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Nightmare Fuel / Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme

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Compared to traditional Marvel fare, the film is a notably darker take on the Doctor Strange Mythos, featuring massive amounts of on-screen death.
  • The Wing Mark. Dormammu's most terrifying minions which consist of a swarm of flying creatures with rows of teeth that eat whatever living thing they contact to the bones and sometimes leave nothing left. They're the biggest Hero Killer in the film and they kill in some horrible ways.
  • The manner of deaths and injuries presented in the film are pretty disturbing including mauling, incineration, crushing, and being eaten to the bone and all.
  • The way April Strange dies is pretty shocking as well. One moment she's joking with her brother, the next she's suffering agonizing migraines, finds out she has a terminal brain tumor, and dies when her brother tries to save her. No way of stopping it, and no way to know when it could happen.
  • The ease with how the Ancient One's disciples get killed in the film is pretty jarring since they've been fighting monsters longer than Strange but are mowed down with ease like so many mooks as the film passes. Shows that no matter how skilled one is in magic, they can die just as easily to any monster in Strange's world.
  • The comatose children when possessed by Dormammu are creepy. Mostly in that they go from blank-eyed to spewing fire from their eyes and mouths to be used as a walking Hell Gate.

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