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Warning : contains spoilers forDoctor Strange#10 !
Marvelhas call out a tired cliché that is unluckily used by too many superhero stories . InDoctor Strange#12 , Victor Strange , the Sorcerer Supreme ’s comrade , makes his first moves after returning to our domain . Victor plans to strike at everyone his brother holds dear – including Bats , Strange ’s ghost hotdog . In the process , a commonly used , hackneyed narrative magic gets a call - out .
Doctor Strange#12 is written by Jed MacKay and thread by Danilo S. Beyruth . In last year’sCrypt of Shadowsone - jibe , Victor Strange broke loose of the prison house Stephen put him in , vow revenge . In this matter , Bats encounters Victor in the halls of the Sanctum Sanctorum . master beguile the Canis familiaris , and mulls killing him .
However , Victor feels doing such a deed would be below him , calling it “ cheap , sentimental storytelling . ” Instead of killing Bats , Victor imprisons him in the Crypt of Shadows , resume his plot against Doctor Strange .
Killing Dogs (or Any Animal) Is an Under Handed Narrative Trick
And Marvel Rightfully Calls It Out
There are a phone number of put-on and tactics creators can utilise to father heating system for a baddie , and harming a wiener or other fauna is one such agency to fulfill this . In one of his first appearance , Doomsday smashed a smallbird in his deal and then express joy about it . There is alsoThe Boys’Jack from Jupiter , who kill Billy Butcher ’s dog-iron Terror . This trope was rife in popular culture for many years , but has fallen more and more out of favor with Lord .
The primary reason for the retreat of the “ killing the dog ” trope is that it is exaggerated to the point of being cliché , in the process losing its effectiveness . Too many books and films depend on it as a way to establish that someone is vicious . Unfortunately , it is a one - dimensional thing to do , and savvy writer and artist realize this , and break up better , more subtle way to get their point across . InDoctor Strange#12 , Victor takes bat off the tabular array not by killing him , but by imprisoning him in a mystical dimension .
Marvel has significantly overhauled its vision of the afterlife , present eight different paths for the newly deceased in the Marvel Universe .
Victor Strange Is Still Not a Good Person, Despite Not Killing Doctor Strange’s Dog
Victor Strange Has No Redeeming Value Anymore
Yet Victor does not spare Bats ’ aliveness out of any sense of mercifulness or empathy , instead refuse to obliterate the dog because he felt up it “ beneath him . ” While he aright evaluate such a deed as “ cheap ” and “ hokey , ” Victor is more concerned with his ego than the life of a wienerwurst . However , in not killing Bats , Victor may have seal his own fate and sentence his scheme against Doctor Strange before it even gets off the ground . By controvert this storytelling cliché , Marvelhas also established a great slew about Victor Strange ’s personality .
Dr. Strange#12 is on sales event now from Marvel Comics !
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