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Dormammu (Earth-616)

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Know me--For I am Dormammu! He who comes from the outer dark! He who has waited eternities to possess your frail universe! Look upon my visage and know fear! Hear my words in your soul and feel it crumble! I scream blood and murder at your weak stars! And my screams are the armies of Hell!

—Dormammu[source]

History

Early life[]

Dormammu and his younger twin sister, Umar, were born untold thousands—or perhaps even millions of years ago in the dimension of the powerful energy beings known as the Faltine.[14][15] Unlike their kin, they defied Faltine tradition by gathering matter to themselves. Their actions ultimately led to the death of their parent, Sinifer, after which they were exiled by their fellow Faltine. Wandering across dimensions, Dormammu and Umar continued to amass matter, incorporating it into their very beings. Their search eventually led them to the Dark Dimension, a vast realm with natural warps into pocket universes. Believing it ideal for their ambitions, they used their accumulated matter to assume permanent humanoid forms.[16] At that time, the Dark Dimension had been at peace for nearly 28,000 years, ruled by the wizard-king Olnar the First in its 28th cycle.[17] Despite warnings from the Mhuruuks, his mystical advisors, Olnar welcomed Dormammu and Umar, offering them power in exchange for knowledge of how to break dimensional barriers and absorb other realms into his own. During the 29th cycle of Olnar's rule, Dormammu led him whether by design or chance to the realm of the Mindless Ones, unstoppable creatures of pure destruction. The Mindless Ones rampaged through the Dark Dimension, killing Olnar and many of his people.[18] Seizing the opportunity, Dormammu and Umar drove the creatures back and sealed them away. In the ensuing chaos, they eliminated most of the Mhuruuks,[16] securing their rule. Hailed as saviours, they were declared regents of the Dark Dimension, with Olnar's infant son, Orini, left alive under their care as he posed no threat. As ruler, Dormammu partially reverted to his original Faltine form, his body wreathed in flames. He then merged his essence with the Dark Dimension's inherent mystical energies, magnifying his power to unprecedented levels.[18][16]

Not much is known about Dormammu's early reign. Since the denizens of the Dark Dimension have millennia-long lifespans and exist in a universe where time may not flow as it does on Earth, estimating the duration of his activities is nearly impossible. He waged wars against various extradimensional rulers while forging alliances with others, including a pact with Odin of Asgard. He even joined forces with the embodiment of Eternity to seal away the occult juggernaut Zom within a netherworldly amphora. Although direct clashes between Odin and Dormammu are rare in the modern Marvel Universe, Loki once claimed that Odin spoke of Dormammu in terms of comparison to himself—contrary to Dormammu's belief that Odin would regard him with "dread." Dormammu's power, when amplified by the Evil Eye, was sufficient to nearly collapse Earth-616 by merging it with the Dark Dimension, demonstrating his capacity to threaten entire realities given enough strength.[19]

He seemingly observed Earth's dimension for millennia and supposedly influenced Satannish's development in ancient prehistory. Dormammu frequently clashed with Agamotto (the entity who became Earth's first Sorcerer Supreme) and his unnamed tentacled alien disciple.[8]

Dormammu's knowledge extended to cosmic beings like the Celestials and Zeus, once boasting that he would "burn" the former while claiming his power equaled that of the latter.[citation needed] He also recognized the skill of ancient Atlantean sorcerers, abandoning the Hood in favor of Jennifer Kale—acknowledging her training under Dakimh the Enchanter. The Tome of Zhered-Na explicitly warns sorcerers against succumbing to Dormammu's temptations, implying that even Zhered-Na and the mages of Atlantis were aware of his existence and the threat he posed.[citation needed]

Throughout history, powerful artifacts such as the Eye of Agamotto and the enigmatic Staff of One[8] (wielded by the Minorus, evokers of the Nisanti demon (and thus indirectly channeling Dormammu's own power)[citation needed] have been used against him. However, true defeat eluded him, and over time, he ascended among the ranks of mystic entities whose patronage was sought by mortal sorcerers.

When Umar descended into madness after bearing a daughter with Orini, Dormammu used deception to banish her to a pocket dimension, securing his position as the sole ruler of the Dark Dimension. Orini, completely devoted to Dormammu, raised his daughter Clea in service to the Dread One.[8]

1666[]

In 1666, Dormammu sought to conquer Earth once more, using the "Great Fire of London" to fuel his dark magic. By draining the life-force of the victims, he planned to open a portal at Stonehenge that would link Earth to his Dark Dimension. However, his scheme was foiled when the Sorcerer Supreme, Yao, confronted him. With his mastery of mystic arts, Yao used powerful spells to force Dormammu back into his dimension, preventing the merger of the two worlds and thwarting the dark entity's ambitions.[20]

1692[]

In 1692, Hiram Shaw was Earth's Sorcerer Supreme and the Reverend of Salem Massachusetts, having taken the position after the previous reverend was banished for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Shaw disapproved of his son Obadiah Shaw's relationship with Abigail Harkness, whom he believed to be a witch. One night, Dormammu summoned Shaw, warning him that his lust for power would doom his family. The dark entity offered protection in exchange for Shaw's submission, but Shaw refused. Upon returning home, Shaw found his wife dead and blamed Abigail, having her arrested for witchcraft and murder. Abigail was sentenced to death, but Obadiah freed her, and they fled Salem. Shaw sent a mob after them, only for Abigail to reveal her powers and kill the townsfolk with a blast of fire, leaving only Shaw alive to face the consequences.[21]

1700's[]

In the early 18th century, Dormammu sought to invade the Earthly realm once again but was confronted by the latest Sorcerer Supreme; Sir Isaac Newton. Renowned for his scientific genius, Newton was also a master of the mystic arts. Combining arcane knowledge with mathematical precision, he successfully repelled Dormammu, preventing yet another incursion into the earthly realm.[22]

1860[]

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In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the British and French forces united against China. However, the Five Weapons Society sworn protectors of China stood against the British Army. In a battle in Shanghai, a British sorcerer named Baron Harkness summoned Dormammu's Mindless Ones from the Dark Dimension, causing the deaths of several Deadly Warriors and leaving Zheng Yi mortally wounded. Using the Eyes of the Dragon, Zheng Zu tried to restore his younger brother's power and vitality at the cost of his own life. However, Yi, unwilling to leave the Society leaderless, reversed the spell, sacrificing himself and rejuvenating Zu. This restored Zu's strength and youth, enabling him to defeat both Harkness and the Mindless Ones.[23]

1888[]

In 1888 AD, Dormammu's attempts to break the barrier between the Dark Dimension and Earth remained futile. Seeking an alternative route to exert his influence, he used his formidable power to corrupt an individual, steering them toward a path of violence and insanity. This manipulation gave rise to the infamous serial killer known as Jack the Ripper , who became the vessel for Dormammu's twisted agenda. The brutal killings, known as the Whitechapel Murders, struck terror into the heart of London, and Dormammu used these horrific events to spread fear and chaos, destabilising Earth further. Thn.[20]

WWII[]

In 1943, Dormammu brought the dark sorcerer Baron Mordo, a former disciple of the Ancient One, into his service, cementing their pact through the tragic sacrifice of Mordo's mother and grandfather. In October 1944, the Eye of Agamotto was stolen by Nazi operatives and delivered to the Red Skull. In his attempts to wield the amulet's power, the Skull inadvertently opened a portal to the Dark Dimension. When Captain America and Bucky wrestled the amulet from the Skull, the villain bargained with Dormammu for power in exchange for its retrieval, but the Ancient One sent Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos to aid Captain America and Bucky. The Skull sought to bargain with Dormammu for greater power, but Dormammu scornfully dismissed him.[24] Later that year, the sorcerer Terdu, aligned with Dormammu, led a group of time-displaced criminals, including Jack the Ripper, against Captain America and Bucky.[25] Later Baron Mordo and his grandfather, Viscount Krowler, use a Ghost Machine in Wundagore Castle to raise an undead Nazi army. However, Mordo's true goal is to tear open reality and free Dormammu from the Dark Dimension, in exchange for rulership over what remains. Captain America, Bucky, and their allies launch an assault to stop him. As Cap battles Mordo, Sofia Maximoff, a Romany scientist, helps sabotage the machine. Krowler betrays Mordo, but Mordo kills him before completing the ritual. The machine overloads, severing the link to Dormammu and forcing Mordo to flee. Though thwarted, Dormammu remains a looming threat.[26]

Doctor Strange[]

Eventually, Mordo, with Dormammu's patronage, slowly weakened the Ancient One's power, a plan eventually halted by Doctor Stephen Strange, who became the Ancient One's true disciple and ultimate successor; however, Mordo continued to provide Dormammu with human sacrifices.[citation needed]

During the early days of Strange's as Sorcerer Supreme, he encountered August Wu, this was while he was tracking Dormammu in China. After saving Strange's life, she took him in to recover. Though she wished to join his quest, she remained behind to investigate a newly arrived demonic entity threatening the city. Tragically, she perished in the confrontation.[27]

In recent years, Mordo, dissatisfied with his progress as a servant of a powerful dark force, sought sacrifices for a mysterious entity known as the 'Great Enigma. His actions attracted the attention of Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, forcing him to flee through a portal—only to find himself before the Enigma, revealed to be none other than his original master. It seemed the name had been used as a test for Mordo's loyalty. However, Strange's interference intrigued his master, raising the question of whether the Ancient One's power was waning, given that only his successor stood in Mordo's way.[28]

Dormammu sent a messenger to the Ancient One, declaring his impending conquest of the Earth dimension. Strange went to the Dark Dimension in response, and Dormammu, astonished that even this failed to rouse the Ancient One to action, sent his servants to torment the newcomer.[1] Strange defeated all of them, and Dormammu engaged him directly, but Strange demonstrated unexpected power. Dormammu drew upon his realm's energies, but unwittingly compromised the barrier containing the Mindless Ones and withdrew to repel them. Unwilling to let Dormammu's subjects suffer, Strange aided Dormammu in successfully resealing them. Dormammu felt obligated to end the fight, and Strange made him never to threaten the Earth dimension again.[29] Infuriated by this, Dormammu swore vengeance against Strange, even deeper than his hatred for the Ancient One.[citation needed]

Dormammu identified a loophole in his oath by enhancing Mordo's powers, as Strange's murder by another party would nullify their pact. Mordo and his followers pursued Strange for weeks before finally abducting the Ancient One as leverage to lure Strange to the Dark Dimension. Mordo's arrogance irritated Dormammu, who transported all three Earth sorcerers to a neutral realm where, in his own hubris, he summoned the Lords of the Netherworlds to witness him defeat Strange in physical combat. When Strange appeared to gain advantage, Mordo struck him with a mystical attack from behind, offending Dormammu's sense of honor. Dormammu banished Mordo for interference and faced Strange again, but lost to his opponent's superior combat skills. Before the assembled Lords, Strange compelled Dormammu to pledge not to menace Earth even by proxy, cementing the Dread One's humiliation. Dormammu retaliated by extradimensionally banishing Clea, then manipulating fellow Nether-Lord Tazza into attacking the sorcerer.[30]

Driven to fury, Dormammu dared to challenge the Eternity himself.[31] Even Dormammu's power was insufficient against the Abstract Entity, who banished him to the enigmatic Realm Unknown, where Clea now languished. Rallying the demonic Dykkors, previously banished there by the Ancient One, Dormammu dispatched them to siphon power from the searching Strange, whom he imprisoned. Clea escaped to Earth and mystically influenced Umar, ruling the Dark Dimension during her brother's absence, to release Strange. Strange confronted Dormammu at the very gateway to Earth he intended to enter, only for Dormammu to be stopped by the force of his own vow to leave Earth untouched.[32]

Having reclaimed the Dark Dimension, Dormammu sought a new loophole by possessing Strange himself, but was defeated by Strange and his new allies, the Defenders. Plotting to use Strange's own companions as his unwitting agents, Dormammu then allied with Loki to manipulate the Defenders into acquiring the Evil Eye, whose power he hoped to harness to merge the Earth dimension with his own. But Loki had no intention of sharing power and manipulated the Avengers into also pursuing the Eye, leading to the Avengers/Defenders War.[citation needed]

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When both teams uncovered the plot, they confronted the villains and, prompted by the Scarlet Witch, the Evil Eye absorbed Dormammu as energy and redirected it at Loki, forcing his retreat. It was revealed that Dormammu possesses knowledge of Uatu and his function [33], and Uatu appeared familiar with him as well. Uatu's presence in the Dark Dimension, as well as his penetration of Dormammu's magical defenses, alarmed and intimidated even Dormammu despite his possession of the Evil Eye, yet he was prepared to fight even Uatu should he intervene. A fragment of Dormammu's consciousness persisted, and with Umar's assistance, he was reborn on Earth. Having thus circumvented his vow and emboldened by the Ancient One's recent demise, Dormammu was still betrayed by Umar and exiled by Strange, now Sorcerer Supreme, and the earth-spirit Gaea.[34] Another plan, setting Strange against the Ghost Rider and the spectral Bounty Hunter, fared no better.[35]

Dormammu allied with Doctor Doom to channel the power of the Bend Sinister, with Doom's minion Lucius Dilby attempting to use Strange as a human sacrifice. However, Spider-Man disrupted the ceremony and freed Strange. Dormammu directed Mordo to travel back to 1943, where Mordo's grandfather Viscount Krowler absorbed that era's Mordo's power. Krowler's Dark Cabal prepared to grant Dormammu access to Earth by channeling the terror and hatred generated by Nazi bombings of England. Strange pursued Mordo into the past and secured the assistance of Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos; they disrupted the ritual, dispersing Dormammu's essence across spacetime.[36]

When Strange, recovering from battle with Shuma-Gorath, healed himself through processes that carried him through various dimensions; a portion of the incorporeal Dormammu attached itself to his enemy and, when Strange returned to Earth, possessed his s body as he had originally planned. This exempted Dormammu from his vow, and he summoned extraterrestrial sorcerers, including Agamotto's now-renegade disciple, as his lieutenants. Dormammu vowed to supplant the Celestials as the supreme power in the Earth dimension, but Strange, whose consciousness sought refuge in a rat, lured Dormammu into blasting him with mystical energy, enabling him to reconstruct his astral form while his ally Topaz exorcised Dormammu.[37]

Dormammu returned to the Dark Dimension, where he lured Strange by unleashing Mindless Ones on Earth and then trapped him in helpless symbiosis with Clea. Dormammu invited Umar to share his dominion once more, then banished her again when she predictably betrayed him. Dormammu's invasion of the Earth dimension encountered unexpected resistance from Baron Mordo, finally tired of Dormammu and seeking to claim Earth for himself. As Strange and Clea freed themselves, Umar, with Mordo as her champion, forced Dormammu into a deal, promising him his own dimension to begin anew but omitting to mention that it was the realm of the Mindless Ones, who were as eager to assault Dormammu in their domain as in his.[38] Umar regained control of the Dark Dimension, with Mordo as her consort, but soon Dormammu, disguised as the Faltine Flyx, tricked Clea into assembling mystical allies among the Lords of the Netherworlds to depose her mother. This allowed Dormammu to reclaim his domain, becoming stronger than ever before. Strange confronted him alongside a new team of Secret Defenders. Intoxicated with power, Dormammu boasted that humanity's inherent evil nature proved its need for his governance and dismissed his enemies.[39] Shortly after he permitted Strange and Darkhawk to seal a breach between the Dark Dimension and Earth's technological Cyberspace.[citation needed]

When the Guardians of the Galaxy from the 31st century of Earth-691 journeyed to the modern ere of Earth-616, Dormammu followed them back to their time and attacked their Drydock headquarters, demanding the presence of their Doctor Strange, himself the Ancient One in that future. The future Strange and his disciple Krugarr accepted the challenge, but failed to prevent Dormammu from combining his power with that of his future counterpart and finally killing Strange. Careless from his triumph, Dormammu allowed himself to be overwhelmed when the Guardians unexpectedly teleported him throughout their vessel and attacked him in succession with non-mystical powers unfamiliar to him, leading him to retreat to his native time and realm.

Despite victory over not one Doctor Strange but two, Dormammu experienced severe power loss, reducing him to a humanoid husk while Clea led a resistance against him. Maintaining his throne but slow to recover his strength, Dormammu bound his essence to a minor demon, Underchild, to enter the Earth dimension undetected, where he manipulated the mutant Jonathan White into conferring mystical power to others, granting his master power of millions of worshippers. Doctor Strange soon ended this scheme, but the revitalized Dormammu launched his most ambitious plan yet in a campaign against the demons and death-gods that governed Hell itself, through which he intended to reach Earth. With Satannish as his lieutenant, he conquered two-fifths of his targeted territories but was expelled by the unified power of his adversaries, rallied by Hellcat.[40] Dormammu's own realm suffered assault by the immensely powerful Archenemy, whom even the Mindless Ones could not subdue, necessitating his alliance with Mephisto and other demonic rulers of the Splinter Realms before the entity was ultimately destroyed by Amanda Sefton.[41]

When Dormammu attacked the Earth dimension once more, Strange again dispersed Dormammu's essence throughout the dimensions, but this time Dormammu anticipated this and unleashed the Mindless Ones on Earth. When Mister Fantastic used his technology to repel the Mindless Ones, he inadvertently drew Dormammu back to Earth. Strange again defeated him, having to manipulate time itself to ensure victory, but Dormammu resurfaced months later, behaving irrationally and speaking of a childhood and parents he never had. Umar humored him while until, through a shift in the Cosmic Axis, the pair's power grew to such a degree that they could overwhelm Eternity. Immersed in Eternity's essence, Dormammu transformed Earth into his own hellish domain, with a Doctor Strange doppelganger as his servant; his efforts were opposed by the real Doctor Strange and the Defenders, but ultimately it was Umar, having developed an affection for the Hulk, who thwarted him, claiming his power for herself and restoring Earth. Dormammu was apparently reduced to a ranting human.

The Hood[]

With his full essence having been banished by Doctor Strange, Dormammu was limited to manifesting on Earth through a mortal host. One of the many cults who sought to invoke his powers used a bonding cloak to summon his essence into a sub-human host, hoping it would limit Dormammu's power and make him manageable. Dormammu was too much for them however. He killed them all, and began searching for a worthy host, requiring a driven and capable human who could handle his power.[42]

Sensing young criminal Parker Robbins, Dormammu found the host he was looking for. He got in his path, prompting a frightened Robbins to kill his animal host and steal the cloak of bonding, unwittingly inviting Dormammu's essence into him. Much time went by before Dormammu made his presence known to Robbins, now calling himself the Hood. He aided Robbins in his endeavour to unite the criminal underworld, allowing Robbins to call upon his power, unaware that every time he accepted Dormammu's help, he brought Dormammu deeper into the world.[42]

Dormammu finally revealed himself as the demon behind the Hood's powers during the Skrull invasion, granting him the ability to see through the disguises of the Skrulls.[43] Upon realizing what Dormammu was, Hood attempted to stop using his powers. However, the pressures he faced while leading his gang prompted him to stop resisting and give in to Dormammu.[42][44]

X-Infernus[]

While in Limbo, the recently resurrected Illyana Rasputin attacked various other demons looking for her soulsword and the original bloodstone amulet. This did not go unnoticed by Mephisto, Blackheart, Satannish, Dormammu, and Hela.[45]

Dark Reign[]

Dormammu tasked the Hood with finding Doctor Strange and usurping his position as Sorcerer Supreme. Doctor Strange fell to the power of the Dark Dimension, forcing the New Avengers to reach him and battle Dormammu as the fight for the new Sorcerer Supreme continued. Dormammu later assaulted the New Avengers, Doctor Strange and Daimon Hellstrom directly in the Earth dimension, only to find Brother Voodoo bearing the Eye of Agamotto to come forth and intervene against him. Dormammu was exorcised from Parker through the joined efforts of Doctor Strange, Daimon Hellstrom and Brother Voodoo. He was banished to his own Dark Dimension once again, having failed to rise as the Sorcerer Supreme or destroy the chosen one. Loki enigmatically offers to aid the Hood afterwards.[46][47]

Dormammu was interested in the zombie virus, thinking it as a perfect weapon to make his conquest of Earth far easier, with the Sorcerer Supreme having erected defensive magical screens around the dimensional boundaries to bar him from directly acting on the plane, and commanding the Hood to secure it. Later, when Jennifer Kale became terrified at the sight of the zombie virus mutating into an airborne form, Dormammu appeared before her, and offered her his power.[48] Kale eventually accepted his power when the situation appeared hopeless and the Man-Thing fell, with the Hood forsaken.[49]

Suitor to Satana[]

Dormammu was one of the five demons who wanted to marry Satana Hellstrom, and like the other demons went out on two dates with her to prove that he had the best chemistry with her. Satana did not want to be forced to marry any of the demons and so went to Deadpool for aid, since Doctor Strange was busy. Deadpool went to kill the demons (who disguised as geeks), when he was greeted by Dormammu (who was using the alias of Mark) he sliced his head off, however upon the reveal that the five "geeks" were in fact demon lords, Dormammu's head reattached to his body and he revealed his true form, Deadpool questioned why the "big shot demons" would want to marry Satana when they could get all the women they wanted, and they explained that the one who married Satana would be given Hell as property, as she was heir to Hell. After asking about how the demons knew so much about pop-culture, Deadpool fled in terror. The five demons decided to gamble to decide who would marry Satana, and the winner was Asmodeus, much to the annoyance of Dormammu. However this proved perilous to Asmodeus, as Deadpool killed him with magic imbued swords, and thus Satana did not have to marry anyone. After Deadpool defeated Asmodeus, Satana noted that he was lucky that it was not Dormammu who had won the gamble, otherwise things would have ended far differently.[50]

Devil's Advocacy[]

When the Serpent awoke, the Devil's Advocacy was crowded with demons vying for a place around Satan's vacant throne. Among the many Hell-Lords staking their claim, Dormammu stood as one of the contenders.[51]

Mindless Plague[]

After the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken down the Magic Bullet factory with the help of Scarlet Witch, one of their own - Fitz - was revealed to be under Dormammu's Mindless Plague, he used a magic bullet to shoot Scarlet Witch, allowing Dormammu to tap into her Chaos Magic and spread the Mindless Plague to many people, both normal and superhuman alike, from most intelligent to least intelligent.[52]

Releasing the Mindless Plague

Releasing the Mindless Plague

The plague spread across the Earth with no magician around to stop it, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents headed to get Doctor Strange's help, having a new team of Howling Commandos composed of the least intelligent heavy hitters hold the line. The agents arrived in the Dark Dimension, and found that Dormammu had captured Strange. After trying to use a magic bullet against Dormammu and failing, they brought in the Absorbing Man to hold back Dormammu, having him take on the properties of Dormammu's Black Dechantment throne to resist him. Absorbing Man was then tricked into destroying Dormammu's throne, ending the plague as the agents escaped back into their own dimension. However, the backlash sucked the new Howling Commandos into the Dark Dimension, where they repeatedly attacked the incapacitated Dormammu before they were rescued.[53]

Empirikul[]

Dormammu worked with Mordo to kill Strange, however annoyed at Dormammu's constant ridicule Mordo killed his current host. As Mordo, Mister Misery and Orb competed over who deserved to kill Strange, Dormammu erupted from the ground declaring he would be the one to do so.[54] When Strange questions why Dormammu is still so powerful despite the actions of the Empirikul, Dormammu explains that he made a deal with them instead, sending them to fight their real enemy: Shuma-Gorath. On the brink of defeat, Strange channels all of the magic left in the entirety of Earth-616's dimension, and backed up by Mordo manages to banish Dormammu to Shuma-Gorath's realm.[4]

Squirrel Girl[]

Squirrel Girl and Loki escaping Dormammu

Squirrel Girl and Loki escaping Dormammu

When Loki became Sorcerer Supreme, Dormammu watched the new champion of Earth from afar. When Squirrel Girl sought Loki help to find Nancy Whitehead, Dormammu dragged them both into his dimension.[55] To escape, they unleashed a horde of ghost squirrels to overwhelm him.[56] Later, Dormammu aided Melissa Morbeck in assembling Squirrel Girl's past foes wanting revenge.[57] Morbeck and the villains exposed Doreen's identity, destroyed her home, and hijacked Iron Man's armor.[58] Dormammu joined the villains in battle, but the Avengers and a group of reformed criminals came to her rescue.[59] As they battled Galactus intervened, imprisoning the villains, though Dormammu escaped.[60]

Damnation[]

When Strange was trying to save Clea (in actuality an apparition), who had been flung into a Necrotic Soul Prison where Shuma-Gorath was residing, Dormammu suddenly appeared and blasted Gorath in the eye, forcing the beast to retreat.[61] Allegedly, Dormammu had ended up there due to having tried to use a portal that had opened in this long dead dimension to venture forth to Earth, however Mephisto managed to get through it, stranding the others who were also trying to use it. Weakened, Dormammu could not open the way back to the Dark Dimension and so proposed an alliance with Strange to combine their powers and escape. As the prepared to leave, Gorath returned with Nightmare and their hordes. However as they opened the portal, Strange double-crossed Dormammu before he could stab him in the back, leaving him to fight the Avengers and other Hell-Lords.[6]

T. Hothrun[]

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Dormammu disguised as T. Hothrun, the Head Auditor

Dormammu, masquerading as "T. Hothrun," a multiversal auditor, is revealed as the architect behind Stephen Strange's recent hardships, orchestrating a series of attacks to weaken him ahead of an impending invasion.[62] Upon uncovering the deception, Strange, with Clea's assistance, confronts Dormammu in a fierce battle, ultimately driving him back. Though defeated, Dormammu's schemes leave lasting consequences, forcing Strange to repair the damage left in his wake.[63]

The Last Annihilation[]

In a bid to steal power from Dormammu to empower himself in preparation for the Reckoning War, Doctor Doom orchestrated a venue for Dormammu to invade Earthspace.[64] Sister Talionis manipulated Ego the Living Planet into joining the cult of the Brethren of the Forgotten Flame and conducted a self-sacrificial ritual that encased him in a black shell.[65] After days of incubation, Ego hatched from the egg possessed by Dormammu.[66]

Possessing Ego the Living Planet

Possessing Ego the Living Planet

The dark lord and his endless wave of Mindless Ones targeted five planets: Hala, Skrullos, Spartax, Aerie and Chitauri Prime; each a world where a star-spanning race had been born, with the intention to conquer them and use them as a galaxy-sized magic pentagram to summon the entirety of the Dark Dimension. In the process, Dormammu funneled his power into Ego to grow his puppet a planet-sized body.[67] When Dormammu was preparing to conquer Spartax on his own, Doctor Doom led a portion of the Guardians of the Galaxy into Chitauri Prime, and carried out a ritual to siphon the power from Dormammu's possession of the Chitauri into himself. This caused Dormammu's power to falter, giving the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy a window of opportunity to use the Retaliator Mark II to fire a giant bullet of Mysterium, an anti-magic metal, infused the combined power of Nova's Nova Force and Star-Lord's sun powers. The bullet punched through Ego at light speed, killing him and banishing Dormammu to the Dark Dimension.[64]

Strange Academy[]

Emily channels Dormammu's power during their invasion

Emily channels Dormammu's power during their invasion

Emily Bright chose to become a disciple of Dormammu, wishing to ally with him to take down Strange Academy.[68][69] Dormammu began the invasion, greeting Doyle and his mother, before being teleported away along with the staff to engage them and the deities they have summoned,[70] meanwhile Emily channeled Dormammu's power to transform and gain an edge over the other students. As Doyle is forced to take the power of Dormammu from Emily, Dormammu leaves victorious as his son begins to transform into an avatar of him. However Doyle is saved when Hoggoth removes the magic from him.[71]

One World Under Doom[]

During Doctor Doom's short-lived ascension to the role of Sorcerer Supreme, the villain used his new status to facilitate his subjugation of Earth. Dormammu quickly noticed that Doom had neglected to maintain the spells necessary to keep the Dark Dimension at bay,[72] and launched a full-scale invasion, exiling Earth's heroes to a pocket dimension and facing Doom alone. The Faltine overpowered and almost defeated Doom, but the sorcerer bought enough time for the banished heroes to return, and rallied them against their common enemy.[73] After the Scarlet Witch severed Dormammu's connection to the Dark Dimension to weaken him, Doom began recovering his power and cast the necessary spells to send the Faltine invader back to the Dark Dimension. He took advantage of the circumstances to cast forever-magic, eternally tying the spells keeping Dormammu at bay to his rule of Earth, further tightening his political power.[74]

Following Doom's fall, Dormammu launched a new attack in the apparent absence of a Sorcerer Supreme. He was opposed by the Scarlet Witch, who claimed the title for herself after retrieving the Eye of Agamotto and Cloak of Levitation. After weakening Dormammu with snare traps of witchcraft, the Scarlet Witch forced him to experience a chapter of the True Darkhold, which had been transmuted and bound within her soul, and caused the Lord of the Faltine to experience ten billion years of suffering within the span of seconds. Dormammu left overwhelmed and weakened to seek rejuvenation[75]


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Powers

Dormammu is considered more powerful than Lucifer, Marduk, Mephisto, and Satannish and apparently served as the creator of the latter.[5] Dormammu is of sufficient skill and might to tamper with the spells of Odin against his will, as the Lord of the Dark Dimension did once to revert Thor back to his mortal guise.[76] Dormammu had sufficient magical power to hold his own against clashes with Agamotto (a spawn of one of Earth's Elder Gods with power enough to stalemate Galactus) when the latter served as the Marvel Universe's first Sorcerer Supreme, even aided by an alien disciple; to this day, the Vishanti regard him as their prime enemy and that of the Sorcerer Supreme. As a representative of Lord Chaos, Dormammu also held the upper hand in a formal game of cosmic chess against Odin, who was representing Master Order, but it ultimately ended in a draw as Odin wished.[19] According to Loki, Odin speaks of Dormammu as an equal, whereas Dormammu considers Odin as an inferior.[76] He has even dared to directly challenge Eternity itself, and in one case even overcame the entity.[77] Dormammu even claims that he will destroy the Celestials, burning them in the Flames of the Faltine.[78] However, there are still limits to his might. For example, the demon known as Zom has been referred to as more powerful than his sister Umar, and thus possibly himself (although his power has increased greatly on a few occasions since then); and after he had effortlessly defeated all the Avengers and Defenders combined, including Thor and Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch used a hex on the Evil Eye of Avalon, to make it absorb the overconfident and distracted Dormammu.[33]

From Strange's lone duels with the fallen Faltinian being to his conflicts with him aided by the Defenders and other allies, Dormammu, frequently displays enough power to "ravage a cosmos" and destroy the entire Marvel Universe. Dormammu's power combined with the magic of the Evil Eye was enough to destroy an entire reality, invading not only Earth, but the Sol system, and the worlds of the Kree, the Skrulls, the Badoon, the Titans, Warlock and other "off-worlders." Dormammu even claims his Flames of the Faltine are powerful enough to enable human sorceresses baptized with them to destroy any zombie with a thought, while a thousand separate realities have all fallen to the zombie infection and it is deemed virtually incurable. Dormammu's full powers combined with those of Umar's were enough to overwhelm Eternity and actually tap into his powers to alter all of reality itself into one in his own image, Earth-5113.[77]

Abilities

Weaknesses

  • Dormammu's magical powers are stated and shown to be weakened when on Earth or in any other dimension not of his own, failing to pierce Earth-616's dimensional boundaries directly from the Dark Dimension when they were secured by the spells of the Sorcerer Supreme; even a temporary dimensional aperture with other dimensions has been shown to weaken him, sapping his mystic prowess sufficiently that the Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth dimension could rival him in direct magical combat.[citation needed]
  • Despite Dormammu's enormous power, Minoru's mystical Staff of One has been claimed by the dark wizards the Minorus of the Gibborim-formed Pride to be capable of making him tremble.[81]
  • Mysterium, a metal with powerful antimagical properties, can instantaneously banish Dormammu upon contact.[64][82]

Notes

Trivia

  • 1990 Marvel Universe Trading Card #69
  • The DC Comics super-villain Dreamslayer of The Extremists is based on Dormammu.

See Also

Links and References

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Strange Tales #126
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hellcat #2
  3. ↑ Hulk (Vol. 2) #12
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Doctor Strange (Vol. 4) #16
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hellcat #3
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Doctor Strange (Vol. 4) #389
  7. ↑ Marvel Zombies 4 #2
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #3 ; Dormammu's profile
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Marvel Zombies 4 #3
  10. ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 7) #13
  11. ↑ Strange Tales #118
  12. ↑ See the Nisanti's pages' notes
  13. ↑ Marvel Fact Files #2
  14. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #11
  15. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #4
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #22
  17. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #21
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #71
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Thor Annual #9
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #23
  21. ↑ X-Men: Hellfire Club #1
  22. ↑ Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #5
  23. ↑ Shang-Chi #4
  24. ↑ Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War #1
  25. ↑ All Select Comics #7
  26. ↑ Captain America: The Ghost Army #1
  27. ↑ Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic #1
  28. ↑ Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounters #1
  29. ↑ Strange Tales #127
  30. ↑ Strange Tales #144
  31. ↑ Strange Tales #146
  32. ↑ Doctor Strange #171–173
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Avengers #118
  34. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #6–9
  35. ↑ Ghost Rider (Vol. 2) #29–31
  36. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #50–51
  37. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #1–2
  38. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #21–24
  39. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #48–50
  40. ↑ Hellcat #1–3
  41. ↑ Magik #1–4
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 Dark Reign: The Hood #3
  43. ↑ New Avengers #46
  44. ↑ Dark Reign: The Hood #5
  45. ↑ X-Infernus #1
  46. ↑ New Avengers #51
  47. ↑ New Avengers #54
  48. ↑ Marvel Zombies 4 #2–3
  49. ↑ Marvel Zombies 4 #4
  50. ↑ Deadpool Team-Up (Vol. 2) #892
  51. ↑ Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 4) #627
  52. ↑ S.H.I.E.L.D. (Vol. 3) #5
  53. ↑ S.H.I.E.L.D. (Vol. 3) #6
  54. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 4) #15
  55. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #27
  56. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #28
  57. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #47
  58. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #48
  59. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #49
  60. ↑ Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 2) #50
  61. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 4) #388
  62. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 5) #10
  63. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 5) #11
  64. ↑ 64.0 64.1 64.2 Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 7) #18
  65. ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 7) #14
  66. ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 7) #15
  67. ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 7) #17
  68. ↑ Strange Academy: Finals #3
  69. ↑ Strange Academy: Finals #4
  70. ↑ Strange Academy: Finals #5
  71. ↑ Strange Academy: Finals #6
  72. ↑ One World Under Doom #3
  73. ↑ One World Under Doom #4
  74. ↑ One World Under Doom #5
  75. ↑ Sorcerer Supreme #1
  76. ↑ 76.0 76.1 Avengers/Defenders War
  77. ↑ 77.0 77.1 Defenders (Vol. 3) #3
  78. ↑ I am newborn in this dimension, and my power is steadily growing! The time will shortly come when I destroy the Lords of Order on this plane -- bring the Celestials down, burning in the Flame of the Faltine!
  79. ↑ Defenders #2
  80. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #3
  81. ↑ Runaways #7
  82. ↑ Doctor Strange (Vol. 6) #3
  83. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Horror 2005 #1 ; Appendix
  84. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #1
  85. ↑ Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #3
  86. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #3
  87. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol 1 3
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