Dormammu

Dormammu
Series	Marvel Comics
Age	Immemorial
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Male
Species	Faltine/Demon
Height	Usually 6'1" (Varies)
Weight	Varies
Alignment	Chaotic Evil

“	The ages fall away! The rule of law is stripped from the bones of the world! A new will grips the earth, the sky, the aether! My will!	„
	~ Dormammu

Dormammu is an interdimensional conqueror from Marvel Comics. He is the ruler of the Dark Dimension and archnemesis of Doctor Strange.

Background

Countless eons ago, Dormammu was spawned a powerful Faltine known as Sinifer. Dormammu spent his early life in his home dimension, the Faltine Dimension, growing in power by absorbing physical matter into himself. When his father tried to stop him from absorbing physical matter, Dormammu and his sister Umar worked together to convert Sinifer into matter himself, essentially killing him. This action led to the banishment of both Dormammu and Umar from their home dimension. The two traveled throughout the multiverse, hungry for matter and conquest when they stumbled upon the Dark Dimension. There, Dormammu met their king Olnar, who offered the two power and peace in return for learning how to merge dimensions as a means of conquering. After many years of the trio conquering other dimensions, Dormammu led Olnar to the dimension Mindless Ones, where the king met his demise. Using his position as a hero of the Dark Dimension, Dormammu was able to usurp power from Olnar's infant son, merge the energies of the Dark Dimension into himself to drastically increase his power, and become the realm's immortal ruler. Ever since then, Dormammu has kept up his endless mission for conquest, setting a particular interest in Earth where he would meet constant conflict with the Sorceror Supreme known as Doctor Strange.

Powers & Abilities

• Godly Physiology: Dormammu is considered more powerful than Lucifer, Marduk, Mephisto, and Satannish and apparently served as the creator of the latter. Dormammu is of sufficient skill and might to tamper with the spells of Odin against his will, as the Lord of the Dark Dimension did once to revert Thor back to his mortal guise. Dormammu had sufficient magical power to hold his own against clashes with Agamotto (a spawn of one of Earth's Elder Gods with power enough to stalemate Galactus) when the latter served as the Marvel Universe's first Sorcerer Supreme, even aided by an alien disciple; to this day, the Vishanti regard him as their prime enemy and that of the Sorcerer Supreme. As a representative of Lord Chaos, Dormammu also held the upper hand in a formal game of cosmic chess against Odin, who was representing Master Order, but it ultimately ended in a draw as Odin wished. According to Loki, Odin speaks of Dormammu as an equal, whereas Dormammu considers Odin as an inferior. He has even dared to directly challenge Eternity itself, and in one case even overcame the entity. Dormammu even claims that he will destroy the Celestials, burning them in the Flames of the Faltine. However, there are still limits to his might. For example, the demon known as Zom has been referred to as more powerful than his sister Umar, and thus possibly himself (although his power has increased greatly on a few occasions since then); and after he had effortlessly defeated all the Avengers and Defenders combined, including Thor and Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch used a hex on the Evil Eye of Avalon, to make it absorb the overconfident and distracted Dormammu. From Strange's lone duels with the fallen Faltinian being to his conflicts with him aided by the Defenders and other allies, Dormammu, frequently displays enough power to "ravage a cosmos" and destroy the entire Marvel Universe. Dormammu's power combined with the magic of the Evil Eye was enough to destroy an entire reality, invading not only Earth, but the Sol system, and the worlds of the Kree, the Skrulls, the Badoon, the Titans, Warlock and other "off-worlders." Dormammu even claims his Flames of the Faltine are powerful enough to enable human sorceresses baptized with them to destroy any zombie with a thought, while a thousand separate realities have all fallen to the zombie infection and it is deemed virtually incurable. Dormammu's full powers combined with those of Umar's were enough to overwhelm Eternity and actually tap into his powers to alter all of reality itself into one in his own image, Earth-5113.
  • Sorcery over the Flames of the Faltine: Dormammu is composed of pure mystic energy, eclipsing even the greatest of sorcerers in terms of raw power and the ability to manipulate the forces of magic, including Doctor Strange and the Ancient One. Dormammu is virtually indestructible and immortal due to his energy form composed of raw magical energy which is increased and replenished, at least partially, by worship throughout various dimensions. Dormammu has also shown himself capable of besting wielders of the Phoenix Force.
  • Banishment: Dormammu can banish all from his domain (the Dark-Dimension) but usually opts to fight them. Dormammu once was capable, even in Earth's dimension, where his powers decrease, of imprisoning the Elder Goddess Gaea at the center of the Earth; it took Clea, adept apprentice of the Sorcerer Supreme using a complex spell fueled by the combined power of Zom and Oshtur to release Gaea from Dormammu's magic, and it took Gaea the joined force of all the spiritual essences of the Earth's living beings to banish him.
  • Superhuman Strength: Dormammu possesses some degree of superhuman strength. He is capable of using his magical powers to augment his strength, enabling him to lift well in excess of 100 tons.
  • Astral Projection: Among many of his powers, he is capable of inter-dimensional, and near limitless astral projection.
  • Matter Transmutations: The ability to alter and shape object in his Dark Dimension to a weapon of his choosing.
  • Inter-Dimensional Teleportation/Transportation: Creating portal allows him to view and/or step both within or between other dimensions, as well allowing to transport power and object through them.
  • High-Speed Flight: Dormammu can use his mystical energy to enable himself to fly at supersonic speeds.
  • Transformations: Compose of mystical energy allows him the ability to manipulate himself with relative ease changing his appearance and his size as to cause massive growth.
  • Elemental Control: Dormammu can call on the elements, such as fire to do his bidding.
  • Summoning: Dormammu can summon minions, such as the Mindless Ones to help him in combat.
  • Time Travel: Though capable of this it seems to drain Dormammu of his powers causing him to not use it.
  • Invulnerability: Dormammu is nearly immune to harm from physical, energy, and mystical attacks.
  • Size Alteration: Dormammu can increase his size to incredible levels, which greatly increases his strength and durability.
  • Intangibility: As a being of pure mystical energy, he can turn intangible.
  • Immortality: Dormammu is completely immune to aging. He had lived for thousands or even millions of years and has never aged a day. He also can't be killed by conventional means.
  • Regenerative Healing Factor: His race is immune to diseases and toxins and can recover from almost any injury no matter how severe.
  • Energy Projection: Manifestations ranging from magical force bolts, beams, waves, and cursed conflagrations to magically-constructed beings, or empowering others to such a point that the empowered one wields power dwarfing even that of a dimension's Sorcerer Supreme.
  • Energy Absorption: He can draw upon the power of the entire Dark Dimension, but is somewhat more limited when present in another dimension. He can also absorb energies directed at him.
  • Psionics: Dormammu has telepathic and telekinetic powers.
  • Power Bestowal: Dormammu can give portions of his power to others, as consistently seen with Baron Mordo. He can also create powerful beings at will, such as the Hell Lord Satannish to serve him.
  • Reality Warping: Dormammu can warp reality to his will. His chess match with Odin was affecting the two beings Master Order and Lord Chaos. He also nearly erased Doctor Strange from existence before in a fight.
  • Resurrection: Parker Robbins has recently used the powers of Dormammu to resurrect the villains that were killed by the Scourge of the Underworld (Basilisk I, Bird-Man II, Black Abbot, Blue Streak I, Cheetah, Cyclone I, Death Adder, Hijacker, Human Fly, Letha, Megatak, Mind-Wave, Miracle Man, Mirage, Titania I, and Wraith I) to form a squad that would help him take down the Punisher.
• Super-Genius Intelligence though not Omniscient as he claims he is still considered a Super-Genius compared with the rest of the universe.
• Master Martial Artist: Trained in an extra-dimensional fighting style, Dormammu is a capable hand-to-hand combatant, but was once bested by the well-trained, in Martial Arts, human Doctor Strange when neither was using mystic powers.

Feats

Strength

• Stated to be more powerful than Mephisto, Lucifer, and Marduk.
• Created Satannish, who can fight on par with Galactus.
• Overwhelms a host of the Pheonix Force.
• Effortlessly manhandles the Hulk.
• Destroys the Drydock HQ of the Guardians of the Galaxy when he invaded their timeline.
• Has destroyed timelines
• Magic is consistently more powerful than Doctor Strange's.
• With his power, he can disintegrate the substance of Eternity and could engage in a clash that could destroy them both (check below for Eternity scaling)
• Survived a battle with Eternity that threatened the Universe.
• Could swallow the universe
• Contains enough power to destroy Asgard which exists as a higher plane of existence
• Threatened to destroy the Dark Dimension which contains an infinite number of merged realities, exists as a pan-dimensional realm, and exists beyond infinitely transcendent realities, embodying a higher-dimensional plane of existence…

Durability

• Has consistently shrugged of blows from Doctor Strange.
• Took blows from Doctor Strange, the Hulk and Silver Surfer and got back up a few seconds later.
• Can hold his own against Eternity, Marvel's personification of time and ruler of the entire Marvel universe.

• Dormammu was able to survive a creation level event—which completely erased every universe from existence and recreated them on a conceptual level—by absorbing all this energy and power.

Skill

• Has conquered many dimensions.
• Loki fears Dormammu.
• Imprisoned Mephisto.
• Alongside his sister, defeated Eternity and stoled his powers and remake the reality of 616 into a hellish realm.
• A team composed of Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer , and even the Hulk wasn't enough to beat him and stated that he wasn't even using a tenth of his power.
• Could defeat and burn Celestials in the Flames of the Faltine

Weaknesses

• Dormammu's magical powers are stated and shown to be weakened when on Earth or in any other dimension not of his own, failing to pierce Earth-616's dimensional boundaries directly from the Dark Dimension when they were secured by the spells of the Sorcerer Supreme; even a temporary dimensional aperture with other dimensions has been shown to weaken him, sapping his mystic prowess sufficiently that the Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth dimension could rival him in direct magical combat.
• Despite Dormammu's enormous power, Minoru's mystical Staff of One has been claimed by the dark wizards the Minorus of the Gibborim-formed Pride to be capable of making him tremble.
• Arrogance: Although Dormammu is an incredibly powerful godlike magic being, he also thoroughly believes he is a god amongst gods. His arrogance has led him to underestimate and toy with even very powerful foes before.
• Temper: If his ego is ever harmed from defeat, Dormammu can be blinded by an overwhelming rage. While making him more tenacious, it also clouds his judgment and can lead to poor planning or unwise decisions, such as the time he challenged Eternity to a death match out of sheer anger.
• Bargaining