Charlize Theron Reveals Her Mysterious New Marvel Character

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madnessreleased last weekend to incredible box bureau numbers , and as fans sat for two hr and twenty minutes to see a couplemid- and post - credit view , they were rewarded with an exciting reveal thathas crowing implicationsfor the future of theMCU .

As of last night , we ’ve officially gotten agood lookat one of the big mid - credit reveals;Clea , played by none other than Charlize Theron . Yesterday she posted her makeup and a screenshot of her mid - credit appearance onInstagram , showing off an incredibly sharp purple middle makeup and a superhero courting that feel very much in line with the Eternals way of costuming ; full of subtle circles and layer of the same hue .

Who is Clea?

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Clea first show up in a 1964 Dr. Strange comic , The Domain of the Dread Dormammu ! After Dr. Strange is informed that Dormammu is repay to power , he go into the Dark Dimension for find and defeat him . As he ’s searching for Dormammu ’s lair , Clea appears and go him to the entrance .

The Domain of the Dread Dormammu ! is also the first coming into court of the Dark Dimension . When Clea shows up in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness , she rips spread out a seam in space - time which seems to be the same purple - y huesor as the Dark Dimension that Doctor Strange entered in his first movie , when he hold Dormammu in temporal stasis before get the better of him . Besides just being next threshold neighbor with Dormammu in the Dark Dimension , Clea also has a familial necktie to the ancient evil . In the comics , Dormammu is actually Clea ’s uncle . Dormummu had a matching sister , Umar , who married and had Clea . The comic version of Dormammu and Umar were much more human being - looking than the Dormammu we saw in the first Doctor Strange , but Clea has always seem as humanoid , despite her Faltine ( a form of powerful fire / dimension alien ) heritage .

Doctor Strange as a strange new ally.

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After Dormammu was vanquished from the Dark Dimension , a power conflict ensued between Umar , Clea ’s mother , and Clea herself . Clea eventually bring home the bacon in becoming the ruler of the Dark Dimension , and instates herself as the Sorcerer Supreme of that proportion , having find out some mystic arts from Stephen at some point in between there . Clea also has a grueling clip staying in other dimensions for tenacious periods of metre , and often has to fall to the Dark Dimension for a spa day or two to get back into contend anatomy .

Mr. and Mrs. Strange

One of the big things about Clea is that in the funnies she and Stephen Strange do n’t just snarf up , but really tie the burl ! One of the rare couples that in reality get together and stick together , Clea and Stephen seem to be passably well suited to each other , especially considering that they ’re both multiversal beings who tend to ignore the legal philosophy of physical science and commonly accepted moral retainer .

When Stephen recently died in the comedian , Clea really became the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth-616 as well , but not before making an attempt to revive Stephen . Although Wong agrees to help her perform some truly wicked Necromancy , they never quite get the go right field , and instead end up with a rather zombified Thunderstrike at their feet ( a modest Thor villain ) .

What’s an Incursion?

So what does Clea have to do withIncursions ? When Clea point up in the mid - credit scene she warns Stephen of an oncoming penetration — a kind of hit between world in the multiverse , with the Earths of each reality as the nexus point of encroachment — before bringing Stephen through a portal she created with a knife . Given the Illuminati of Earth-838 ’s fracturing at Wanda ’s hand in Multiverse of Madness , and their own character in the comics investigating penetration , it seems Clea will now have her own character to play .

Clea ’s appearance might argue a job with the Dark Dimension , but it ’s the tongue she ’s oblige that ’s interesting . In the comics , Clea gets sully by another superhero name the Silver Dagger , named because he wields a blade that can vote out anyone , but was specifically made to defeat the Sorcerer Supreme of any attribute , plane , or universe . We do n’t know where this breach in quad - time cause by Clea ’s obelisk leads ; whether into Loki Season 2 ( possible , take Loki and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness share a screenwriter ) , or another attribute totally . All we have is hypothesis , and a very fierce looking courtesy of Charlize Theron ’s instagram .

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