History Characters / MCUStephenStrange

%%* PartingWordsRegret:

** In "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", seeing his counterparts actions in their universes, he realize that he was becoming just like them as he now sees that both his controlling tendencies and lack of trust of others have consequences.

** Seeing his counterparts actions in their universes in ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'', Strange realize what he was becoming if he continues his obsession in being control of everything and his lack of faith for others, especially his friends.

** Seeing his counterparts actions in their universes in ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'', Strange realize what he was becoming if he continues to be in control of everything and his lack of faith for others, especially his friends.

** He has a guilty look on his face in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', after he pushed his lover and friend Christine Palmer away, as he took his frustrations out on her, due to his inability to use his hands because of his car accident.
** He has this reaction in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', when he realize that his behavior and words are pushing Peter Parker away, after Spider-Man suggests he cast a new spell that would make everyone in the MCU forget who he is in order to fix the fracture of the Multiverse and send the villains and his counterparts home.

* WasTooHardOnHim: Strange flat that he might off been too hard on Christine in his first film and Peter in ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'', especially when he realized that his harsh words and behavior pushed them away.

* WasTooHardOnHim: Strange flat that he might off been too hard on Christine in his first film and Peter and ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'', especially when he realized that his harsh words and behavior pushed them away.

** In ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'', upon seeing the Lizard in his human form and Otto Octavius willing to risk his life to protect him from Green Goblin despite imprisoning him at his home, he realize that Spider-Man was right about the universe displaced villains being good on the inside and was right about him being heartless. Also, he realize that helping innocent people is more important then sacrificing them as he sees that those actions would make him no better then the bad guys.

** He possesses shades of this in ''Infinity War'' when Iron Man and Spider-Man save him from Ebony Maw. His reaction is to accuse them of almost throwing him into space.
** Averted in ''No Way Home'', where saving half the universe together put Peter in his good books enough that he agreed to help him with hardly any coaxing, and [[spoiler:he's moved to tears out of respect and gratitude at Peter's sacrifice at the end of the movie.]]

** [[spoiler:''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' has him saying this word-for-word to Wanda when he attempts to justify his actions in ''Infinity War'' as the best method to protect the world.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's unclear whether they were married or simply long-term (as Sacred Timeline Strange used to be with Christine), but this version of Strange loved his Christine so much that he sought to alter the causality of an Absolute Point in time just to see her again. Long after his TragicMistake, he continues to hold [[TheLostLenore her memory]] in high regard. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it drove him utterly insane again in Season 2]].

'''Strange:''' No. [[SealedEvilInADuel But I can lose again... and again... and again... and again, forever.]][[BadassBoast And that makes you my prisoner.]]

'''Strange:''' No. But I can lose again... and again... and again... and again, forever. [[BadassBoast And that makes you my prisoner.]]

** Despite being one of the most power magic users in the MCU, Strange's main opponents outclass him in raw power by several orders of magnitude (Dormammu, Thanos with several Infinity Stones, and [[spoiler:Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch]]), so he resorts to trickery or long-term planning to win.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Infinity Ultron [[spoiler:once he becomes the true BigBad of the show's second season. Both of them are more heinous-acting alternate versions of morally-dubious Sacred Timeline characters who have access to and exploit the multiverse. Both of them distinctly fused with other entities (Vision and interdimensional demons respectively) and attained a godlike level of power (Ultron via acquiring his universe's Infinity Stones and Strange via absorbing hundreds of interdimensional demons), and their increased heinousness is at least in part due to these versions of the characters lacking one or two of their Sacred Timeline counterparts' human connections. However, Infinity Ultron was a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] in a cybernetic body turned OmnicidalManiac, who had next to no sympathetic qualities to speak of and no personal relationship with Uatu or Captain Carter, and his only goals were to wipe out all life in every reality across the multiverse -- Strange Supreme on the other hand is a magic-wielding, demon-infused sorcerer of human origins and a tragic character, whose end-goal is to resurrect a universe he previously destroyed at the expense of a collection of individual lives, and he was once an ally to Uatu and Carter whom are both dismayed at his new turn for the worse. Whereas Ultron is a HiveMind who distributes his consciousness across a legion of secondary robotic bodies, Strange Supreme instead has thousands of separate, demonic consciousnesses stuffed inside his original body alongside his own, and it's heavily implied that these played a significant role in influencing his second fall into darkness. Infinity Ultron used pure, merciless brute power to further his omnicidal goals, whereas Strange Supreme is more manipulative, subtle and deceitful in attaining his when he re-establishes contact with Captain Carter]].

* PhyrricVictory: [[spoiler:A particularly tragic example; in Season 2, Strange Supreme finally achieves his goal of bringing back his universe, Christine included... but in a timeline he was never born into, meaning he would never get the peaceful life with Christine he had always yearned for.]]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The Doctor Strange of the Sacred Timeline (at least up to ''Film/AvengersEndgame'') is a person who's conscientious of his own flaws and has driven off egomaniacal threats like Dormammu and Thanos. [[spoiler:Strange Supreme, though, ends up proving a larger threat to his own universe than either of the two were to the Sacred Timeline. However, he [[AvertedTrope eventually finds redemption]] when Uatu needs help to prevent Infinity Ultron from wiping out all life in the Multiverse.]]

* BoredWithInsanity: [[spoiler:Implied to have become this by the time we see him in Episodes 8 and 9, as Strange Supreme acts much like his ordinary self when Uatu meets him again, rather than the broken, regretful man seen at the end of his own story. Considering he's spent an indeterminate amount of time in a prison of his own making, he likely spent most of that time thinking about and coming to peace with his own shameful actions.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's unclear whether they were married or simply long-term (as Sacred Timeline Strange used to be with Christine), but this version of Strange loved his Christine so much that he sought to alter the causality of an Absolute Point in time just to see her again. Long after his TragicMistake, he continues to hold [[TheLostLenore her memory]] in high regard.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: Normally, he uses his magic to hide the disfiguring that resulted from repeated absorption of mystic beasts. [[spoiler:But when he resurrects Christine, there is a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/325d9997_d7f6_4259_ace0_ef091fa6632e.jpeg very unsettling]] GlamourFailure that understandably scares her.]]

* FallenHero: From defeating Dormammu and saving his universe to causing the end of it a few years later.

* GoodCounterpart: In a sense to Sinister Strange. [[spoiler:Both were primarily motivated by their love for Christine, both turned to dark magic and both did horrible things. But where Sinister Strange went mad and began killing other universes, Strange Supreme came to regret his actions and worked with Uatu to do good after he destroyed his universe.]]

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Strange successfully undoes Christine's death... only for her to disintegrate when reality falls apart anyway, leaving him completely alone for all eternity.]]

* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:However, when Infinity Ultron becomes a threat to the Multiverse, Uatu reluctantly gives him a chance for redemption, when he is recruited into the newly formed Guardians of the Multiverse. After defeating Infinity Ultron, he is given the responsibility by Uatu of being the guardian and keeper of Killmonger and Zola-Ultron's prison, to ensure neither of them ever escapes.]]

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:At the end of his pursuit of power, Strange Supreme becomes one of the most powerful beings in his universe (so much that ''he accidentally destroys it'') and one of the most powerful beings in the entire multiverse. He is able to sense and eventually speak to the Watcher, where it takes Ultron with all six Infinity Stones to do the same. In the first season finale, Strange is singlehandedly the reason why the Guardians of the Multiverse don't immediately fall to Ultron. When the AI detonates the galaxy to get rid of them, Strange reverses time and ''eats the explosion''. He is also capable of containing Zola-Ultron and Killmonger with the Infinity Stones in a bubble by himself.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: In episode 4, Strange is the hero who saves the universe from Dormammu and becomes the Sorcerer Supreme only to slowly descend into madness while attempting to gain power in order to reverse Christine's death. [[spoiler:In the end, he kills his other self and destroys the universe he vowed to protect.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: He's the only Doctor Strange to have a functioning, healthy romantic relationship with Christine... and it happens to be the universe where Christine is fated to die. No matter how many times Strange tries to save Christine using the Time Stone, Christine always dies. [[spoiler:Even breaking the laws of reality and unwittingly destroying the universe didn't help, as Christine only lives long enough to be horrified by Strange's actions before dissolving away along with the rest of the universe.]]
* TimeMaster: Wielding his universe's version of the Time Stone, Strange repeatedly goes back in time in an attempt to save Christine, [[spoiler:and is eventually able to do so despite it being a fixed point in time, in turn causing the destruction of his universe. He is later able to counteract Infinity Ultron's manipulation of time via his own Time Stone.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Either he significantly refined his magic offscreen after his debut episode, or he seriously ''was not kidding'' when he said that his powers were diluted with another variant of him coexisting in the same universe. [[spoiler:He puts his magic to ''incredible'' use against Infinity Ultron -- making his teammates practically invulnerable with a protection spell, calling out massive displays of force from the entities he's absorbed over the centuries, and reversing Ultron's ''galaxy''-destroying blast then subsequently absorbing its full force. Ultron eventually singles him out as the only reason why any of the Guardians are still standing, and resolves to focus on him.]]
* TragicMonster: It's heavily {{implied|Trope}} that his more heinous measures and his brutality[[spoiler:, if not the entirety of his AesopAmnesia, in Season 2]] are being influenced by the thousands of demons he absorbed in his debut affecting his personality. [[spoiler:The result is that Strange Supreme falls back on his original mindset of trying to restore his world's Christine at any cost, even when the suppressed and uncorrupted part of his consciousness demonstrates that it doesn't want to. In the end, he succeeds in restoring his universe and his Christine after a fashion, at the cost of erasing himself from the rebooted universe's history]].

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: This Strange was already going off the deep end, but fully jumped after spending centuries in frozen time mastering his magic unimpeded. Later PlayedForLaughs in Season 1's finale, as he has a hard time giving a public toast for the newly-formed Guardians of the Multiverse, and is generally not as socially adept as his fellow teammates. Played far more seriously in the second season finale when [[spoiler:Captain Carter discovers that being left alone with his grief has caused him to give in to his obsessions. He's now feeding heroes and villains from the multiverse into a machine that will give him enough power to revive Christine and their universe.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:All of his efforts to save Christine are all for naught as when he finally breaks the Absolute Point and brings her back, the universe starts dissolving and her with it.]]

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: This Strange was already going off the deep end, but fully jumped after spending centuries in frozen time mastering his magic unimpeded. Later PlayedForLaughs in Season 1's finale, as he has a hard time giving a public toast for the newly-formed Guardians of the Multiverse, and is generally not as socially adept as his fellow teammates.

** "Spider-Man: No Way Home" has him learning the true meaning of being a superheroes and everyone deserves a second chance, whether they are good or bad.

* TheAtoner: According to WordOfGod, the reason he decides to help Peter Parker in ''No Way Home'' is that he feels some guilt over how it was his plan to sacrifice Tony Stark in ''Endgame'' which led to the events of ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''.

-->'''Strange:''' ''This time, it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me!''

-->'''Strange:''' Please, we saved [[Film/AvengersEndgame half the universe together]], I think we're beyond you calling me "sir".\\

-->'''Peter:''' [[spoiler:Thank you, sir.]]\\

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: His extensive use of the Darkhold has caused an eye to form [[ThirdEye in the center of his forehead]], much like Strange Supreme did when in his true form. Sacred Timeline Strange is nothing short of unnerved when he sees it.

* InSpiteOfANail: The Strange of the Sacred Timeline is able to convince his counterpart he's from an AlternateUniverse by [[TrustPassword mentioning the death of his sister Donna which Sinister Strange also experienced]]. Also like Strange Supreme, his relationship with Christine indirectly resulted in him going down a darker path. [[spoiler:And like Supreme Strange of Earth-838,this darker path involved using the Darkhold and causing an Incursion, the difference being that Sinister Strange's reality was destroyed.]]

%%* MustMakeAmends: He is quick to make amends for his actions and mistakes, especially if he realize how badly he messed up and hurt the people he cares about.

** Iron Man and Doctor Strange both started as famous, arrogant and selfish persons who turned into anti-heroes, and their origin films have similar plot points. They share a strong mutual dislike of the other, primarily because they're both InsufferableGenius {{Deadpan Snarker}}s who are evenly matched in both capacities.

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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Spider-Man: Freshman Year''

* TooDumbToLive: How did he break his hands? He was speeding while texting on a rainy mountain road at night, causing his car to collide into another car and fly off the road into a river bank.

** He has many with American Chavez in Multiverse of Madness. A big moment however is when he sees her memory of what happened to her mothers. A terrified child America accidently opened a portal that sent her parents to another universe while she herself was sucked into a separate one. A hurt America promptly leaves and says it doesn't matter when Strange asks about it. Strange says it matters because she lost her moms, but America argues that she killed them. Strange firmly tells her that she didn't kill them & not to ever think that. America isn't convinced but Strange insists that her moms survived if they are anything like her.

** By the time of ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[spoiler:he's not only a far more capable hand-to-hand combatant and athlete, but he's gotten even better at utilizing his sorcery and he's now able to summon a variety of creatures and manipulate sound in a number of ways, construct even more versatile weaponry and energy constructs, fire more potent energy beams, [[BodySurfing Dreamwalk]], and even has the ability to possess dead bodies and control demons through sheer force of will.]]