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A rogue, unstable aspect of Stephen Strange created as a phylactery for all his trauma and rage from fighting in the War of the Seven Spheres for five thousand years. Upon Stephen's assassination during ''The Death of Doctor Strange'', "General Strange" was able to break from his prison to continue his mad, vengeful campaign.

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A rogue, unstable aspect of Stephen Strange created as a phylactery for all his trauma and rage from fighting in the War of the Seven Spheres for five thousand years. Upon Stephen's assassination during ''The Death of Doctor Strange'', "General Strange" was able to break free from his prison to continue his mad, vengeful campaign.
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->''"Quote1 Ego is gone! I wear his shell like the skin of a snake! 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!"''

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->''"Quote1 ->''"Quote 1 Ego is gone! I wear his shell like the skin of a snake! 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!"''



* DemonicPossession: Briefly took over The Hood's body, until the New Avengers exorcised him out. He also does this to [[WillingChanneller one of his followers]] once a year when he and Strange have a [[GoKartingWithBowser truce day of sorts]], which inevitably burns them out. He finds this particularly amusing, since Strange can't exorcise him without their consent, and he's killing people when Strange can't stop him. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the 2023 series when Strange brings up his lengthy list of defeats at Strange's hands, shaking the follower's faith in him, and then lobs a coin of [[AntiMagic Mysterium]] at him, to beat Dormammu ''again'']].

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* DemonicPossession: Briefly took over The Hood's body, until the New Avengers exorcised him out. He also does this to [[WillingChanneller [[WillingChanneler one of his followers]] once a year when he and Strange have a [[GoKartingWithBowser truce day of sorts]], which inevitably burns them out. He finds this particularly amusing, since Strange can't exorcise him without their consent, and he's killing people when Strange can't stop him. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the 2023 series when Strange brings up his lengthy list of defeats at Strange's hands, shaking the follower's faith in him, and then lobs a coin of [[AntiMagic Mysterium]] at him, to beat Dormammu ''again'']].

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Dormammu is a Faltinian, from a dimension where matter does not naturally exist, and exotic energies are the equivalent of money and status symbols. He and his "co-progeny" Umar were shunned for "lusting after matter," as repulsive to Faltinians as, say, necrophilia, pedophilia and bestiality combined would be to humans. Faltinians also reproduce by fission, and find the very concepts of copulation and sexual reproduction unspeakably obscene. Dormammu [[EvenEvilHasStandards shares this attitude]] to a degree, while Umar definitely does not (she's had a child, and has abducted the Hulk at least twice for what amounted to a booty call).

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Dormammu is a Faltinian, from a dimension where matter does not naturally exist, and exotic energies are the equivalent of money and status symbols. He and his "co-progeny" Umar were shunned for "lusting after matter," as repulsive to Faltinians as, say, necrophilia, pedophilia and bestiality combined would be to humans. Faltinians also reproduce by fission, and find the very concepts of copulation and sexual reproduction unspeakably obscene. Dormammu [[EvenEvilHasStandards shares this attitude]] to a degree, while Umar definitely does not (she's had a child, child by conventional biological means - her younger daughter was conceived by more traditional Faltine means - and has abducted the Hulk at least twice for what amounted to a booty call).



* DemonicPossession: Briefly took over The Hood's body, until the New Avengers exorcised him out.

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* DemonicPossession: Briefly took over The Hood's body, until the New Avengers exorcised him out. He also does this to [[WillingChanneller one of his followers]] once a year when he and Strange have a [[GoKartingWithBowser truce day of sorts]], which inevitably burns them out. He finds this particularly amusing, since Strange can't exorcise him without their consent, and he's killing people when Strange can't stop him. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the 2023 series when Strange brings up his lengthy list of defeats at Strange's hands, shaking the follower's faith in him, and then lobs a coin of [[AntiMagic Mysterium]] at him, to beat Dormammu ''again'']].



* PetTheDog: She does care for her daughters, if only a little - she sees Clea as a disappointment for what she perceives to be her lack of ambition, but does want her to succeed (by her own warped standards) and quietly asks, not demands, ''asks'' Strange to retrieve her infant daughter from [[spoiler: General Strange]].



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* CardCarryingVillain: Of the NecessarilyEvil variety - he freely admits that he cast his humanity aside thousands of years ago, and what he does is appalling. He even revels in it a little. However, he deems it necessary to win the war.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He plans to turn Earth into his war camp and the souls of its people into weapons for the war he wishes to wage. But even after thousands of years of bloody war, he still adores his beloved Clea. He lets his guard down around her as she feigns love for the war-hound General Strange has become before she tries to assassinate him.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He plans to turn Earth into his war camp and the souls of its people into weapons for the war he wishes to wage. But even after thousands of years of bloody war, he still adores his beloved Clea. He lets his guard down around her as she feigns love for the war-hound General Strange has become before she tries to assassinate him. [[InLoveWithYourCarnage He doesn't actually mind the assassination attempt, finding her ruthlessness something else to love about her]]. She finds him utterly appalling.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While it's framed more as a taunt, he's horrified when he sees that Doctor Strange has borrowed power from the Trinity of Ashes, and says it took ''him'' a century before he discarded his humanity.



* HeelFaceTurn: After the empathy graft, whereupon Strange ends up treating him as less a rampaging monster needing to be put down, more as a terribly traumatised patient in need of healing.
* HumanResources: Partway through the war, he starts using his dead enemies for parts to get his soldiers back on their feet quicker. Many years later, showing his further decline in the horrors of war, he tells his subordinates to ''take the living prisoners apart'' for this purpose.



* LiteralSplitPersonality: General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary. The Vishanti are so terrified of what they created that they trapped the general in a crystal while creating a version of Stephen from before he experienced the War of the Seven Spheres and returning him to Earth.

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* LiteralSplitPersonality: General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary. The Vishanti are so terrified of what they created that they trapped the general General in a crystal while creating a version of Stephen from before he experienced the War of the Seven Spheres and returning him to Earth.Earth.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Doctor Strange grafts some of his conscience and empathy onto his soul, restoring something lost millennia ago.



* ShellShockedVeteran: General Strange, who is thoroughly traumatized from fighting a magical war across existence for thousands of years, to the point that he's lost his empathy, compassion, and conscience in an effort to end that war.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: General Strange, who is thoroughly traumatized from fighting a magical war across existence for thousands of years, to the point that he's lost his empathy, compassion, and conscience in an effort to end that war. He's beaten by being doused with psychedelics developed by the Freaky Doctor Zee for the purpose of treating war veterans, and while stunned, Strange performs a mystical operation, grafting some of his conscience and sense of empathy onto the General. The result is a broken man.



->''"od, Strange… You really do like to hear yourself talk. You are correct, of course. This has been such fun, but the game has run its course. I will make my faithless master, Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo, squeal with all the agonies of the Purple Dimension, and then I will kill you again, with your own power."''

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->''"od, ->''"God, Strange… You really do like to hear yourself talk. You are correct, of course. This has been such fun, but the game has run its course. I will make my faithless master, Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo, squeal with all the agonies of the Purple Dimension, and then I will kill you again, with your own power."''



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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of ''Death of Doctor Strange'', he has [[spoiler: the hands and soul and thus the power of Doctor Strange]]. He's warded to the eyeballs, meaning no magical attack can touch him. The temporal fragment of the younger Strange, much colder and more ruthless than his mellowed out older self, figures out a loophole. [[spoiler: The wards don't protect against a ''healing'' spell. Which only requires a soul, living flesh, and compatible biomass. That's right, young Strange effectively ''healed'' Kaecilius to death, using his body as fuel to regrow his older self's body. ''Slowly''. His older self is horrified by this]].



A power-hungry sorcerer and generally an enemy of Conan the Barbarian, he is the primary antagonist of the Savage Avengers comic, which involves Dr Strange and Conan being teammates.

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A power-hungry sorcerer and generally an enemy of Conan the Barbarian, he is the primary antagonist of the Savage Avengers ''Savage Avengers'' comic, which involves Dr Strange and Conan being teammates.



Ruling in South America many ages ago Tiboro was the absolute monarch of the Peruvian tribe. At some point he was banished to the Sixth Dimension and the civilization he ruled fell apart. To maintain his link to Earth he buried an object called the Screaming Idol. When the Screaming Idol was discovered it was brought to a television show called The Twelfth Hour. When the archaeologists who discovered it disappeared into the idol, Dr.Strange investigated the event and discovered Tiboro`s hand in it, challenging him to a battle.

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Ruling in South America many ages ago Tiboro was the absolute monarch of the Peruvian tribe. At some point he was banished to the Sixth Dimension and the civilization he ruled fell apart. To maintain his link to Earth he buried an object called the Screaming Idol. When the Screaming Idol was discovered it was brought to a television show called The Twelfth Hour. When the archaeologists who discovered it disappeared into the idol, Dr. Strange investigated the event and discovered Tiboro`s hand in it, challenging him to a battle.


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* BullyingADragon: He decides to take out his fear of General Strange out on a profoundly upset Doctor Strange - who promptly snaps and demonstrates how effortlessly he could kill Tiboro if he ever felt like it, and how profoundly tempted he is to do so after Tiboro's part in his murder.
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* SuperWeight: Level 6 (Cosmic)



* SuperWeight: Level 6 (Cosmic, like her brother).



* SuperWeight: Level 5.



* SuperWeight: Level 5, bordering on level 6. The Living Tribunal had to step in and eliminate him personally.



* SuperWeight: Level 6. It is a step or two below the Living Tribunal, but Dormammu himself is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness openly afraid of him]], and while he has never been shown encountering Shuma-Gorath or another Many-Angled One, Zom's track record puts him in the general ballpark of being a credible threat to them.
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* EnemyMine: Actually became a OrganicArmor for Strange in his fight with the Empirator because he wanted to make sure he survived to whatever he'd do to him next.
* GodzillaThreshold: Zelma Stanton was under attack from the imperacle army, and didn't see any other way to survive but to unleash "the thing in the cellar".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Saved Strange from the Empirator because he wanted to be the one to bring down Strange.

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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The first major MythArc and its main antagonist strongly mirror [[spoiler:the War Doctor as seen in ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]. Like the War Doctor, General Strange is a previously unseen incarnation of the protagonist was forced to betray his principles and fight in a (offscreen) cataclysmic war he wanted no part of, becoming TheDreaded for being responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of people across countless worlds. But while the War Doctor retained his compassion and hoped to end the Time War by annihilating Gallifrey and the Daleks with the Moment, General Strange was driven completely mad by his experiences and seeks to expand and end the War of the Seven Spheres once and for all. The War Doctor is also haunted by the number of children who died on Gallifrey at the end of the Time War, while General Strange is willing to weaponize children's souls as his army against the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, both the War Doctor and General Strange are given a chance to atone and heal with the help of their counterparts.]]
* EnemyWithout: General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary.

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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The first major MythArc and its main antagonist strongly mirror [[spoiler:the the War Doctor as seen in ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]. Like the War Doctor, General Strange is a previously unseen incarnation of the protagonist was forced to betray his principles and fight in a (offscreen) cataclysmic war he wanted no part of, becoming TheDreaded for being responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of people across countless worlds. But while the War Doctor retained his compassion and hoped to end the Time War by annihilating Gallifrey and the Daleks with the Moment, General Strange was driven completely mad by his experiences and seeks to expand and end the War of the Seven Spheres once and for all. The War Doctor is also haunted by the number of children who died on Gallifrey at the end of the Time War, while General Strange is willing to weaponize children's souls as his army against the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, both the War Doctor and General Strange are given a chance to atone and heal with the help of their counterparts.]]
* EnemyWithout: General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary.



* InvincibleVillain: General Strange is virtually invincible in a straight fight. Boasting power beyond Strange and Clea combined, mastery of every known killing tool known to man, and thousands of years of experience in killing and deception, Stephen loses handily even after borrowing power from the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, Stephen vanquishes his foe not through might [[spoiler:but through kindness, using psychedelics to subdue General Strange long enough to restore his conscience and give him a path to healing.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: To Stephen.

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* InvincibleVillain: General Strange is virtually invincible in a straight fight. Boasting power beyond Strange and Clea combined, mastery of every known killing tool known to man, and thousands of years of experience in killing and deception, Stephen loses handily even after borrowing power from the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, Stephen vanquishes his foe not through might [[spoiler:but but through kindness, using psychedelics to subdue General Strange long enough to restore his conscience and give him a path to healing.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: To Stephen.General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary. The Vishanti are so terrified of what they created that they trapped the general in a crystal while creating a version of Stephen from before he experienced the War of the Seven Spheres and returning him to Earth.



* TheUnfettered: General Strange enters the story by acting as a VigilanteMan killing major sorcerers and magical entities left and right for an unknown purpose. [This is all to end the ForeverWar the Vishanti trapped him in and take revenge of the current Dr. Strange who stole his life. To this end, General Strange is willing to weaponize the souls of children and murder anyone unfortunate enough to stand in his way.

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* TheUnfettered: General Strange enters the story by acting as a VigilanteMan killing major sorcerers and magical entities left and right for an unknown purpose. [This This is all to end the ForeverWar the Vishanti trapped him in and take revenge of the current Dr. Strange who stole his life. To this end, General Strange is willing to weaponize the souls of children and murder anyone unfortunate enough to stand in his way.

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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The first major MythArc and its main antagonist strongly mirror [[spoiler:the War Doctor as seen in ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]. Like the War Doctor, General Strange is a previously unseen incarnation of the protagonist was forced to betray his principles and fight in a (offscreen) cataclysmic war he wanted no part of, becoming TheDreaded for being responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of people across countless worlds. But while the War Doctor retained his compassion and hoped to end the Time War by annihilating Gallifrey and the Daleks with the Moment, General Strange was driven completely mad by his experiences and seeks to expand and end the War of the Seven Spheres once and for all. The War Doctor is also haunted by the number of children who died on Gallifrey at the end of the Time War, while General Strange is willing to weaponize children's souls as his army against the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, both the War Doctor and General Strange are given a chance to atone and heal with the help of their counterparts.]]
* EnemyWithout: General Strange is the portion of Stephen's life where he fought for thousands of years in the War of the Seven Spheres. Driven mad at [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betraying every virtue he held]] [[WarIsHell to win]], he's dead set on finishing his war once and for all by any means necessary.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He plans to turn Earth into his war camp and the souls of its people into weapons for the war he wishes to wage. But even after thousands of years of bloody war, he still adores his beloved Clea. He lets his guard down around her as she feigns love for the war-hound General Strange has become before she tries to assassinate him.


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* IHaveManyNames: He recites this trope word-for-word before recounting his many titles to the terrified crowd before him: War-Hound of the Vishanti, Butcher of the War of the Seven Spheres, the Bloody-Handed Bastard of the Screaming Labyrinths, Friendkiller, Peacebreaker, and Orphan-Lord.
* InvincibleVillain: General Strange is virtually invincible in a straight fight. Boasting power beyond Strange and Clea combined, mastery of every known killing tool known to man, and thousands of years of experience in killing and deception, Stephen loses handily even after borrowing power from the Trinity of Ashes. In the end, Stephen vanquishes his foe not through might [[spoiler:but through kindness, using psychedelics to subdue General Strange long enough to restore his conscience and give him a path to healing.


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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: His plan to do war with the Trinity of Ashes involves taking the souls of children and turning them into nigh-unstoppable mystical warriors with a spell so complex that it takes everything Stephen has to undo it, needing Clea to protect him while he undoes the enchantment.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: General Stephen Strange abandoned his typical blue tunic in favor of a red, black, and white attire to show how he's been scarred by five thousand years of war.


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* ShellShockedVeteran: General Strange, who is thoroughly traumatized from fighting a magical war across existence for thousands of years, to the point that he's lost his empathy, compassion, and conscience in an effort to end that war.
* TheUnfettered: General Strange enters the story by acting as a VigilanteMan killing major sorcerers and magical entities left and right for an unknown purpose. [This is all to end the ForeverWar the Vishanti trapped him in and take revenge of the current Dr. Strange who stole his life. To this end, General Strange is willing to weaponize the souls of children and murder anyone unfortunate enough to stand in his way.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When he gets his full powers back, Xander isn't quite as adept with them as he originally was. He has not had access to them in a long time.
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* {{Expy}}: As Strange started off as one to [[Film/TheRaven1963 Erasmus Craven]], so too did Mordo start off as a copy of Dr. Scarabus, though he doesn't resemble Creator/BorisKarloff as much as Strange did Creator/VincentPrice.
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* HealingHands: [[IncrediblyLamePun Puns aside]], he is able to cure a sick girl in Tibet just by laying his hands on her.

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* HealingHands: [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Puns aside]], he is able to cure a sick girl in Tibet just by laying his hands on her.

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* AndIMustScream: He's an intangible, imperceptible ghost stuck alone in a mirror dimension to watch all the happenings in the world.



* BreakingTheFourthWall: Like most narrators and horror hosts he speaks directly to the audience. He's directly compared it to Deadpool, but isn't confident of who he's talking to, attributing it to his sanity degrading in isolation.



* TheNarrator: Of the ''Strange Tales'' Infinity Comics and the ''Crypt of Shadows'' one-shot.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: On his revival, he's part-vampire, part-ghost, and possibly a few other things.

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* TheNarrator: GoMadFromTheIsolation: He's not sure if his isolation or desire for revenge is doing worse for his sanity.
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Of the various horror or otherwise supernatural themed books like ''Strange Tales'' Infinity Comics and the ''Crypt of Shadows'' one-shot.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: HybridMonster: On his revival, revival at least he's part-vampire, part-ghost, and possibly a few other things.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: It's in the title.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: '''Baron''' Mordo. It's in the title.


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* BigBadDuumvirate: When Baron Mordo first teams up with Dormammu, this is what he ''thinks'' has happened...but as Dormammu constantly reminds him, what ''actually'' happens is that Mordo is DemotedToDragon. Mordo resists the idea at first, but eventually gives in, calling Dormammu master and trying to keep favor with him.


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* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Mordo was the Ancient One's best student before Strange came along.
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* GeneralRipper: What's worse is that he's one of these and a powerful magician with thousands of years of combat experience.


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* SealedEvilInACan: When the Trinity of Ashes sued for peace, their biggest condition for their surrender was "the general" being locked up so that he could never menace them again. The Vishanti found this a convenient demand as they could rip this part of Stephen out of him so that the rest of him could continue functioning as the Sorcerer Supreme with none of baggage of being a ShellShockedVeteran.

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A rogue, unstable aspect of Stephen Strange created as a phylactery for all his trauma and rage from fighting in the War of the Seven Spheres for five thousand years. Upon Stephen's assassination during ''The Death of Doctor Strange'', "General Strange" was released from his prison to continue fighting.

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A rogue, unstable aspect of Stephen Strange created as a phylactery for all his trauma and rage from fighting in the War of the Seven Spheres for five thousand years. Upon Stephen's assassination during ''The Death of Doctor Strange'', "General Strange" was released able to break from his prison to continue fighting.his mad, vengeful campaign.


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* GreatOffscreenWar: The War of the Seven Spheres remains largely unseen. His flashback origin issue is more concerned with Strange's growing fatigue and the dirty business he had to engage with for the Vishanti, including having to execute turncoats. Any instances that would make the conflict look even remotely glorious aren't focused on.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: To Stephen.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: During a brief period where Stephen was dead, Clea took up the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme. Umar thought it was a power play, much to Clea's irritation.



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!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #156 (February, 1967)

Created "long ago" by entities unknown, Zom is an ancient and terrible demon whose sole mission is to destroy everything, and whose rampage was only stopped by an alliance of powerful magic users whose ranks included even Dormammu and Umar. The alliance sealed him away but Strange released him on the advice of the Ancient One to help him win his battle with Umar; Zom proved to be an even greater threat and even Eternity was no match for him, but eventually he was defeated and a small piece of him was kept by Strange as a keepsake, though that too has recently been destroyed after Strange foolishly relied on its power, an act that caused him to resign as Sorcerer Supreme.

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!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #156 (February, 1967)

Created "long ago" by entities unknown, Zom is an ancient and terrible demon whose sole mission is to destroy everything, and whose rampage was only stopped by an alliance of powerful magic users whose ranks included even Dormammu and Umar. The alliance sealed him away but Strange released him on the advice of the Ancient One to help him win his battle with Umar; Zom proved to be an even greater threat and even Eternity was no match for him, but eventually he was defeated and a small piece of him was kept by Strange as a keepsake, though that too has recently been destroyed after Strange foolishly relied on its power, an act that caused him to resign as
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!!''First Appearance''': ''Doctor Strange,
Sorcerer Supreme.Supreme'' #10 (August, 1989)

Stephen's younger brother, who didn't get along with his sibling for a variety of reasons. One day, Victor was struck by a car and Stephen had him cryogenically preserved in the hopes of finding a way to heal him. On becoming Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen decided to try and use magic to restore his brother, only to inadvertently turn Victor into a vampire.


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* BackFromTheDead: Feeling he was too dangerous to live, Victor staked himself, and it stuck... for two decades.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Stephen casting any and every spell he could think of on his little brother. Frankly it's amazing it ''just'' turned him into a vampire.
* TheNarrator: Of the ''Strange Tales'' Infinity Comics and the ''Crypt of Shadows'' one-shot.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: On his revival, he's part-vampire, part-ghost, and possibly a few other things.
* VigilanteMan: For a time, he took up hunting criminals, including those who weren't actually committing crimes.
* TheWatcher: Just not a good one. One of the benefits of being stuck in a mirror is he can see nearly everything that goes on, and this has given him a lot of knowledge, including that of many heroes' identities.

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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #156 (February, 1967)

Created "long ago" by entities unknown, Zom is an ancient and terrible demon whose sole mission is to destroy everything, and whose rampage was only stopped by an alliance of powerful magic users whose ranks included even Dormammu and Umar. The alliance sealed him away but Strange released him on the advice of the Ancient One to help him win his battle with Umar; Zom proved to be an even greater threat and even Eternity was no match for him, but eventually he was defeated and a small piece of him was kept by Strange as a keepsake, though that too has recently been destroyed after Strange foolishly relied on its power, an act that caused him to resign as Sorcerer Supreme.
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!!!'''AKA:''' Stephen Strange
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' (Vol. 1) #110 (April, 1963) as Doctor Stephen Strange. ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 6) #5 (September, 2023) as General Stephen Strange.

A rogue, unstable aspect of Stephen Strange created as a phylactery for all his trauma and rage from fighting in the War of the Seven Spheres for five thousand years. Upon Stephen's assassination during ''The Death of Doctor Strange'', "General Strange" was released from his prison to continue fighting.
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The expression is "hand in hand".


* PsychicPowers: Goes hand and hand with his magic, but it's not on the same level as Jean Grey, Cable or even Doctor Strange himself.

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* NoSell: Brushes off Strange's attack of dumping New York's collected despair on him by stating he's felt despair his whole life and is motivated by it.
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* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: At one point, Mordo contracted cancer and needs an oxygen tank. He captures ComicBook/MonetStCroix's father in order to lead her to a trap and then drain her so his body can fight back the cancer.

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* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: At one point, Mordo contracted cancer and needs an oxygen tank. He captures ComicBook/MonetStCroix's [[Characters/MarvelComicsMonetStCroix Monet St. Croix]]'s father in order to lead her to a trap and then drain her so his body can fight back the cancer.

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!!!First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #1 (March, 1974)
->''"Shut up! You have been judged! The sentence is death! ... Beg not for your miserable life -- beg instead for mercy on your soul!"''



!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Death of Doctor Strange'' #2 (October, 2021)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Fanfare'' (Vol. 1) #41 (December, 1988)



* GeniusLoci: The giant appeared to Strange as an ancient and apparently abandoned city.




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!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Suspense'' #7 (November, 1950)
->''" You will obey me in all things. You have no choice -- For I am the lord of vampires. Forget your former life. You belong to my nation now."''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange'' (Vol. 3) #1 (May, 2022)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #120 (February, 1964)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 4) #1 (October, 2015)
->''"Do you feel that? That is the strength of science. Since I was orphaned as a child, I have devoted myself solely to the study of that sacred power. I learned to channel the white-hot fire of the supernova. The speed of the comet. The quantum might of the supermassive black hole. I baptized myself in the waters of super-science so I might be reborn. Reborn as the cure for cancer. The cancer that is magic. The disease that is you, Doctor Strange."''

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!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Tower of Shadows'' #6 (July, 1970)



!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme'' #7 (April, 2017)



!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange'' (Vol. 2) #2 (December, 2009)



!!!''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 4) #8 (May, 2016)
->''" I want you to know I take no joy from this. Pleasure, yes. An immense amount of pleasure. But no joy."''



* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The living embodiment of all the bad karma Dr Strange took from using magic over the years.




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #31 (July, 1978)



* ImmortalitySeeker: Obtained the Sword of Kamuu and set out to kill Sorcerer Supreme with it to become immortal.



* OneSteveLimit: Alaric is also the name of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor an Asgardian]].




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* {{Teleportation}}: Salomé is a teleporter.
* WingedHumanoid: She can fly via her largely leathery wings.




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 5) #2 (August, 2018)


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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme'' #31 (May, 1991)


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!!!'''AKA:''' Semiramis
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Comics Presents'' #146 (January, 1994)



!!Shialmar




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!!!'''AKA:''' Shialmar
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #43 (July, 1980)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #133 (March, 1965)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Premiere'' #13 (October, 1973)
->''"Time turns and begins again with me! When you remember this, think not of the man called Sise-Neg - but the God called Genesis!"''



* BaldOfEvil: Is completely bald.




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!!!'''first Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #17 (May, 1976)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #129 (November, 1964)
->''"I suspected that my activities would attract your attention! I hoped to go on without your interference! But, now I must deal with you before I continue!"''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #128 (October, 1964)
->''"For years I have stayed in hiding, increasing my knowledge – and my power – but now I need hide no longer – now my power is greater than that of Doctor Strange! And I shall prove it by defeating him!!"''



!!Barbara Robb




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #32 (September, 1978)



* TheBore: She managed bore Strange and Clea to sleep and forced Strange's dream self to bring her the Book of the Vishanti.

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* TheBore: She managed to bore Strange and Clea to sleep and forced Strange's dream self to bring her the Book of the Vishanti.




Iskelior was from Lixos, an island off of Greece. Her father was rich in the ways of the mind—persuasion, wisdom, healing, etc. People came to her father, craving his power, but he refused to follow their politics or forsake his humanist nature. When "the attack came," her father cast a spell shrouded in antiquity, sending Iskelior to an extradimensional realm of refuge.

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Iskelior was from Lixos, an island off of Greece. Her father was rich in the ways of the mind—persuasion, wisdom, healing, etc. People came to her father, craving his power, but he refused to follow their politics or forsake his humanist nature. When "the attack came," her father cast a spell shrouded in antiquity, sending Iskelior to an extradimensional extra-dimensional realm of refuge.



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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #130 (December, 1964)
->''"od, Strange… You really do like to hear yourself talk. You are correct, of course. This has been such fun, but the game has run its course. I will make my faithless master, Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo, squeal with all the agonies of the Purple Dimension, and then I will kill you again, with your own power."''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Conan the Barbarian'' #14 (March, 1972)
->''"Fools! Flee this place, intruders-- Flee, if you value your pathetic, worthless lives! I have dominion over this land-- Total dominion of both the land and its people! And soon, I will command more still-- The very power of the Earth itself! Do not challenge me, fools, on pain of death! Simply go-- And darken my realm... Nevermore!"''



!!Pavel Plotnick
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #145 (March, 1966)




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange: The Oath'' #1 (October, 2006)

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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #126 (August, 1964)
->''"Quote1 Ego is gone! I wear his shell like the skin of a snake! 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!"''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #141 (November, 1965)
->''" How truly pleased Mordo will be with the triumph of his loyal deputy! But, if I can fathom the secret of Dr. Strange's amulet, I shall not need Mordo's good will! My power would then be far greater than his!"''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #119 (January, 1964)



!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme'' #86 (December, 1995)
->''"...He's here. The chosen one. The great Doctor Strange. Pure of heart. Noble of intention. He's here -- at long last -- to writhe... and spasm... and die - at Baron Mordo's feet."''



!!Lord Julian Phyffe




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!!!'''AKA:''' Lord Julian Phyffe
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #9 (May, 1975)




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!!!'''AKA:''' Karl Amadeus Mordo
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #111 (May, 1963)
->''"Only one man knows more secrets of black magic than I do! And he is the one who taught me years ago --- he is the master!! But the time has come for me to wrest those secrets from him! For it is I, Baron Mordo, who must be the most powerful magician of all!"''



!!Cyrus Black




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Defenders'' #6 (March, 1973)
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* TheHeavy: Of most series he is in being Doctor Strange’s most prominent foe.
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Dormammu is a member of the extradimensional race known as the Faltine, and with his sister Umar was exiled for craving matter and killing their "father" Sinifer, who spawned them. Through treachery and guile Dormammu took control of the Dark Dimension and began to cultivate worship of himself across several universes and conquering several others, which he merged with the Dark Dimension to increase his power as he is strongest there. He is responsible for the creation of Sataanish and other Hell Lords and is the power behind several demons, sorcerers and other magical villains.

The classic Marvel DimensionLord, Dormammu is a powerful EvilSorceror and one of the most feared and terrible entities in the universe. Wielder of truly godlike power, either a demon or something even worse, The Dread One has worked for unknown ages towards making our reality his own. He has fought Earth's Sorcerer Supreme since the days of Agamotto but holds a particular enmity for Strange, who considers him his ArchEnemy and will do anything to defeat him.

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Dormammu is a member of the extradimensional race known as the Faltine, and with his sister Umar was exiled for craving matter and killing their "father" Sinifer, who spawned them. Through treachery and guile guile, Dormammu took control of the Dark Dimension and began to cultivate worship of himself across several universes and conquering several others, which he merged with the Dark Dimension to increase his power as he is strongest there. He is responsible for the creation of Sataanish and other Hell Lords and is the power behind several demons, sorcerers and other magical villains.

The classic Marvel DimensionLord, Dormammu is a powerful EvilSorceror and one of the most feared and terrible entities in the universe. Wielder of truly godlike power, either a demon or something even worse, The Dread One has worked for unknown ages towards making our reality his own. He has fought Earth's Sorcerer Sorcerers Supreme since the days of Agamotto Agamotto, but holds a particular enmity for Strange, who considers him his ArchEnemy and will do anything to defeat him.

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* EldritchLocation: The Dark Dimension.

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* EldritchAbomination: Sometimes he’s described as a demon but other times he’s something else entirely. His people, the Faltinians are this without question. Extra-dimensional beings of pure magic from an ancient and dense universe who can defy the laws of physics and consume energy instead of matter.
* EldritchLocation: The Dark Dimension. Or as it’s sometimes called, Hell.
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