History ComicBook / Strange2022

Following ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfDoctorStrange'', Stephen Strange is dead and the universe lacks a Sorcerer Supreme. For the good of the world, Clea - a very accomplished sorcerer in her own right - quickly steps into the role before any of Doctor Strange's old rivals (such as Characters/DoctorDoom) can declare themselves his successor.

** Similarly, Clea's teamup with Moon Knight has her terrorizing his usual crooks into submision with her dread powers. By Moon Knight's own admission, the Sorcerer Supreme operates on an entirely different scale than he does.

* AbusiveParents: Umar is a warlord of the Dark Dimension in the same league as her brother, Dread Dormammu. But you don't become an evil overlord by being a good parent, and Clea remarks that there was a time when Umar's approval would have meant more than anything in the world to her. The first and only time Umar considered the possibilty of loving Clea as her daughter is when she believed that Clea had manipulated Stephen into making her Sorcerer Supreme as a stepping stone to conquering Earth.

* AntiHeroSubstitute: While Clea is compassionate like Stephen, she hails from the Dark Dimension, meaning that she doesn't abide by the typical ThouShaltNotKill rule ([[FateWorseThanDeath and death is preferable to whatever she would subjected her foes to at home]]). Wong is horrified when she murders the gangsters who invade the Shrouded Bazaar, angrily telling her that Stephen would have never done what she did. Clea retorts that she is ''not'' Stephen.

The first issue was released on March 02, 2022 and ran for ten issues before concluding in January 2023. ''Strange'' will be followed by an upcoming [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange2023 relaunch]] also helmed by [=MacKay=].

* AllYourPowersCombined: To stop [[spoiler:the Revenant Prime, Strange and Clea literally merge into one being, augmenting their magic to the point that they quickly dispatch the Sentry and restore most of the Blasphemy Cartel to normal (apart from Director None, who did such a thorough job of erasing himself that even they can't identify who he was)]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Blasphemy Cartel tried to weaponize AntiMagic to render Clea powerless so they can riddle her with bullets. [[spoiler:They neglected the fact that she's half-Faltine and thus has access to the dread energies of the Dark Dimension, which she promptly demonstrates by turning the mooks all to stone.]]

* RememberThatTimeYouBlewUpASun: Director None references Stephen's participation in the War of the Seven Spheres, in which Stephen fought in a cosmic war on behalf of the Vishanti for 5,000 years. [[spoiler:He declares Stephen's performance against Revenant Prime pitiful by comparison.]]

->''"There is still a Strange on Bleeker Street. And that Strange is '''still''' the Sorcerer Supreme"''

* ApologeticAttacker: Clea apologizes to [[spoiler:Thunderstrike]] after seeing what he's become before severing his arms with a PortalCut to disarm him of his magical weapon.

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted. [[spoiler:The Harvestman repeatedly tells Clea to give up on her quest to resurrect Stephen Strange, calling him unworthy of the esteem she holds him in. It's later revealed that the Harvestman is Stephen himself, and he's still in love with Clea despite being forced to serve Death.]]

* HopelessWithTech: Clea is at a loss over what do with all of the computers and other high-tech equipment that she finds in one of the Blasphemy Cartel's bases.
--> '''Clea:''' I am the Sorcerer Supreme, not the Technologist Transcendent.
* IGaveMyWord: [[spoiler:Death promises to return Stephen to life if he defeats the source of the revenant threat as her Harvestman. Despite Clea's worries that she'll need to cheat Death somehow to get Stephen back, Death abides by her agreement and restores Stephen to life as promised.]]

* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: Clea and Wong visit the Shrouded Bazaar, a hidden pocket dimension in New York City where magical creatures like elves, fairies, and dwarves come to sell goods and services. Wong orders a "Muspelheim fire-wasp wrap" from a troll to snack on while he window shops. Nearby Clea finds stalls selling vorpal, blessed, and unbreakable swords as she looks for otherworldly coffee, as Earth coffee is BadToTheLastDrop to her. All of things these show how different the hidden magical world is compared to that of the "uninitiated".

* GoodIsNotSoft: As a half-Faltine, half-Dark Dimension denizen sorcerer, Clea cares little for the ThouShaltNotKill rule espoused by most superheroes, gorily dismembering and vaporizing the members of the Blasphemy Cartel for hurting innocents at the bazaar she was visiting. But she's motivated entirely by love for her husband and her desire to protect the world he loved so much. She rescues kidnapped victims with a reassuring smile before turning around and casually inflicting a FateWorseThanDeath on a villain.