Doctor Strange
admonition : moderate spoilers forStrange # 5 !
Marvel’sDoctor Strangefinally explains precisely why the superheroes of the Marvel Universe can never seem to stay dead for long - and also why the civilians of the same universe rarely render in the same manner . Even infrequent comic book readers screw that dying is hardly permanent in both the DC and Marvel universe , and even some groupslike the Eternals and X - Men can resurrectvia machine and resurrection protocols in their respective home . ( Krakoa and Olympia ) . ButStrange # 5reveals how superheroes can , and often do , give - and it has everything to do with the sub as a symbolisation , and not as a soul .
In current comics continuity , Doctor Strange is dead . The victim of an assassination plot , Stephen Strange is no more , leaving theduties of Sorcerer Supreme to his married woman Clea , who has made it her life ’s mission to return Strange from the grave accent . As she eschews her other responsibilities as the magical protector of Earth ( even refusing to fulfil with her fellow Avengers ) , she bump the Harvestman repeatedly - a sorcerous entity who guards Death ’s domain , and her plea for the Harvestman to release Doctor Strange crepuscule on deaf ears .
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InStrange # 5 , written by Jed MacKay with art by Marcelo Ferreria , Clea wishes to sleep together the reason behind the increased Revenant presence on Earth ( she had just recently foughta Revenant of Moon Knight ’s brotherand relegate him ) - and why so many superheroes and scoundrel manage to return with not every else does . “There is a rising in Death ’s domain,“explains the Harvestman . The undead lack a proper sensory faculty of ego for them to make the journeying - but it ’s another story for superheroes . “A person ’s individuality is a complex , nuanced matter . A affair easily broken , a thing well worn away . But a superhero is a symbolic representation . A cunning name , a garish costume . An indistinguishability that is elementary to comprehend . "
This is how the many superheroes of the Marvel Universe continue to render from the dead time and time again : through defend a simplistic sense of self . Distilled down to their core elements , superheroes are simple ideas : people with colorful but simple costumes who crusade evil and write lives . It is an true simple conceit , but that ’s part of the appeal . It can also be indicate that this is how superheroes support the test of time : by fighting for simple ideas , superheroes like Captain America , Spider - Manand even Doctor Strange himself can return from the dead by clinging to their superhero personal identity in the afterlife .
At the end of the progeny , the mysterious Harvestman ’s words prove to be prophetic . He get rid of his hood to revealthat Doctor Strangeisthe Harvestman , and is currently in Death ’s employ . He has no plans to return to the world of the life - and despite Clea ’s unspoilt pleas , Doctor Strangeremains dead , at least until he can remember his past identity as a superhero .
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