Vote up your favorite dark details about MCU's wandering wizard.
Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA the Master of the Mystic Arts, is a character with a dark side, not unlike many of his Marvel cohorts. But rather than have a backstory involving arms dealing, intergalactic thieving, or a childhood as a former Soviet spy, he was a cocky surgeon who lost absolutely everything before learning the mysteries of the mystical arts. Now in his second outing Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, fans take to social media to share a few dark details about their favorite Sorcerer Supreme. Vote up your favorite tidbits.Â
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Stephen Strange Was Detected As A Threat And Became A Target Early On
In Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) When Cap is interrogating Sitwell about Zola's Algorithm (An AI that uses people past to predict their future) he lists a few people that come up as threats, one of them being Dr. Strange. This movie was set two years before the events of Doctor Strange.
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His First Test Subject Has A Deeper, Darker Meaning
In Doctor Strange, when Strange practices with the forbidden time spell and the Book of Cagliostro, he targets an apple. Apples are symbolic of forbidden knowledge.
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The Origin Of The Ancient One Had To Be Changed To Appease China
Doctor Strange (2016) changed the character "The Ancient One" to be Celtic instead of Tibetan, otherwise the movie would not be allowed in China which does not acknowledge Tibet as a place.
At the start of Doctor Strange (2016), the Ancient One is wearing her hood while she bends matter freely to stop Kaecilius. This is to cover her forehead to hide the fact that she is channeling power from the Dark Dimension (which is revealed later), which is why Kaecilius calls her a hypocrite.
There is a warning to not get distracted while driving at the end of the credits for Doctor Strange. For those who haven't seen it, earlier in the film Doctor Strange crashes his car while on the phone and looking at a screen.
Doctor Strange wasn't shown the path to Kamar Taj until after he had lost all of his earthly belongings. His last belonging, his watch, is shown broken right before Mordo shows him the way.
