Memes / Doctor Strange (2016)

Memes from Doctor Strange (2016).

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• The set photos of Strange and Mordo battling Kaecilius in the streets of New York (many of which look very Narmy out of context and without visual effects) have already become fodder for jokes. Some fans have even edited footage of the airport fight from Captain America: Civil War to include shots of Strange awkwardly prancing about while the other heroes rush into battle.
• Photos of Benedict Cumberbatch buying Doctor Strange comics while in full costume are making the rounds on message boards, usually captioned along the lines of "You may be cool, but you'll never be Benedict-Cumberbatch-buying-Doctor-Strange-comics-while-dressed-as-Doctor-Strange cool."
• Doctor Strange's "Teach me" at the end of the trailer is quite memetic. A pretty popular joke with it is pointing out how the Ancient One is Marvel while Doctor Strange is DC, begging to be taught how to make a good movie.
• "[Dormammu], I've come to bargain" has been a pretty popular saying ever since the movie was released, especially in the context of Marvel Studios attempting to reacquire the film rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four ("20th Century Fox, I've come to bargain!").^{Explanation (spoilers)} In order to halt Dormammu's invasion of Earth's dimension, Strange travels to the Dark Dimension and initiates a "Groundhog Day" Loop. The line stems from Strange's repeated introduction to Dormammu and repeats every time Dormammu kills him until Dormammu relents and lets Strange name his terms for the bargain.
  • It's also become quite popular among the PC Gaming community for whenever a console-exclusive game starts getting amazing reviews.
• Ever since Cumberbatch was cast, the joke that he and Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark should have a conversation that results in one saying "No shit, Sherlock." has become rather popular, as they have both played Sherlock Holmes at one point.
• It's become commonplace that because of Doctor Strange's brief stint of being a Time Master calls forth him setting clocks back an hour for Daylight Savings Time (even Marvel got into it) and becoming friends with Barry Allen.
• Following the endings of WandaVision and Loki Season 1, it has become popular to joke about Strange's reaction to the ensuing events (especially the unraveling of the Multiverse). It helps that both shows tie into Multiverse of Madness, with Elizabeth Olsen and Tom Hiddleston slated to appear in it.^note There was a meme that Stephen would be the exhausted Only Sane Man following Wanda and the Lokis screwing with magic and spacetime respectively, but it became a Discredited Meme once Spider-Man: No Way Home rolled around and Stephen caused a multiversal crisis with a reckless spell casting.

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