture)

Iago PUC's ideas

 * Black Doom appears as the main antagonist in Shadow and Rouge (a film set in James Cameron's Sonic Cinematic Universe), portrayed by Robert Carlyle through voice and motion capture. Along with his powers and abilities from the 2005 Shadow the Hedgehog video game, this version also has shapeshifting powers, and he mainly assumes the form of G.U.N. officer Sean Griffin (also portrayed by Carlyle).
 * Black Doom makes a cameo in Sonic Presents... Chao in Space: Behind the Scenes. He appears in flashbacks of Shadow the Hedgehog's past, when Shadow describes the Dark Emerald Empire (the villainous faction in the titular fictional movie Chao in Space) as a "family-friendly variant" of the Black Arms, amalgamated with the Eggman Empire.

Joint ideas

 * Black Doom is a non-playable character, and one of the main antagonists in DC vs. Sega, voiced again by Sean Schemmel. He and Darkseid are merged into the game's overall antagonist Blackseid, while the Black Comet is fused with Apokolips.