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.
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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! :-)
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.
Here's a thought..As a sequel, Mordru and Mordo fueling Solomon Grundy for a upcoming attack.
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.
Space Phantom is a shape-shifter who can make characters vanish into Limbo by taking their form; he worked for Immortus.
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?
@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. ;-)
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.
@Tobor: Maybe Access could combine them into Baron Mordru!
Nah! He already formed half the amalgam for Baron Wotan.
BAH! ;)
@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.)
@ D. Tobor: quite possibly. Especially if she's like the Scarlet Witch of Earth 712!*
*What Immortus would call a "nexus being."
@Bob & Daviticus: what if Mordru were amalgamted with Immortus as...
IMMORDRU!
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!"
@Horsefeathers: I love it!!!! :-D
@Anonymous: you mean, it has your seal of approval?
;-)
It was the ONLY way to seal the deal.
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Good one! :-)
@Det. Tobor: what hiding in plain sight? You mean, that freaky-looking gargoyle vase?
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