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The Decease of Doctor Strange - MCU movie villain Kaecilius revealed as the killer

Kaecilius from The Death of Doctor Strange #4

Kaecilius from The Death of MD Strange #4 (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Kaecilius, in the foyer, with a dagger...

Writer Jed Mackay and creative person Gypsy Rose Lee Garbett's The Death of Doctor Odd had two core mysteries to keep readers guesswork for its first four (of five) issues:

Unitary, who was Doctor Strange's murderer?

The Death of Doctor Strange #4 cover (Visualise credit: Wonder Comics)

And two, who would claim the Marvel Universe's mantle as the new Sorcerer Ultimate?

Marvel already spoiled #2 ahead December 29's Dying of Doc Strange #4 that
revealed the killer was released.

The current Sorcerer Supreme of the Dark Dimension and Stephen Strange's long-time romantic interest and i-time wife Clea would usurp Earth's mantelpiece and because they were once married, she could even carry on the "Strange" surname in her upcoming new ongoing series.

As to the murderer, it was Kaecilius; in Marvel Comics a disciple of Baron Mordo, Strange's arch-villain and who upward until the first pages of the new issue was the main suspect.

If you're not a explicit Marvel Comics reader and you're mentation to yourself that the name Kaecilius rings familiar, information technology'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.

Created in 1965's Unknown Tales #130 away none other than Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, despite his pedigree, Kaecilius has been something of a minor Doctor Strange baddie, more pain in the neck than a genuine threat.

As a matter of fact, his motivations for sidesplitting Strange and purposely framing his master-wise man Baron Mordo for the polish off goes entirely the way back to 1982's Doctor Strange #56 storyline in which Kaecilius and some cohorts are banished passably routinely by Strange to the Purple Dimension, a pocket existence of "cruelty and suffering" also created by Lee and Ditko.

Death of Doctor Strange #4 excerpt — Death of Repair Strange #4 excerpt (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

In The Death of Doctor Funny #4, the jr. Doctor Strange figures out the murderer of his older, present-Clarence Shepard Day Jr. self had a grudge against his older self and Mordo, and murdering him 'killed two birds with one stone,' the second stone being robbing Mordo of killing Strange himself, Mordo's ultimate marrow's desire.

And wherefore does he throw a grievance against his long-time master-mentor? Because Mordo didn't hear to deliverance him from the Purple Dimension. He merely thrown-away Kaecilius like "a broken tool of no consequence."

Whew, got every that?

Kaecilius then vows to make his "faithless" master Mordo "squeal with all the agonies of the Purple Dimension" and so vows to kill the younger Strange with his own power.

....aaaaaaaaand scene.

To give you a sense of how minor a comical book part Kaecilius was despite his big-cover visibility, afterward his 1982 banishment, he didn't revert from the Imperial Property until a 2020 storyline in Valkyrie: Jane Nurture, a virtual eternity in comic volume time.

But with Clea needing her our rogues' gallery of mystical villains now that she's graduating to series star for the first time in her chronicle, it'll be absorbing to see if given his MCU profile Kaecilius is elevated railroad to a more prodigious threat.

We'll witness out in January in the ratiocination of The Death of Doctor Strange limited series and perhaps later in the March 2 debut of the other Strange series starring Clea.

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