History Characters / MCUDarkDimension

->''"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."''

--> '''Strange''': No, but I could lose... again, and again, and again... and again forever. That makes you my prisoner.

--> '''Strange''': No, but I could lose... again, again, again... and again forever. That makes you my prisoner.

* CurbStompBattle: Is on the giving of this against Doctor Strange, ''multiple times''.

* EldritchLocation: His Dark Dimension, a purple nebula-esque land of spheres connected by strange bows of matter.

* TheManBehindTheMan: It turns out that Kaecilius' plan was to allow Dormammu to be unleashed on Earth.

* PlaceBeyondTime: The Dark Dimension, where he lives. 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.

* PurpleIsPowerful: Extremely powerful and very purple.

* FreudianExcuse: Losing his family is what drives him to seek out immortality at any cost.

* BeardOfEvil: A bearded sorcerer seeking to put this dimension under the domain of an EldritchAbomination.

-->'''Dormammu:''' ''[repeating BadassBoast]'' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my... What is this illusion?

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

'''Dormammu:''' You've come to '''die'''. Your world is now my world, like '''all'' worlds.

* 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 he's not killing them, that is.

* 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 answerable 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 destruction of the Infinity Stones in ''Endgame'' however, there is now nothing stopping Dormammu from going back on his word. Better hope he doesn't find out.]]

* AdaptationalAbomination: While Dormammu was most definitely a HumanoidAbomination, he was still just a normal sorcerer that became all-powerful. 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.

* AdaptationalAbomination: Downplayed. While Dormammu was most definitely a HumanoidAbomination, he was still just a normal sorcerer that became all-powerful. Here, he is ''way'' more eldritch.

* DraggedOffToHell:The surviving ones share in Kaecilius' fate of being dragged off to the Dark Dimension when Dormammu leaves as part of Strange's deal with him.

!! ''Lucian''

* AdaptationNameChange: Partial. In the comics, his surname is Aster.
* DemotedToExtra: He was the main villain of 4 issues of an ''Annual'' for each of the comics version of ''The Defenders'' in 1992. In the MCU, he's demoted to a mook.

* 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 when Doctor Strange meets him but was otherwise uninvolved with the EvilPlan.

* AdaptationalAbomination: Downplayed. While Dormammu was most definitely a HumanoidAbomination, he was still jsut a normal sorcerer that became all-powerful. Here, he is ''way'' more eldritch.

-->'''Dormammu:''' ''[repeating BadassBoast]'' You've come to die. Your world is now my world... What? What is this, an illusion?

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

'''Dormammu:''' You've come to ''die''.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Strange defeats him by locking him in one until he surrenders. Since the very concept of time is relatively foreign to him, Dormammu has a somewhat DelayedReaction when the loop first repeats.

* BigBad: he may be working for Dormammu, but Kaecilius is the main threat of the film and gets more focus.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one who Kaecilus is working for but due to the sanctum barriers preventing him from coming to Earth, Kaecilus is the one leading the story. He does appear at the very end when Doctor Strange meets him but was otherwise uninvolved with the EvilPlan.

* BigBad: Spends all of ''Doctor Strange'' trying to absorb Earth into the Dark Dimension.

* TheDragon: Kaecilius serves Dormammu, though he technically qualifies as the DragonInChief as he is the main threat of the film and Dormammu has less impact over the plot.

* TheDragon: Kaecilius serves Dormammu, though he technically qualifies as TheDragonInChief as he is the main threat of the film and Dormammu has less impact over the plot.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Seems to be the main baddie for the first half of the film, until it's revealed that he serves Dormammu.

* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: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.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His late wife and son [[spoiler:and his pain over their deaths is what fuels 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.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He ends up trapped in the Dark Dimension at the film's conclusion.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Seems to be his fate after he's transformed into something resembling a Mindless One from the comics.]]

* ImmortalitySeeker: Kaecilius seeks to bring the Dark Dimension to Earth to make everyone, himself included, immortal. [[spoiler:He gets his wish, at least for himself and his Zealots, but not in the way he probably expected.]]
* IronicEcho: Unknowingly echoes Strange's line about people being "momentary speck[s] in an indifferent universe," [[NotSoDifferent which visibly disturbs Strange.]]

* 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 distort physical laws such as space and gravity in the real world. Further, [[spoiler: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: [[spoiler:It's implied he and his followers are transformed into Mindless Ones after being DraggedOffToHell by Dormammu.]]

* 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 [[spoiler:and killing the Ancient One]]. Justified, as at that point they've been granted power from the Dark Dimension, increasing their magical power.

* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:The surviving ones share in Kaecilius' fate of being dragged off to the Dark Dimension when Dormammu leaves as part of Strange's deal with him.]]

* ReforgedIntoAMinion: It's implied they [[spoiler:are transformed into Mindless Ones after being DraggedOffToHell by Dormammu.]]

* DemotedToExtra: He was the main villain of 4 issues of an ''Annual'' for each of the comics version of The Defenders in 1992. In the MCU, he's demoted to a mook.

* AchillesHeel: He lives in a reality where time doesn't really exist. As a result, [[spoiler:being trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop by Strange]] is something so utterly alien to him, he can't escape it despite his godlike powers.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Dormammu ends up ''pleading'' with Strange to break the time-loop and free him.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Amusingly enough, [[spoiler:the godlike EldritchAbomination is on the ''[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu receiving]]'' end of it, courtesy of Strange's GroundhogDayLoop gambit.]]

* 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 answerable 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 destruction of the Infinity Stones in ''Endgame'' however, there is now nothing stopping Dormammu from going back on his word. Better hope he doesn't find out.]]

* KryptoniteFactor: TimeMaster powers really screw with him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Strange brings the best kind (the Eye of Agamotto / Time Stone) for their confrontation.]]

* 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, [[spoiler: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.]]

** The fact that the Ancient One [[spoiler:drew her power from the Dark Dimension]] (as did Strange, ''almost'') seems to reference the fact that Strange in the comics also [[spoiler:called upon Dormammu's name]] for some of his spells, but he was unaware of who or what he was really channeling.

* PlaceBeyondTime: The Dark Dimension, where he lives. [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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.]]

* RippleEffectProofMemory: His realm is beyond time. [[spoiler:So Strange traps him in a time loop, and dies over and over to Dormammu's increasing frustration.]]
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:the Eye of Agamotto locking the two in a GroundhogDayLoop.]] Ultimately, he gets annoyed and agrees to Strange's terms.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: A variant of it. According to WordOfGod, Dormammu doesn't have a physical form in the Dark Dimension, so [[spoiler: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.]]

* 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 [[spoiler:killing the Ancient One]].

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: He and his Zealots attacks all three Sanctums that the Masters of the Mystic Arts are sworn to protect. [[spoiler:The London and Hong Kong Sanctums quickly fall to his assault, and the New York Sanctum is heavily damaged.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His final fate; assimilated into the Dark Dimension as a mindless, deformed extension of Dormammu.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Leader of the Zealots and their most dangerous member, even managing to [[spoiler:kill the Ancient One.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the end, he and his followers got exactly what they wanted - eternal life. [[spoiler:Eternal life as deformed, mindless slaves to 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 [[spoiler: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.

* 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 [[spoiler:absorbed by the Dark Dimension closely mimics that of a Mindless One.]]