Kaecilius

Kaecilius is a Marvel Comics character that appears as the main antagonist in the 2016 Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange. He is a former student of the Ancient One. However, after becoming disillusioned by her teachings, Kaecilius left the order of the Mystic Arts and founded his own group of Zealots, determined to defeat the Ancient One and bring immortality to the world by bringing the Dark Dimension to Earth.
Kaecilius was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
==Background==
After losing his wife and son, Kaecilius sought out the Ancient One in Kamar-Taj and joined the Masters of the Mystic Arts. However, after becoming disillusioned by her teachings, Kaecilius left the order and became determined to defeat the Ancient One and bring immortality to the world by bringing Dormammu of the Dark Dimension to consume Earth. He also founded a band of students who were also disenchanted, called the Zealots, though only one member is known, Lucian Aster.
===Personality===
The basis of Kaecilius' life and goals was to bring the Dark Dimension to Earth and do what he perceived as saving the world from time and death. Rather than accepting that death was a natural part of life, he cited that time destroyed everything. Despite this, he considered the lives he himself took as meaningless. He was a cruel, bitter, ruthless, obsessed, and nihilistic man driven solely by his goal of creating life without end by surrendering his homeworld to Dormammu. His apathy caused him to have no regard for his fellow Zealots, though he did bother to rescue Blonde Zealot from the desert after she failed him. He was delusional and proud, unable to see that the Ancient One did what was necessary to protect life, instead of just endlessly creating it.
===Physical appearance===
Kaecilius was a stunningly handsome middle-aged man with a tall and muscular build and smooth grey-white long hair. After hailing Dormammu over the stolen book of power, his eyes became disfigured and purple-colored, while a red mark formed in the center of his forehead.
==Appearances==
===Doctor Strange===
Kaecilius and his Zealots stole a book of power from the Ancient One, narrowly escaping from her. Inside a church, they hailed Dormammu and received markings upon their foreheads and deformations around their eyes. With his followers, Kaecilius moved to destroy the three Sanctums keeping Dormammu away from Earth, killing the Ancient One in the process but losing most of his men to her in his efforts.
Going to the third sanctum in Hong Kong, the Zealots were nearly stopped when newcomer Doctor Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to reverse their actions, making them start all over again. Aggravated, Kaecilius and the two female Zealots that had survived the ordeal to this point worked together to send a wave of energy through the city to incapacitate their enemies, leaving no one to oppose the Zealots or to prevent Dormammu's arrival. However, Strange flew into the sky and into the Dark Dimension, where he forced Dormammu into a bargain to take Kaecilius and the female Zealots and never return. Just as Kaecilius and the others realized what was going on, Dormammu turned all three of them into Mindless Ones, to live in utter horrific torment for all eternity.
=== What If...? ===
Kaecilius appears in the episode "What If...Howard the Duck Got Hitched?" where he is voiced by Jared Butler.
It is implied here that he trapped the Collector in the Mirror Dimension and took over Knowhere, when Yondu Udonta arrives with Darcy's egg and Howard the Duck, he tells him about the reward for said egg, but Kaecilius tells Yondu that Dormammu doesn't do business, and lets his fanatics murder him in cold blood.
As Darcy and Howard infiltrate Knowhere, they discover Kaecilius using the egg as an offering to Dormammu to give him a new body, but the arrival of SHIELD interrupts the ritual, Nick Fury tells them that the egg is not safe in Darcy and Howard's hands since the Convergence has attracted the attention of everyone in the cosmos, Kaecilius takes the opportunity to fight Nick Fury and seize the egg, leaving Howard and Darcy time to escape.
Later, during a chase across Jotunheim, Kaecilius stands between Malekith and his dark elves for the power of the egg, pushing each other to the side. When Howard and Darcy's hope of protecting their son is in jeopardy, the egg begins to glow, astonishing their pursuers, with Kaecilius giving the order to continue attacking to obtain the egg. However, the egg begins to hatch and unleashes its hidden power, killing Kaecilius and the other pursuers until there is no trace of them.
==Trivia==
*Kaecillius is one of few antagonist's not to die in their film.
*He was thought to appear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but never actually did.
==Gallery==
===Promotional===
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===Screenshots===
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===Behind the scenes===
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===Merchandise===
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==External links==
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