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The Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 introduces a hero who could potentially save the Marvel Universe, but also destroy the MCU.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
From the WandaVision series to the film Spider-Man: No Way Home, increasingly larger displays of magic are finding their way into the MCU. The limits to this rampant increase aren’t on the horizon and Marvel may very well need some way to control the ever-burgeoning stream of magic in the cinematic universe. Fortunately, Marvel may have just created a solution to their own problem. In The Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone #1 (by Tini Howard, Ig Guara, Dijjo Lima, and VC’s Joe Caramagna), a third Bloodstone child arrives on earth: Lyra, the firstborn of the family. She also has a hunger for magic, literally eating spells. This means that if Lyra was ever to make her way to the MCU, she could be the end to the rampant magic that currently exists in Phase 4.
Lyra, the first Bloodstone daughter and sister to famed monster-hunter Elsa Bloodstone, has a new gem embedded in her: the Nullgem, which acts as a balance to the Bloodgem fragments worn by her siblings Cullen and Elsa. The level of power she demonstrated was stunning, as she could potentially absorb most magic-wielders power and negate them. The issue recaps the 10,000 year history of the Bloodstone’s father, Ulysses, and his creation of the Bloodgem and the Nullgem during the Hyborian Age in his rebellion against a magical warlord.
Just as the magical world is recovering from the death of Dr. Strange, a new threat means to upend everything. The entire issue examines the magical tumult resulting from the demise of Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme. There’s an undercurrent of outrage at how much power Strange was allowed to amass, as well as his carelessness in managing his great power.
Lyra acknowledges that her time in captivity was done with Doctor Strange’s knowledge. Over time, he and the sorcerers before him continued to feed her magical energy in order to satiate the Nullgem within her. However, his motivation for doing so remains unclear, and unfortunately the sorcerer is unable to provide answers in his current state.
At the end of the issue, Lyra comes to the stunning conclusion that monsters never started wars, sacrificed daughters, or broke realities; sorcerers did. Lyra is setting herself up as a direct adversary of all magic. In the Marvel Universe, Lyra is being positioned as a counter to the next Sorcerer Supreme and possibly even Doctor Strange himself, should he return to life. Lyra seems to have also swayed her sister Elsa to her way of thinking, signaling that the monster hunter may soon change her focus to the pursuit of sorcerers.
Lyra’s concerns regarding magic users can be supported by the recent displays of magic in the MCU. In Spider-Man: No Way Home the use of magic created a viable threat to the fabric of reality and all the lives contained therein, and the upcoming Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness poses to explore these ramifications as well. MCU’s Phase 4 is echoing a consistent subtext of magic being both powerful and extremely dangerous.
The introduction of a sorcerer hating, magic eating character from a monster-hunting family might just be the control that the MCU needs for their soon-to-be out-of-control magic problem. There have been rumors of a Midnight Sons film, and this would provide a perfect onscreen introduction for Elsa Bloodstone who was a member of that group in the mainstream Marvel Universe. Currently, the rumors don’t include Elsa nor Lyra among the characters in the film, but they could still easily be included, and bring with them massive problems for the magic community of the MCU.
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