Tell me about Gandalf the Grey's fall and rebirth as Gandalf the White and I'll tell you about Zev Love X's fall and rebirth as MF DOOM. In fact, don't tell me about Gandalf just yet. Let me be first for I'm bursting at the seams to seed this lore and watch it grow into law. So, the truth goes like so: Once upon the year of our Daredevil 1993, Daredevil Vol 1 (#168) dropped Zev Love X. The ground did not catch him. Deeper than than depression, Zev Love X woke up way below terra firma as Dostoevsky's sick man. So bitter and enraged was he and that is what attracted them to him. They wanted his white heat of rage to burn their Flame Divine Reborn. "Pure rage alone will not suffice for the divine are beyond might of arms," said them. "Only words can cut them," said them and thus the Underground Man began to learn. Long and harsh were the lessons but the Underground Man learnt. Learnt the art of wordsmithing till he could turn a rock into an Arkenstone. Learnt the art of wordsmithing till till his rage was so focused, it was akin to a sword that could cut a flame.
Having graduated from his lessons, the Underground Man descended even deeper underground to meet his destined foe. Flame Divine Reborn (FDR) with a whip was it and their fight was incredibly fiery. Finally felling FDR, the Underground Man's spoils were sole. Just the 'Mighty Flame' name and nothing more.
Upon his return to whence he graduated, the Underground Man did not find them, only the armour (complete with a mask) they had forged for him in thanks. The Underground Man wore it and felt like a new man, new name. Zev Love X died that day and 'Mighty Flame' was born. He is late.
The year of our Homework 1997 was almost over when 'Mighty Flame' (who took the dûm from Khazad-dûm to honor them and the armor they made him) surfaced from the underground.
The year of our Black on Both Sides 1999 was when an operation called Doomsday was launched and he who launched it? The world would soon would soon know him as Mighty Flame Dûm. MF Doom.
How's that for lore!! It does have the potential to be law doesn't it? Tell me it does or I'll be a wet blanket the whole summer.