Marvel Reveals One Magic Spell That Could Obliterate Its Smartest Heroes
Warning: contains spoilers for Devil's Reign: Superior Four #2!
Marvel Comics has just revealed a powerful magic that makes the likes of Doctor Strange appear incredibly weak by comparison. The magic users in the Marvel Universe — from the Scarlet Witch to the Enchantress — frequently gain advantages on their more terrestrial and technology-based opponents thanks to use of arcane spells. But in Devil's Reign: Superior Four #2, an incredibly powerful variant of a villain unleashes one of the most powerful spells in the Marvel Universe.
In Devil's Reign: Superior Four, Doctor Octopus allies himself with the Kingpin, who seeks to outlaw superheroes in New York. While Otto Octavius aids Wilson Fisk in the capture of various superheroes such as Reed Richards and Susan Storm, his true prize is the Forever Gate: a device which can see inside and even travel through the Multiverse. Otto gathers three other variants of Doctor Octopus, possessing the powers of Wolverine, the Hulk, and Ghost Rider respectively. But Octavius' meddling attracts the attention of Doom Supreme, an incredibly powerful Octavius variant with the powers of the Sorcerer Supreme.
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One by one, Doom Supreme easily dispatches the Octopus variants with powerful magic incantations that instantly immobilize and/or weaken Otto Blaze, Otto Howlett and Otto Banner. Octavius rises up to s(rather foolishly) top Doom himself, but Doom is prepared.«In my world, there is an incantation for technology. Break down under the gaze of the Exiz-Tenz Eyes.» Doom's face contorts into an otherworldly image of eyes, and Otto Octavius' four arms are immediately immobilized. One panel later, they are severed.
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