Sunday, August 30, 2020

Doctor Fate Vs. Baron Mordo

 


Chiwetel Ejiofor is a talented actor, but he didn't get much to do in the first Doctor Strange movie as Baron Mordo.  The post credits sequence set him up for bigger things in the sequel, and hopefully that comes to pass.  Still, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness looks to be jam packed with  The Scarlet Witch and other heroes joining in, not to mention the rumors of another villain like Mephisto or Nightmare in the mix.  Let's hope there is still room for Mordo to get his due.

21 comments:

Carycomic said...

Cryptic commentary in those word balloons. Could it be that Stephen Strange is already out of the picture? Replaced by a mind-controlled Space Phantom, for example?

Either way, I'm first for once. YAY ME! :-)

Detective Tobor said...

Here is a beautiful example of two different artists working together to do one great looking book. Ditko and Howard have a very enjoyable blending done.
As to the story - the Baron changed the past and Strange never had his car accident. End of his story.
Congrats @Cary.

Detective Tobor said...

Here's a thought..As a sequel, Mordru and Mordo fueling Solomon Grundy for a upcoming attack.

Horsefeathers said...

I saw this movie, Barren Fate! It's about an insurance agent trying to make good on his promises but the bad guy gets the Book of Fate and keeps changing the contract's clauses. It starred Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. It got 3 quills out of 5.

Anonymous said...

Space Phantom is a shape-shifter who can make characters vanish into Limbo by taking their form; he worked for Immortus.

Carycomic said...

Actually, "he" was later ret-conned into a whole race of mutated residents of Limbo working for Immortus. But, they didn't _exclusively_ work for him! I remember a classic Spidey two-parter (from the Nineties) that had one of the SP's forced to work for one of the Young Gods.* It also had a bunch of Spidey's foes going to work for Silver Sable as "The Outlaws."

*Those pantheon-bred humans that were later given to the Celestials in THOR v. 1/#300 in exchange for the Celestials sparing the Earth?

Carycomic said...

@Det. Tobor: your idea has merit. In fact, I'll take the liberty of expanding on it!

Dr. Strange went back in time to rescue the 7 Soldiers of Victory from STF #1852. But, in fact, he was tricked into going back too far...to STF #3058. And, as a result? The 7 Soldiers wound up trying to rescue the Doc from STF #2896! Only to be shrink-napped by the Queen of Fables--and put in Snow White's custody--in STF #1852!!

How could all this be possible? Baron Mordo foresaw it all, via the Time Stone. Which was no doubt provided to him discourtesy of Per Degaton.*

*Or a Space Phantom disguised as him. ;-)

Carycomic said...
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Carycomic said...

Either way, now almost nothing stands in the way of Mordo erasing Doc's first birthday from history (a la Shrek and Rumpelstiltskin).

Dr. Fate being the aforementioned "almost," of course.

Bob Greenwade said...

@Tobor: Maybe Access could combine them into Baron Mordru!

Anonymous said...

Nah! He already formed half the amalgam for Baron Wotan.

Daviticus said...

BAH! ;)

Detective Tobor said...

@Cary especially....I finally got the right take on the cover. Ross gets sly sometimes. Hiding in plain sight --- A Supreme Sacrifice! Mordo used Squadron Supreme's magic specialist,Arcanna, as a sacrifice to affect time.
(Arcanna Jones is able to observe and affect parallel quantum dimensions.)

Carycomic said...

@ D. Tobor: quite possibly. Especially if she's like the Scarlet Witch of Earth 712!*

*What Immortus would call a "nexus being."

Anonymous said...

@Bob & Daviticus: what if Mordru were amalgamted with Immortus as...

IMMORDRU!

Quality Horsefeathers at a discount said...

Haya Anon 5:45, not bad. here's another take-out on it.
Mordo is no slacker. When he gets the chance, he changes the Dr into a marine mammal.
When Green Lantern comes looking for the Dr., Mordo is quite triumphant in stating to him ," Your Fate has been Sealed!"

Anonymous said...

@Horsefeathers: I love it!!!! :-D

Carycomic said...

@Anonymous: you mean, it has your seal of approval?

;-)

the Seal team said...

It was the ONLY way to seal the deal.
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Carycomic said...

Good one! :-)

Anonymous said...

@Det. Tobor: what hiding in plain sight? You mean, that freaky-looking gargoyle vase?

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