Emily Bright, Marvel's newest magical Big Bad, has now become a quasi-dictator, ruling over her kidnaped peers by forcing them to stay with her in the Dark Dimension through threats and intimidation while she works on a violent plan to usurp control of Strange Academy from its teachers.Emily Bright was born with the ability to conjure magic. Sadly, it's revealed the magical ring is not preventing the Dark Dimension energies in Emily from spreading, but in fact are helping those evil energies bond to the young magician. However, in Strange Academy: Finals #1, Doyle returns to the clairvoyant who showed him the vision and asks to see it again, which is when he realized that the evil force in the vision is not him at all, but a corrupted Emily. For much of Strange Academy, Doyle Dormammu, who briefly dated Emily Bright, was haunted by a terrifying vision of the future which he thought showed him becoming the next Dormammu and destroying Strange Academy, which inspired Doyle to do everything he could to prove he was the opposite of Dormammu. Just like in The Lord of the Rings, Emily is fully human, and is clearly unable to control the corrupting influence of the dark and powerful ring, which is not only enhancing her own magical abilities but giving her new, Dormammu-like power as well.

The parallels to the rings of power - in particular the corruptive and powerful 'One Ring' - from The Lord of the Rings franchise is obvious, and this is not the first time that Strange Academy has smartly referenced other beloved fantasy tales, with the school itself having many clear comparisons to Hogwarts from Harry Potter.

The magical ring that Emily Bright now wears was gifted willingly from a piece of the bounding crown worn by Doyle Dormammu, the son of Strange's multiversal rival the Dread Dormammu, and was originally meant to keep some Dark Dimensional magic Emily had absorbed from spreading throughout her body. However, a powerful magical artifact, forged by Doctor Strange himself, has begun to slowly corrupt Emily with a terrible darkness stemming from the realm known as the Dark Dimension. The recently released Strange Academy: Finals #1 - from Skottie Young and by Humberto Ramos - continues Strange Academy's story, which saw Emily Bright leading a walk-out rebellion of many of the school's students in response to the teachers expelling Calvin Morse from the academy.

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