Question about DoomGuy and Dark Lord

[FILIPINA_DOOMSLAYER]

Why does DoomGuy remove his helmet when he slays the Dark Lord, but not when he kills the hell priests?

[SMG_Man]

the in-game reason? who knows.

 

the likely meta reason? because it's the very end of the game and it's a bit of a fanservice reveal for the players.

[Faceman2000]

Why does anything that happen in the DLCs happen?

[LadyMistDragon]

Ask a mod to move this to the Doom Eternal forum, we discuss classic Doom everywhere else.

[out_of_service]

Why?

 

"The problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out, slipped on the ice, and broke her hip. That satisfies people. It satisfies, but it wouldn’t satisfy someone who came from another planet and knew nothing about why when you break your hip do you go to the hospital. How do you get to the hospital when the hip is broken? Well, because her husband, seeing that her hip was broken, called the hospital up and sent somebody to get her. All that is understood by people. And when you explain a why, you have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true. Otherwise, you’re perpetually asking why. Why did the husband call up the hospital? Because the husband is interested in his wife’s welfare. Not always, some husbands aren’t interested in their wives’ welfare when they’re drunk, and they’re angry."

 

— Richard Feynman

[Chezza]

Maybe in recognition that his fight is over. The helmet, used for war and his personal crusade against Hell has come to an end.

[MemeMind]

Because its cool

[Gez]

So that his foe could hear the cool one-liner he came up with, viz. "sayonara, dork lard", when he slays him. With the helmet on, it would be all muffled and that'd be a lot less satisfying.

[Zulk RS]

5 minutes ago, Gez said:

So that his foe could hear the cool one-liner he came up with, viz. "sayonara, dork lard", when he slays him. With the helmet on, it would be all muffled and that'd be a lot less satisfying.

Wait... ... ...

 

Does that mean that all the "Umfs" Doomguy makes in Classic Doom is actually Duke Nukem Style One-liners but his helmet muffles him and all we hear is "Umf"?

[D4NUK1]

He know that was his last fight, alas he could finally rest. Like he did in the end of Ultimate Doom

Edited October 24, 2022 by D4NUK1

[Gez]

32 minutes ago, Zulk RS said:

Does that mean that all the "Umfs" Doomguy makes in Classic Doom is actually Duke Nukem Style One-liners but his helmet muffles him and all we hear is "Umf"?

Yes. We've been unjustly deprived of such absolute zingers as "cyberdemon? More like DIE-berdemon" and "mastermind your way out of THIS, brainiac".

[taufan99]

2 minutes ago, Gez said:

"cyberdemon? More like DIE-berdemon"

Is it wrong that I find this worth a chuckle actually?