—Doctor Strange-ratIf anyone else had said that, I'd have called her a naive fool -- in squeaks and hisses.
Appearing in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being!"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) ⏵ (Possessed by Dormammu) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Wong (Main story and recap)
- Sara Wolfe
- Topaz (Main story and recap)
- Clea (Main story and recap)
Antagonists:
- Dormammu (Possesses Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)) (Main story and recap)
- Dark sorcerers from the World of Infinite Space (First appearance)
- Great Many (First appearance)
- Last sorceress of the Dire Wraiths (First appearance)
- Unnamed disciple of Agamotto (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Urthona (Mentioned)
- Old Ones (Mentioned)
- Umar (Only in recap)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Druid (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Hercules (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Illyana Rasputin (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Talisman (Michael Twoyoungmen) (Cameo)
- Thor (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Gaea (Behind the scenes) (Also appears in recap and is invoked as "Bride, Mother, Crone", "Maia, Gaea, Dea")
- Shuma-Gorath (Mentioned)
- Elan (Mentioned)
- Hagahtri (Mentioned)
- Kk'kwathi (Mentioned)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Celestials (Mentioned)
- Seraphim (Mentioned)
- Chaos (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Faltine (Main story and recap)
- Old Ones (Mentioned)
- Rats
- Asgardians (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Mutants (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Human-Olympian Hybrids (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Frogs
- Dire Wraiths
- Celestials (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Dark Dimension (Main story and recap)
- Abyss (Invoked)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation (Main story and recap)
- Eye of Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Orb of Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Wings of Needless Sorrow
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Shield of the Seraphim
- Flames of Regency
Synopsis for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being!"
Dormammu has taken over Doc's body and calls the other black sorcerers to follow him. Doc, Clea, and Topaz fight Dormammu so that Doc can have his own body back.
Incantations include: O, thou bride, mother, crone -- The blood of the Earth and the milk of heaven -- By all that rises and converges and falls in thy sight, O adorable one -- hear me! In this hour of danger, horrible danger from without. I pray you rise up against it! Bestir your eternal forces to our aid! In the depths we cry to you: Maia, Gaea, Dea!
Notes
- The events from this issue take place concurrently with the "Inferno" storyline running through alternating issues of Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor and Excalibur.
- Doctor Strange destroyed many of his mystic talismans in Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #81.
- Doctor Strange last fought Shuma-Gorath in Strange Tales (Vol. 2) #14.
- Clea and Topaz appeared last in Strange Tales (Vol. 2) #2.
- The Wings of Needless Sorrow were last seen in Strange Tales (Vol. 2) #4.
Trivia
- The title to this issue, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is taken from the name of a novel written by Milan Kundera in 1982 and first published in 1984 in France.
See Also
- 2 image(s) from Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Vol 1 2
- 2 reprint(s) of Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Vol 1 2