Dormammu, the mysterious figure in the Dark Dimension, has menaced Doctor Strange for years.

This article containsDoctor Strangespoilers.

In Doctor Stranges earliest comic book appearances, he went up against mostly one off villains.

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But when the Dread Dormammu appeared, things changed.

Now, Dormammu has finally made his way to the big screen.

Dormammu was just another mystical sounding name that Strange, Mordo, and the Ancient One bandied about.

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Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Lets start with his appearance.

Look at it and wonder at its terrible perfection.

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Steve Ditko created most of Spider-Mans rogues gallery, but Dormammu might be his most wonderfully vile creation.

In their first battle, Strange is utterly overpowered by Dormammu.

It all began when Dormammu tried to enter the real world.

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Ditko and Lee established that only Dormammus power held the Mindless Ones at bay.

While Dormammu was evil incarnate, he did have a sense of duty to his people.

Now thats a multi-layered flame headed god king of a hell dimension!

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Instead of going against Strange directly, Dormammu granted Baron Mordo tremendous power.

Never before had so many demonic entities appeared together on a comic page.

In front of these slobbering tentacled masses of corporeal madness, Dormammu challenged Strange to physical combat.

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If our reality grew legs and walked, that would be Eternity.

And reality wears a cape.

So in this story Dormammu decided that hes going to destroy Eternity.

Punch everything that is, was, and ever well be in its stupid big face!

You have to give this to Dormammu, hes ambitious.

In it, Marvels two major super teams battled each other and eventually joined forces.

So Dormammu joined forces with Loki to manipulate the Avengers and Defenders into doing battle.

Dormammu needed both teams to help him assemble the ultra-powerful Evil Eye.

When Dormammu had the artifact, he easily defeated both super teams, including his sworn foe Doctor Strange.

Only Scarlet Witch stood in the way of Dormammu and ultimate victory.

But guys, imagine a cinematic clash of Dormammu and Marvels greatest heroes.

Its likeGame of Throneswith less incest and more heads on fire.

Listen, if you’re able to go to a draw with Odin inanything, youre pretty badass.

Sadly there were no sequels to this story.

Dormammu versus Zeus in a game of checkers.

Dormammu versus Thanos in Shoots n Ladders.

Dormammu versus Galactus in a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

Future Dormammu merged with his twentieth century self and attacked the future Guardians.

Among the Guardians rank was an elderly Stephen Strange, who had taken the mantle of the Ancient One.

At long last, future and present Dormammu destroyed the Ancient Ones corporeal body.

Finally, Dormammu was victorious.

In this storyline, the Mindless Ones were unleashed on New York.

Doctor Strange sent Spider-Man back in time to prevent Dormammu from hatching this plan.

Hey, Strange gets all timey wimey to defeat Dormammu, that sounds like a familiar beat, huh?

In this mid-2000s miniseries, Dormammu and Umar devoured a council of most of Earths wizards.

Strange escaped this sorcerer smorgasbord and reunited the Defenders to stop the hellish siblings.

Plus, during this humorously toned series, Umar slept with the Hulk…so that happened.

But thats all about to change now that Dormammu has made his cinematic debut.

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