THE FORGOTTENTHE FORGOTTEN
Membership: Joao, Sir Isaac Newton, Phoyu, VI, VIII (Bohra), X, XII, XIII, numerous others
Purpose: To absorb magical items and beings into itself
Aliases: None
Affiliations: The Author of the Word of God, "beast men of the Forgotten," the Empirikul
Enemies: Demon Rider (Kushala), Doctor Strange
(Stephen Strange), King Arthur Pendragon, Merlin, the Mindful One, Nina the Conjuror, , wandering spirits, Wiccan (Billy Kaplan of Earth-13729), Yao;
formerly Sir Isaac Newton
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1 (December, 2016)
Powers/Abilities: Each
of those who made up the Forgotten possessed some degree of mystic
abilities, allowing the collective Forgotten to cast complex spells
and, using certain magic artifacts, could potentially even cast spells
strong enough to release a location from a temporal anchoring place. As
the Forgotten absorbed or acquired magic items, its collective power
increased and it was capable of easily fighting off groups of Sorcerers
Supreme. When in its gestalt form, the various personalities that made
up its form could assume control of the gestalt form if needed and
certain spells have split the form into the collective bodies that made
its gestalt form up.
History: (Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers
Supreme I#1 (fb) - BTS) - The mystic collective later known as the Forgotten
was unleashed by the Empirikul. As the Forgotten absorbed mystic relics
and beings into itself, the darkness of its magic spread backwards through
time, eventually infecting mystic beings as far back as 507 A.D.
(Doctor
Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4 (fb))
- Over time, the Forgotten's magic infected sorcerers who discovered
seeming magic they didn't understand, drawing them all to the Word of
God, an ancient mystic tome of secretly alien technology that eluded
the Forgotten's grasp.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#8 (fb))
- After mystics decoded the Word of God's technology, they realized
that words from the tome had to be used sparingly or risk awakening the
Author of the Word of God himself but those who did read aloud from the
tome eventually went mad and became infected by the Forgotten's magic,
forcing them to join the mystic collective that secretly served the
Author.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1 (fb)) - Feeling as if these infected beings were evil incarnate, Merlin began locking any he found away in cages. When Merlin attempted to lock away XII, his apprentice Bohra revealed himself to be part of the Forgotten as VIII and Merlin revealed Bohra's true form with a spell and ultimately locked up both XII and VIII. King Arthur later warned Merlin that he couldn't kill all of the infected beings and Merlin agreed, noting that while he couldn't kill them, he could lock them away forever so they would be forgotten.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Merlin
ultimately ended up locking away dozens of seemingly innocent users of
darker magic that had been corrupted and absorbed by the Forgotten.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4 (fb) - BTS) - After 1950s magic user Joao was infected by the Forgotten and traveled to Merlin's time period in Camelot, Merlin locked Joao away with the others corrupted by the Forgotten.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4 (fb)) - Merlin
continued hunting down magic users corrupted by the Forgotten and
locking them away in a prison that was protected by Merlin's magic.
Over time, Merlin's mystic sigils became corrosive to the Forgotten and
all who were locked away began merging into a single, collective entity.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1 (fb)
- BTS) - The time-traveling Merlin recruited Sorcerers Supreme from throughout time to
combat the threat of the Forgotten, sending them into several battles
while not actually finding the collective Forgotten.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1) -
Merlin traveled to the present day to recruit Earth's Sorcerer
Supreme, Dr. Strange, informing Strange that the Forgotten was a
monster unleashed by the Empirikul, who had destroyed present-day
magic. Further explaining how the Forgotten was absorbing and
collecting mystic relics into itself, Merlin admitted that he didn't
know why the Forgotten was collecting in such a way, only that it was
evil incarnate and must be destroyed. Merlin then brought Dr. Strange
into a battle between other recruited Sorcerers Supreme and the
Forgotten's "beast men," warning the other Sorcerers Supreme that the
Forgotten were coming. Despite some of the Sorcerers Supreme being
skeptical that the Forgotten was actually anywhere nearby, Demon Rider
sensed something underground following the battle and Merlin managed to
inform her that she was sensing the Forgotten mere moments before a
giant, gestalt Forgotten being erupted from the ground, announcing its
pleasure on seeing his "old friend" Merlin again. Having acquired the
mystic Shield of Endless Misery, the Forgotten grabbed up Merlin and
used the Shield to show Merlin images of his mission against the
Forgotten failing before seeming killing Merlin in its hands. Merlin's
Sorcerers Supreme immediately jumped into battle against the Forgotten
to avenge Merlin but the Forgotten only bade the sorcerers to come
closer and easily fought off every attacking sorcerer.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#2) -
The Sorcerers Supreme continued to battle the Forgotten as Wiccan
tended to the seemingly dead Merlin. Swatting aside Dr. Strange, the
Forgotten grabbed Earth-13729's Wiccan and attempted to absorb him into
its gestalt form, feeding off his magic, but Nina the Conjuror and
Demon Rider freed Wiccan. The Forgotten then turned its attention
towards Yao, breaking his arm when he tried to escape, and Demon Rider
held off the Forgotten long enough for Wiccan to envelope all of the
sorcerers within his cloak and teleport them away to the beaches near
Merlin's castle just as the Forgotten was reaching for them. With the
sorcerers gone, the Forgotten returned the "beast men" to their
underground resting place before the individual personalities within
the gestalt Forgotten began arguing over what to do next, some feeling
as if they needed to bring light back to the darkness while others
feeling like they should absorb Merlin's magic first. Ultimately
learning that the path to Merlin's magic was blocked, the Forgotten
quieted its other personalities and decided to find the Light.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#3) -
While the Sorcerers Supreme ventured inside Merlin's castle suspecting
the Forgotten would return, the Forgotten tracked the Sorcerers to the
castle and sensed great magic inside. Arguing with its own component
personalities, the Forgotten ultimately decided to force the Sorcerers
to join the Forgotten or perish and went inside the castle. Tracking
Sir Isaac Newton's shield spell, the Forgotten erupted from a lower
level and used the magic Light of Darkness artifact against the
Sorcerers, destroying many of the spirits that were then battling the
Sorcerers. Announcing to the distraught Demon Rider that the spirits
were not innocent and had done nothing while the Forgotten rotted in
prison, the Forgotten explained that Merlin had imprisoned the
Forgotten out of fear but the Sorcerers Supreme immediately jumped into
an attack on the Forgotten. When Demon Rider attacked, blasting the
Forgotten with hellfire, the Forgotten fired beams from the Light of
Darkness blindly and Wiccan reflected some of the beams using a mirror,
hitting the Forgotten and splitting its face into various heads, each
representing one of the collective personalities within. Deciding to
retreat to the Hollow Out of Time, the Forgotten grabbed a book with a human heart
shape on the front as it retreated underground, leaving the Sorcerers
Supreme to read up on the Forgotten's history, learning that the
gestalt being was composed of all the beings Merlin had earlier locked
up. After learning that the Forgotten's gestalt form was composed of
dozens, the Sorcerers Supreme opted to visit the Hollow, which existed
outside of time, and destroy the Forgotten once and for all.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4) -
After the Sorcerers Supreme ventured into the Forgotten's former prison
in an effort to learn about the collective being, the Forgotten
appeared and smiled, welcoming the Sorcerers and remarking that it
seemed a fitting place for them to learn its origins since it was their
birthplace. Casting a spell from the Word of God book, which it
retained, the Forgotten revealed that those who made up the Forgotten
had merged together into a collective entity due to Merlin's magic. The
Forgotten then began using the mystic items it had absorbed in
conjunction with the Word of God book in an attempt to free their
prison from its place outside of time. The spell was interrupted when
the Sorcerers fought back and during the scuffle, Sir Isaac Newton cast
a spell from the Word of God himself, splitting the Forgotten back into
the individual beings that made up its collective form. The Sorcerers
quickly rushed to the aid of the fallen mystics that made up the
Forgotten, finding several dead and several more still alive, among
them Nina the Conjuror's brother Joao. Sir Isaac Newton then walked up
to one of the fallen Forgotten and impaled the mystic with his staff,
pulling from the mystic's body the Word of God book and announcing his
plans to utilize the magic contained in the book to make himself a god.
Newton then easily bested the Sorcerers Supreme amidst the fallen
Forgotten members and sealed the Sorcerers within the Forgotten's
prison.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#5) -
Those who made up the Forgotten then departed their former prison but
Nina the Conjuror's brother Joao slowly remained and Nina attempted to
get Joao to free the captive Sorcerers. Joao asked Nina if the
Sorcerers Supreme had planned to lock up the Forgotten and Nina
apologized.
(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#8) -
When the Author of the Word of God tome appeared on Earth, former
Forgotten member Joao began to manifest extra arms and heads as he
seemingly began to re-merge with the Forgotten, who served the Author.
Using a binding spell, Nina the Conjuror forced Joao to tell her about
the Author and Joao related the Author's origins and his connection to
the Forgotten. Nina, Joao and Nina's allies Yao, Howard the Duck and
Luke Cage soon joined in the battle against the Author of the Word of
God and during the battle, Sir Isaac Newton was infected by the Word of
God and became one of the Forgotten, turning over the Word of God to
the Author.
Comments: Created by Robbie Thompson, Javier Rodriguez and Alvaro Lopez.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Forgotten has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#8, p11-12, splash page (The sorcerers who made up the Forgotten, main image)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1, p2, pan8 (The locked up Forgotten beings circa 507 A.D.)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4, p5-6, splash page (The
sorcerers who made up the Forgotten with its collective form at the
bottom & image of Forgotten mystics fighting against
lockup)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#2, p12, pans2-6 (The
Forgotten's various personalities, fighting for dominance of its
gestalt form)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1, p17, pan4 (gestalt Forgotten form)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1, p19, pan3 (gestalt Forgotten battling the Sorcerers Supreme)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#3, p12, pans3-8 (The
Forgotten changing forms to fit its personalities+full body image of
gestalt form)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#3, p17, pan1 (gestalt
Forgotten with several heads representing its collective beings)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4, p7-8, pan1 (The collective Forgotten casting a spell)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4, p11-12, pan1 (The
collective Forgotten being split back into its component beings)
Appearances:
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers
Supreme I#1 (December, 2016) - Robbie Thompson (writer), Javier
Rodriguez (pencils), Alvaro Lopez (inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#2 (January, 2017) - Robbie
Thompson (writer), Javier Rodriguez (pencils), Alvaro Lopez (inks),
Nick Lowe (editor)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#3 (February, 2017) -
Robbie Thompson (writer), Javier Rodriguez (pencils), Alvaro Lopez
(inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#4 (March, 2017) - Robbie
Thompson (writer), Javier Rodriguez (pencils), Alvaro Lopez (inks),
Nick Lowe (editor)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#5 (April, 2017) - Robbie
Thompson (writer), Nathan Stockman (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#8 (July, 2017) - Robbie
Thompson (writer), Javier Rodriguez (pencils), Alvaro Lopez (inks),
Darren Shan (editor)
First Posted: 08/25/2018
Last updated: 08/28/2018
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