Appearing in "The Power of Strange Compels You"
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Main story and flashback) (Temporarily absorbs Mister Misery)
Supporting Characters:
- Wong (Main story and flashback) (Freed from Mister Misery's possession)
- Zelma Stanton
Antagonists:
- Mister Misery (Temporarily absorbed by Doctor Strange)
Other Characters:
- Ancient One (Yao) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Hamir the Hermit (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Julia Child (Mentioned) (Topical Reference) (Only in flashback)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Agamotto (Invoked)
- Dwellers in Darkness (Invoked)
- Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Unnamed Man-Thing (Cameo)
- Popeye (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Dormammu (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Man-Things (Cameo)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- China (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Main story and flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Main story and flashback)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (Main story and flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Main story and flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Main story and flashback)
- Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Mentioned)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Netherworld (Mentioned)
- Dark Dimension (Mentioned)
Items:
- Doctor Strange's Cloak
- Eye of Agamotto (Only in flashback)
- Cloak of Levitation (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "The Power of Strange Compels You"
Many years ago, Stephen Strange meets Wong for the first time in Kamar-Taj. This story is recounted by Mister Misery currently possessing Wong.
As Strange begins the exorcism, Misery taunts him about how he never cared about Wong as much as Wong cared for him. This infuriates him so much that he inflicts pain on himself so that Misery will possess him instead of Wong. Zelma enters to find both Strange and Wong okay, but finds that Misery has possessed the entire Sanctum Sanctorum.
After a chase through the ever-shifting halls, Strange fully absorbs Misery into him. Everything seemingly normal, Strange vomits up the last of Misery into his toilet, and it reconstitutes in the sewers.
Solicit Synopsis
• Mister Misery has kidnapped Wong and is using everything Strange’s friend and companion knows about the Sorcerer Supreme.
• A compromised Strange must find a way to defeat the sadistic entity without killing Wong!