Clea (Marvel)
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Powers: * Animation
* Blast Power
* Dimensional Manipulation
* Hypnosis
* Illusion Casting
* Intellect
* Invulnerability
* Leadership
* Levitation
* Longevity
* Magic
* Mesmerize
* Stamina
* Super Strength
* Telekinesis
* Teleport
* Unarmed Combat
Clea is the Sorceress Supreme of the Dark Dimension, possessing vast magical powers. She has exhibited such abilities as forming and throwing magical bolts of energy, conjuring objects and energies, teleporting, telekinesis, controlling others’ minds, and casting illusions. Presumably, she is capable of replicating any spell performed by her former mentor, Doctor Strange. As she is descended from the Faltine race of beings, it is suggested that can generate her own mystical energy like Umar and Dormammu and draw upon it to fuel her magic. She also possesses greater strength and body density than that of a normal Earth human. Her age is indeterminate, having lived for centuries but having the form and demeanor of a twenty year-old woman, and the rate at which she ages is unknown.
Bio: Clea was born the daughter of Prince Orini, legitimate heir to the rule of the Dark Dimension, and Umar, sister to the then-current ruler Dormammu. However, Umar was disgusted by her affair with Orini, abandoning Clea to be raised by him, and Prince Orini kept secret any knowledge of her true origins.
Dormammu had long sought to conquer Earth and, as a result, often confronted Earth’s defender, Doctor Strange. When Doctor Strange journeyed into the Dark Dimension to continue his battle against Dormammu, he was aided by Clea, and the two quickly fell in love. On subsequent battles, Clea continued to help Doctor Strange, and their infatuation grew. Umar first gained control of the Dark Dimension when Dormammu was trapped in a pocket dimension after a battle with Doctor Strange and Eternity itself. Seeking revenge against Strange, Umar used Clea as a hostage. Doctor Strange rescued her, but his mentor the Ancient One convinced him that Clea would only be safe if she were sent to another pocket dimension. The couple agreed, even though they believed they might never see each other again. However, the dimension proved to be the same one that Dormammu was exiled to. Dormammu began to set plans in motion for his escape, but Doctor Strange thwarted his plans and rescued Clea in the process.
Doctor Strange returned to Earth with Clea, and she lived with him in his Sanctum Sanctorum, becoming his lover and disciple. Over the years, she grew in her mystical potential and became nearly his equal in mystical aptitude. She joined him on many of his adventures, even as a member of his team, the Defenders, when the team helped defeat Dormammu from invading Earth on several occasions.
Eventually, Clea left Earth to return to the Dark Dimension, in part because she believed that Doctor Strange’s heart belonged to Morgana Blessing. Umar had once again seized the throne from Dormammu, who was believed dead when his essence was scattered across several dimensions. Clea was determined to help the forces of rebellion in their attempt to overthrow her. Clea and Doctor Strange sought out Prince Orini, the true heir to the original ruler, Olnar, and Strange learned the truth of Clea’s birthright. Clea and Umar battled one-on-one, with Clea emerging triumphant and claiming rulership of the Dark Dimension. Umar and Orini, who remained loyal to her, were exiled to a pocket dimension. A short time into her reign, she and Doctor Strange were married in the Dark Dimension.
When Dormammu reappeared, he won control over the Dark Dimension once again, forcing Clea to return to Earth once more. However, she grew uncomfortable in their relationship. Stronger and more capable, she no longer needing Doctor Strange as a mentor, and their relationship suffered. Clea returned to the Dark Dimension and her role as leader of the resistance against him and his sister.
Clea took a brief respite from the rebellion to come to Doctor Strange’s rescue. He and the original Defenders had become cursed to continually band together and, as a result, found themselves distancing themselves from humanity. They struck upon the idea that in order to have peace, they would enforce it by ruling the world. Hellcat and the support Defenders asked Clea and others to form a team to defeat the so-called Order, after which Doctor Strange and the Defenders were freed from their curse and Clea returned to the Dark Dimension.
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First Appearance: Strange Tales (1951) #126 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: Amazing Heroes (1981)
#138 - '2nd Annual Swimsuit Issue!!' Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (2001)
Custom: Lions Gate Dr. Strange (2007)
#0 - 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' Dan Brereton: The Goddess & The Monster (2010)
HC - 'Dan Brereton: The Goddess & The Monster' Daredevil (1998)
#8 - 'Guardian Devil: Part 8: The Devil's Deliverance' Defenders (2005)
#4 - 'It's Dormammu's World--You're Just Living in It!' Doctor Strange (1968)
#171 - 'In the Shadow of... Death!' #172 - '... I, Dormammu' #173 - '... While a World Waits!' #174 - 'The Power and the Pendulum' #175 - 'Unto Us... The Sons of Satannish' #176 - 'O Grave Where Is Thy Victory?' #177 - 'The Cult and the Curse' #180 - 'Eternity, Eternity' #181 - 'If a World Should Die Before I Wake...' #182 - 'And Juggernaut Makes Three!' #183 - 'They Walk By Night!' #388 - 'Bleeding Neon Part Three' Doctor Strange (1974)
Annual 01 - 'And There Will Be Worlds Anew' #1 - 'Through an Orb Darkly' #2 - 'A Separate Reality' #4 - '...Where Bound'ries... Decay' #5 - 'Cloak and Dagger' #6 - 'Lift High the Veil of Fears!' #7 - 'The Demon Fever!' #8 - 'Rights of Passage!' #9 - 'Consummation' #10 - 'Alone Against Eternity...' #11 - 'Shadowplay!' #12 - 'Final Curtain!' #13 - 'Planet Earth Is No More!' #15 - 'Where There's Smoke...' #16 - 'Beelzebub on Parade!' #17 - 'Utopia Rising!' #18 - 'The Dream is Dead!' #19 - 'Lo, the Powers Changeth!' #20 - 'Call Him: Xander the Merciless!' #22 - 'Mind Trip!' #24 - 'A Change Cometh!' #24 (35 Cent Variant) - 'A Change Cometh!' #25 - 'Doctor Stranger Yet!' #26 - 'The Return of the Ancient One!' #27 - 'I... The In-Betweener!' #28 - 'Fate... Like A Wheel' #29 - 'He Who Stalks!' #30 - 'A Gathering of Fear!' #31 - 'A Death for Immortality' #32 - 'The Dream Weaver!' #33 - 'All My Dreams Against Me' #35 - 'Of Knights -- and Pawns' #36 - 'The Man Who Knew Stephen Sanders!' #37 - 'And Fear, the Final Victor!' #38 - 'Eye of the Beholder!' #39 - 'The Old Dark House' #40 - 'Dawn of Death!' #41 - 'Weep For the Soul of Man...' #42 - 'The Black Mirror!' #43 - 'Shadowqueen!' #44 - 'Duel of Fire!' #45 - 'Wizard of the West Village' #46 - 'The Reality War' #47 - 'The Grand Illusion!' #48 - 'The Power of Dr. Strange!' #49 - 'This Menace Reborn!' #50 - 'The Cat & the Cataclysm' #51 - 'A Time For Love, A Time For Hate!' #52 - 'Life-Times' #53 - 'Land of the Pharohs' #54 - 'Alone!' #58 - '...At Loose Ends!' #67 - 'Private Eyes' #69 - 'Sea Cruise' #71 - 'Into the Dark Dimension' #72 - 'Secret Origin' #73 - 'Final Triumph' #74 - 'and now... The Beyonder!' Doctor Strange (2015)
Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme (2016)
Doctor Strange Classics Starring Doctor Strange (1984)
#2 - 'A Nameless Land / A Timeless Time / Earth be my Battleground / Eternity Beckons!' Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic (2016)
#1 - 'The Last Days of Magic' Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme (1988)
Annual 02 - 'The Return of The Defenders Part 4' Annual 04#1 - 'Love is the Spell, The Spell is Death!' #2 - 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being!' #3 - 'Dragon Circle' #5 - 'Souled Out!' #12 - 'Some Enchantress Evening' #13 - 'Arkon's New York Adventure' #14 - 'It's In The Blood...' #15 - 'Vampires on Broadway' #16 - 'Love and Haiti' #21 - 'Mindless in Manhattan' #22 - 'Dormammu Ascendant' #23 - 'Mondo Mordo' #24 - 'Do Not Go Gently into That Dark Night...' #26 - 'Werewolf At The Door' #30 - 'The Topaz Possession' #32 - 'Silver-Tongued Devil' #33 - 'The Alexandria Quatrain' #34 - 'Is There a Doctor NOT in the House?' #35 - 'To Hela and Back' #36 - 'Footnote to Infinity' #38 - 'Fear Itself' #39 - 'The Fear That Kills!' #40 - 'From Hope and Fear Set Free...' #41 - 'A Wolverine at the Door' #42 - 'Galactus, Go Home!' #43 - 'An Eye for an Eye...' #48 - 'To Serve In Heaven' #49 - 'The Wrath of Gods' #50 - 'The Heart of Darkness' #67 - 'The Heart of Saturday Night' #73 - 'Last Rites, Second Verse: Thresehold of Ashes' #75 - 'Last Rites, Final Verse: A Moment of Silence' #78 - 'The Sensual World' #81 - 'Earthquake Logic: Tectonic Shift' #82 - 'Earthquake Logic: Seismics' #83 - 'Losing My Religion' Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones (2016)
TPB - 'Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones' Doctor Strange: The Oath (2006)
Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? (2016)
TPB - 'Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen?' Fearless Defenders (2013)
Gene Colan Tribute Book (2008)
Ghost Rider (1973)
#30 - 'The Mage and the Monster!' #31 - 'Demon's Rage!' #71 - 'The Tears of Adam Henderson' Giant-Size Defenders (1974)
#1 - 'The Way They Were!' Girl Comics (2010)
Hämähäkkimies / Spider-Man (1980)
Howard the Duck (1976)
Hulk (2008)
King-Size Spider-Man Summer Special (2008)
Man-Thing (1979)
Marvel Age (1983)
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965)
#17 - 'The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!' Marvel Comics Presents (1988)
Marvel Encyclopedia (2014)
Marvel Fanfare (1982)
Marvel Graphic Novel (1982)
#1 - 'The Death of Captain Marvel' Marvel Héroes (2010)
#10 - 'Nick Furia: Agente de SHIELD' Marvel Holiday Magazine 2010 (2010)
Marvel Premiere (1972)
#5 - 'The Lurker in the Labyrinth!' #6 - 'The Shambler from the Sea!' #7 - 'The Shadows of the Starstone!' #8 - 'The Doom that Bloomed on Kathulos!' #9 - 'The Crypts of Kaa-U!' #10 - 'Finally, Shuma-Gorath!' #12 - 'Portal to the Past!' #13 - 'Time Doom' Marvel Saga: The Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985)
#18 - 'Book XVIII - The Triumph and the Tragedy!' Marvel Tales (1964)
Marvel Team-Up (1972)
#35 - 'Blood Church!' #76 - 'If Not For Love...' #77 - 'If I'm To Live...My Love Must Die!' #80 - 'A Sorcerer Possessed!' #81 - 'Last Rites' #111 - 'Of Spiders and Serpents!' Marvel Treasury Edition (1974)
#6 - 'Doctor Strange' #13 - 'Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag' Marvel Two-In-One (1974)
#6 - 'Death-Song of Destiny!' #7 - 'Name That Doom!' Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works (2012)
Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider (2006)
Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993)
Mystic (2000)
New Avengers (2005)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2008)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Women of Marvel 2005 (2005)
Paradise X (2002)
Rampage Monthly (1978)
#8 - 'Hulk: A Gathering of Doom ~ X-Men : Second Genesis' Silver Surfer (1987)
Spider-Man Comics Weekly (UK) (1973)
#158 - 'Super Spider-man with the Super-heroes' #159 - 'Super Spider-Man with The Super-Heroes' #160 - 'Super Spider-Man with the Super-Heroes' #161 - 'Super Spider-Man with the Super-Heroes' #162 - 'Super Spider-Man with the Super-Heroes' #166 - 'Super Spider-Man with the Super-Heroes' Stan Lee Meets Dr. Strange (2006)
Strange (2004)
#1 - 'Strange Part 1' #2 - 'Strange Part 2' #3 - 'Strange Part 3' #4 - 'Strange Part 4' #5 - 'Strange' #6 - 'Strange' Strange Tales (1951)
Strange Tales (1987)
The Age of the Sentry (2008)
The Avengers (1963)
The Defenders (1972)
#5 - 'World Without End?' #7 - 'War Below the Waves!' #8 - '... If Atlantis Should Fall!' #20 - 'The Woman She Was...!' #21 - 'Enter: The Headmen!' #22 - 'Fangs of Fire and Blood!' #23 - '...The Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth!' #24 - '-- In the Jaws of the Serpent!' #25 - 'The Serpent Sheds Its Skin' #31 - 'Nighthawk's Brain!' #39 - 'Riot In Cellblock 12!' #40 - 'Love, Anarchy and, Oh Yes... The Assassin!' #41 - 'Intrude in the Sand!' #43 - 'This World Is Mine!' #45 - 'We Must Free The Defenders!' #46 - 'Prelude: Who Remembers Scorpio?' #47 - 'Night Moves!' #49 - 'Part Two: Rampage' #53 - 'The Prince and the Presence!' #57 - 'And Along Came... Ms. Marvel!' #70 - 'Catch a Falling Lunatik!' #71 - 'Stranger & Stranger in a Strange Land' #72 - 'Up From the Sky!' #73 - 'Of Wizards, Shadows & Kings' #74 - 'Fools Rush In!' #75 - 'Poetic Justice' #78 - 'The Return of the Original Defenders!' #80 - 'Once a Defender' #84 - 'Battle Royal!' #85 - 'Like a Proud Black Panther...' #89 - 'A Death in the Family!' #92 - 'Eternity...Humanity...Oblivion!' #93 - 'The Woman Behind the Man!' #94 - 'Beware -- The Six-Fingered Hand!' #95 - 'The Vampire Strikes Back!' #98 - 'The Hand Closes!' #99 - 'The Final Conflict?' #100 - 'Hell on Earth!' #101 - 'Renewal!' #102 - 'Mind Games!' #103 - 'The Haunting of Christiansboro!' #106 - 'The War to End All Wars!' #114 - 'Dance of Darkness/Dance of Light!' #119 - 'Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down!' The Marvel Encyclopedia (2006)
HC - 'The Marvel Encyclopedia' The Mystic Hands of Dr. Strange (B&W) (2010)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1983)
#3 - 'C-D: From The Collector to Dracula' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition (1985)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition (1990)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Update '89 (1989)
#2 - 'Champion of the Universe to Ecstasy' The Order (2002)
#3 - 'Ultimatum: Avengers !' #4 - 'Norrin's Rib' #5 - 'Blinded By Science' #6 - 'Out Of Order' West Coast Avengers (1985)
#20 - 'In the Meantime, In Between-Time...' #30 - 'None So Blind...' What If? (1977)
#40 - 'What If...Dr. Strange Had Never Become Master of the Mystic Arts?' Wolverine Encyclopedia (1996)
Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook (2010)
Movie Appearances: Dr. Strange (1978) Group Affiliation(s): None. Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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