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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It helps that there is currently only one super sonic superhero who could just turn up where ever trouble starts.
And that guy is Tony Stark. Who spent all of phase two retired.
Warmachine is also presumably fast, but he spent phase 2 in the employment of the US government and couldn't just turn up where ever.
Captain Marvel will be a spanner in the works if course, and it looks like War Machine is no longer military?
I recommended it to everyone here back when the movie was announced as the number 1 story to read if you wanted a tale with Strange.
edited 3rd Apr '16 4:01:45 PM by LordofLore
The Oath is one of the best Doctor Strange stories. It explores Strange's physical trauma, how he merges medicine and sorcery (in fact the title is a Double-Meaning Title, and alludes to, amongst other things, the fact Strange upholds both his oath as the Sorcerer Supreme and the Hippocratic Oath), his iron-clad friendship with Wong, Wong's own turmoils and epicness, it has a pretty cool romance between Strange and the night nurse and a pretty interesting general conflict between science and magic (as well as the unexpected intersections between science and magic like Strange himself). It also has a fun display of both Strange's greatest weakness and triumphs.
It's also, most amusingly, the story Strange is repeatedly compared to Sherlock Holmes as he tries deducing who's the villain behind it all.
edited 3rd Apr '16 4:16:33 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I actually thought the romance between Strange and Night Nurse was one of the weaker aspects of The Oath. She's still a petty cool character though, and made for a decent Audience Surrogate amidst some of the... strangeness. I dunno, I'm all for guys being close without having to be considered lovers but Wong and Strange just seemed like the more apparent couple to me.
edited 3rd Apr '16 4:26:35 PM by AlleyOop
Thinking of it, where the blue Hell is Wong in this movie? He's such a cool character.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."He's there, but without too much fanfare. Benedict Wong is a pretty good actor from what I saw of him in The Martian and snippets of Marco Polo, but they've been sparing in terms of what he might be like for this film. I'm surprised they didn't cast a younger and more athletic looking actor for him though.
I think they also cast someone to play Nicodemus West who readers of The Oath might remember. If they're saving Mordo turning evil for the next movie West is probably one of the human villains in this one which would sort of keep with the Marvel tradition of the first villain being a evil variation on the hero.
edited 3rd Apr '16 4:44:39 PM by LordofLore
x4
He was cast, we know that much.
I'm sure we'll at least get a look at him in the teaser, which if my calculations are right should be coming out just before Civil War hits theaters. Marvel seems to prefer dropping the first teaser roughly 6 months before a movie comes out, and Civil War comes out roughly 6 months before Doctor Strange.
edited 3rd Apr '16 4:38:11 PM by Falrinn

Ant-Man and Winter Soldier had good in-universe justifications. Thor 2 could go either way but you'd think at least one of them would show up to give some last minute help. Iron Man 3 you could justify but it requires a few mental gymnastics for it.