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Quote1 But now I -- Dormammu, Lord of Chaos, the equal of Odin or Zeus -- have died and been born again! Here! Now -- this world is mine! Quote2
Dormammu

Appearing in "Love Is the Spell, The Spell Is Death!"

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  • Mr. Weeks (First appearance) (Passenger on ocean liner)
  • Unnamed ocean liner's crew (First appearance)
    • Purser (First appearance)
    • Captain (Mentioned)
  • Vishanti (Invoked)
  • Odin (Mentioned)
  • Zeus (Mentioned)
  • Unnameable (Invoked)
  • Morlocks (Mentioned)

Note: all of the characters listed here make cameo appearances at Stephen Strange's funeral service, which was an illusion that never happened.

Note: all of the characters listed here appear in the recap.

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Synopsis for "Love Is the Spell, The Spell Is Death!"

As Imei Chang watches a videotape of a network newscast of the funeral for Dr. Strange that never took place, the real Strange finalizes a battle at sea and forces one more Old One back into its ancient hiding place. After returning home for rest, Doc is awakened when he senses that an innocent is being attacked nearby. However, since his physical body is just too tired, Doc releases his astral form to handle the threat. Unfortunately, that threat was actually a trap meant to trick him into leaving his body so that Dormammu could take it over. When Dormammu attempts to capture Doc's astral body, he manages to escape but only by hiding within the body of a rat in the deserted Morlock Tunnel. If Doc's astral form remains out of his body for a day and a night, he will never be able to return to it.

Notes

  • At this point in time, the general populace of Earth believes that Doctor Strange was killed in combat with the Beyonder in Secret Wars II #9. The funeral was not real, but a spell that Doctor Strange conjured to hide himself from the world.
  • Doctor Strange finds the Morlock tunnels abandoned. This is due primarily to the actions of the Marauders who slaughtered dozens of Morlocks in an event known as the Mutant Massacre.
  • Dormammu was previously believed to have been destroyed in Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #51.
  • It is hypothesized that the Old One and his eldritch prison island are respectively Cthulhu, one of the Old Ones, and R'lyeh,[1] though it remained unconfirmed.

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