—UmarYou will hear only lies from the lips of Doctor Strange!
Appearing in "Into the Dark Dimension"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Olnar (Only in flashback) (wizard-king, killed by the Mindless Ones) (First appearance; dies)
- Outcasts (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Dormammu (Only in flashback)
- Mindless Ones (Main story and flashback)
- G'uranthic Guardian
- The Vishanti (Invoked)
- Agamotto the All-Seeing (Mentioned)
- Ikonn (Invoked)
- Dark Dimension rebels
- Cinnibus (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Dark Dimension humanoids (Main story and flashback)
- Faltine (Main story and flashback)
- Mindless Ones (Main story and flashback)
- Humans
- Faltine Hybrids
Realities:
Locations:
- Dark Dimension (Main story and flashback)
- Domain of the Mindless Ones (Only in flashback)
- Dimension of the Faltine (Referenced)
- Earth Dimension
- Cinnibus (Invoked)
- Seven Suns of Cinnibus (Invoked)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Flames of Regency (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Power Wand
- Spells
Synopsis for "Into the Dark Dimension"
After days of preparations to purge his own mystic aura, Doctor Strange infiltrates the Dark Dimension and dons the disguise of a cloaked mute outcast. While wandering the market in one village, he spots a group of rebels clashing with Umar's guardsmen and intervenes, helping the rebels in their fight using only his martial arts. The rebels are surprised, as outcasts have been shunned by all else in the Dark Dimension ever since Dormammu took power, but before they can confront him, the outcast mysteriously slips away as soon as the fight ends. The rebels make their retreat, worried that they have a mole in their operation since the guardsmen were ready for their appearance. They follow secret passageways to the great barrier and then beyond it and the Mindless Ones' horde to their hidden base in the distant protective dome, not realizing they're being invisibly followed by the outcast. He reveals himself once they're in Clea's presence. Strange explains the situation, admitting that besides Umar making it his fight, he partly wanted to see Clea again after spending so much time getting over her leaving him to see if he still felt anything. Naturally, they both do and embrace.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- The issue opens with a Dark Dimension teacher explaining the origins of the Dark Dimension's current order to their students. Dormammu and Umar were exiles from the Faltine dimension and offered the Dark Dimension's original ruler, Olnar, the means to expand the realm, leading to the incursion of the Mindless Ones and Olnar's death. Dormammu and Umar erected the barrier to keep out the Mindless Ones and defeated the other wizards of the realm that opposed their methods. With Umar left recovering from the war, Dormammu claimed regency, merged with the mystic flames that empowered the realm, and cast a spell of silence on the few surviving wizards, rendering them outcasts.
- The name by which the Outcasts were known before they were banished was not revealed and they were only described as a "host of mighty wizards," the greatest of whom was Olnar, king of wizards. It wasn't until Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #21 that it was revealed that they had originally been known as the Mhuruuks.
- Although Olnar's infant son was mentioned in the history lesson, he did not appear in the flashback and would not be revealed to be Orini until next issue.