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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I think Dormammu would be best introduced in a Bigger Bad or man behind the man type-thing. A small role in the first film would be fine but I'd rather they didn't jump to him as main villain.
Mordo, whether alone or along with another villain, is a reasonable one to start on.
edited 11th Jun '15 1:30:14 PM by TenebrousGaze
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According to this:
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/exclusive-spoilery-mcu-details-on-civil-war-doctor-strange-ant-man-more-227
Dormammu will have a leading villain role in the Strange movie alongside Mordo. These are the guys who called Ant-Man, Vision, Wanda, and Rhodey in Civil War and the Crossbones and Falcon costumes (the latter before even AOU came out). So they're probably legit.
All they say is that Mordo and Dormammu are the main villains, and that Dormammu's followers are a major element - which could mean a lot, including that Dormammu is playing a Bigger Bad role to Mordo's Heavy.
To compare, the Emperor is the main villain of the Star Wars series, but only has what you would call a direct confrontational role in two movies.
Two movies? What the heck are you talking about? Everyone knows that the Emperor only showed up for realz in the third and last StarWars movie, Empire Strikes Back. Having him show up in person anywhere else would just be silly.
edited 11th Jun '15 5:12:04 PM by kkhohoho
What about Loki (when not in Avengers), Vanko (underused, but not completely unsympathetic), and Pierce (asshole, but Well-Intentioned Extremist with an understandable Freudian Excuse)?
Uh...I guess it depends. I mean, Loki had sympathetic motives but still tried to murder his brother and then commit genocide. He's likable and relatable but I'd definitely consider him a villain.
Pierce and Vanko definitely. Vanko being pissed off at Stark's family for ruining his life is understandable but again, he goes about it in a cartoonishly evil way, and his final plot would have had a massive body count if not for Iron Man and War Machine stopping him. Pierce is the same way. Even if he honestly believed HYDRA was creating a safer, better world (and I think he did) he still felt it was acceptable to murder a billion innocent people to do it.
They all kinda crossed the acceptable Moral Event Horizon for me.
edited 11th Jun '15 9:24:05 PM by comicwriter
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I really hope Mordo truly isn't The Dragon - or, I guess better put, that even though he'll probably be The Dragon to Dormammu I hope he's still one of the leads of the movie, if not the major antagonist for now.
Marvel doesn't have the best track record with villains who are subjects of or even partners of other villains, Nebula being the exception.
edited 11th Jun '15 11:51:35 PM by KnownUnknown
Chiwetel Ejiofor is too good an actor to waste on a medium-ish part.
He'll probably be The Heavy, or he'll have a 'rival until the end where he turns (more) evil' role.
I expect Mordo will be jealous of Strange and then Dormammu will offer a Deal with the Devil. Then he'll be evil for most of the movie until Strange convinces him that they need to work together to stop him. The movie will end with Mordo free from Dormammu's control but he'll be unwilling to rejoin Strange.
edited 12th Jun '15 5:40:53 AM by Kostya

Could be interesting.
Also yeah, this probably means that we will go in a Mordo>Dormammu>???(Shuma-Gorath?) escalation in the probably 3 movies. You could actually crossover Gotg and Strange if SG is the last villain and do a Cancerverse story since he was one of The Many Angled Ones.
edited 11th Jun '15 12:20:52 PM by LordofLore