QUOTE: Walt Simonson did an interesting follow-up to that storyline, I think, in which Doom went up against an army of his former Doombots that had been reprogrammed by Kristoff to be wary of Victor since his reported demise in JB's classic FF260 tale. Dr. Doom prevailed and took back over his kingdom and seal of Latveria.

Yeah, I seem to remember that now.  Seems somewhat similar to JB's intent.

The other Doombots immediately bowed to the true Doom. While the Doombot that thought he was doom attacked the true Dr.Doom in a rage and was instantly destroyed. Doom then said he would later study it to see what caused the malfunction.

I thought Doom did plan for the robots to do to Kristoff what they did.  The only difference is that Doom did it assuming he had somehow died, and did as a contingency plan.  Doom might be too arrogant to think he would die, but it's still plausible.

However, Doom didn't die, so the robots screwed up.  And when Doom gets frustrated, he doesn't think things through.  For all his reason, he gets overwhelmed by his emotions.

JB's revelation fits within what I thought would happen once Doom returned.

Doom laid down the groundworks of the contingency plan, but he did not
have Kristoff in mind for the vessel. Even Doom is not so cruel that he
would do that to a child.-JB

Ah. Well that makes perfect sense. Thank you very much for the explanation.I was thinking that maybe that technology was what he'd used to train his Doombots, since they all believed that they were Doom when not in his presence.

I wonder (and I know that there may be no answer to this), did Doom have somebody in particular in mind for the role?

edited to add the word "the"