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To give you a sense of how minor a comic book character Kaecilius was despite his big-screen profile, after his 1982 banishment, he didn't return from the Purple Dimension until a 2020 storyline in Valkyrie: Jane Foster, a virtual eternity in comic book time.īut with Clea needing her our rogues' gallery of mystical villains now that she's graduating to series star for the first time in her history, it'll be interesting to see if given his MCU profile Kaecilius is elevated to a more significant threat. Kaecilius then vows to make his "faithless" master Mordo "squeal with all the agonies of the Purple Dimension" and then vows to kill the younger Strange with his own power. In fact, his motivations for killing Strange and purposely framing his master-mentor Baron Mordo for the murder goes all the way back to 1982's Doctor Strange #56 storyline in which Kaecilius and some cohorts are banished somewhat routinely by Strange to the Purple Dimension, a pocket universe of "cruelty and suffering" also created by Lee and Ditko.ĭeath of Doctor Strange #4 excerpt (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
If you're not a hardcore Marvel Comics reader and you're thinking to yourself that the name Kaecilius rings familiar, it's because Kaecilius was loosely adapted (and as a result elevated) as the main villain in 2016's Doctor Strange film, portrayed by Mads Mikkelsen.Ĭreated in 1965's Strange Tales #130 by none other than Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, despite his pedigree, Kaecilius has been something of a minor Doctor Strange villain, more nuisance than a genuine threat.
The current Sorcerer Supreme of the Dark Dimension and Stephen Strange's long-time romantic interest and one-time wife Clea would take over Earth's mantle and because they were once married, she could even carry on the "Strange" surname in her upcoming new ongoing series.Īs to the murderer, it was Kaecilius in Marvel Comics a disciple of Baron Mordo, Strange's arch-villain and who up until the first pages of the new issue was the main suspect.