Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate

Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate is the 94th episode of Death Battle, featuring Doctor Strange from Marvel Comics and Doctor Fate from DC Comics in a battle between sorcerous superhero doctors. Doctor Strange was voiced by Daman Mills and Doctor Fate was voiced by Mike Varker.
==Interlude==
Wiz: The art of magic is a perplexing thing. Only those with the right knowledge, talent, and willpower can truly claim to be the most powerful wizards of all.
Boomstick: Like Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme of Marvel Comics.
Wiz: And Doctor Fate, DC's defender of cosmic order.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
==Doctor Strange==
Wiz: Doctor Stephen Strange wasn't just any brilliant neurosurgeon, he was the very best.
Boomstick: Too bad he was also a prick who cared more about the money he made than the patients he worked on.
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Strange: Sensational patients bring recognition, recognition brings money, and money keeps Well Haven's doors open.
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Boomstick: Can't blame him, though. When your entire family kicked the bucket one by one like Stephen's did, it's kinda hard to get attached to anybody else. Also, money's just great!
Wiz: Strange's talent at the operating table earned him celebrations worldwide, his work became more expensive, and his bank account rose into the millions.
Boomstick: And then...
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Strange horrifically crashes his car.
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Boomstick: Don't text and drive, kids.
Boomstick: Strange survived, but his hands got terrible nerve damage, making them useless for complex tasks like, oh, I don't know, surgery! Pretty inconvenient...
Wiz: To find a cure, Strange spent his entire fortune and traveled the globe until he found the Ancient One. He had heard of this man's befuddling mystic healing powers, and at this point, he was up for trying anything.
Boomstick: But the old dude refused to cure him. Instead, he offered to teach Strange how to use magic himself and become a superhero! Who needs hands when you have magic?
Wiz: Through his training, Strange discovered many secrets of the universe, along with plenty of handy spells. He has learned so many charms, jinxes, enchantments, conjurations, hexes, and incantations that it would be impossible to list them all now, but he certainly has his favorites.
Boomstick: Like the nearly unbreakable Bands of Cyttorak. Unless you're super strong like The Hulk or Thanos, no way you're snapping these chains!
Wiz: He can surround foes in everlasting fire with the Flames of Faltine, launch energy shots called the Bolts of Balthakk...
Boomstick: Did you just say ballsack?
Wiz: Knock out foes with the Mists of Morpheus, and shield himself using the Seven Rings of Raggadorr.
Boomstick: Who the hell came up with these spell names? Whatever happened to plain old "Abracadabra!"? Everybody loves that one!
Wiz: Other techniques of his include illusions, hypnotism, protective force fields, telekinesis, immortality, time manipulation, power stealing, teleportation, dimensional travel, transmutation, spell nullification...
Boomstick: And he can turn himself into a ghost! Woooh!
Wiz: That's his astral form, a projection of Strange's soul separate from his body, which defies the laws of physics.
Boomstick: Look Wiz, he can go through walls and fly around. That's a ghost.
Wiz: To invoke these spells, Strange audibly calls upon the powers of the Vishanti, three godly beings of enormous power.
Boomstick: Aww, that one's a kitty!
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Doctor Strange: I summon forth the shielding powers of the Vishanti!
He blocks laser blasts.
Spider-Man: Impressive! He sure puts Mysterio's hocus pocus to shame!
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Boomstick: Anyway, after many years of study, Strange's mentor was slain by a creepy hentai monster, and Strange was granted the title of Sorcerer Supreme, which is like a normal sorcerer with all the toppings.
Wiz: As Sorcerer Supreme, Strange was deemed the most powerful magic user, and defender of the world. To better perform his duties, he carries numerous magical artifacts which assist him in battle.
Boomstick: The Cloak of Levitation lets him fly without magic and has a mind of its own. Like Aladdin's magic carpet, but way more stylish. The Wand of Watoomb amplifies his powers, and the Axe of Angarruumus... whatever, cuts through mystical beings. Fun fact, Strange found that axe in my ex-wife's old witch cave. I mean, apartment.
Wiz: But most versatile of all is the Eye of Agamotto. With this amulet, Strange can perceive any truth, absorb massive amounts of energy, enhance his psychic powers, and fire a light that can weaken and obliterate magical entities.
Boomstick: If you haven't noticed, Doctor Strange is super powerful. With all this magical mumbo jumbo, he's taken on some of the biggest threats in the universe!
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Dormammu: Set me free!
Strange: No. I've come to bargain.
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Boomstick: And if he ever gets stuck, he basically just rewrites the rules of reality, which is probably what happens when you divide by zero.
Wiz: That's not even possible.
Boomstick: Exactly! It's magic, Wiz! Anything can happen!
Wiz: Strange's astral form has traveled across the planet in, quote, "precious seconds", putting him at several million miles per hour.
Boomstick: Even better, when Adam Warlock once used an Infinity Gem to banish Strange to the far reaches of the universe, Strange just cast a spell that zoomed him all the way back! So yeah, f you, Adam!
Wiz: Given what we see here, Doctor Strange was most likely sent to a void, or a large empty area between galaxies. The void where our galaxy resides is about two billion light-years in diameter, with the Milky Way set relatively close to the center. Based on Strange's conversation here, we can assume a generously short time frame of five seconds, so Strange must have moved over 4.2 septillion miles per hour. That's six quadrillion times the speed of light!
Boomstick: Damn! Oh, how about that time he ripped the soul out of his arch-nemesis and sent him back in time? Or when he restored his Cloak of Levitation from mere scraps? Or when he beat up Galactus, and totally scrambled his brain?
Wiz: With his immense magical prowess, Strange has survived blasts from Voltor, a robot with the power to move stars, and even withstood a supernova. At minimum, an exploding star outputs over 350 septillion gigatons of TNT. That's six octillion times greater than the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever made.
Boomstick: Not impressed yet? Well, Strange can manipulate and detonate stars himself. That's right, this guy uses supernovas as weapons.
Wiz: Strange is exceptionally clever, and while his physique is not superhuman...
Wiz: ...it is worth noting that he is a talented athlete and martial artist. This is important, as the use of magic can wear down the magician's body if it is unfit. His immortality has also proved incredibly useful.
Boomstick: I'll say, he's looking pretty good for a guy born in the 1930's.
Wiz: More than that. At one point, Strange was recruited by the Vishanti to fight in a magical war, which lasted 5,000 years!
Boomstick: Holy shit! I hope he got some really good veterans benefits after that, but for real, this guy has the power to protect the universe and reshape it however he wants. I know which doctor I'm calling the next time I'm sick.
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Dormammu: Who are you?
Strange: I’m Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme!
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==Doctor Fate==
Wiz: Tell me, Boomstick, do you believe in fate?
Boomstick: I only believe in one thing, Wiz: 18-year, 100 proof whiskey.
Wiz: Well, after accompanying his father on an archaeological expedition in Mesopotamia, 12-year-old Kent Nelson certainly did.
Boomstick: Instead of digging up boring old artifacts, like tools or pottery, Kent uncovered a 10 billion year old god! Too bad waking him up also... gassed Kent's dad to death.
Wiz: This slumbering god was Nabu, a Lord of Order born from the very beginning of the universe. While Nabu normally cares little about the universally inconsequential concerns of individual humans, this time was different. Nabu took the newly-orphaned Kent under his wing and taught him the ways of magic.
Boomstick: Oh, sweet! I'd take a god dad over an ordinary one any day. But really, I'd just take any dad...
Wiz: Though Nabu wasn't too keen on the actual parenting part of the deal, so he just magic'd Kent to a full grown adult over the course of a week.
Boomstick: Does that mean he got hit with all those years of awkward puberty all at once? My God, talk about a mood swing.
Wiz: To master the mystic arts, Nabu granted Kent three ancient relics. First and foremost, Kent donned the Golden Helmet of Fate.
Boomstick: While Kent woke up the physical body, Nabu's soul is actually inside this helmet. So when Kent put it on, his spirit merged with Nabu's, and they became Doctor Fate.
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Fate: I am an Agent of Order.
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Boomstick: Wait, he's 12! Technically, he can't be a doctor yet, right?
Wiz: Well, in time, he became a trained physician and achieved a PhD in archaeology.
Boomstick: Good for him! Anyway, he's also got the Cloak of Destiny, which gave him flight, super strength, and superhuman durability.
Wiz: Lastly, he received the Amulet of Anubis: a talisman which increases Fate's powers, counters opposing magic, and can launch an intense beam of magical firepower. It also houses its own pocket dimension, where the souls of past Doctor Fates reside.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, lots of people have worn that shiny helmet, and not all of them were Doctors. Even Kent's wife, Inza got in on the magic action! But Kent is, like, the main one, so we're sticking with him.
Wiz: As Doctor Fate, Kent became the immortal champion of the supernatural Lords of Order, in their fight against the vile Lords of Chaos.
Boomstick: And he learned tons of wacky wizard skills he can use with just a thought, perfect for putting chaos gods in their place.
Wiz: Fate can use telekinesis, cast illusions, erect force fields, hypnotize foes, read minds, teleport vast distances, create an astral projection of himself, travel through time and dimensions, and even manipulate matter at a molecular level.
Boomstick: Let's face it, Wiz, he's so powerful, he can basically do whatever the hell he wants, like that time he did a Freaky Friday body swap with Blue Beetle like it was nothing. He can even conjure up Superman's Kryptonian powers for himself. That's right, this guy can just decide to be Superman for a day.
Wiz: With his mighty magic, Fate has turned buildings into dust, thrown a planet into a sun, and physically held back the destruction of the universe.
Boomstick: The helmet, just the helmet, once flew through space so fast, it reached the velocity of God, and then bounced off the edge of the universe. What the hell does that even mean!? 
Wiz: Fate has regenerated his body from a single thought, withstood hits from the likes of Superman and Ultraman, and somehow survived in a dimension of reality where literally nothing exists.
Boomstick: Who the hell is writing this crap?
Wiz: Also, when DC decided to reboot their entire comic line, Fate was one of the only characters to survive the crisis that literally collapsed the multiverse.
Boomstick: But he does have one big weakness: The helmet is Nabu, and Nabu is the source of Fate's powers, so if you remove the helmet, he loses his magic.
Wiz: For the most part. Kent does possess some magical ability of his own, like telekinesis and super strength, but he's not even remotely close to the potential of Doctor Fate.
Wiz: And even further from the True Fate. When the souls of a man, a woman and a god come together - in this case Kent, Inza, and Nabu - they create Doctor Fate's ultimate state of being: An entity with enough power to rip the universe apart and effortlessly overpower other Lords of Order and Chaos.
Boomstick: Sadly, like all ménage à trois scenarios, keeping this going for too long could destroy all three of them. So, Fate doesn't go final form unless he absolutely has to. 
Wiz: Still, the people of the cosmos can sleep easy knowing Fate is on their side.
==Prelude==
==Death Battle==
Doctor Strange is seen walking around the Sanctum Sanctorum before hearing a quick flash. He turns around to find a glowing Ankh symbol form in the center of his building.
Doctor Fate emerges from the symbol and yells loud enough for the Sanctum to rumble.
Fate: STEPHEN STRANGE!
Strange prepares for his opponent by casting miniature spells in his hand to light them up. Fate slowly descends to the ground.
Fate: It has come to my attention that there are two Sorcerer Supremes in this existence...
Nelson hovers above the floor, kicking up wind as his hands become engulfed in blue flames.
Fate: I am here to resolve this embarrassment.
Strange: I see somebody needs a lesson in manners...
The two sorcerers take their stances and face off against each other.
Strange starts by firing the Bolts of Balthakk, however they don't hit home as his opponent teleports out of the way and reappears behind him. Fate lands some magic-charged punches and kicks on the Sorcerer Supreme, even rebounding him off the wall and knocking him in the air with a diving stomp.
Fate: Pitiful.
The Cloak of Levitation halts Strange, giving him his second wind. He quickly casts a runic circle underneath Fate.
Strange: Taste the Flames of the Faltine!
No sooner than he says that, the green flames erupt from the circle and engulf Fate entirely. Strange laughs, confident with gaining the upper hand.
Strange: How's that for embarrassment?
The Lord of Order vanishes into a glowing blue Ankh, taking the flames with him, only to reappear intact.
Fate: Fool. You are merely a doctor... I am a god.
Fate charges more magic, giving off a startling, radiant effect. And once he raises his arms, pillars rise rapidly up from the Sanctorum floor in great numbers. Strange out-speeds and dodges the attacking spires before opening a portal to get behind Fate. The Eye of Agamotto begins to channel magic of its own and as Strange raises a fist, the scene suddenly changes to Liberty Island, where a crowd gathers round the Statue of Liberty. Channel 6 News Anchor April O'Neil is reporting live.
April: This is April O'Ne—
She is interrupted by the loud clash as the two mystical doctors appear in the sky, Then they clash again with Fate grabbing ahold of his adversary, attempting to smash into the statue's face. But again, they are teleported. This time, they are both in the deep sea. Stephen regains consciousness and bursts out of the waves, reciting an incantation.
The waves crash at the screen, leading to...
Strange bringing Fate to Mos Eisley's Cantina, much to the Lord of Order's confusion. Kent charges in a knee strike and again they exit the scene and onto the Bifrost Bridge of Asgard.
Stephen recites another incantation, sending both of them into Asgard's throne room. Fate has already had enough and charges at full force, his opponent doing the same. The resulting collision warps them into dimension, the sheer force leaving some devastation.
The masters of mystic arts now find themselves facing each other off, on the back of a dragon, flying through a blood-red sky over a red abyss-like realm.
Stephen is without his cloak, but he's not worried. He's got his rival figured out.
Strange: Aha! I understand your power now.
The cloak, as part of Strange's plan, floats from underneath the dragon towards Fate. But he notices too late as the cloak ensnares his head and tugs hard to relieve him of his helmet. Kent shakes off the mystical cloth, at the cost of his helmet, severing his connection with Nabu. The helmet itself rolls along the dragon's back before disappearing over the edge into the red abyss below.
Now just Kent Nelson, he staggers with strain from losing touch with Nabu. The floating cloak returns to its master, who starts to belittle the man behind the helmet.
Strange: So the god is just a man in disguise. Let's see how you fare without--
A mean right jab from Kent interrupts him, sending him flat on his back.
Kent Nelson: Shut up!
Stephen quickly summons one of his most powerful spells.
Strange: Oshtur, grant me the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!
Red streams of light surge from his hand and bind Kent. Stephen gets back on his feet.
Oddly, Kent seems calm.
Kent Nelson: A friend once told me the helmet doesn't make the man...
Stephen looks puzzled, unaware that his trapped foe is using telekinesis to call forth the helmet from the abyss. It rockets towards them, zooming pass Strange and halts, hovering over Kent's head.
Kent Nelson: But I will use it!
The helmet lands on Kent's cranium, reuniting him with Nabu's magic again. With a mighty burst of magic, Fate breaks free from the bands, sending his former captor back at a distance.
Fate: Witness your true fate!
The Lord of Order decides to use his trump card. With his own incantation, he summons the souls of Kent, his wife Inza Cramer and Nabu, represented as symbols, and fuses them together to transform himself into the True Fate.
The resulting transformation is so powerful that it is visible from the dragon's back. Strange shields himself with the Shield of the Seraphim but he is struggling to cope with the power of such energy.
Knowing he would be overwhelmed, he has to come up with something and quick.
Strange: I can't stop you here... But maybe... in there!
Activating astral projection, Stephen sends his own soul straight into Fate's helmet, heralded by Nabu's agonizing scream. Once inside the dimension where Nabu resides, the Sorcerer Supreme looks around in confusion. This dimension looks like something straight out of Ancient Egypt, pyramid included.
Strange: By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth. Where am I?
The ominous voice of Nabu answers his question.
Nabu: Doctor Strange. Welcome to our home.
And just before Stephen's eyes, the souls of Kent Nelson and Inza Cramer manifest in front of him. Already startled, he notices another soul appearing behind him, the soul of Nabu himself.
Trapped, Strange can only watch in horror as all three souls charge up on magic.
Nabu: Welcome to the end!
Nabu unleashes a devastating stream of magic onto Stephen, followed up by Kent and Inza's magic. The punishing overkill is just too much for his soul, as it deteriorates piece by piece until there is nothing.
Back on the physical plane, Doctor Fate has already withdrawn his power and stands triumphantly over the pale, lifeless body of the late Doctor Strange as it crumbles to dust.
==Results==
Boomstick: So, uh, don't doctors take an oath to never take a life or whatever?
Wiz: Analyzing this matchup was bizarre. You might even say it was... strange?
Boomstick: Save the puns, Wiz, that's my job. But yeah, both these doctor wizards were so stupidly powerful, trying to find their limit was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but nobody remembered to put the needle there in the first place.
Wiz: With their maximum potential seemingly unmeasurable, it's easy to make an argument for either one to win. If given the chance, Strange could've certainly, say, stolen Fate's powers, or maybe even just willed him out of existence.
Boomstick: I bet plenty of Strange fans are letting us know how in the comments below.
Wiz: And that's fine, but Death Battle looks at the larger picture: to find the most likely outcome of them all, and Fate simply held the advantage at a grander scale.
Boomstick: Strange may have fought a 5,000-year war, but Nabu's been around since the beginning of the universe, over 10 billion years. He definitely had way more experience.
Wiz: Fate also had the advantage in casting the majority of his spells non-verbally, while many of Strange's required specific hand movements and incantations. Still, it was only a matter of time until the Eye of Agamotto informed Strange of Fate's one weakness.
Boomstick: Depowering him wasn't as easy as you'd think. He had his own magic, and his superhuman strength was something Strange didn't have at all. Basically, anything Strange could do, Fate could do, too, but even more.
Wiz: Remember how Strange cast a spell which moved him six quadrillion times the speed of light?
Boomstick: Yep. Now remember how Fate's helmet flew from Earth to the edge of the universe and back?
Wiz: It took about one year to make this trip. Given the estimated scope of the observable and unknown universe, a trip of this magnitude would require the helmet to fly nearly 28 decillion times the speed of light. That's over four quintillion times faster than Strange.
Boomstick: Look at it this way: Strange was a man borrowing the powers of a god, while Fate's a god borrowing a man. Plus, that power boost with Inza's soul from the amulet put Fate on a level above the gods in his universe. Something Strange can't really do himself.
Wiz: Both Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate possessed incomprehensibly impressive magic, but Fate held more experience, greater physical abilities, and a wider range of talents.
Boomstick: Which left Stephen stuck with a Strange twist of Fate.
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Doctor Fate.
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "A Strange Fate" by Brandon Yates. It is a fast-paced rock track that mixes in sitar and organs to emphasize both combatants' mystical backgrounds and magical abilities.
===Title===
The title simply combines both combatants' names, which Boomstick also does as the basis for this episode's ending pun.
===Cover Art===
The cover art done by Luis Cruz depicts both combatants' signature magical items, the Cloak of Levitation and the Helmet of Fate, in front of the window for Strange's home, the Sanctum Sanctorum.
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate are that they are both comic book superheroes, sorcerers, and doctors that can conjure many magical spells which allow them to manipulate reality itself and fight evil magic beings and users. Both became the greatest magic users in their worlds at one point, for which they were granted the title of "Sorcerer Supreme". To perform their magic, they draw power from godly beings who were once mystical defenders themselves (the Vishanti and Nabu, respectively). In addition:
**Both wield ancient mystical objects that increase their already amazing magical potential, which include a cloak that allows them to fly and defend themselves from attacks (the Cloak of Levitation and the Cloak of Destiny, respectively) and a talisman named after a godly being (the Eye of Agamotto and the Amulet of Anubis, respectively).
**In Marvel Versus DC, the Charles Xavier of the Amalgam Universe is Doctor Strangefate, a fusion of Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate.
*Doctor Fate's end-of-analysis clip is different in the Rooster Teeth version of the episode, coming from an Injustice 2 exchange with Superman instead.
**This makes it the first episode where a combatant's end-of-analysis clip is different between the Rooster Teeth and YouTube versions of the episode, with the next one being Danny Phantom VS American Dragon Jake Long.
*Brandon Yates would eventually release a remaster of A Strange Fate on April 9th, 2022, namely to update the song's mix and be in commemoration of Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna.
**This makes A Strange Fate the sixth original track to receive a remaster, after Exo, Alive, Unlocking Heaven, Chorus of Carnage, and Marvelous, and with the next one being Stronger Together.
**Funnily enough, part of the intro portion of A Strange Fate would be referenced in the episode's track, Spellaholics Synonymous.
===Easter Eggs===
*The dimensional and reality-warping powers of Strange and Fate cause them to take their fight to the Liberty Island of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (with an April O'Neil cameo), Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars (with cameoes from Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes), and Asgard (with the constellation from the end of Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro in the background).
**This is the second episode to feature the constellation in the background of the fight, after Guts VS Nightmare, and with the next four being Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Hulk VS Broly, Shadow VS Ryuko, and Saitama VS Popeye.
===Errors===
*In Doctor Strange's "Magic" slide, "Vapors of Valtorr" is mislabeled as "Vapes of Valtorr".
===Other===
*This is the 13th Marvel VS DC-themed episode, after Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Batman VS Spider-Man, Batman VS Captain America, Deadpool VS Deathstroke, Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Green Arrow VS Hawkeye, Flash VS Quicksilver, Hulk VS Doomsday, Venom VS Bane, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, and Black Panther VS Batman, and with the next 16 being Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Ghost Rider VS Lobo, Miles Morales VS Static, Cable VS Booster Gold, Winter Soldier VS Red Hood, Batgirl VS Spider-Gwen, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Batman VS Iron Man, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Ant-Man VS Atom, Phoenix VS Raven, and Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer.
**This is the sixth time that DC wins, after Batman VS Captain America, Flash VS Quicksilver, Hulk VS Doomsday, Thor VS Wonder Woman, and Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, and with the next eight being Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Miles Morales VS Static, Cable VS Booster Gold, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, and Phoenix VS Raven.
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