Marvel Comics Proves The MCU Made A Mistake With Its Sorcerer Supreme

Marvel Comics Proves The MCU Made A Mistake With Its Sorcerer Supreme

Marvel Comics’ Death of Doctor Strange shows the death of a Sorcerer Supreme should shake the multiverse itself – too late for the MCU to copy it.

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Marvel Comics Proves The MCU Made A Mistake With Its Sorcerer Supreme

Marvel Comics’ Death of Doctor Strange event has proved the MCU made a big mistake with its Sorcerer Supreme. In the comics, the line of Sorcerers Supreme began some 1,000,000 years ago, when the mystical Agamotto first claimed the title. Recognizing Earth’s vulnerability to demonic and extradimensional threats, he established spells that ensured there would always be a Sorcerer Supreme – a champion who would protect the dimensional plane from the creatures that sought to conquer or devour it.

All that has come to an end, however. Marvel’s Death of Doctor Strange kicked off with Stephen Strange murdered – and the killer used magic to steal his soul, ensuring the next Sorcerer Supreme could not be chosen. The result has been chaos, with the secret magical barrier protecting the Earth fading to nothing, while enchantments that had bound dangerous creatures for centuries have been broken. Earth’s superheroes are struggling to contain the threats, even as mystics attempt to figure out how to install a new Sorcerer Supreme. It’s a tremendous plot, and it clearly serves as the launchpad for countless magical stories going forward – because even when a new Sorcerer Supreme is chosen, the damage will have been done.

There’s a striking contrast between Marvel Comics’ portrayal of the Sorcerers Supreme and the MCU’s. The Marvel Cinematic Universe lost its own Sorcerer Supreme in 2016’s Doctor Strange, and Wong cautioned that “word of the Ancient One’s death will spread through the multiverse.” Despite that, because of the MCU’s various time-jumps over six years have passed in-universe, with no real sign of any consequences from the Ancient One’s demise. Far from being an event of cosmic magnitude, the death of Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme appears to have been just a ripple in the infinite lake that is the multiverse. No doubt Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will see Doctor Strange finally become Sorcerer Supreme – but it doesn’t exactly look urgent.

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It’s actually rather amusing that both Marvel Comics and the MCU are without Sorcerers Supreme at the same time, because it makes for an easy comparison. The reality is that the comics have done a better job with this plot, establishing the Sorcerer Supreme as an essential part of Earth’s magical defenses; in contrast, in the MCU the Masters of the Mystic Arts appear to have been able to get along fine without one (even more remarkable given half the Masters were presumably snapped out of existence by Thanos for five years). Frankly, the comics have suggested the lack of a Sorcerer Supreme is in itself something that could trigger a “multiverse of madness” – instantly, because the planet’s defenses collapse without them.

Unfortunately, it’s likely this arc is taking place too late for the MCU to learn from The Death of Doctor Strange. The sad truth is that there are occasions where the comics simply come up with their best ideas a little too late for the MCU to draw directly upon them for inspiration – Jason Aaron’s War of the Realms being another example, because it depends on Malekith, a character who’s already been used (and killed off decisively) in Thor: The Dark World. Not everything that happens in comics will work its way into the MCU, meaning there will be some of the best stories that only comic book readers enjoy. The Death of Doctor Strange looks set to be one of those arcs – and it’s a shame, because the story really is a tremendous one.

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