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Death Of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone contains a reveal about the Bloodstone family that casts doubt on Doctor Strange’s heroism…
What originally set Marvel Comics apart from their contemporaries back in the mid-20th century was their focus on the humanity of their characters. This legacy has developed and followed those same characters through to today, even blurring the lines between hero and villain on multiple occasions. The new Death Of Doctor Strange – Bloodstone tie-in does just this with the recently deceased sorcerer supreme. A new member of the Bloodstone family reveals that Strange sacrificed a portion of his humanity while protecting against the mystical realm.
Death Of Doctor Strange sees earth’s mystical protector mysteriously murdered (Or, at least, a Doctor Strange is mysteriously murdered). In the wake of that death, many of the protective spells the sorcerer cast during his life begin to fail. A variety of other-worldly beings have now come to Earth-616 including long-time enemies of Strange. Not every magical creature released is an enemy, though. In Death Of Doctor Strange – Bloodstone, it’s shown that some of who Strange kept imprisoned never should have been imprisoned at all.
In issue #1, Elsa and Cullen Bloodstone discover they have another sibling, Lyra Bloodstone. Another consequence of their father’s terrible deeds, Lyra was sacrificed and imprisoned so that Ulysses Bloodstone could acquire more power. Lyra explained that she was locked away deep in the cosmos, and that the sorcerers supreme throughout the generations upheld their pact and kept her locked away for untold years.
This reveal is a stain on Stephen Strange’s legacy. Of all of the sorcerers who maintained Lyra’s imprisonment over the millennia, not a single one questioned who she was or attempted to release her, including Strange. This isn’t to try and paint Doctor Strange as a villain, but rather to point out a character flaw that has always existed. Strange keeps his word to a fault time and time again.
For example, in 1989’s Roger Stern and Mike Mignola’s Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph And Torment Strange agreed to tutor the FF villain after hearing about Doom’s quest to save his mother’s soul from hell. Unsurprisingly, Doom’s resultant mystic arts knowledge and power was used to terrible effect, including sending Franklin Richards to hell. Doctor Strange bears the weight of his actions.
The consequences of Death Of Doctor Strange are overwhelmingly negative. People are hurt and malevolent monsters are set free. It remains to be seen if the freedom of an innocent is worth all of the violence and mystical chaos.
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