Doctor Strange
Warning : SPOILERS for Strange # 9
Marvel’sDoctor Strangehas formally give out an astounding four clip in 2022 - but he might have died even more . The Sorcerer Supreme had a very difficult year ; he spend most of it utter , conk out , or investigating his own death . Noteven Doctor Strange ’s powercould stop the inevitability that is last , and inStrange # 9 , Strange ’s fourth end revealed why this MD can not cure himself .
The year began with theDeath of Doctor Strangeevent , in which Doctor Strange was murder by an unknown assailant ( subsequently revealed to be Baron Mordo ) . While the Avengers and Strange ’s friend were grieving , a much younger Doctor Strange appeared ; this was a contingency plan put in place by the present Strange in the event of his untimely death . With no memories of his eld with the Avengers ( and absolutelyno computer memory of Clea , his wife ) , the younger Strange figure out his own execution - just in time to die again , sacrificing himself to destroy an eldritch monster . The present - twenty-four hours Strange was revived but only briefly ; he quick died again , marking his third death in the same event .
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But despite being dead , Strange was n’t done death . InStrange # 9 , written by Jed MacKay with art by Marcelo Ferreira , thenow - undead Strange is a prisoner of Death , who task the former Sorcerer Supreme with eliminating a Revenant terror . Strange and Clea fire the monsters , but unknown is stabbed through the heart in the outgrowth . Clea asks if her beloved is all right , to which foreign responds"No . I am dead . “Strange live on the deathly blow - but only by dying and being resurrected by Death in the same instant , officially kill him for a fourth time .
In 2022, Doctor Strange Just Couldn’t Stop Dying
Doctor Strange has died before , but not in such a spectacular fashion and never multiple sentence in the same twelvemonth . foreign makes a scoffing of death , but in that regard , he isjoined by nigh every superhero in comicsfor the preceding 80 years . This is why MacKay’sStrangerun is so positively received among fans : the author know the premise of magic superheroes is inherently ridiculous and bosom it wholeheartedly while also hold the chief , personal plot line : a person ’s desire to bring back their loved one from death .
If onefactors in Strange ’s variant deathsin the MCU’sDoctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness , Strange ’s death count is even gamey , clocking in atsixtimes rather of four . But four in the comic is still plenty , and while Strange ’s novel 2023 serial promise to rise him yet again , only time will recite if he ’ll croak again in the future . For now , 2022 was a great year for theDoctor Strangefranchise , but not so for the good doctor himself .
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