
Dormammu agrees to leave Earth if the time loop is broken and takes Kaecilius with him. Strange responds that that is alright with him, because everyone on Earth will live. Once Dormammu realizes he is caught in a time loop, he tells Strange that he will continue to die over and over again. Dormammu kills Strange but the time loop starts again and again each time Strange is killed. Strange goes to the Dark Dimension and before meeting Dormammu, he creates a time loop using the Eye of Agamotto. When Doctor Strange, Baron Mordo and Wong go to the Hong Kong Sanctum, they see the Dark Dimension already engulfing Earth. We later find out that she foresaw her own death and wants Strange to replace her as the Sorcerer Supreme. The Ancient One initially rejects Strange because his arrogance reminds her of Kaecilius but later accepts him. After hearing from someone who is able to walk again after spinal fracture, he finds The Ancient One in Nepal. After a car accident, his hands shake and he feels broken but as a believer in modern medicine, he asks for help from every doctor he knows but they all turn him down.


Stephen Strange in an acclaimed but arrogant surgeon living in New York City. Kaecilius was once a devoted pupil of The Ancient One, a powerful sorcerer and practitioner of the mys in a secret compound in Nepal, but he nows sees The Ancient One as a hypocrite after learning that she draws power from the Dark Dimension.ĭr. By summoning Dormammu, he hopes to attain eternal life. In the 2016 Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Doctor Strange, the story starts with Kaecilius and his followers stealing the pages of a forbidden ritual that will summon Dormammu of the Dark Dimension, where time is non-existent.
