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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Villainous Organizations > '''Dark Dimension''' -]]]

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!! Spoilers for all works set prior to ''Avengers: Infinity War'' and ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

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[[folder:Dormammu]]
!! ''Dormammu''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_dormammu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You've come to die."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Faltine
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (motion capture and voice)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

->''"Your world is now '''my''' world. Like '''all''' worlds."''\\\

An evil entity who rules the Dark Dimension and the terrifying GreaterScopeVillain of ''Doctor Strange''.
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* AchillesHeel: He lives in a reality where time doesn't really exist. As a result, being trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop by Strange is something so utterly alien to him, he can't escape it despite his godlike powers.
* AdaptedOut: Dormammu doesn't have the Mindless Ones under his command as he did in the comics (though the Zealots' final form serves as a MythologyGag to the group), nor is Mordo his understudy (Kaecilius instead takes the role).
* AdaptationalAbomination: Provides the current page image. While Dormammu in the comics is a HumanoidAbomination, he was still just a normal sorcerer that became all-powerful, albeit a sorcerer who was also an alien from a race of EnergyBeings. Here, he is ''way'' more eldritch, being a living, ''carnivorous'' dimension whose "face" is nothing more than its poor attempt at approximating Strange's own.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In a way; in the comics, Dormammu's appearance had his face wreathed in orange flame, while in the film, his colour scheme is predominantly purple.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Dormammu ends up ''pleading'' with Strange to break the time-loop and free him.
* AssimilationPlot: What Kaecilius describes his scheme to be like:
-->'''Kaecilius:''' All will be united in One...
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The pupil of his eye is several times larger than Strange's entire body. Naturally, from Strange's vantage point all we see of him is his head, which is probably well over fifty feet tall on its own.
* BadassBoast: His ''[[IncomingHam first line]]'' serves as one.
-->'''Strange:''' Dormammu! I've come to bargain!\\
'''Dormammu:''' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my world, like '''all''' worlds.
* BigBadDuumvirate: PlayedWith. Kaecilius is TheHeavy carrying out the plan to destroy the Sanctums, while Dormammu grants him his powers and barely appears in the film. Despite this, Dormammu is clearly established from the beginning as the UltimateEvil with a nigh-omnipresent looming presence, has a much more direct impact on the plot compared to the usual GreaterScopeVillain, and serves as the FinalBoss.
* TheComicallySerious: He is a dark, serious entity who obliterates Doctor Strange for his feeble attempt to bargain with a fraction of his power... until he sees Strange coming back to bargain again and again. Humorously, he drops his menacing act in confusion and the rest of the time loop montage is him devolving from a terrifying threat to a sore loser begging Strange to stop.
* CompositeCharacter: He is called a "devourer of worlds" (which he was never called in the comics) and his color scheme is purple (rather than his usual red and orange), just like Galactus. The billowing cloud effect around his head also vaguely resembles Galactus's iconic helmet-horns.
* CurbStompBattle: He kills Doctor Strange, quickly and without effort, ''multiple times''.
* DarkIsEvil: Master of the Dark Dimension, and the appearance he shows to Strange takes the form of a purple, flaming face, both fitting Dormammu's overall malevolence.
* DealWithTheDevil:
** Tricks the Zealots into destroying the Sanctums in exchange for "life everlasting," when in reality he brings suffering and eternal horror.
** Amusingly enough, the godlike EldritchAbomination is on the ''[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu receiving]]'' end of it, courtesy of Strange's GroundhogDayLoop gambit.
* DemonicPossession: PlayedWith. Dormammu provides his followers with the Dark Dimension's power, engraving his symbol on their foreheads and scarring their eyes with a noticeable purple tint that signifies his foothold within them. Despite this, he seemingly doesn't use his hold over the Zealots to control or even influence their actions and thoughts... until the climax when he takes advantage of his loaned power to drag them into the Dark Dimension, fully converting them into what appear to be Mindless Ones.
* DimensionLord: Rules over the Dark Dimension.
* TheDreaded: The Masters of the Mystic Arts, especially the Ancient One and Mordo, are afraid of him. The three Sanctums were built specifically to keep him and other interdimensional threats from entering Earth.
* EarlyBirdCameo: When the Ancient One sends Strange on his first trip across the Multiverse, the future sorcerer comes face to face with a giant eye. It's Dormammu's.
* EldritchAbomination: Immortal, indestructible, feeds on entire universes. His face is constantly rippling vertically, he has IcyBlueEyes, his head is partially WreathedInFlames (psychedelic flames, at that), and he also has the VoiceOfTheLegion.
* EldritchLocation: His Dark Dimension, a purple nebula-esque land of spheres connected by strange bows of matter, and where time does not exist.
* EvilSoundsDeep: ''Very'' deep. His voice actor isn't credited, but according to the director, Dormammu's voice was provided by the famously deep-voiced Benedict Cumberbatch himself, blended with the "very deep voice" of... someone else.
* FinalBoss: Despite being a GreaterScopeVillain, Dormammu ends up being the final enemy Strange faces, which leads to Dormammu doing Kaecilius in.
* FlatCharacter: His motives behind why he wants to attack are Earth are pretty much absent. He's basically a world eating EldritchAbomination simply because he is.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/26/13-coolest-doctor-strange-easter-eggs-references-and-trivia?page=2 Reportedly,]] that face we see is less Dormammu's actual face than his way of communicating with Strange.
* GeniusLoci: Dormammu effectively ''is'' the Dark Dimension, his form in the climax simply being a construct created by warping the dimension. This extends to the Dark Dimension's magic, which he provides to be used as a tool for Kaecilius.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one who Kaecilius is working for but due to the Sanctum barriers preventing him from coming to Earth, Kaecilius is the one leading the story. He does appear at the very end as the FinalBoss when Doctor Strange meets him but was otherwise uninvolved with the EvilPlan.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Strange defeats Dormammu by locking him in a repeating series of events where Strange says he's come to bargain, Dormammu tries to kill Strange in some new horrifying way, and then the events repeat again, ''forever''. Since the very concept of time is relatively foreign to him, Dormammu has a somewhat DelayedReaction when the loop first repeats.
-->'''Dormammu:''' ''[repeating BadassBoast]'' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my... What is this? Illusion?
* HopelessBossFight: Way, ''way'' beyond Strange's capability to defeat, and they both know it.
* HotBlooded: Very quick to get angry and annoyed with Strange.
* IGaveMyWord: There's really nothing stopping him from proceeding with his plan to conquer Earth after Strange releases him from the time loop. He honors his promise anyway and leaves, taking the Zealots with him. Since Dormammu is the ruler of his entire dimension and answers to no one, it was a necessary gamble that Strange had to take. [[PragmaticVillainy Of course,]] there's nothing stopping Strange from just using The Eye to start ''another'' GroundhogDayLoop until he complies, so he probably simply doesn't want to deal with that again. [[spoiler:With the atomization of the Infinity Stones in ''Endgame'' however, there is now nothing stopping Dormammu from going back on his word and tricking another bunch of sorcerers into destroying the Sanctums keeping him out again. Better hope he doesn't find out.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[WordOfGod According to the director,]] on the subject of Benedict Cumberbatch performing Dormammu's motion-capture:
-->'''Scott Derrickson:''' I also wrote that role to be a kind of ultra-inflated version of Strange. He is an ego run amok; he is this cosmic conqueror where everything, where literally everything in the multi-verse is about him.
* KryptoniteFactor: TimeMaster powers really screw with him. Unfortunately for him, Strange brings the best kind (the Eye of Agamotto / Time Stone) for their confrontation.
* TheManBehindTheMan: It turns out that Kaecilius's plan was to allow Dormammu to be unleashed on Earth, and was using part of Dormammu's power to make this happen.
* MirrorMatch: An interesting in-universe and meta case. Cumberbatch playing Dormammu in motion-capture pretty much spelled this when he was finally given credit. In-universe, Dormammu takes on a rough form of Strange's face since he doesn't have a form of his own in his realm, making him a ThresholdGuardian since his defeat at Strange's hands led directly to Strange finishing his CharacterArc.
* MultiversalConqueror: He routinely conquers and absorbs entire universes.
* MythologyGag:
** The fact that the Ancient One drew her power from the Dark Dimension (as did Strange, ''almost'') seems to reference the fact that Strange in the comics also called upon Dormammu's name for some of his spells, but he was unaware of who or what he was really channeling.
** The symbol used to invoke him bears a passing resemblance to his comic version's HighCollarOfDoom.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Dormammu does ''not'' mess around with mortals, and he will just kill them on sight. Since Dormammu has no concept of time, this trope ends up ''backfiring'' on him as his unwillingness to bargain will cause him to keep killing Strange over and over again, and he's ultimately forced to listen and bargain.
* PlaceBeyondTime: The Dark Dimension, where he lives, does not have time. This is exploited by Strange, as he gets tired of killing Strange over and over faster than Strange gets tired of dying, and since he has no idea how time works, he can't find loopholes or pull himself out of the time flow like his followers did earlier.
* PowerfulAndHelpless: Dormammu could consume our universe with ease and was in the process of doing so when Doctor Strange confronts him. Strange realises that for all his infinite power, Dormammu has no control over time (which doesn't exist in his domain). Strange defeats him by bringing time to the Dark Dimension via the Eye of Agamotto and locking them both in a GroundhogDayLoop where all he can do is kill Strange repeatedly for all eternity. This effectively makes Dormammu a helpless prisoner in his own dimension until he accepts Strange's request to leave Earth alone.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Extremely powerful and extremely purple.
* RageQuit: Gives up on the SealedEvilInADuel business out of frustration when he realizes Strange won't let him win and just lets Strange name his terms.
--> '''Dormammu''': You will ''never'' win...
--> '''Strange''': No, but I can lose... again, and again, and again... and again forever. That makes you my prisoner.
--> '''Dormammu''': '''No! Stop! [[AintTooProudToBeg Make this]] ''[[AintTooProudToBeg stop]]''! [[AintTooProudToBeg Set me free!]]'''
* RealityWarper: His power allows Kaecilius to distort physical laws such as space and gravity in the real world, and even pull himself out of the Eye of Agamotto's time reversal magic.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: His realm is beyond time. So Strange traps him in a time loop, and dies over and over to Dormammu's increasing frustration.
* {{Sadist}}: He repeatedly kills Strange in a variety of brutal and inventive ways, many of which were out of frustration with being trapped in Strange's time-loop.
* SealedEvilInADuel: Briefly gets trapped in an endless duel with Strange, thanks to the Eye of Agamotto locking the two in a GroundhogDayLoop. Ultimately, he gets annoyed and agrees to Strange's terms.
* SentientPhlebotinum: Dormammu ''is'' the Dark Dimension, which extends to the magic he provides for the Zealots to use.
* SpaceTimeEater: Is an inter-dimensional entity that absorbs entire universes into the Dark Dimension.
* ThresholdGuardian: His RageQuit cemented Strange's acceptance as a protector of the Earth from mystical threats and completed his evolution over the course of the film. Also, as mentioned several times, Dormammu wasn't overwhelmed by sheer force, but talked out of fighting, heralding Strange's maturity.
* VillainousBreakdown: Though more subdued than most examples, his smugness over his power quickly transforms into frustration since he can't be rid of Doctor Strange.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch and an unknown voice actor.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: A variant of it. According to WordOfGod, Dormammu doesn't have a physical form in the Dark Dimension, so for the final battle with Strange, when he's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, it is meant to be taken as a sort of MirrorMatch since he sees Strange as beneath him.
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[[folder:Kaecilius]]
!! ''Master Kaecilius''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"People think in terms of good and evil, but really, time is the true enemy of us all. Time kills everything."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Danish
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Masters of the Mystic Arts (formerly), Zealots, Dormammu
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MadsMikkelsen
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Óscar Bonfiglio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Paco Gázquez (European Spanish dub), Yann Guillemot (French dub), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French dub), Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

->''"The world is not what it ought to be. Humanity longs for the eternal, for a world beyond time, because time is what enslaves us. Time is an insult. Death is an insult. Doctor, we don't seek to rule this world... We seek to save it."''

A Master of the Mystic Arts who broke away from the Ancient One to form his own following of Zealots, which puts him at odds with Stephen Strange.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Kaecilius was a mere minion of Baron Mordo. Here, he's a major threat, acting as a herald and servant for Dormammu capable of killing the Ancient One.
* AdaptationalNationality: His nationality isn't disclosed in the comics. In the MCU, he's Danish.
* AffablyEvil: He's very civil and polite to Strange, even asking for his name and addressing him respectfully. He's also cordial to his former comrades from Kamar-Taj when not killing them.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: He and his Zealots attacks all three Sanctums that the Masters of the Mystic Arts are sworn to protect. The London and Hong Kong Sanctums quickly fall to his assault, and the New York Sanctum is heavily damaged.
* AndIMustScream: His final fate; assimilated into the Dark Dimension as a mindless, deformed extension of Dormammu.
* AntiVillain: His intentions aren't ''villainous'' per se and he sounds sincere when he says that "time is the enemy" and he wants everyone to be immortal, but he's definitely not a heroic figure.
* AscendedExtra: He's an ''extremely'' minor character in the comics, and is much more prominent in the movie.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Leader of the Zealots and their most dangerous member, even managing to kill the Ancient One.
* BadBoss: He doesn't particularly care much for the wellbeing of his fellow Zealots, watching them die in droves against the Ancient One, with little effort made to rescue or even help them. He's even willing to kill his own followers just to get a shot at the Ancient One. A deleted scene even has him kill one of the Zealots for failing to draw power from the Dark Dimension.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the end, he and his followers got exactly what they wanted - eternal life. Eternal life as deformed, mindless slaves to Dormammu.
* BigBadDuumvirate: PlayedWith. He may be working for Dormammu, but Kaecilius is the direct threat who receives more focus, and the EldritchAbomination's plan can't work without his involvement.
* BigBadWannabe: At the end of the day, Kaecilius is just an UnwittingPawn to Dormammu. His goal of achieving eternal life is a mere delusion, as he ignores every warning that the Dark Dimension is a FateWorseThanDeath.
* BigNo: He yells this during the climax when Strange traps him in a wall before going to face Dormammu.
* CombatPragmatist: Coupled with BadBoss tendencies, he seems to recognize that even with his heightened powers (courtesy of Dormammu) he still may not be a match for the Ancient One, and so instead sacrifices one of his few remaining followers to get a winning stab in rather than fight her one-on-one. His followers may be of the same mindset as none of them seem to take issue with this action.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At one point, he mistakenly believes that Stephen Strange's name is "Mister Doctor". ItMakesSenseInContext--see below.
* TheComicallySerious: He's serious, but has some lighthearted moments such as calling Stephen "Mister Doctor" and his general puzzlement over Stephen's antics while trying to fight him.
* CompositeCharacter: He's an amalgamation of many Doctor Strange villains from the comics. His desire for eternal life matches that of Alaric, and he resembles the comic book iteration of Mordo in that he is a former student of the Ancient One and Dormammu's follower. His appearance after being absorbed by the Dark Dimension closely mimics that of a Mindless One.
* DarkIsEvil: Kaecilius draws his power from the Dark Dimension, and while he's an AntiVillain, he's still quite evil.
* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally, such as in his first encounter with Strange.
--> '''Kaecilius:''' How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...?\\
'''Strange:''' "Doctor".\\
'''Kaecilius:''' Mister Doctor.\\
'''Strange:''' It's "Strange".\\
'''Kaecilius:''' Maybe. Who am I to judge?
* DecompositeCharacter: He bears more than a few similarities with the comic version of Mordo, being a former pupil of the Ancient One and a current disciple of Dormammu.
* DraggedOffToHell: Part of the deal Strange makes to save the Earth from Dormammu is taking Kaecilius when he leaves, resulting in Kaecilius and his Zealots all being dragged off to the Dark Dimension.
* TheDragon: The leader of Dormammu's Zealots who destroys the Sanctums so he can consume Earth.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His late wife and son, and his pain over their deaths are what fuel his actions throughout the film. A prequel comic shows his split from the Ancient One came when she refused to teach him magic to bring them back from the dead.
* EvilPlan: Destroy the shield generated by the Secret Sanctums in order to allow Dormammu into the human dimension, which will make everyone immortal.
* EvilSorcerer: His mastery of magic and his evil goal puts him into direct conflict with [[MagicalSociety Kamar-Taj]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Kaecilius has a deep and villainous voice, courtesy of Creator/MadsMikkelsen.
* EyeScream: As Kaecilius and his followers get closer and closer to their dark goal, the areas around their eyes appear like dark purple craters in their faces.
* FaceHeelTurn: He broke away from the Ancient One to follow his own path for his evil purpose.
* FacialHorror: The purple scarring around his eyes.
* FallenHero: He was once a famous Master of the Mystic Arts before breaking away and becoming an AntiVillain.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He ends up trapped in the Dark Dimension at the film's conclusion as a Mindless One.
* TheHeavy: He is not the head villain, that would be Dormammu, but he is the villain moving the plot along since Dormammu is locked out of Earth's dimension.
* HerosEvilPredecessor: Takes this role compared to Doctor Strange, [[DecompositeCharacter as opposed to Mordo]]. In fact, the similarities between his arrogance and that of [[InsufferableGenius his successor]] play a part in the Ancient One's initial refusal to teach the latter magic.
* HollywoodAtheist: A deleted scene has him discuss life and death with a priest, with Kaecilius's dialogue implying that he has forsaken any faith he had in God in favor of serving Dormammu.
* HumanoidAbomination: Seems to be his fate after he's transformed into something resembling a Mindless One from the comics.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Kaecilius longs to bring about a world without death, but he has no problem with killing anyone who gets in his way, including his own followers.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Kaecilius seeks to bring the Dark Dimension to Earth to make everyone, himself included, immortal. He gets his wish, at least for himself and his Zealots, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor but not in the way he probably expected]].
* IronicEcho: Unknowingly echoes Strange's line about people being "momentary speck[s] in an indifferent universe", which visibly disturbs Strange.
* ManlyTears: While explaining his motivations to Doctor Strange, he eventually breaks into tears as he describes the possibilities of merging Earth's realm with the Dark Dimension. It's the first clue we get that he seems to genuinely want to improve the lot of all humans... though he's still willing to kill a few dozen on the way.
* MirrorCharacter: To Strange, both being magically gifted, brilliant, bitter, and far too willing to reach for power they aren't ready for/capable of understanding yet. This is a large part of why the Ancient One initially refuses to train Strange.
* MythologyGag: His wife is named Adria. Both he and Adria are Baron Mordo's minions in the mainstream comics.
* ObviouslyEvil: Even when he drives some valid points, Strange refuses to help him because a) he just killed someone and b) his dark-magic-corrupted face is clearly the one of a bad guy.
* OffWithHisHead: What he does to the Kamar-Taj librarian. He even arranges a basket to catch the head when it drops.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son died before the events of the film.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: A very promising Master of the Mystic Arts, he left Kamar-Taj violently, taking his Zealots with him.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: He was a disciple of the Ancient One until he decided to use his powers for evil.
* RealityWarper: After being empowered by Dormammu, Kaecilius gains a tremendous boost to his magical abilities, which grants him phenomenal control over the Mirror Dimension, and even allows him to distort physical laws such as space and gravity in the real world. Further, thanks to his knowledge of time, Kaecilius is even able to resist and pull himself out of the Eye of Agamotto's time reversal magic, which is powered by ''an Infinity Stone''.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: He and his followers are transformed into Mindless Ones after being [[DraggedOffToHell dragged off to the Dark Dimension]] by a departing Dormammu.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: In contrast to Stephen Strange's PrimaryColorChampion, Kaecilius wears an orange gi and after making his [[DealWithTheDevil magical contract with Dormammu]], he gains BlackEyesOfEvil that reflect [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]] and [[SicklyGreenGlow green]].
* SpaceMaster: Crosses with SpontaneousWeaponCreation. Thanks to Dormammu's empowering, he can distort space itself to form razor sharp glass-like material called Space Shards, which can not only physically cut through almost anything, but can be summoned and deactivated at will.
* StartOfDarkness: His start is detailed in a prequel comic, where the Ancient One's refusal to teach him how to reunite with his dead wife and son drives him to darkness.
* TheStoic: Kaecilius rarely shows strong emotion. Even when describing his motives to Strange with tears in his eyes, his voice is calm and steady.
* StrawNihilist: Kaecilius believes that death renders life meaningless, and that the only way to achieve a meaningful existence is to become immortal via the Dark Dimension. For this reason, he has no problem killing people to serve his goals.
* UnwittingPawn: Tricked into believing Dormammu's promise of eternal life, unaware that releasing him onto Earth will bring only suffering.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How he justifies killing people. As far as he's concerned, a few lives here and there are a small price to pay to create a world free of death.
* VillainHasAPoint: When he points out that the Ancient One is a {{hypocrite}}. Telling your students not to steal power from the Dark Dimension to live forever and become a RealityWarper when you yourself are doing that very thing in secret is a pretty textbook case of hypocrisy.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Unsuccessfully tries to recruit Strange.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The way he talks to Daniel Drumm gives the impression that this was true before he abandoned Kamar-Taj.
* WeaponOfChoice: Kaecilius tends to conjure [[RazorWind swords made of air]] during battle when not using other offensive magics.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His goal is pretty simple: stop the effects of time on humanity. That way, we have all the time we need to gain wisdom, achieve our true potential, and no-one ever has to go through the loss of watching their family die ever again, as he did.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He shares little resemblance with his [[http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/images/characters/kaecilius_q.jpg original comic book counterpart]].
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[[folder:The Zealots]]
!! ''The Zealots''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Zara Phythian, Katrina Durden, Alaa Safi, Dean Ridge
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

The students of Kaecilius who split off from Kamar-Taj and joined him to form their own following, seduced by the power of the Dark Dimension.
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* AntiVillain: They follow their master's goals in that they believe their actions are for the greater good - assimilation into the Dark Dimension with eternal life for all.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: In their original party over a dozen strong, they fall left and right to the Ancient One's more advanced control of magic. But once Kaecilius raids the Sanctums with only two Zealots at a time, they are a more formidable force, easily wiping out two Sanctums and killing the Ancient One. Justified, as at that point they've been granted power from the Dark Dimension, increasing their magical power.
* DarkActionGirl: Kaecilius has several female Zealots who follow him into combat.
* DarkIsEvil: Like Kaecilius, they draw power from the Dark Dimension, and serve their leader's villainous, albeit [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]] goals.
* DraggedOffToHell: The surviving ones share in Kaecilius's fate of being dragged off to the Dark Dimension as Mindless Ones when Dormammu leaves as part of Strange's deal with him.
* DwindlingParty: Their numbers decrease over the course of the film as they are killed off by the Ancient One, Strange, or [[BadBoss Kaecilius]]. By the time they arrive in Hong Kong, there are only two Zealots left, aside from Kaecilius himself.
* EyeScream: The Dark Dimension ritual burns and chars the skin around their eyes, giving them the same horrific appearance as Kaecilius. They don't seem bothered by it.
* KungFuWizard: They use SupernaturalMartialArts in tandem with their spellcasting abilities. Additionally, they also use magically-imbued weapons in combat.
* ObviouslyEvil: Kaecilius and his followers all have disturbing purple-black scars around their eyes. Strange even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this by pointing out Dormammu ''can't'' be good if he puts nasty black decay around his followers' eyes.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: They were a whole group of disciples and students of the Ancient One, before following Kaecilius in his fall to the Dark Dimension's power.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: They are transformed into Mindless Ones after being DraggedOffToHell by Dormammu.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: They broke off from the Kamar-Taj orthodoxy over a disagreement in how sorcery should be used.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: They can form their swords from little more than space and magical energy, making them transparent yet deadly.
* SuperpoweredMooks: Their main purpose in the story is to serve as Kaecilius's muscle, not much more.

!! ''Lucian Aster''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottAdkins
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

A member of Kaecilius's Zealots.
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* BeardOfEvil: A sorcerer, rocking PermaStubble, seeking to put this dimension under the domain of an EldritchAbomination.
* DeaderThanDead: Compared to the other Zealots, Lucian's astral form - that is, his soul - is overloaded with electricity, [[StuffBlowingUp incinerating it]] and killing his body outright simultaneously.
* DemotedToExtra: He was the main villain of 4 issues of an ''92 Annual'', for each member of the comics version of ''The Defenders''. In the MCU, he's demoted to a mook.
* EliteMook: Lucian gives Stephen his most brutal thrashing in the entire film, almost killing him.
* FlatCharacter: We learn absolutely nothing about him.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Ancient One, Mordo, and Kaecilius himself have no qualms about killing them, but after killing Lucian, Strange is quite shaken up, both because this is his first time taking a life and because of the Hippocratic Oath he swore as a doctor.
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[[folder:Morgan le Fay]]
-->See the Morgan le Fay entry in the [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Other Supervillains]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Darkforce]]
!!''The Darkforce / Zero Matter''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Series/AgentCarter'' | ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' | ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}''

A mysterious, sentient, and apparently malevolent element from another dimension. First discovered in the 1940s, it served as the source of power for multiple heroes and villains, and has at least once tried to invade our reality.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The Darkforce's exact relationship to the Dark Dimension is unclear. While its dimension shares the same name and general malevolent desire to consume everything, when actually visited in ''Cloak and Dagger'' and ''Runaways'' it's far different than the psychedelic place ruled by Dormammu with an iron fist.
* BodyHorror: Creates a horrible scar on Whitney Frost's head, which continues to expand as she uses her powers more.
* CastingAShadow: One of the primary abilities it gives to people.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much less actively malevolent by the time of ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'', if still incredibly problematic.
* TheCorruptor: Drives Whitney insane and obsessed with gaining more Zero Matter.
* DarkIsEvil: The ''Dark''force is actively malevolent and most of the people it infects end up as villains, though some (like Tyrone) subvert this.
* DemonicPossession: While it never gets to outright puppeteering her actions, Whitney's deterioration can be chalked up to it gaining a tighter grasp and feeding her addiction.
* EldritchAbomination: The Darkforce's exact nature is left unclear, save that it's an apparently sentient element that seeks to destroy everything.
* EldritchLocation: The Darkforce Dimension.
* EmotionEater: Gives these powers to [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine, allowing him to take away people's hopes]].
* EnergyAbsorption: Allows Marcus Daniels to absorb electricity, from devices as well as from living things.
* FinalBoss: The climax of the second season of ''Series/AgentCarter'' isn't depowering Whitney, but rather closing the rift they use to do so before the Zero Matter escapes and absorbs everything.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: It's never given any characterization besides a desire to expand into other dimensions.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Series/AgentCarter'' Season Two, as Wilkes reveals it to be manipulating those who use it (i.e. Whitney) into opening a rift so that it can invade and devour all reality.
* ItCanThink: Throughout the season, the Zero Matter appears to be nothing more than a powerful, if corruptive, MacGuffin. In the finale, Wilkes reveals that it's somewhat alive, likening it to a cancer that has already consumed everything in its universe, and has been exploiting Whitney's addiction to it to get her to open a portal. It's further implied to begin talking to Whitney, given her [[TalkingToThemself rambling]] while designing the portal.
* MultiversalConqueror: Its primary goal is to invade and devour Earth, and presumably other worlds as well.
* LivingShadow: Is apparently sentient darkness.
* SentientPhlebotinum: The Darkforce is apparently alive, and influences Whitney the longer she's exposed to it.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Only a few who have been exposed to it (Tyrone) don't devolve into egomaniacal supervillains.
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[[folder:Mister Jip]]
!!''Mister Jip''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

A strange entity that Tyrone briefly encountered.
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* AbortedArc: His appearance was supposed to foreshadow his status as a future villain, but the second season went with a version of D'Spayre. Then, the show's cancellation means that this likely won't come to fruition.
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[[folder:Dormammu]]
!! ''Dormammu''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_dormammu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You've come to die."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Faltine
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (motion capture and voice)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''

->''"Your world is now '''my''' world. Like '''all''' worlds."''\\\

An evil entity who rules the Dark Dimension and the terrifying GreaterScopeVillain of ''Doctor Strange''.
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* AchillesHeel: He lives in a reality where time doesn't really exist. As a result, being trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop by Strange is something so utterly alien to him, he can't escape it despite his godlike powers.
* AdaptedOut: Dormammu doesn't have the Mindless Ones under his command as he did in the comics (though the Zealots' final form serves as a MythologyGag to the group), nor is Mordo his understudy (Kaecilius instead takes the role).
* AdaptationalAbomination: Provides the current page image. While Dormammu in the comics is a HumanoidAbomination, he was still just a normal sorcerer that became all-powerful, albeit a sorcerer who was also an alien from a race of EnergyBeings. Here, he is ''way'' more eldritch, being a living, ''carnivorous'' dimension whose "face" is nothing more than its poor attempt at approximating Strange's own.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In a way; in the comics, Dormammu's appearance had his face wreathed in orange flame, while in the film, his colour scheme is predominantly purple.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Dormammu ends up ''pleading'' with Strange to break the time-loop and free him.
* AssimilationPlot: What Kaecilius describes his scheme to be like:
-->'''Kaecilius:''' All will be united in One...
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The pupil of his eye is several times larger than Strange's entire body. Naturally, from Strange's vantage point all we see of him is his head, which is probably well over fifty feet tall on its own.
* BadassBoast: His ''[[IncomingHam first line]]'' serves as one.
-->'''Strange:''' Dormammu! I've come to bargain!\\
'''Dormammu:''' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my world, like '''all''' worlds.
* BigBadDuumvirate: PlayedWith. Kaecilius is TheHeavy carrying out the plan to destroy the Sanctums, while Dormammu grants him his powers and barely appears in the film. Despite this, Dormammu is clearly established from the beginning as the UltimateEvil with a nigh-omnipresent looming presence, has a much more direct impact on the plot compared to the usual GreaterScopeVillain, and serves as the FinalBoss.
* TheComicallySerious: He is a dark, serious entity who obliterates Doctor Strange for his feeble attempt to bargain with a fraction of his power... until he sees Strange coming back to bargain again and again. Humorously, he drops his menacing act in confusion and the rest of the time loop montage is him devolving from a terrifying threat to a sore loser begging Strange to stop.
* CompositeCharacter: He is called a "devourer of worlds" (which he was never called in the comics) and his color scheme is purple (rather than his usual red and orange), just like Galactus. The billowing cloud effect around his head also vaguely resembles Galactus's iconic helmet-horns.
* CurbStompBattle: He kills Doctor Strange, quickly and without effort, ''multiple times''.
* DarkIsEvil: Master of the Dark Dimension, and the appearance he shows to Strange takes the form of a purple, flaming face, both fitting Dormammu's overall malevolence.
* DealWithTheDevil:
** Tricks the Zealots into destroying the Sanctums in exchange for "life everlasting," when in reality he brings suffering and eternal horror.
** Amusingly enough, the godlike EldritchAbomination is on the ''[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu receiving]]'' end of it, courtesy of Strange's GroundhogDayLoop gambit.
* DemonicPossession: PlayedWith. Dormammu provides his followers with the Dark Dimension's power, engraving his symbol on their foreheads and scarring their eyes with a noticeable purple tint that signifies his foothold within them. Despite this, he seemingly doesn't use his hold over the Zealots to control or even influence their actions and thoughts... until the climax when he takes advantage of his loaned power to drag them into the Dark Dimension, fully converting them into what appear to be Mindless Ones.
* DimensionLord: Rules over the Dark Dimension.
* TheDreaded: The Masters of the Mystic Arts, especially the Ancient One and Mordo, are afraid of him. The three Sanctums were built specifically to keep him and other interdimensional threats from entering Earth.
* EarlyBirdCameo: When the Ancient One sends Strange on his first trip across the Multiverse, the future sorcerer comes face to face with a giant eye. It's Dormammu's.
* EldritchAbomination: Immortal, indestructible, feeds on entire universes. His face is constantly rippling vertically, he has IcyBlueEyes, his head is partially WreathedInFlames (psychedelic flames, at that), and he also has the VoiceOfTheLegion.
* EldritchLocation: His Dark Dimension, a purple nebula-esque land of spheres connected by strange bows of matter, and where time does not exist.
* EvilSoundsDeep: ''Very'' deep. His voice actor isn't credited, but according to the director, Dormammu's voice was provided by the famously deep-voiced Benedict Cumberbatch himself, blended with the "very deep voice" of... someone else.
* FinalBoss: Despite being a GreaterScopeVillain, Dormammu ends up being the final enemy Strange faces, which leads to Dormammu doing Kaecilius in.
* FlatCharacter: His motives behind why he wants to attack are Earth are pretty much absent. He's basically a world eating EldritchAbomination simply because he is.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/26/13-coolest-doctor-strange-easter-eggs-references-and-trivia?page=2 Reportedly,]] that face we see is less Dormammu's actual face than his way of communicating with Strange.
* GeniusLoci: Dormammu effectively ''is'' the Dark Dimension, his form in the climax simply being a construct created by warping the dimension. This extends to the Dark Dimension's magic, which he provides to be used as a tool for Kaecilius.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one who Kaecilius is working for but due to the Sanctum barriers preventing him from coming to Earth, Kaecilius is the one leading the story. He does appear at the very end as the FinalBoss when Doctor Strange meets him but was otherwise uninvolved with the EvilPlan.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Strange defeats Dormammu by locking him in a repeating series of events where Strange says he's come to bargain, Dormammu tries to kill Strange in some new horrifying way, and then the events repeat again, ''forever''. Since the very concept of time is relatively foreign to him, Dormammu has a somewhat DelayedReaction when the loop first repeats.
-->'''Dormammu:''' ''[repeating BadassBoast]'' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my... What is this? Illusion?
* HopelessBossFight: Way, ''way'' beyond Strange's capability to defeat, and they both know it.
* HotBlooded: Very quick to get angry and annoyed with Strange.
* IGaveMyWord: There's really nothing stopping him from proceeding with his plan to conquer Earth after Strange releases him from the time loop. He honors his promise anyway and leaves, taking the Zealots with him. Since Dormammu is the ruler of his entire dimension and answers to no one, it was a necessary gamble that Strange had to take. [[PragmaticVillainy Of course,]] there's nothing stopping Strange from just using The Eye to start ''another'' GroundhogDayLoop until he complies, so he probably simply doesn't want to deal with that again. [[spoiler:With the atomization of the Infinity Stones in ''Endgame'' however, there is now nothing stopping Dormammu from going back on his word and tricking another bunch of sorcerers into destroying the Sanctums keeping him out again. Better hope he doesn't find out.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[WordOfGod According to the director,]] on the subject of Benedict Cumberbatch performing Dormammu's motion-capture:
-->'''Scott Derrickson:''' I also wrote that role to be a kind of ultra-inflated version of Strange. He is an ego run amok; he is this cosmic conqueror where everything, where literally everything in the multi-verse is about him.
* KryptoniteFactor: TimeMaster powers really screw with him. Unfortunately for him, Strange brings the best kind (the Eye of Agamotto / Time Stone) for their confrontation.
* TheManBehindTheMan: It turns out that Kaecilius's plan was to allow Dormammu to be unleashed on Earth, and was using part of Dormammu's power to make this happen.
* MirrorMatch: An interesting in-universe and meta case. Cumberbatch playing Dormammu in motion-capture pretty much spelled this when he was finally given credit. In-universe, Dormammu takes on a rough form of Strange's face since he doesn't have a form of his own in his realm, making him a ThresholdGuardian since his defeat at Strange's hands led directly to Strange finishing his CharacterArc.
* MultiversalConqueror: He routinely conquers and absorbs entire universes.
* MythologyGag:
** The fact that the Ancient One drew her power from the Dark Dimension (as did Strange, ''almost'') seems to reference the fact that Strange in the comics also called upon Dormammu's name for some of his spells, but he was unaware of who or what he was really channeling.
** The symbol used to invoke him bears a passing resemblance to his comic version's HighCollarOfDoom.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Dormammu does ''not'' mess around with mortals, and he will just kill them on sight. Since Dormammu has no concept of time, this trope ends up ''backfiring'' on him as his unwillingness to bargain will cause him to keep killing Strange over and over again, and he's ultimately forced to listen and bargain.
* PlaceBeyondTime: The Dark Dimension, where he lives, does not have time. This is exploited by Strange, as he gets tired of killing Strange over and over faster than Strange gets tired of dying, and since he has no idea how time works, he can't find loopholes or pull himself out of the time flow like his followers did earlier.
* PowerfulAndHelpless: Dormammu could consume our universe with ease and was in the process of doing so when Doctor Strange confronts him. Strange realises that for all his infinite power, Dormammu has no control over time (which doesn't exist in his domain). Strange defeats him by bringing time to the Dark Dimension via the Eye of Agamotto and locking them both in a GroundhogDayLoop where all he can do is kill Strange repeatedly for all eternity. This effectively makes Dormammu a helpless prisoner in his own dimension until he accepts Strange's request to leave Earth alone.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Extremely powerful and extremely purple.
* RageQuit: Gives up on the SealedEvilInADuel business out of frustration when he realizes Strange won't let him win and just lets Strange name his terms.
--> '''Dormammu''': You will ''never'' win...
--> '''Strange''': No, but I can lose... again, and again, and again... and again forever. That makes you my prisoner.
--> '''Dormammu''': '''No! Stop! [[AintTooProudToBeg Make this]] ''[[AintTooProudToBeg stop]]''! [[AintTooProudToBeg Set me free!]]'''
* RealityWarper: His power allows Kaecilius to distort physical laws such as space and gravity in the real world, and even pull himself out of the Eye of Agamotto's time reversal magic.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: His realm is beyond time. So Strange traps him in a time loop, and dies over and over to Dormammu's increasing frustration.
* {{Sadist}}: He repeatedly kills Strange in a variety of brutal and inventive ways, many of which were out of frustration with being trapped in Strange's time-loop.
* SealedEvilInADuel: Briefly gets trapped in an endless duel with Strange, thanks to the Eye of Agamotto locking the two in a GroundhogDayLoop. Ultimately, he gets annoyed and agrees to Strange's terms.
* SentientPhlebotinum: Dormammu ''is'' the Dark Dimension, which extends to the magic he provides for the Zealots to use.
* SpaceTimeEater: Is an inter-dimensional entity that absorbs entire universes into the Dark Dimension.
* ThresholdGuardian: His RageQuit cemented Strange's acceptance as a protector of the Earth from mystical threats and completed his evolution over the course of the film. Also, as mentioned several times, Dormammu wasn't overwhelmed by sheer force, but talked out of fighting, heralding Strange's maturity.
* VillainousBreakdown: Though more subdued than most examples, his smugness over his power quickly transforms into frustration since he can't be rid of Doctor Strange.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch and an unknown voice actor.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: A variant of it. According to WordOfGod, Dormammu doesn't have a physical form in the Dark Dimension, so for the final battle with Strange, when he's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, it is meant to be taken as a sort of MirrorMatch since he sees Strange as beneath him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kaecilius]]
!! ''Master Kaecilius''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaecillius.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"People think in terms of good and evil, but really, time is the true enemy of us all. Time kills everything."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Danish
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Masters of the Mystic Arts (formerly), Zealots, Dormammu
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MadsMikkelsen
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Óscar Bonfiglio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Paco Gázquez (European Spanish dub), Yann Guillemot (French dub), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French dub), Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

->''"The world is not what it ought to be. Humanity longs for the eternal, for a world beyond time, because time is what enslaves us. Time is an insult. Death is an insult. Doctor, we don't seek to rule this world... We seek to save it."''

A Master of the Mystic Arts who broke away from the Ancient One to form his own following of Zealots, which puts him at odds with Stephen Strange.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Kaecilius was a mere minion of Baron Mordo. Here, he's a major threat, acting as a herald and servant for Dormammu capable of killing the Ancient One.
* AdaptationalNationality: His nationality isn't disclosed in the comics. In the MCU, he's Danish.
* AffablyEvil: He's very civil and polite to Strange, even asking for his name and addressing him respectfully. He's also cordial to his former comrades from Kamar-Taj when not killing them.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: He and his Zealots attacks all three Sanctums that the Masters of the Mystic Arts are sworn to protect. The London and Hong Kong Sanctums quickly fall to his assault, and the New York Sanctum is heavily damaged.
* AndIMustScream: His final fate; assimilated into the Dark Dimension as a mindless, deformed extension of Dormammu.
* AntiVillain: His intentions aren't ''villainous'' per se and he sounds sincere when he says that "time is the enemy" and he wants everyone to be immortal, but he's definitely not a heroic figure.
* AscendedExtra: He's an ''extremely'' minor character in the comics, and is much more prominent in the movie.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Leader of the Zealots and their most dangerous member, even managing to kill the Ancient One.
* BadBoss: He doesn't particularly care much for the wellbeing of his fellow Zealots, watching them die in droves against the Ancient One, with little effort made to rescue or even help them. He's even willing to kill his own followers just to get a shot at the Ancient One. A deleted scene even has him kill one of the Zealots for failing to draw power from the Dark Dimension.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the end, he and his followers got exactly what they wanted - eternal life. Eternal life as deformed, mindless slaves to Dormammu.
* BigBadDuumvirate: PlayedWith. He may be working for Dormammu, but Kaecilius is the direct threat who receives more focus, and the EldritchAbomination's plan can't work without his involvement.
* BigBadWannabe: At the end of the day, Kaecilius is just an UnwittingPawn to Dormammu. His goal of achieving eternal life is a mere delusion, as he ignores every warning that the Dark Dimension is a FateWorseThanDeath.
* BigNo: He yells this during the climax when Strange traps him in a wall before going to face Dormammu.
* CombatPragmatist: Coupled with BadBoss tendencies, he seems to recognize that even with his heightened powers (courtesy of Dormammu) he still may not be a match for the Ancient One, and so instead sacrifices one of his few remaining followers to get a winning stab in rather than fight her one-on-one. His followers may be of the same mindset as none of them seem to take issue with this action.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At one point, he mistakenly believes that Stephen Strange's name is "Mister Doctor". ItMakesSenseInContext--see below.
* TheComicallySerious: He's serious, but has some lighthearted moments such as calling Stephen "Mister Doctor" and his general puzzlement over Stephen's antics while trying to fight him.
* CompositeCharacter: He's an amalgamation of many Doctor Strange villains from the comics. His desire for eternal life matches that of Alaric, and he resembles the comic book iteration of Mordo in that he is a former student of the Ancient One and Dormammu's follower. His appearance after being absorbed by the Dark Dimension closely mimics that of a Mindless One.
* DarkIsEvil: Kaecilius draws his power from the Dark Dimension, and while he's an AntiVillain, he's still quite evil.
* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally, such as in his first encounter with Strange.
--> '''Kaecilius:''' How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...?\\
'''Strange:''' "Doctor".\\
'''Kaecilius:''' Mister Doctor.\\
'''Strange:''' It's "Strange".\\
'''Kaecilius:''' Maybe. Who am I to judge?
* DecompositeCharacter: He bears more than a few similarities with the comic version of Mordo, being a former pupil of the Ancient One and a current disciple of Dormammu.
* DraggedOffToHell: Part of the deal Strange makes to save the Earth from Dormammu is taking Kaecilius when he leaves, resulting in Kaecilius and his Zealots all being dragged off to the Dark Dimension.
* TheDragon: The leader of Dormammu's Zealots who destroys the Sanctums so he can consume Earth.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His late wife and son, and his pain over their deaths are what fuel his actions throughout the film. A prequel comic shows his split from the Ancient One came when she refused to teach him magic to bring them back from the dead.
* EvilPlan: Destroy the shield generated by the Secret Sanctums in order to allow Dormammu into the human dimension, which will make everyone immortal.
* EvilSorcerer: His mastery of magic and his evil goal puts him into direct conflict with [[MagicalSociety Kamar-Taj]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Kaecilius has a deep and villainous voice, courtesy of Creator/MadsMikkelsen.
* EyeScream: As Kaecilius and his followers get closer and closer to their dark goal, the areas around their eyes appear like dark purple craters in their faces.
* FaceHeelTurn: He broke away from the Ancient One to follow his own path for his evil purpose.
* FacialHorror: The purple scarring around his eyes.
* FallenHero: He was once a famous Master of the Mystic Arts before breaking away and becoming an AntiVillain.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He ends up trapped in the Dark Dimension at the film's conclusion as a Mindless One.
* TheHeavy: He is not the head villain, that would be Dormammu, but he is the villain moving the plot along since Dormammu is locked out of Earth's dimension.
* HerosEvilPredecessor: Takes this role compared to Doctor Strange, [[DecompositeCharacter as opposed to Mordo]]. In fact, the similarities between his arrogance and that of [[InsufferableGenius his successor]] play a part in the Ancient One's initial refusal to teach the latter magic.
* HollywoodAtheist: A deleted scene has him discuss life and death with a priest, with Kaecilius's dialogue implying that he has forsaken any faith he had in God in favor of serving Dormammu.
* HumanoidAbomination: Seems to be his fate after he's transformed into something resembling a Mindless One from the comics.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Kaecilius longs to bring about a world without death, but he has no problem with killing anyone who gets in his way, including his own followers.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Kaecilius seeks to bring the Dark Dimension to Earth to make everyone, himself included, immortal. He gets his wish, at least for himself and his Zealots, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor but not in the way he probably expected]].
* IronicEcho: Unknowingly echoes Strange's line about people being "momentary speck[s] in an indifferent universe", which visibly disturbs Strange.
* ManlyTears: While explaining his motivations to Doctor Strange, he eventually breaks into tears as he describes the possibilities of merging Earth's realm with the Dark Dimension. It's the first clue we get that he seems to genuinely want to improve the lot of all humans... though he's still willing to kill a few dozen on the way.
* MirrorCharacter: To Strange, both being magically gifted, brilliant, bitter, and far too willing to reach for power they aren't ready for/capable of understanding yet. This is a large part of why the Ancient One initially refuses to train Strange.
* MythologyGag: His wife is named Adria. Both he and Adria are Baron Mordo's minions in the mainstream comics.
* ObviouslyEvil: Even when he drives some valid points, Strange refuses to help him because a) he just killed someone and b) his dark-magic-corrupted face is clearly the one of a bad guy.
* OffWithHisHead: What he does to the Kamar-Taj librarian. He even arranges a basket to catch the head when it drops.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son died before the events of the film.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: A very promising Master of the Mystic Arts, he left Kamar-Taj violently, taking his Zealots with him.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: He was a disciple of the Ancient One until he decided to use his powers for evil.
* RealityWarper: After being empowered by Dormammu, Kaecilius gains a tremendous boost to his magical abilities, which grants him phenomenal control over the Mirror Dimension, and even allows him to distort physical laws such as space and gravity in the real world. Further, thanks to his knowledge of time, Kaecilius is even able to resist and pull himself out of the Eye of Agamotto's time reversal magic, which is powered by ''an Infinity Stone''.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: He and his followers are transformed into Mindless Ones after being [[DraggedOffToHell dragged off to the Dark Dimension]] by a departing Dormammu.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: In contrast to Stephen Strange's PrimaryColorChampion, Kaecilius wears an orange gi and after making his [[DealWithTheDevil magical contract with Dormammu]], he gains BlackEyesOfEvil that reflect [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]] and [[SicklyGreenGlow green]].
* SpaceMaster: Crosses with SpontaneousWeaponCreation. Thanks to Dormammu's empowering, he can distort space itself to form razor sharp glass-like material called Space Shards, which can not only physically cut through almost anything, but can be summoned and deactivated at will.
* StartOfDarkness: His start is detailed in a prequel comic, where the Ancient One's refusal to teach him how to reunite with his dead wife and son drives him to darkness.
* TheStoic: Kaecilius rarely shows strong emotion. Even when describing his motives to Strange with tears in his eyes, his voice is calm and steady.
* StrawNihilist: Kaecilius believes that death renders life meaningless, and that the only way to achieve a meaningful existence is to become immortal via the Dark Dimension. For this reason, he has no problem killing people to serve his goals.
* UnwittingPawn: Tricked into believing Dormammu's promise of eternal life, unaware that releasing him onto Earth will bring only suffering.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How he justifies killing people. As far as he's concerned, a few lives here and there are a small price to pay to create a world free of death.
* VillainHasAPoint: When he points out that the Ancient One is a {{hypocrite}}. Telling your students not to steal power from the Dark Dimension to live forever and become a RealityWarper when you yourself are doing that very thing in secret is a pretty textbook case of hypocrisy.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Unsuccessfully tries to recruit Strange.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The way he talks to Daniel Drumm gives the impression that this was true before he abandoned Kamar-Taj.
* WeaponOfChoice: Kaecilius tends to conjure [[RazorWind swords made of air]] during battle when not using other offensive magics.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His goal is pretty simple: stop the effects of time on humanity. That way, we have all the time we need to gain wisdom, achieve our true potential, and no-one ever has to go through the loss of watching their family die ever again, as he did.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He shares little resemblance with his [[http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/images/characters/kaecilius_q.jpg original comic book counterpart]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Zealots]]
!! ''The Zealots''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Zara Phythian, Katrina Durden, Alaa Safi, Dean Ridge
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

The students of Kaecilius who split off from Kamar-Taj and joined him to form their own following, seduced by the power of the Dark Dimension.
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* AntiVillain: They follow their master's goals in that they believe their actions are for the greater good - assimilation into the Dark Dimension with eternal life for all.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: In their original party over a dozen strong, they fall left and right to the Ancient One's more advanced control of magic. But once Kaecilius raids the Sanctums with only two Zealots at a time, they are a more formidable force, easily wiping out two Sanctums and killing the Ancient One. Justified, as at that point they've been granted power from the Dark Dimension, increasing their magical power.
* DarkActionGirl: Kaecilius has several female Zealots who follow him into combat.
* DarkIsEvil: Like Kaecilius, they draw power from the Dark Dimension, and serve their leader's villainous, albeit [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]] goals.
* DraggedOffToHell: The surviving ones share in Kaecilius's fate of being dragged off to the Dark Dimension as Mindless Ones when Dormammu leaves as part of Strange's deal with him.
* DwindlingParty: Their numbers decrease over the course of the film as they are killed off by the Ancient One, Strange, or [[BadBoss Kaecilius]]. By the time they arrive in Hong Kong, there are only two Zealots left, aside from Kaecilius himself.
* EyeScream: The Dark Dimension ritual burns and chars the skin around their eyes, giving them the same horrific appearance as Kaecilius. They don't seem bothered by it.
* KungFuWizard: They use SupernaturalMartialArts in tandem with their spellcasting abilities. Additionally, they also use magically-imbued weapons in combat.
* ObviouslyEvil: Kaecilius and his followers all have disturbing purple-black scars around their eyes. Strange even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this by pointing out Dormammu ''can't'' be good if he puts nasty black decay around his followers' eyes.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: They were a whole group of disciples and students of the Ancient One, before following Kaecilius in his fall to the Dark Dimension's power.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: They are transformed into Mindless Ones after being DraggedOffToHell by Dormammu.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: They broke off from the Kamar-Taj orthodoxy over a disagreement in how sorcery should be used.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: They can form their swords from little more than space and magical energy, making them transparent yet deadly.
* SuperpoweredMooks: Their main purpose in the story is to serve as Kaecilius's muscle, not much more.

!! ''Lucian Aster''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottAdkins
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

A member of Kaecilius's Zealots.
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* BeardOfEvil: A sorcerer, rocking PermaStubble, seeking to put this dimension under the domain of an EldritchAbomination.
* DeaderThanDead: Compared to the other Zealots, Lucian's astral form - that is, his soul - is overloaded with electricity, [[StuffBlowingUp incinerating it]] and killing his body outright simultaneously.
* DemotedToExtra: He was the main villain of 4 issues of an ''92 Annual'', for each member of the comics version of ''The Defenders''. In the MCU, he's demoted to a mook.
* EliteMook: Lucian gives Stephen his most brutal thrashing in the entire film, almost killing him.
* FlatCharacter: We learn absolutely nothing about him.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Ancient One, Mordo, and Kaecilius himself have no qualms about killing them, but after killing Lucian, Strange is quite shaken up, both because this is his first time taking a life and because of the Hippocratic Oath he swore as a doctor.
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[[folder:Morgan le Fay]]
-->See the Morgan le Fay entry in the [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Other Supervillains]] page
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[[folder:The Darkforce]]
!!''The Darkforce / Zero Matter''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Series/AgentCarter'' | ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' | ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}''

A mysterious, sentient, and apparently malevolent element from another dimension. First discovered in the 1940s, it served as the source of power for multiple heroes and villains, and has at least once tried to invade our reality.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The Darkforce's exact relationship to the Dark Dimension is unclear. While its dimension shares the same name and general malevolent desire to consume everything, when actually visited in ''Cloak and Dagger'' and ''Runaways'' it's far different than the psychedelic place ruled by Dormammu with an iron fist.
* BodyHorror: Creates a horrible scar on Whitney Frost's head, which continues to expand as she uses her powers more.
* CastingAShadow: One of the primary abilities it gives to people.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much less actively malevolent by the time of ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'', if still incredibly problematic.
* TheCorruptor: Drives Whitney insane and obsessed with gaining more Zero Matter.
* DarkIsEvil: The ''Dark''force is actively malevolent and most of the people it infects end up as villains, though some (like Tyrone) subvert this.
* DemonicPossession: While it never gets to outright puppeteering her actions, Whitney's deterioration can be chalked up to it gaining a tighter grasp and feeding her addiction.
* EldritchAbomination: The Darkforce's exact nature is left unclear, save that it's an apparently sentient element that seeks to destroy everything.
* EldritchLocation: The Darkforce Dimension.
* EmotionEater: Gives these powers to [[spoiler: Andre Deschaine, allowing him to take away people's hopes]].
* EnergyAbsorption: Allows Marcus Daniels to absorb electricity, from devices as well as from living things.
* FinalBoss: The climax of the second season of ''Series/AgentCarter'' isn't depowering Whitney, but rather closing the rift they use to do so before the Zero Matter escapes and absorbs everything.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: It's never given any characterization besides a desire to expand into other dimensions.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Series/AgentCarter'' Season Two, as Wilkes reveals it to be manipulating those who use it (i.e. Whitney) into opening a rift so that it can invade and devour all reality.
* ItCanThink: Throughout the season, the Zero Matter appears to be nothing more than a powerful, if corruptive, MacGuffin. In the finale, Wilkes reveals that it's somewhat alive, likening it to a cancer that has already consumed everything in its universe, and has been exploiting Whitney's addiction to it to get her to open a portal. It's further implied to begin talking to Whitney, given her [[TalkingToThemself rambling]] while designing the portal.
* MultiversalConqueror: Its primary goal is to invade and devour Earth, and presumably other worlds as well.
* LivingShadow: Is apparently sentient darkness.
* SentientPhlebotinum: The Darkforce is apparently alive, and influences Whitney the longer she's exposed to it.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Only a few who have been exposed to it (Tyrone) don't devolve into egomaniacal supervillains.
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[[folder:Mister Jip]]
!!''Mister Jip''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

A strange entity that Tyrone briefly encountered.
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* AbortedArc: His appearance was supposed to foreshadow his status as a future villain, but the second season went with a version of D'Spayre. Then, the show's cancellation means that this likely won't come to fruition.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Óscar Bonfiglio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Paco Gázquez (European Spanish dub), Yann Guillemot (French dub), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French dub), Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese dub)

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' By:''' Óscar Bonfiglio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Paco Gázquez (European Spanish dub), Yann Guillemot (French dub), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French dub), Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese dub)
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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (motion capture and voice)

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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' By:''' Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (motion capture and voice)



!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MadsMikkelsen

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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Zara Phythian, Katrina Durden, Alaa Safi, Dean Ridge

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!!!'''Species:''' Human
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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' By:''' Zara Phythian, Katrina Durden, Alaa Safi, Dean Ridge






!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ScottAdkins

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* VillainousBreakdown: Though more subdued than most examples, his smugness over his power quickly transforms into frustration that he can't be rid of Doctor Strange.

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* VillainousBreakdown: Though more subdued than most examples, his smugness over his power quickly transforms into frustration that since he can't be rid of Doctor Strange.



!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Masters of the Mystic Arts, Zealots, Dormammu

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!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Masters of the Mystic Arts, Arts (formerly), Zealots, Dormammu
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* SpaceTimeEater: Is an inter-dimensional entity that absorbs entire universes into the Dark Dimension

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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: A variant of it. According to WordOfGod, Dormammu doesn't have a physical form in the Dark Dimension, so for the final battle with Strange, when he's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, it is meant to be taken as a sort of MirrorMatch since the Dread One sees Strange as beneath him.

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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: A variant of it. According to WordOfGod, Dormammu doesn't have a physical form in the Dark Dimension, so for the final battle with Strange, when he's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, it is meant to be taken as a sort of MirrorMatch since the Dread One he sees Strange as beneath him.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son died before the events of the film.
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* {{Foil}}: To Strange, in that they are very similar people - magically gifted, brilliant, bitter, and far too willing to reach for power they aren't ready for/capable of understanding yet. This is a large part of why the Ancient One initially refuses to train Strange.


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* MirrorCharacter: To Strange, both being magically gifted, brilliant, bitter, and far too willing to reach for power they aren't ready for/capable of understanding yet. This is a large part of why the Ancient One initially refuses to train Strange.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: In a meta sense. In the film, Kaecilius's name is pronounced ''ky-see-lee-us'', instead of the traditional ''ky-kee-lee-us" with a hard c sound as in the Latin textbooks (which featured the real-life Lucius Caecilius Iucundus). However, Kaecilius IS a Kamar-Taj sorcerer, so it can easily be said that this is an alias he chooses to go by (like The Ancient One).
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* DragonInChief: Downplayed, as Dormammu is immensely powerful on his own. Nevertheless, Kaecilius is the central source of conflict for most of the movie since Dormmamu's entire plan hinges on the Zealots destroying the Sanctums.

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* DragonInChief: Downplayed, as Dormammu is immensely powerful on his own. Nevertheless, Kaecilius is the central source TheDragon: The leader of conflict for most of the movie since Dormmamu's entire plan hinges on the Dormammu's Zealots destroying who destroys the Sanctums.Sanctums so he can consume Earth.

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