History Trivia / DoctorStrange

** The 1978 PilotMovie was set to be riffed by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and had gotten pretty far into writing their jokes when they were informed they couldn't use it due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers licensing issues]].

** Creator/WarrenEllis' run on ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' lasted only one issue - Ellis was apparently going to take the character into a less superhero-oriented direction, towards fantasy and horror, but he quit after the editor who handpicked him for the book was replaced by one with a preference for classic-style superhero stories.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FrankMiller [[https://www.cbr.com/nothing-was-delivered-roger-stern-and-frank-millers-doctor-strange/ was planned]] at one point to collaborate with Creator/RogerStern on a run of the comic, but due to being considered for the comic adaptation of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (a role that eventually went to Creator/HowardChaykin), he bowed out, and Marshall Rogers took over for Miller. Considering how Miller revolutionized ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} (and later, revamped ComicBook/{{Batman}}), and that Roger Stern is considered one of the best writers of Strange in comics, and that Rogers' run with Rogers is well regarded for classic stories like "To Have Loved and Lost" and "The Montessi Formula", one can't help but wonder what Miller's run would've looked like, or if he would have gone and continued as a writer on the character.

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange / Doctor Strange]]

* HypotheticalCasting: For years, Creator/VincentPrice was the favourite candidate to play Doctor Strange. Given that he was the visual basis for the character, this is unsurprising.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor). Though in the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 movie]] he did manage to earn a [=PhD=] degree with his MD.

* CharacterSpecificPage: [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange / Doctor Strange]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FrankMiller [[https://www.cbr.com/nothing-was-delivered-roger-stern-and-frank-millers-doctor-strange/ was planned]] to write the doctor at one point, but due to being considered for the comic adaptation of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (a role that eventually went to Creator/HowardChaykin), he bowed out, and Marshall Rogers took over for Miller. Considering how Miller revolutionized ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} (and later, revamped ComicBook/{{Batman}}), and this was ''long before'' Miller's writing is generally agreed to have gone downhill, one can't help but wonder what Miller's run would've looked like.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FrankMiller [[https://www.cbr.com/nothing-was-delivered-roger-stern-and-frank-millers-doctor-strange/ was planned]] to write the doctor at one point, but due to being considered for the comic adaptation of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (a role that eventually went to Creator/HowardChaykin), he bowed out, and Marshall Rogers took over for Miller. Considering how Miller revolutionized ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, and this was ''long before'' Miller's writing is generally agreed to have gone downhill, one can't help but wonder what Miller's run would've looked like.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor). Though in the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 movie]] he did manage to earn a [=PhD=] degree with his MD.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor). Though in the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 movie]] he did manage to earn a [=PhD=] degree with his MD.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GeorgeRRMartin once was approached to write a Dr Strange ongoing in early 2010s, but Martin was told to hit the bricks when he demanded that all previous Dr Strange stories be wiped out from canon and Dr Strange isolated into his own little world in the Marvel Universe with zero contact with the rest of the shared universe. Also, that Marvel would be contractually banned from ever overturning this new direction even after Martin left the character.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George RR Martin once was approached to write a Dr Strange ongoing in early 2010s, but Martin was told to hit the bricks when he demanded that all previous Dr Strange stories be wiped out from canon and Dr Strange isolated into his own little world in the Marvel Universe with zero contact with the rest of the shared universe. Also, that Marvel would be contractually banned from ever overturning this new direction even after Martin left the character.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George RR Martin once was approached to write a Dr Strange ongoing in early 2010s, but Martin was told to hit the bricks when he demanded that all previous Dr Strange stories be wiped out from canon and Dr Strange isolated into his own little world in the Marvel Universe with zero contact with the rest of the shared universe. Also, that Marvel would be contractually banned from ever overturning this new direction even after Martin left the character.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor). Though in the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 movie]] he did manage to earn a [=PhD=] degree with his MD.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor). Though in the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 movie]] he did manage to earn a PhD degree with his MD.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Chinese title for Dr Strange being "qíyì bóshì" (strange professor).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George RR Martin once was approached to write a Dr Strange ongoing in early 2010s, but Martin was told to hit the bricks when he demanded that all previous Dr Strange stories be wiped out from canon and Dr Strange isolated into his own little world in the Marvel Universe with zero contact with the rest of the shared universe. Also, that Marvel would be contractually banned from ever overturning this new direction even after Martin left the character.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/HarlanEllison pitched a television series called ''The Dark Forces'' in the early seventies, which he later acknowledged would have served as a SpiritualAdaptation of the character.