Galactus vs Dormammu vs Doctor Strange: Herald Supreme - Full Story | Comics Explained

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comics really are for just a particular kind of comic book fan now if you like magic and mysticism of course it's for you but if you're not a huge fan of that you don't really want to have a whole lot to do with it and that's kind of one of the things that that Mark Waid sort of the hits on to a degree right like he picks up the story and he just kind of like he's he has dr. strange sort of musing to himself right and it's just kind of like I have pretty much done everything and so I'm bored now because in reality that's the nature of Doctor Strange comics right he's also he's one of these weird characters he's the master of the mystic arts and it's kind of like I'm I know the most about magic and you know than anybody else in the need in the universe but it's interesting because the question he kind of asks here is like is there no real adventure left anymore like is it really nothing for me to do like is this this is kind of it like I'm just gonna be sitting in the house watching in the view and waiting for something to happen and then he suddenly met by the arrival of a guy named Zola's now here's the cool thing though laws is a guy who cultural plan of the Galactus is basically visited right like he's part of a group called the Xerox those are axioms and and the result is that Galactus is literally going to consume their world and so what his people ended up doing was that as a mage himself they basically took all their energies dumped it into him and the result is that he's been sent here now because when they scan through the mind of Galactus to figure out what his weakness was the only thing they could find was earth now this is why things were interesting because olá shows up here believing that earth has someone powerful enough to defeat Goliath and they do I mean you got the molecule man Owen Reese you've got Franklin Richards who's really more a kinder Galactus like they're really more counterparts now the you know in these days then they are like you know one be more powerful the other oh I guess the future version of Franklin is basically like a counterpart to Galactus but still like as we know as read are the reason why Galactus sees earth as a weakness is because of like the totality of the heroes on it and that's what you would need like you would literally need like all the heroes on earth to ban together fly to the other side of the universe and like defeat Galactus right but like they're not going to because it's just the natural role of Galactus and that's what Zola's doesn't get is literally he just kind of starts like getting into this fight with Doctor Strange and of course basically starts using his abilities to like absorb magical energy to like absorb all of doctor Strange's duplicates into himself it's really one of these things worse like every step that dr. strange takes this guy is powerful enough to overcome and of course that leads into him discovering like the various books of Doctor Strange and absorbing all their knowledge now I want to talk about this for a second when it comes to magic and Marvel Comics there was the way that things used to be and then there's essentially kind of like the way things are now right so the way things used to be is that you had essentially just like ambient energy out there anybody who - who has a power that's happened to like reality-warping is harnessing the fundamental energies of the universe is basically what it is right so like if if the universe is clay then they're essentially like tapping into and manipulating that clay is literally what they're doing when it comes to like telepathy it's tapping into the ambient energies basically tapping into the ability to access the astral plane more or less you know access the realm where like thoughts go - as they pass from one location to the next and then in turn you know harness those thoughts to do whatever it is that you want to do control them wipe them out of somebody's head whatever the case is then there's the way that they exist now right so like magic was it was just kind of energy that was there and you could manipulate it in Ultimates volume 2 issue number 100 by Al Ewing what he said was that magic actually never used to exist it wasn't until the various you know the multiverse was destroyed and recreated and destroyed and recreated what it was destroyed and remade for the fifth time did that version of eternity had basically like brought magic into the main Marvel Universe and said okay magic is here now and people can use it of course that multiverse was destroyed and recreated again but the fact remains like that's what magic started being brought in and people had the ability to access it so we know like of all the different versions of the multiverse that have ever existed there was never a dr. strange until you got to the fifth version again it's a little bit of a little bit of a historical thing there but the fact remains that what you have here in this day and age is essentially just like a wide array of different people tapping into a wide array of different powers now that was always the case but having somebody come along who's more power dr. strange really highlights two things one that of course there are people out there who can use magic in a more adept way than dr. strange and two dr. strange is the sorcerer supreme in name only now that's the indication that's put off here that's the the basis behind like what's being told because basically the skies can let you have all these forms of magical energy here you have all these things that you could use why don't you just use them all now what this does is it kind of moves into the second part of that discussion that says okay the difference here is that we're Doctor Strange could absorb all these forms of energy into himself all these magical principles and then use them for his own ends who knows what kind of chaos would would erupt because of it and so that's the the true nature of Doctor Strange yes he could acquire absolute power is it a good idea No now again this kind of flies in the face of a lot of stories we've seen before right like dr. strange basically go into senators market and then bartering 100% of his soul for 100% of his power or at least trying but we only know that level at least we do know dr. strange only does that in like the most extreme circumstances right like the Beyonder comes back and wants to attack earth okay well then he'll do whatever he needs to do in order to make that happen but under normal circumstance you can't do that at the same time it's also Zola's not really understanding the nature of Galactus it's his role in the cosmos right I mean it's just one of those sakes if Galactus comes rolling up on your place and it's gonna start like consuming your entire planet sorry about your luck that's just the way it goes nice knowing you're like this it's basically you know just like free while you can but it's the role of Galactus he's a fundamental part of that part of the universe and so again like we know that from a wide array of different stories but of course Zola's doesn't they're so basically channeling all these magical energies he literally opens a portal in the main Marvel Universe and whisks calacas away to like the depths of the mystic realms what this means is Galactus is now in the realm of like Dormammu and he's in the realm of like nightmare he's in the realm of like all these basic mystical here these these mystical forces that are out there and there's no guess as to what like there's no telling what in the world is gonna happen and that's what dr. strange kind of freaks out about right like like Galactus is a being of pure science right like he serves a purpose it is i am a being who travels around the cosmos and i serve two purposes the first is that I consume planets that can sustain life sustaining energy so that the Celestials cannot plant their eggs and like every single planet across the cosmos and overrun the universe and I also do this because I'm a gatekeeper all right if I die Abraxas comes out and Abraxas will basically wipe the entire multiverse those you guys hit ever who don't know about Abraxas he's essentially just like the like the the representation of the multiverse is destruction right like there was a story in the 2000s where Galactus died where he was allowed to die basically was kind of like hey look if I die terrible things will happen and it was allowed to die or he was allowed to die and then in turn like basically find out that like Abraxas this being that represents destruction in the multiverse breaks out of this kind of prison he's always been in and then he in turn starts traveling around like the multiverse killing every version of Galactus that he finds so I did it was it was kind of crazy was a pretty wonky story but suffice it to say a practice is a Abraxas insanely powerful like he's it's it's nuts how powerful he is but to take someone like that like Galactus and then throw him into the the mystic depths there's no telling what would happen that's exactly what strange says and so what he gets in there with all those magical arms and an armory and so on and so forth then suddenly he's met by like this giant stampede of people who were I guess beings who were all just fleeing for their lives because Galactus like the first thing he does is start consuming like energy off of one of these planets but I just starts doing exactly what Galactus is doing now here's a funny thing strain shows up here is as hey look man you can't necessarily do that now the fact that Galactus addresses him directly is a little bit astounding and that's kind of one of the funny things that Wade talks about here right because we know from from Marvel Comics Galactus never usually addresses just like a being like a normal person he doesn't really care he's like I mean none why would I care about I care enough to talk to you you know one there's nothing you could probably tell me that would that would interest me intellectually right I mean you're no Reed Richards and two like you're not really powerful enough to stop me or challenge me so why do you like here but the lock just literally addresses him and is like why am I here so we're just kind of like okay Galactus is trying to get a feel for surroundings trying to figure out like what's going on why he's here all that kind of good stuff not only that what's happened is he's basically been like sent to a particular place in the in the the depths of the mystic realm and then bound inside of a prison and so he has like these little small planetoids here and there but those aren't enough to do anything for him and so what he basically does is like break out of his prison and into like took greater depth then like the first person he runs into her the first thing he runs into is a missing hawk or F now mr. Hawk gorath is is what's referred to as the beasts of paint but there's no real history to go on here because this is the first time he's ever been seen and then he dies because it's like it's like okay ah so that guy's gone but what this is this is actually Mark Waid proving a very point when it comes to Galactus as a character is largely assumed he just absorbs a life the the ambient energies of a life-sustaining planet and then moves on what this actually confirms is something that we I guess maybe I always kind of knew in the back of our heads but never really thought about that Galactus can absorb energy off of beams and that's exactly what happens here right like this beast of pain goes to attack Galactus and then basically shows him like I have a huge amount of energy stored inside of me and it's her and Galactus absorbs it all out of them now it could very well just be that this guy is kind of like a conduit for magical energy which means like he actually stores that energy inside of him as opposed to being like Doctor Strange where he just reaches out and touches it and and and harnesses it it could be that way we don't really know but whatever the basis behind him is all this energy that he possesses at his disposal Galactus absorbs it and that's when Doctor Strange begins to realize that a very dangerous thing is happening with Galactus going through and absorbing all these magical energies that exists either in planets or in people inside this universe that what he's basically doing is tapping into a source of energy that he's not really familiar with and that even dr. strange himself doesn't really know what effect it'll have right I mean like to what this is is like a lot just going out it's like you going out and eating like a standard Western diet every day right like 50% protein 25% fats and like 25% carbs or something along those lines you know 30% fats and and you know 20% carbs or whatever whatever the case says you going out and in turn like consuming a standard Western diet and then just suddenly jumping into like a random diet like a like an exotic diet with no indication of what it'll do to you right like it's it's the best example I could think of but that's basically yet here is literally what's going on Galactus is form is is predicated on consuming life-sustaining energies in a universe he was born into so he was born for that purpose he was not born for the purpose of consuming magical energy who knows what kind of situation that's gonna create so of course dr. strange binds Galactus and is able to do it for a pretty good chunk of time but again we're talking about Galactus so the concern that he has is I'm not going to be able to keep this guy bound forever like eventually he's going to break out and of course like Galactus begins to you and then - when his binds re-established again and we're met with the arrival of Clea now Clea is a character that we haven't talked about ever and we've never had a reason to because she's never she hasn't appeared in a very long time anyway the basis behind this really actually goes into the origin of two beings boom our and Dormammu now back in the old strange tale comics when when Dormammu first popped up what you got was the the the origin of his character shortly after around that time we also learned about a group called the fall team now the fall team FAL Ti and II this is a group that existed in another dimension and was naturally adept at wielding magical energy the issue is that Dormammu and Umar wanted like physical pleasures more or less and of course that was kind of banished because they were beings composed of like spiritual form and so because that they basically ended up killing a senator I think killing their their creator and then in turn they like were banished to the Dark Dimension now the Dark Dimension at the time was ruled by a guy named King Omar he was like a warlord or something like that anyway basically like Umar and Dormammu showed up in the Dark Dimension and we're kind of like okay so like this is our place now and usually like subterfuge and being deceptive they basically started to use King anar as a way to essentially like doom his own people the merch at least I'm pretty sure that's how it's pronounced mercs I think it's mhm u u RK s I think it's how you pronounced or how you spell it but basically this was a group that like was a normal inhabitant of the Dark Dimension and then in turn could also use magical energy what ended up happening here is that with with Dormammu and Umar taking over and then Dormammu basically going into his fall to uniform which is his energy based form and then umar maintaining her human form this led to a more engaging in a affair of sorts with one of the servants of Dormammu and this basically led to the birth of Clea and so Clea is technically the rightful heir to the throne of the Dark Dimension ah so think of think of like katana for mortal kombat basically um but she's technically the rightful heir from to the to the Dark Dimension but she doesn't really take it because door mom who currently rules it so unless she was able to master I guess muster a sizable force that was powerful enough to take out Dormammu in his own dimension which is probably never gonna happen in turn like she would his basically kind of reside there now she and Doctor Strange teamed up a couple times and then like the second or third time that happened they fell in love she became a student of Doctor Strange and then eventually he married her she became his wife so now she's his ex-wife so but basically just take it as you know his ex-wife is here in order to help him which is kind of weird but what they end up doing is basically saying like what we need is an alliance of people like we basically need an alliance of magic wielders out there some of the most powerful people in existence in order to like get rid of Galactus and banished him from here and so that's when you bring in Omar now Umar is synonymous deception right I mean that's the nature of her character she's the sister of Dormammu is one of these things were like she's always trying to like topple her brother and take his place or she's really kind of wants to be second place and just wants to sort of manipulate things behind the scenes her schemes and motivations really never make sense to anybody but herself and she's insanely powerful but it's one of the funny things that we're seeing here is it like Galactus is more powerful and that's kind of the cool thing is because what they're doing is they're they're literally going through and like they're like Galactus is kind of being ravaged by the very energies he's consuming and so it seems like one of these things where the more energy consumes the more seems to consume him now the reality of this is Doctor Strange looks at that and says no no it's not really that I mean I guess he is kind of being consumed book a lot dis is changing and the reason why is because Galactus is actually a being of pure energy that's one of the things to bear in mind Galactus doesn't really have a true physical form he did at one point but when he was born into the main Marvel Universe as Galactus he was born as a being of pure energy that's why it is whenever Galactus shows up on the doorstep of a races planet and he's gonna consume their planet he's a mirror to them right so like the scrolls will see a scroll version of Galactus the Kree will see a Kree version of Galactus but it's the outfit he wears on the fact that he's there to consume their planet that makes him so terrifying now of course we found that out in the trial of Reed Richards way back in the 1980s whenever it wasn't that story came out but the overall just behind this is that what's happening is the normal energies that make up Galactus the energy is of a positive universe basically like the main Marvel Universe are slowly being replaced by these exotic energies he's consuming right so it's like having a bottle of water and then dropping some iodine inside right like some die of comes some kind it's gonna start to permeate out and then eventually change the water if you put enough in there and that's what's happening here Galactus is essentially being poisoned by magical energy and so what ended up happening is Doctor Strange which is okay fine in this case like we can't have you running around a consuming like all these life-sustaining planets because we have no idea what effect it's gonna have on you like in the extreme if you get to the wrong one so I will do two things one I will basically become your new Herald go out and try to find a planet that is uninhabited and two I will try to make sure the uninhabited planet I find will keep you sustained but will not continue to poison you the way that like all these other planets have been consuming you and that's why it's kind of a crazy thing because Galactus is just sort of falling apart more or less and so what is up happening here is you end up having like Dormammu who's basically visited like by Mesa hog or F and it's kind of like hey look like there's this crazy powerful being who's consuming everything you have to stop him and that's what we end up finding out Dormammu is already aware of Galactus like he's already aware of the power Galactus has it he's already aware of like what he's capable of and like he's already making moves against Galactus to be able to like defeat him and that's kind of the crazy thing here is because we're Doctor Strange is sort of hopping around and going from world to world trying to find different locations you have like the forces of Umar who are traveling around and they actually end up running up on nightmare now nightmare is actually a cool guy so in Marvel Comics the way this works is that whenever you lay down and go to sleep if you have a nightmare those nightmares feed the actual nightmare dimension which powers the guy nightmare but they're also there's also a potential that for them to be kind of fed back to you in the extreme and that's where the reasons why nightmares is really considered to be like in immortal and indestructible being so long as beings exist and they can dream the nightmare can exist because they will have nightmares the only way to really to get nightmare to a point where he can be defeated is to wipe out all sentient life but you'd have to essentially blink out the universe which would kill him anyway because you mean literally it's it's the dreams of like all beings in existence and then potentially the dreams in the future so like or at least the nightmares of people in the future it's really weird and it's really finicky but basically if they got nightmare on their side well it may not necessarily be enough to like overpower Galactus in his entirety and like destroy him because he's just so amped up with all this magical power it would certainly be enough to create like some a havoc and so we're basically Doctor Strange ends up finally locating a planet and then grabs Galactus and brings him back what the end of finding out is there's all these small little instances of people getting in their way of trying to like slow Galactus down and eventually he ends up having to invoke his power and sorry attacking these guys was of course begins to depower him a little bit more now eventually we end up finding out too like once they get to this planet and like the lot just goes to consume it immediately right off the bat we end up finding out something is wrong that this plan has been tainted and that's what we end up finding out Dormammu was the one behind it that Dormammu is the new Herald of Galactus and that Dormammu tampered the tamper with this planet so that when Galactus who went to consume it it would amp him up but it would also twist him and screw him up and basically become kind of a servant to Dormammu but at the same time like Dormammu becoming a Herald of Galactus the other half of is that when dr. strange sits down that says okay so like something else has to be going on here right like yes Dormammu is very very powerful but like by himself at least it seems to be the indication by himself der mom who's not necessarily powerful enough to stop Galactus now we actually don't know this we can't really argue either way because the reality of this is that they've never met and there are two beings from two distinctly different dimensions I mean I guess you can find some way to kind of you know move the pieces around and cook the book so that some argument can be made but the reality is that like we've never seen this happen before we've never seen a full-on conflict between Galactus and Dormammu and so it's really kind of creating a narrative and creating a standard and saying okay so like you know definitively Dormammu is not more power is no more powerful than Galactus right like there's these like Galactus is more powerful than your mom who essentially like that's really kind of what's being said here and that the other the other way to kind of manipulate this the other kind of power that was needed came from Mephisto as it always does but basically the gist behind this is that the alliance that was formed between to her mom who and Mephisto that wasn't so basically mean is that Dormammu would conquer planets and continue to expand his his reign his Kingdom right like outside of the Dark Dimension and into other places in the mystic realms and then like expand his kingdom but every single world that is consumed and the people who perished basically expand Mephisto realm now is this is kind of the crazy thing Mephisto doesn't really take souls in the traditional sense Mephisto is vers like his his section of Hell is is essentially like expanded by people who sold their souls for some particular deed right like whether it was money or like success or power or something along those lines but it basically bargained with Mephisto not realizing they're like when everything was done Mephisto would take their soul to his realm ah that's that's really what his version of hell is Kazan for it's not just everyone who dies just automatically goes to her Mephisto is that up presumably it's those individuals that he probably made pacts with which he could I mean presumably Mephisto could use his almost infinite power to show up and it basically appear to every single person who's basically dying on the planet at the same time and saying like you know I can I can do this I can basically you know I can save you all you have to do is say yes and they say okay like they they basically make a deal with Mephisto and then when they all end up dying anyway and they show up in his realm and he's like you know they're like well I thought you were gonna save us and it's like I did I saved you for my realm you know and then just BAM leave him there some along those lines I mean presumably he could do that and he's almost infinitely powerful but that's basically what's going on in mephisto are now working in tandem together and that door mom who is now the Herald of Galactus taking him from planet to planet and basically showing him all the best worlds to feed on presumably all the worlds of door mama wants to go after but it's actually pretty beast like I'm pretty excited about this like I want to see him fight that's what I want to see like Galactus versus Dormammu okay so continuing on with our videos on Doctor Strange here's the thing I didn't even realize it was gonna do that well right it was just like Doctor Strange it was like Galactus to me store mama and then you guys went crazy on that video which I guess is something everybody always wanted to see was like dr. strange meeting Dormammu like what happens when these two beings of crazy power encounter one another in this video they fight and it's the coolest thing it's amazing I am I am so excited about this okay there so initially this picks up in Mephisto realm right and for those of you guys who were just now kind of joining this essentially Galactus have been banished to the realm of magic right so like all these magical worlds and things like that literally people were panicking and fleeing right like Doctor Strange went there to try to solve the problem but couldn't really deal with it and then halfway through all this madness Dormammu hit like basically bombarded Galactus with essentially what was like dark magical energy and kind of transformed him into what Dormammu considered to be a Herald and so we ended up finding out Mephisto had basically a pact with up with Dormammu insofar as as long as Galactus was in that realm all those individuals hovels beings who would die would be symptom oficers round and then of course with all those beings basically being killed off it could allow Dormammu to to spread his influence outside his own dimension and into like the greater magical dimension as a whole and so what this does is get a little more nuanced in a little more into that the funny thing about this is that with Doctor Strange trying to rationalize with Dormammu in saying hey look man you have no idea what you're doing the magical barriers are basically being weakened one of the things that Marvel's established over the years and they're they're comics when it comes to magical energy is there's this kind of invisible barrier that separates the magical dimensions from like the regular Marvel Universe right so I mean it's almost like closing a door right I mean it's what keeps the dimension of Dormammu the dark dimension from just like flowing over into the main universe right it's like a it's like a kind of invisible gate that keeps everything separated and everything locked away what's happening is that with Galactus his presence in this universe is essentially opened a door and by virtue of doing that allows magical energy to flow into the main Marvel Universe disrupt everything accordingly so science really kind of goes out the door and in fact science and magic are sort of blending together now we know that happens in places like Asgard the difference is that has kind of been mastered and has been contained here in in the main Marvel Universe none of that's happening is just kind of running amok unchecked with no one really understanding how to do it but the cool thing about this is Dormammu whose argument is I can use Galactus as a means to essentially walk through this doorway and enter into the main Marvel Universe and we know that if he successfully did that it would be a catastrophe right because like one of the things that has been established over the course of of dr. Strange's comics and Marvel is that if Dormammu at full strength were to enter into the main Marvel Universe pretty much nobody could stop him because his power is just so extreme and absolute that it's almost completely immutable and indestructible now that's within his own realm that Dark Dimension even showing up in the main Marvel Universe it would be extreme but the funny thing is that Mark Waid kind of rebuffs that right and will actually find out why here in a little bit but it kind of rebuffs that and actually says it's not really that way when it comes to Dormammu but the funny thing about this is that with everything happening the way that it is the magical barrier basically flowing into the scientific barrier it's creating all kinds of problems and all kinds of chaos and that's the funny thing is because Dormammu is by his definition and exceedingly arrogant guy and so when he looks at Galactus and he says I've imbued him with dark energy he's now mice through all I control him and then in turn orders Galactus Galactus blows him off and he's easily like I'm nobody's Harold now one of the questions people would ask is why hasn't Galactus acknowledged Dormammu up to this point remember when it comes to Galactus is a being if he doesn't really consider you someone of significance he'll just ignore you he just won't pay any attention to you right I mean you're an ant and the cosmic scope of things so you know why would you pay attention to the going ons of an ant that's how he functions but it's kind of crazy here because wind or mom who literally powers up all of his energy and then goes to attack Galactus Galactus absorbs all the power of Dormammu into himself and then absorbs doom Dormammu himself in the Galactus and then goes forward is like this holy holy powerful entity and that's the fight it happens that fast and I know it seems a little anticlimactic but this is a powerful statement because what it's saying is that even in his own realm even in the Dark Dimension the power of Dormammu is dwarfed by the power of Galactus and that's bold that's a bold statement to make people will look at that and say that's ridiculous there's no way Galactus could overpower Dormammu but that's kind of a silly statement to make because I've never fought before so there's no reason to believe that couldn't be the case Galactus is right now in possession of all his power cosmic and all that all the power of Dormammu it's crazy like he's he's on he's on a scale of power that he's never experienced before and even dr. strange is like so we're basically screwed like there's really nothing we can do here like we're talking about a guy who already had the power of Galactus right like the ability like create life and all that kind of stuff and now he's got all those all the magical energy of Dormammu which amplifies his power even more it's crazy how capable and how powerful he's become here now the other half of this is that realizing what it was Dormammu said in making reference to Mephisto dr. strange takes office is fine we have to go find the fist so we have to talk him and figure out what's going on and when the two of them talk together the discussion of dr. stranger at least the argument he makes here is look the the boundary between magic and science are going away and is permeating the entirety of the universe which includes your realm so it's only a matter of time before your realm will be subjugated by whatever all this chaos is that happens to unfold ah so either you can be on board or you can Harrison everybody else and Mephisto response is no my realm is fine now of course the way this is done it's obvious Mephisto realizes his realm would be in jeopardy like his dimension would probably perish but he doesn't side with dr. strange immediately instead what he says is I will freak Lia and Umar the sister of the sister of Dormammu I will do that but so long as you make a bargain with me now this is dangerous because remember when it comes to Mephisto he takes the souls of those he makes bargains with and is usually a catch of some sort right so like let's say for example that you are a person who like lost your legs you would say if you give me back my legs I will serve as like your Ghost Rider or something along those lines Mephisto would say okay I will give you your legs back in and you can be my Ghost Rider and so he'll give you your legs and then he'll in turn he'll take away your ability to feel it right so like you have your legs back but you still can't use them or he would give you your legs back and then take away your arms or something along those lines there's a catch to it and so basically there's no real benefit for you to be in league with him and then when you die he gets your soul so with dr. strange he basically says okay I will make a pact with you you can call me for you can call me up for a favor at some point and I will be bound to you to fulfill this this this need that you have this favor whatever it is you ask of me I will do it just freak Lia and free Umar and the reason why is because it was clear being the ex-wife of dr. strange and Umar being the sister of Dormammu they're exceedingly powerful and dr. strange needs all the powerful allies at his side that he can possibly get and that's what he does he sends you know umar and Clea into the you know really into like the magical dimensions says get as many allies as you possibly can they end up going to visit a visit nightmare they end up going to visit despair too insanely powerful beings right like nightmares power is extremely he's powered by like all the nightmares of sentient beings right so his power is extreme and we're previously he ignored Clea and Umar said I'm not having anything to do with this when like Dormammu as powerful as he is was defeated the nightmares like okay I'm on your side and that's a testament to how powerful door mom who is that's one of the things to bear in mind among those who are familiar with like the magical side of things Dormammu is terrifying because like his power is so incredibly vast and so so wild and so in addition to that you have Doctor Strange who actually goes in pleads to eternity and to to the Living Tribunal and this is kind of cool because when when when situations like this happened the argument of Doctor Strange is as a living tribunal you exist to maintain a cosmic balance eternity like you're basically the like the representation of all life in the universe of like the entire space of the universe makes up you guys have to aid us and the response of eternity is no I will continue on no matter what form the universe takes magic will permeate in the science and everything will go into disarray but my form will still remain there's no reason for me to act here and the Living Tribunal judges in agreement and he says this is just the new cosmic order of things that magic will blend with science and then like that'll be it and like it'll find a new harmony but there's no imbalance here there's no reason for me to judge ah therefore we are both out of this and this is a huge blow for Doctor Strange because if either eternity or even the Living Tribunal stepped in fight would be over like that it'd be done it was just a wave of their hands Galactus goes back to normal to the way he was before he gets whisked back into the main Marvel Universe and the story ends and that's basically it but the fact that they choose not to act means that essentially that like as far as like the magical nature of things and even the universe itself they're screwed like they're basically kind of on their own and and seemingly there's no real way for them to overcome this or at least that appears to be the case and so what Doctor Strange ends up doing is actually calling together pretty much a whole host of the various magical and demonic entities out there right so you got Daimon Hellstrom you've got brother voodoo you've got magic you've got a Scarlet Witch we don't really talked about Daimon Hellstrom he's basically the son of the devil he was actually kind of a cool character for a little while my oldest never really knew what to do with him outside of his first appearances but basically is all these various magical beings that are out there and dr. Strange's response is okay well I mean we know we're not necessarily as equipped as we could be right because I mean despite the power they have here even with Scarlet Witch she's not channeling the power of C'thun she's not like House of M House of M level but what you have here is is where dr. strange like okay so this is all we have um that's fine we'll do the best that we can he basically gets a response from like everyone you know where he's kind of like okay our numbers are not that high but we you know I kind of wish they could be uh then it's like okay well then allow us to help so what we get here are the Inhumans we get we get Valkyrie murmur a lot of this this actually takes place it takes place before the war of realms we have Nova we have like basically all these different beings like the Silver Surfer gladiator of the Shiar Imperial Guard you've got like like The Incredible Hulk you have pretty much all the heavy hitters in Marvel you've got a lot of heavy hitters like a lot of powerful guys here I think even Captain universe is here and so Doctor Strange is actually kind of heartened by this you know because it's like okay so like we have a chance to basically win here like we've got some very very powerful people hopefully it'll be enough we stand a much better chance than we did before so where the questions asked what do we do his response is keep a tight formation keep the faith and above all do not die okay so continuing on with Doctor Strange this is I mean this story's getting nuts see here's the thing guys like here's here's why this is such a big deal right because you look at someone like Galactus and you say okay so Galactus have the power cosmic what does that mean well the power cosmic is just kind of a hand wavy explanation for why Galactus can do what he does right it's basically the power of a universe more or less I mean he was born from a previous universe into the new one he's just kind of been around ever since but then you have someone like Dormammu and Dormammu is part of the Fall teen I think it is is is like crazy powerful right I mean it's one of those things like in the old Doctor Strange stories and a lot has changed since then but in the old Doctor Strange stories it was large least it was largely assumed and then I guess more recently verified that if Dormammu ever showed up in the main Marvel Universe at full power like virtually nobody would be able to stop him now this really seems to answer that question and say like Galactus could basically defeat him Galactus could be the one to stop him could overpower him again like I think it's kind of debatable I mean it is you know I love the way the story's being written and I like what Mark Waits doing but I mean this Dormammu though I mean you know like a lot just is powerful but like Dormammu is exceedingly powerful and so with this story unformed the way it is what this ends up doing is it actually ends up picking up with satanic now satanic is a character he's appeared like 50 some odd times maybe like 55 56 times he hasn't shown up a whole lot of times in in in Marvel Comics he debuted back in in 1968 with Doctor Strange number 174 um I've heard tale that like he was referenced about two or three years before that I know if it's true or not and I was never really that consistent of a reader with Doctor Strange so I wouldn't be able to I wouldn't know if that's true or not and I'm not gonna go back and read you know all the Doctor Strange comics from 1966 to 1968 to find out it's not really that important to me but it's a tannish was created by Dormammu and the idea behind this is that say tanagers is one of those characters of Doctor Strange can invoke now this is one of the things you have to understand when it comes to Stephen strange with his powers of course he has no real power unto himself he invokes the powers of others but the issue was satanic unlike the vishanti or unlike likes in Iraq or any of those other demons that he basically summons energy from say tannish is is like a benevolent being round he's a malevolent being there we go not benevolent he's kindly and a good guy he's a he's a malevolent force and so if Doctor Strange summons the power of satanic what it does is it would open a means by which satanic could show up on earth and then he would try to he would try to show up here and then unleash all kinds of problems I mean there have been groups like the sons a satanic order like a cult from back in the day but you're talking about an exceedingly powerful being here now if this was any other situation I would just kind of roll with it and say wow this is incredible but because of the fact that you're talking about Galactus having already defeated Dormammu who in turn created satanic there's no real reason to but to see this as kind of like a shocking thing I mean it is shocking in so far as if you're a reader of Doctor Strange Galactus is basically just like steamrolling the most powerful characters that we've ever seen in a Doctor Strange comic shy of like the cosmic entities and like The Living Tribunal right so like all the demonic forces that are out there Galactus is just like wrecking them all right so I mean this this is almost kind of like a mini Doctor Strange version of like Secret Wars right like the Beyonder show up and just kill all the cosmic entities that's really what this is now this doesn't have to build up to it so it's not nearly as grandiose in scope but that's basically what's happening here and that's why people are really starting to freak out and really starting to panic because when satanic seems to be winning Galactus somebody just absorbs all of his energy unto himself and then can satanic and when that happens there's no one really left to stop it right like seitan is kind of like their ace in the hole at least for all the superheroes who were there now of course Doctor Strange has been out of the picture for the most part and you know following up from the last issue we know that it's because he's basically gathering a lot of the superheroes that are out there and bringing who he can to this particular fight but the reality of this is that this is just sort of a stopgap measure you know this feels a lot like Infinity Gauntlet that's one of the things that I was thinking when I was reading this it feels a lot like Infinity Gauntlet right like you have the main Infinity Gauntlet story Thanos gets the gauntlet itself and then basically Adam warlock uses all those superheroes as cannon fodder in order to more or less distract a nose to get them all arrogant and all I kind of good stuff and in a moment of hubris he would send the Silver Surfer in to steal the gauntlet and and basically save the day and it didn't work but that really seems to be what's happening here right because even Stephen strange says that you know when he's being talked to by by all these various individuals what's basically happening is it's kind of like okay so like these guys can't win right like Carol Danvers cannot defeat Galactus and she never could ah like gladiator cannot defeated Galactus none of these guys can defeat the like to see Incredible Hulk I mean there's no one here that would really stand a chance but the way the mark way does this is particularly interesting right because one of the things that we get here is the voice of black ball now we kind of have to make the assumption that this takes place before the events of death of Inhumans right because during the death of the Inhumans story Black Bolt lost his voice he can't do is quasi sonic scream anymore and so when he's like shouting and screaming at Galactus letting it all out Galactus is sort of stunned and that does make sense Mark Waid is is running with Black Bolt but also kind of ignoring the entire continuity as we've seen it before now and truth he can get away with it I mean people kind of give me a hard time for making fun of Black Bolt but like he sucks Black Belts powers back in the day he used to be able to scream and I he could shatter planets with a screen right I mean and the idea was like like if he really really belted right if he just if he just like let that note fly who knows what it was that he could achieve but over the years in Marvel his powers have basically been dropped off right I mean the most powerful version of his character was actually in house of him when he whispered and like annihilated square miles of land right so when you're talking about him like in the main Marvel Universe now well of course he's far weaker than he ever was you know especially having lost his voice but even before that he was weaker than he was in the past uh having this Display of power blackball hasn't had this kind of power in a long long time so in terms of of how this fits into continuity I kind of feel like Mark ways the sort of grabbing things I'm filling it in I think this has really done more for the purpose of just showing us how dire things are and the fact that like everybody's giving it their all blackbolt does a pretty decent job but at the end of the day he's defeated and consumed by Galactus just like everybody else and that's when people really begin to panic here because with Galactus consuming the power of Black Bolt and then having this sort of quasi sonic scream what it does is it starts emanating all this this quasi sounding energy out and just begins to sort of ripple and in effect the boundaries of of science and magic right so it's like this like basically a shadow a shattering glass right a black ball were to like scream and shatter a planet that's basically what's happening with the barriers between these magical dimensions and reality itself right because normally everything is compartmentalized normally you'd like the I mean we kind of used the example of a house pretty consistently when it comes to the when it comes to these you know dimensions and things like that but if the house if a house is like the main Marvel Universe and like the closet is Asgard and like the master bedroom is you know the Dark Dimension where Dormammu resides and all that kind of stuff normally those doors are always closed and so long as those doors are closed no dimension can bleed into the other what Galactus is done here is blown the doors off right so it's just like everything's just bleeding into everything else right it's just it's just mixing iodine or make something like a dye with water everything just kind of jumbles all together and so what you end up getting here is is the character of gladiator jumping in now quell arc in reality should never stand a chance against Galactus he's powerful but he ain't that powerful classic hell arc is like classic Cal arc from back in the day probably from yet from from back in the day like in the 80s and the 90s he was very powerful these days not really and that's one of the things that you see and and in reality if that of the Inhumans hadn't happened I would look at this and say I think that what Mark Waid is doing is trying to bring the characters back to the roles they had before they lost a lot of their power and and that khana seems to be the case here but again I think we're really just kind of looking at it from the perspective of like things are popping off and this is how crazy it is right but because of everything that's going on the the Shiar Imperial Guard basically the Special Forces group that Cal arc leads the gladiator leads they all kind of go charging in all these characters all go charging in and for the most part it doesn't really make any difference at all none of it really matters and that's when we end up learning the plan of dr. strange that much like much like Adam warlock from Infinity Gauntlet what Doctor Strange has come to the realization of is that given enough time Galactus will see me it seems like he will destroy himself the problem is we don't know exactly how that will play out right because you're talking about uncharted territory here you're talking about a cosmic entity who's left the main Marvel Universe gone into into a magical dimension and is essentially consuming everything right I mean like all the superheroes are for the most part in the process of being consumed right like Dormammu sister is being consumed me Incredible Hulk all these guys they're all being consumed by Galactus if they have any real power of measure that Galactus can use to bolter his own abilities right he's essentially gone insane and so with with Doctor Strange running up on him he basically comes to the realization that what Galactus is doing he's it's like he's overeating right he's reaching critical mass because remember Galactus is pure energy and so what's been going on here is that with him absorbing all this energy he's reaching an unstable state but he's basically reaching a point by which he'll just kind of explode with all those energy going outward there's no indication of what will happen next and so Doctor Strange running up on him goes to attack him and when he seemingly injures Galactus or the very least appears to destroy him what results is that everything is seemingly wiped away the Doctor Strange is a stuck out in this kind of white void of everything with no clue what it is that he's done or how bad he's screwed everything up it's really cool like I'm really really digging this okay so I am currently in a hotel right now and the reason why I'm in a hotel will be made apparent on my vlog new channel but we are recording the audio for Doctor Strange technically I'm supposed to be on vacation like really I am but like yeah the video I had scheduled came out today so in the the last video on Doctor Strange we had talked about how like a lot just basically consumed Dormammu right like he basically like taking over the energies of Dormammu and then sucked him into himself right and this basically elevated Galactus to like a whole new level of power right he was essentially like God little animals is kind of interesting if there was an eternity for the the dimension right for all the the space that makes up the various magical dimensions then it would have been Galactus after he had consumed that he was just so astronomically powerful and so the result was that dr. strange handled all of his magical energy into a single hit and then attacked the lactis and when he did the belief was that he destroyed everything but what ended up happening is instead he was met with this giant white void now at that point he's met with the living embodiment of eternity and this is not a normal circumstances not supposed to happen and here's the reason why eternity is in and of itself the answer to the question what if like all the life in the universe everything that represented all life could get up and walk around that would be eternity and so in a giant white void when there is essentially nothing eternity should not exist but Doctor Strange exists therefore eternity is a reflection of Doctor Strange he's basically a reflection of existence now you would think eternity would take the form of Doctor Strange if that were the case and if it chose to it could um but eternity has its own form and that's the reason why he appears the way he does but what it asked Stephen strange is what in the heck happened here and the responses Stephen was to basically say well the belief was that that Galactus would be destroyed and one it would be the end of him and a main Marvel Universe and two it would bring an end to all the magical threat that exists out there and like all these crazy magical dimensions where Galactus was going nuts what we what eternity ends up revealing this even strange is that's not what happened instead what took place is that what Stephen strange did was essentially destroy the universe and then reset it there's this tiny little singularity at the very beginning of everything - it's essentially like it's frozen in a moment like it's frozen in time for a second but what's basically happening here is Stephen strange Hickel act has destroyed Galactus Galactus imploded sucked everything in on self and basically gave birth to like a new universe and so this is kind of the moment before the universe explodes in the Big Bang and becomes something wholly new and that's kind of a big deal because the question that's asked here is how did that happen right like how do we get to that point where it ended up being like Doctor Strange who reset everything and that's what we end up or at least Doctor Strange seems to indicate that it was the intention of Mephisto right it was the grand plan of Mephisto to essentially reset all of reality but then we end up finding out that's not true it's not what my Vista wanted that Mephisto is realm of hell resides on souls right I mean we've talked about that before but for those of you guys who were new here Mephisto is kind of a stand-in for Satan where at least he was until al Ewing introduced the one below olney credible whole comics but Mephisto was kind of this being who would basically trick people well it's like he would come to you in a time of meat in a time of dire and say I can help you out of the situation I can give you what you want all I'm going to do is ask for something in return and if you choose to barter with him two things will happen the first is that you'll get what you want but then you'll get something that handicaps it you'll say like man like you I really wish I had like a million dollars I mean I'm in desperate need of like being able to pay off my house or something along those lines and so Mephisto would give you the money to have your house paid off and then as soon as your house was paid off if you like destroyed it's torn and then the other thing is when you die you'll take your soul he's a pretty bad guy having said that he's also supremely powerful but like appearing here to Steven strange and just being like you screw everything up you destroyed Galactus you screwed everything up this fraction of a moment when Mephisto ended up yanking dr. strange to his room Mephisto is far more powerful than Doctor Strange and that's the reason why Steven strange doesn't really cause me any beef with Mephisto right I mean under any normal circumstances if Mephisto had been away from his own realm long enough like dr. strange could start some stuff and so what is happening is Mephisto kind of turns to him and says well you know he starts to think and he says well if you had the ability to basically fix the universe would you do it and dr. strange says yes and this is important because dr. strange had made a deal with Mephisto he'd made a pact with him he would seek help from a Fisto to free Umar and and Clea who Mephisto had taken Leo and Galactus was going crazy dr. strange made a barter with Mephisto that hey I'll come calling for a favor later on and in return I will release Clea and an Ummah at the moment so that's what that's exactly my fist oh did so this seems to basically be the the requests being baby on the fist oh is fix everything as it was kind of crazy because when that happens Steven strand says well I can't just do it willy-nilly because there's judges out there there's people that want to make sure that the cosmic balance is being maintained and that's when you're met by the arrival of the Living Tribunal and this is kind of a cool thing because under normal circumstances the Living Tribunal would probably look at this and say I see no error here if I'd in terms like what happened a conflict broke out and a being attained and same amount of power and with the destruction of that being came the birth of a new universe it's the natural order of things and so the results of this is that the Living Tribunal initially seeks to ask Doctor Strange what's your motivation behind this like are you going to recreate the universe and then fancy yourself a god or are you going to recreate the universe as it was and of course when he ends up saying is I'm going to recreate it as it was and the reason why is because if Stephen strange decided to make himself a god like make himself the god of the universe he would stand side by side with eternity best magical and balanced it's a mystical imbalance in the universe and the Living Tribunal would never allow that to happen in the exact same way that when Adam warlock sought to become when he got the Infinity Gauntlet at the end of the Infinity Gauntlet storyline and he sought to rule alongside eternity that the Living Tribunal said this is a cosmic imbalance you cannot have two absolute beings in the universe right you can't have two supreme beings of the universe it doesn't work that way you could only have one and that's exactly what the tribunal says you can do what you want to do like you can fix the universe just make sure that everything goes back exactly the way that it was before and that's exactly what ends up happening it's kind of a crazy thing because what's basically going on here is Stephen strange destroyed the universe and then remade it and the difference here is that he's remaking it exactly the way that it was before now the reality is is if I'm being honest here it's not really a letdown for me it's not really a disappointment for me and the reason why is because what you basically get is this this kind of is it's really more like a focus on on Stephen strange right like the price is Stephen strange has to pay for for the magic that he wields and then the role he plays which is the biggest undertaking he's ever seen basically recreating all of existence now if this was a big crossover event then I'd be pissed I'd be mad because I'd be like well this is just a lazy way to end it it's just a really lazy way to end the event but for me it's not really a lazy way to end the story it's basically saying that like Stephen strange is the sorcerer supreme this is his job is his job to do things like this and so to me that's why it works because it's the nature of his character I think it works I think it fits in perfectly one of the other cool things that comes out of this is remember like when it comes to to the universe it has to be made perfectly which means necessity and so this basically means the return of all these dark beams Thanos mistress death like all these terrible characters who have existed over the years and done and and committed heinous acts as it was kind of a cool little moment because when that happens you basically have him having to like relive his life like relive all his past mistakes the fact that he was he was an amazing surgeon the fact that his arrogance got the better of him that he actually drove off a cliff he ended up losing the ability to use his hands and then he became the sorcerer supreme he has to go back and relive all these mistakes he made all these battles that he fought and it be very very easy for him to kind of go back and say well maybe I didn't drive off a cliff or maybe I my arrogance didn't get the better of me or you know this maybe this happened maybe that happens along those lines I'm not gonna explain a man's life a little bit better but the issue is who knows what effect it will have on the universe what he's basically doing here because he's molding at any change he makes will affect this universe it won't create a branch off universe it will affect the future of this universe and so if he decided not to fly off the bridge and if he does and that he basically went on to continue to become an amazing surgeon then it could trade like this totally bleak and dark future where everything is ruled by Baron Mordo who knows what kind of reality that would possess instead what he does is he goes back to this moment when you ended up having Missoula's show up and and basically initiate this whole thing right because remember it was Zola's who showed up after Galactus had basically you know threatened his planet or at least was believed to be on the way to consume its planet and then in turn like it was Doctor Strange being a little hottie being a little arrogant and then like Zola taking off and then whisking Galactus into the magical dimension that led to all this in the first place and so what he does is he has managed ham enchantment spell Fonda's Olaf and basically says like this is the nature of the beast like you are now contained and instead of being the person that says like whoa sorry about your luck man there's really nothing you could do you know and kind of putting zola's in a position to where he was desperate and believe that he just had to get rid of Galactus in order to make it work instead Stephen strange reasons with him and notice this this is actually kind of a cool concept one of the things he says here is he says that whenever it was a Galactus showed up on earth that he was always sent away but no two circumstances ever worked the same now that is true to a degree but the the ultimate nullifier kind of flies in the face of that by the ultimate nullifier being this device that anything you pointed out and pull the trigger on it'll basically kind of wipe it from existence as if it was never there in the first place right and so but for the most part they're right whenever Galactus shows up and and tries to consume the world it's always a different reason for why he ends up leaving and so that's basically what it is that the Doctor Strange tells him is he says there was one point work a lot to show to a planet called Xen law and basically consumed or at least was going to consume the world until a guy named Norrin Radd chose to become Galactus Herald and instead he would basically seek out worlds and Galactus would spare his and so that's the statement that he really makes - Zola's is this is really the only option you have to basically surrender yourself to become Galactus his new Herald spear your world but go forward helping him find other worlds following his meeting with the Living Tribunal and eternity both of whom approve avoid of the work he's done the fact that everything's back to normal and it's essentially like nothing ever happens at all he suddenly whisked away by Mephisto and this is when we get to like the really duplicitous side of Mephisto right because what he says is no no no you still owe me a favor and when Stephen strain says yeah but I remade the universe just like you asked me Fisto says I never actually asked you to do that I never actually made that a request I simply presented the situation to you and that's how Mephisto works you have to be very meticulous in terms of what he says and how he says it and no point in his dealings with dr. strange did he say then I'm asking you to read to fix the universe I'm asking you to set everything back to the way that it was before he never did that you know because that um it's kind of interesting Mark Waid sort of yanked the spider man one more day chained in this scenario uh what he basically says is I want a fraction of a soul like I want a fraction of a soul that exists out there and so it's kind of crazy because well we're not really explicitly told what it is what it seems to be is a fraction of clea soul right like the ex-wife of Stephen strange because when he shows up there he basically asked her like do you believe there's a chance for us to start over do you believe there's a chance for us to find romantic happiness once again and Clea is like absolutely I do I've always thought about that why are you asking me and he's like because I was hoping you would give me a different answer and then basically that's her mind like wipes away her memories of him she has no idea who Stephen strange is now in reality if you're not a fan of Stephen strange this moment will pass without any real measure of value you're just gonna be like okay I mean I guess that's the thing but if you are fan of Stephen strange I don't know how you'll take it whether you'll be mad or whether you'll be happy I honestly don't really care Clea never really interested me that much in the first place but it is kind of interesting I imagine for a hardcore Doctor Strange fans this is like a Spider Man one more day kind of thing um just not as is you know as impactful or as big because Doctor Strange is in spider-man but still you know it's it's kind of an interesting moment because it's basically Doctor Strange going back to the path of being alone going back to the passages of it just being him and nobody else is intriguing here it's really really interesting but with that being said guys we're gonna be in this video to an end if you are new here to come as explained make sure you guys at the sub button to become part of the Rob core if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you drop a like and I will catch you all later peace [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 50min 46sec (3046 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 26 2019