Doctor Strange's Replacement Reveals Maximum Power of Sorcerer Supreme
Warning: contains spoilers for Strange #2!
Marvel's new replacement for Doctor Strange is quickly finding out that maintaining the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme is very difficult — especially when one has powers of one's own. The new mystical defender of Earth, Clea, was Strange's former love interest and now desires to bring him back from the dead (not an impossible feat, considering the sheer amount of superheroes who've died and returned — many more than once). But Strange #2 reveals that Clea's main difficulty with maintaining the power of the Sorcerer Supreme is that she already has considerable power — and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.
In the recent Death of Doctor Strange storyline, Stephen Strange was murdered by Kaecilius in a sneak attack right on Strange's doorstep. A time remnant of Strange from decades prior is magically conjured into being to investigate his older self's murder, and is shocked to discover his future holds many changes — among them, him and Clea were in a relationship that ended. Doctor Strange is eventually revived, but both him and his time remnant die to save the earth from the mystical destructive force known as the Child (essentially a magical version of Galactus).
Related: How Doctor Strange 2 Continues No Way Home's Multiverse Storyline
With Doctor Strange's death, Clea is now the new Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, but Clea is quite different than her human predecessor. She is of the Faltine and has powers derived from the Dark Dimension, and this clashes with her duties. In Strange #2, Clea says «It's dangerous to possess so much power. The energies of Earth and the Dark Dimension are fire and ice. Acid and stone...the powers allotted to the Sorcerer Supreme do not add to one
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