✪Respect The Dread Dormammu: Lord Of The Dark Dimension!✪
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Dormammu: The Dread One, Eater of Souls, Lord of Chaos, The Great Enigma, Lord of Darkness!
INFO:
Once a member of an extradimensional mystical race known as the Faltine, Dormammu is a being with incalculable power and uncontrollable hunger for other universes. Supposedly older than the very concept of time itself, Dormammu and his sister Umar were exiled from their native dimension after killing their progenitor Sinifer, which made them travel to lower planes of existence until finding The Dark Dimension. Dormammu is one of the oldest and most powerful beings in the MU, as well the sworn nemesis of Doctor Strange himself.
Overall Power:
Something about Dormammu that can't be disputed at all since Handbooks and sources truly do mention is the character being recognized as one of the most powerful and greatness mystical beings/creatures/threats/monsters in the entire universe, with overwhelming and nigh-unlimited power, most likely in all the multiverse/existence as well and sometimes not even being restricted only to the magical category:
My apologies for the extremely bad quality of the fifth one from Marvel Encyclopedia#1, I couldn't find any other.
Mystical Power:
- Scan 1-2 ) Dormammu while still in a weaker body compared to now was burning/destroying the entire Dark Dimension, an entire universe classified as a cluster just like the 616 with infinite spatial dimensions, as a simple side-effect of being just angry(DSSS#24 and Strange Tales#141).
- Scan 3-4 ) Dormammu even in his weaker humanoid form was absorbing whole universes/entire realities together with Umar to King Olnar. It's already been established in Doctor Strange Vol.4#16by Dormammu's own words that is the character himself who flung wide the dimension barriers between the universes to merge them, something he did with the 616 itself as shown in the same future vision to Strange(DSSS#22 and Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts#71).
- Scan 5-6 ) Dormammu's Crown/The Flames of the Faltines, which is only a part of his powers, was being used to create and then later definitely stop/destroy an actual multiversal singularity started by Impossible Man that would eventually destroy all known universes(A+X#15).
- Scan 7-8 ) Dormammu manipulated the reality and had complete control over the Realm Unknown during one of his weakest incarnations, which is very impressive since the place is a pan-dimensional world composed of many universes even in small things like a droplet as described by Strange, before any "What was the size of those universes anyway?" I'm already going to anticipate myself and post that even someone like Strange, who already traveled across many universes, called them measureless to any human mind(Doctor Strange#171).
Disintegrated Eternity's substance while in his weakest incarnation (Strange Tales #146), It's also officially confirmed by Marvel - Absolutely Everything You Need To Know that Dormammu indeed nearly destroyed the universe on top of all. The very same Eternity supposedly had whole universes (Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme #9) inside of him if we go the novelization of the events written by Sara Wolf according to Doctor Strange's own view of the abstract. The multi-universal or universal+ effects and such status of that version of Eternity are also backed up by other sources, such as Kaluu being set free in a dimension/universe away from the 616(Strange Tales #148), and the battle then causing a transdimensional holocaust (Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme #23). That's not his best feat, but is easily the most quantifiable and I believe very few characters in all fiction have a showing that's backed up by so many different types of sources(on-panel evidence, statements, guidebooks, handbooks and so on) and the showing gets even more impressive when you take into consideration that was done by one of the weakest versions of Dormammu and the circumstances when the feat happened, Dormmy still had to waste some of his power beforehand to break thousands of seals unthinkable by men to get on Eternity's realm in the first place and fought a bit against Strange too. Also, before any accusations, I'm the one who gave those feats for VsBattles while in my Lord_Platinum account there.
- Scan 1-2 ) Dormammu has bestowed mystical powers on a normal human without any talents or skills called Lucius Dilby, but guess what? After just receiving his magic from someone like Dormmy, Dilby was even capable of stomping the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth with his creations, Doctor Strange himself, who even said that Dilby was no ordinary enemy anymore. It's even been revealed by official sources that Dormammu can bestow UNLIMITED MAGIC POWER on his servants(Amazing Spider-Man Annual#14).
- Scan 3-4-5 ) Dormammu while using LESS than 1/10th of his powers made the Defenders: Silver Surfer, Hulk, Clea and Doctor Strange look like mere and powerless children since they all need to attack him at the same time and Strange's Astral Form had entered his " Dark Heart" and morphed the manifestation of his ego with the Eye of Agamotto, all just to drop Dormmy. Besides, Dormammu has only fallen according to the very narration because the same felt a brief moment of hesitation...Yet still got up moments after as if was nothing. While Strange couldn't call upon any Principalities at that time, he was still using the power of the mystical entity known as Zarathos/Ghost Rider (Blaze) and who Dormammu even mocked it by calling it a "minor entity"(DSSS#50).
- Scan 6-7 ) One-shotting the entire Defenders roaster that included Silver Surfer, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Valkyrie, Namor and Hawkeye with a simple and mere wave of his wand, back when Dormammu was still at his weakest forms/bodies(Avengers#118)
- Scan 8-9-10 ) One-shotting Umar and being undefeated by her attacks, while once again, in an inferior body. It should be noted that Umar was at least comparable to Dormmy in the past, having even defeated him once, proving how much more powerful the character has become over the years(DSSS#22).
- Scan 1-2-3-4-5 ) Dormammu has very good track record of feats when it's about stomping Sorcerers Supreme(Which basically mean that person who detains the title is the most powerful mystical practitioner of his/her time) across history, such as Sorcerer Supreme Loki, who already was a Norse god on top of all, and Sorcerer Supreme Hiram Shaw(Unbeatable Squirrel Girl II#28and X-Men: Hellfire Club#1).
- 6-7-8-9-10-11 ) Stomping the shit out of Baron Mordo multiple times(One of the most powerful sorcerers in all the existence according to the very Handbooks and whose powers rival Strange's), one of them even when simply assumed the form of small rats(The Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounters, Doctor Strange Vol.4#12 and Doctor Strange Vol.4#13).
- Scan 1-2 ) Even while in exile from the Dark Dimension and in one inferior body, his main source of power, could still conjure enough power to supposedly topple planets(On plural) from their orbits(Doctor Strange#173).
- Scan 3-4 ) Again an inferior version created his own pocket dimension and a personal clone of Doctor Strange(Ghost Rider Vol.1#29).
- Scan 5 ) Loki, while using simply a portion/fraction from an inferior version/body of Dormammu's power, could still imprison every superpowered individual in America. The ones shown on-panel to be imprisoned were Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, Hulk, Vision, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Quicksilver, Cyclops, Black Panther, Hawkeye and Daredevil(Thor#233).
- Scan 6 ) Easily turned a sorcerer like Mordo into a ball of mystical energy while still weakened and in an inferior body(Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts#51).
- Scan 7-8-9 ) Dormammu killed every hero on Earth while supposedly still weakened and Doctor Strange said no being in the entire universe could hope to stand against him once at his full power, which was later shown to be true as the Dread One conquered the whole 616 and thus created a dark future/timeline(Amazing Spider-Man Vol.2#58 and Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1#500).
- Scan 10 ) Dormammu created a clone of himself who was stomping the shit out of Blastaar(Doctor Doom and The Masters of Evil#3).
- Scan 1-2-3-4 ) A more powerful, yet still inferior version to current Dormammu has easily one-shotted/blasted away the 9th host of the Phoenix Force called Giraud of Haven with a single energy blast, trapped the Sorcerer Supreme Krugarr of the 31st Century and later almost banished all the GoTG to a nether-realm if wasn't for outside interference. Giraud himself is easily capable of making Eternity howl of pain and stalemate and later defeat with a small help the universal creator Ubiquitor even while weakened. Krugarr, on the other hand, is a sorcerer powerful enough to defeat the universal threat Baby Korvac on his own(Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1#36).
- Scan 5-6 ) Blinding Shuma-Gorath with a single blast, thus making him retreat, in a dimension where Shuma had become its god(Doctor Strange#388).
- Scan 7-8 ) Dormammu, while weakened, was sure that using Doctor Strange as vessel would be powerful enough again to fight and defeat the Goddess with the Cosmic Egg, which is a collection of 30 Cosmic Cubes. We get the proof of not being just a bluff right after when Dormmy departed because admitted that was too weak for the task without Strange, showing that knew if the teamwork would get him enough strength to win or not(DSSS#55).
- Dormammu can control/manipulate Scarlet Witch's own Chaos Magic to do his very desires only(S.H.I.E.L.D#5).
- Scan 1-2-3-4-5 ) Dormammu summons sorcerers, demons and mystical creatures from across infinite worlds, who all bow down to him in the end(DSSS#2).
- Scan 6-7 ) Mordo using Dormammu to take over The Vishanti. Now, Mordo said that Wong didn't know how to ask them to protect him from Dormammu, but the later would need to be at least powerful enough to affect them to overpower their energies in the end. The Vishanti themselves are so powerful that were described by the official guidebook Marvel- Absolutely Everything You Need To Know to be capable of ending or creating an entire multiverse, so it's a good feat for Dormmy regardless(Doctor Strange: Season One).
- Scan 8-9-10 ) Dormammu one-shotting both Umar and Baron Mordo even while in the form of a small Faltine fairy called Flyx, which was after being exiled and thus weakened to extreme levels. Umar, as shown above, was at least his equal in the past, Dormammu then proceeded to stomp a mystical group composed of Clea, Tiboro and many others(DSSS#48).
- Scan 1-2-3-4) It took the combined powers from four Hell-Lords: Mephisto, Pluto, Hela and Hellstorm to indirectly defeat Dormammu by uniting their powers and freezing Hades. One important point is that Dormammu was INSIDE of Mephisto's own realm when that happened, so even with all the Hell-Lords together in an advantageous battlefield and having their combined resources to go with a frontal attack against Dormmy and his allies, they actually didn't and went by the strategy of DEPOWERING HIM to win the battle, which speaks tons about the threat that is Dormammu to them(Hellcat#3).
- Scan 5 ) Even Loki couldn't cope with what later was revealed to be only a portion of an inferior Dormammu's power and thus his mind was reduced/collapsed to that of a mere scared infant. Something quite impressive because when Odin himself in Journey into Mystery#104(A legit Skyfather being), gave a portion of his own to Loki, nothing of the sort or even close to it happened(Avengers#118).
- Scan 6 ) Dormammu, while weakened and in an inferior form, defeated/imprisoned the Elder Goddess Gaea. A being ranked alongside Odin/Zeus/Mikaboshi/Bastet in the list of the most powerful gods in the MU by Marvel- Absolutely Everything You Need To Know as posted above(Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts#7).
- Scan 1-2 ) Topaz, even at her full-potential, needed Strange and even Clea's help with the Flames of the Faltine to hold back Dormammu's energies while the same was still in a weaker form/body. Topaz at said state could practically stomp the entity Satan inside of his own realm, whom at that time was the manifestation of all the major Hell-Lords like Mephisto, Satannish, Thog and others in one(DSSS#2):
- Scan 1-2-3 ) Dormammu, once again conquered the Earth in a dark future after the cosmic train-wreck, killing and winning the battle against all the other villains in process. This showing is difficult to gauge because Gerry Duggan never took his time to explain more or even show flashbacks, so we don't know which villains/enemies Strange is talking about it, but probably weren't small fishes if were still around after the devastation from the train(Doctor Strange: The Best Defense).
Durability:
- Scan 1-2-3 ) Dormammu casually swims inside of Eternity's substance/essence, which is full of big-bangs going out constantly, but what makes the feat so impressive is that such thing was nothing compared to magnitude of Eternity as Dormmy went deeper inside of the abstracts, until reset and thus survived the rebirth of the multiverse at point blank. I know many people argue Dormammu was still under the effects of the Cosmic Axis during said instance, but the main effect of the Cosmic Axis was to create a connection of powers between Umar and Dormammu as said by the later himself, which means Dormammu's powers would flow through Umar and vice-versa. However, when Dormmy was about to enter inside of Eternity's essence, it's been repeatedly mentioned all the power of the abstract would belong to him and only him, implying there was no connection regarding the two anymore at that point and thus no more Cosmic Axis(Defenders Vol.3#3).
- Scan 4-5-6-7-8 ) Dormammu tanking the same attack which destroyed Eternity's essence after being ricocheted back at him, smashed between two planets that produced a light brighter than a thousand of exploding suns, as well shred the very fabric of existence and getting banished way over a dimension...All without a scratch(Strange Tales#146 and Doctor Strange#172).
- Scan 9-10 ) Dormammu easily tanking/stopping a mystical bullet filled with world-shattering energy and anti-magical properties with his very hand(S.H.I.E.L.D#5).
- Scan 1-2-3 ) Strange channeling a universe worth of magic/all the magic left after the Empirikul attacked and attacking Dormammu with it still wasn't enough to even banishing an inferior version of the same as he later became even more powerful thanks to the use of souls. It should be noted that are actually infinite aspects of magic in the universe which are also the embodiments of everything and that some of those aspects such as the Catastrophe Magic are arguably universal on their own already, so it's still a good feat for Dormammu even if the Empirikul somehow wiped more than half of the magic in the universe and using a more objective comparison, Strange with only a small group of mystical was able to BFR the Celestial Destructor and it's minions in Civil War II#1/New Avengers(2015)#12(Doctor StrangeVol.4#16).
- Scan 1-2 ) Dormammu, while severely weakened, survived a direct hit from the Soul-Sword. An anti-magic weapon that was once been used to kill a magical abomination known as The Archenemy, a being more powerful than the likes of Nightmare and even Surtur himself(Uncanny X-Men Vol.3#5).
Strength:
Dormammu's now officially listed as a 100+ tonner by the Handbooks, more specifically the All-New Handbook of the Marvel Universe(2007)#3:
- Scan 1-2 ) Choking out Red Skull with a single hand while still in a weaker body, the later also couldn't escape his grip(Captain America/Nick Fury-The Otherworld War).
- Scan 3-4-5 ) While taken off all his mystical might and reduce to the form of a rambling weakling, old human almost falling apart, Dormammu still had enough strength to rip apart the spine from one of his soldiers and launch several meters with enough power, speed and precision to penetrate the body of both Clea and Nobel(DSSS#73).
- Scan 6-7 ) Treating the Hulk as if was a rag-doll and throwing him around(Defenders Vol.3#2).
- Scan 8-9 ) Breaking free from Krugarr's binding spells with just his strength alone, as posted above, Krugarr could imprison even a universal threat Baby Korvac(Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1#37).
- Scan 1-2-3-4-5 ) The Hood while simply empowered by Dormammu could take on the mighty of all the New Avengers mostly through physical means alone, which included a Non-SS Doctor Strange, Hellstorm, Doctor Voodoo, Luke Cage, Carol Danvers, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Mockingbird, Hawkeye as Ronin, Bucky Barnes as Cap, Wolverine and Spider-Woman. It should be noted that version of Strange handled by the same writer could already face off against the combined powers of possessed Avengers by Jericho Drumm, some quite strong like Thunderbolt Ross and Thor by himself(New Avengers Vol.1#54).
Speed:
- Scan 1-2-3-4 ) Dormammu displaying bullet-timing reflexes on two separate occasions(S.H.I.E.L.D#5 and Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War).
- Scan 5-6 ) Dormammu reacting and intercepting an MFTL+ psychic message from Strange to Black Knight, which was traveling fast enough to cross the entire universe to other dimensions in minutes per the own narration(DefendersVol.1#8).
Telepathy:
Nightmare says that Dormammu overtook his mental/psych control over entire dimensions/universes in Defenders(2005)#1:
- Scan 1 ) Multidimensional telepathy range-wise even while in one of his weakest forms/incarnations.
- Scan 2-3 ) Dormammu indirect controls the Mindless Ones with his psychic aura alone, which there's an entire dimension/pocket universe filled with them(DSSS#50).
- Scan 4-5 ) A far inferior and weakened version of Dormammu gives a normal human like Krowler enough mystical energies to overpower Strange's mind(Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts#50).
- Scan 6 ) Once again a far inferior and extremely weakened Dormammu easily mind-controls the Scarlet Witch, but what actually matters in this feat is that Wanda was also able to counter-attack a mental attack from a planetary level telepath such as Moondragon during Avengers#134 through Dormie's control, even though Dormie was still regenerating himself while inside of Earth's core at the time(Giant-Size Avengers#04).
- Scan 7-8 ) A mental battle against Strange inside of Zarathos/Ghost Rider's own mind was so intense that threatened to destroy it and Dormammu was at one of his weakest incarnations(Ghost Rider Vol.1#30-31):
- Scan 9 ) Dormammu, even indirectly, mind-controlled all of Manhattan(Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones#3).
Mystical Hax:
First off, Dormammu arguably knows any spells that Strange himself knows given the former once took control of Stephen's own body during DSSS#2 and learned/became everything that Stephen was:
- Scan 1-2 ) Dormammu's immune to Strange and his reality warping, as well the Conjurer's Cone, which was meant to BFR opponents. He also can use non-verbal magic, no big deal there anyway(Strange Tales#127).
- Scan 3-4 ) Can shot mystical energy beams from his eyes that can freeze the very atoms and stopping them from moving(Doctor Strange#172).
- Scan 5 ) Dormammu can create minions from other's energies with only a snap of his fingers, but it should be noted he used another servant beforehand to collect the power(Doctor Strange#172).
- Scan 6-7-8 )Reverting transmutation's effects on his own body and displaying that ability against Strange as well(Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones#4).
- Scan 9 ) Extinguishing the so-called eternal flames of the Spirit of Vengeance(Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1#36).
- Scan 1 ) Dormammu also possess cosmic powers on top of having mystical ones, to what exactly degree is unknown(DefendersVol.3#2).
- Scan 2-3) Taking away Thor's godhood and erasing Mjöllnir from exitance, as well doing the same with Iron Man's armor, all with just a wave of his hand. Making a glue rain to immobilize Scarlet Witch(Avengers#118).
- Scan 4 ) Sealing away the Eye of Agamotto in very darkness, which's something the object was created to specifically fight against it, it's light has defeated being such as the Fear-Lord called Nightmare and the Eye itself allows the transcendence of time-space to become one with the abstract known as Eternity(DSSS#1).
- Scan 5 ) Invoking the Crimson Bands all over Manhattan and showings his spells move at speeds faster than thought(DSSS#1).
- Scan 6 ) Creating mystical-enchanted objects like chains out of thin air(Doctor Strange#172).
- Scan 7 ) Even without using his own powers, but rather just invocations, Dormmamu supposedly has darkness-manipulation to a level where can plunge the planet Earth into an eternal night(DSSS#24).
- Scan 8 ) Dormammu controls all the molecular activity from the Dark Dimension, an entire universe, by simply existing(DSSS#50)
- Scan 9 ) He can tap into all of the Dark Dimension's energies even outside the realm(DSSS#23).
- Scan 10-11-12 ) Dormammu is capable of even one-shooting and easily turning into ashes an anti-magic knight whose power enables him to counter and absorb any spell, even Doctor Strange's, who was almost killed by this enemy had not Dormmy intervened(Doctor Strange#171).
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