Doctor Strange/YMMV

• And the Fandom Rejoiced : A Doctor Strange movie, directed by Guillermo del Toro and with a script by Neil Gaiman?
  • Currently stuck in Development Hell or just abandoned completely although Marvel is still canvassing ideas for a movie
  • Strange's appearance in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a light of hope. Producer Ryota Niitsuma revealed that Marvel was very specific in their requests for Strange. And since Marvel uses these games to promote certain characters...
• Complete Monster: Dormammu is probably the biggest in Marvel. Wanting to turn all reality into a hellish torture camp will do that.
  • His Rogues Gallery consists entirely of evil sorcerors and demons, several of whom rule multiple dimensions where atrocities are their equivalent of the economy. It would be harder to think of Strange's enemies who don't fit this trope.
  • Oddly enough, a lot of his foes are Too Powerful to Live—world-eating megamonsters whom Strange manages to send packing,^[1] seals whatever gate they came through, and never mentions them again. If two or three of them remembered our world and decided to try again, well...
• Crowning Moment of Awesome:
  • The Oath:
    • "But what are you going to do, Master?" "Defy expectations."
    • "But in other [ways], Wong is my master."
• Dork Age : Strange was changed to be more like a typical superhero in the 1970's. It didn't work.
  • Not to mention the mid-90's period when he was changed into a young, long-haired business executive who didn't have any of his previous supporting cast with him.
• Fridge Horror: Strange isn't virtually omnipotent anymore, but all of his old opponents still are, and there is no hero with both the scale of power, skill, and stability to reliably stand against them anymore. Brother Voodoo, Thor, Sentry, and Molecule Man are dead, Legion is insane, Scarlet Witch is recovering but still mentally fragile, Wiccan is still coming into his power, Hercules is depowered, Hulk is a one-trick pony and insane, whereas Franklin Richards is still a child.
• Needs More Love
• Tear Jerker: Blessed Vishanti, so many...
  • When he is forced to murder the Ancient One to prevent Shuma-Gorath from using his mind to enter their dimension.
  • When Clea leaves him for the first time, claiming she wants her beloved to be happy. He isn't.
  • The entire lengthy run in Strange Tales vol. 2 which finds Strange becoming, very unwillingly, a dark sorcerer, leaving a trail of broken hearts and shot dogs behind him, in order to save the world.
  • Baron Mordo dying at peace and rising up to the arms of the Ancient One.
• What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Early Dr Strange comics were quite popular with drug taking students due to their surreal artwork which led to many readers think the artists were on drugs.
• What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Whether being the Sorcerer Supreme is a metaphor for the 2008 U.S. Presidency is entirely up to the reader.

1. ↑ Usually by guile and not force, and almost never permanently destroying them