MF Doom. Credit: Getty Never has the passing of a supervillain elicited more sorrow. Born Daniel Dumile on January 9th in London, 1971, later of Long Island, New York, masked rapper MF DOOM styled his hip-hop persona on Marvel Comicsâ big bad Doctor Victor Von Doom. Dumile may no longer walk the Earth, but itâs unfeasible that his art and his ideas will ever leave it. 49 is no age to go, but he leaves behind a cosmos of creativity. Dumileâs demise, announced on Instagram yesterday by his wife Jasmine, felt like 2020âs final insult. After a year that took so much, finally came Doomsday. This most wretched run of 12 months â one where illness and suffering reigned supreme â had taken many lives up to this point; household names, millions more anonymous, lost to a virus that ran roughshod. Even within such an onslaught, like the kick to the gut that punctuates the end of a mugging, the death of the rap genius hurt like a deep, uncauterised wound.