About

Dormammu, I've Come To Bargain is a memorable line uttered by character Doctor Strange from the late 2016 Marvel blockbuster film Doctor Strange. Online, the phrase took hold as a staple of image macros, parodies and a comment game conveying time loop and repetition, in a manner not dissimilar to the Revolver Ocelot picture or lyric spam memes such as The Best and When I was.

Origin

The line comes from the end of the movie, released on October 13th, 2016 (November 4th for the US release), in a scene in which Doctor Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is facing Dormammu, one of the movie's villains and a powerful magic creature.

Spread

On November 6th, 2016, the Novelty Twitter Account Dormammu I've @ComeToBargain was launched,^[1] only featuring a screenshot of the scene with the phrase "Dormammu, I've come to bargain." It then got updated with the same tweets repeated again and again several times a day from November 6th, 2016 to March 5th, 2017, accumulating to over 1,200 tweets.

On November 12th, Reddit user LionKiegrass70 asked "What is "Dormammu I've come to bargain"?"^[2] to the r/OutOfTheLoop subreddit. While most of the answers were serious, a handful of users replied with the catchphrase, one after the other.^[3] This textual game of recreating what seems to be a time loop similar to the movie also happened in the comment section of a 9gag Boardroom Suggestion parody,^[4] posted November 15th, getting the top-rated comment. On November 19th, a looped animated gif image of actor Benedict Cumberbatch was uploaded to imgur with its title and description flooded with the catchphrase only.^[5] As of May 2017, it has gained over 1,100 upvotes and 50,000 favorites.

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