# Doctor Strange - seen it (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784 "2016-10-26T16:16:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/101 "2016-11-14T14:54:20Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Had we heard, up until now, if Strange was going to be in the new Thor? I don’t remember hearing that before and it seemed like a pretty decent reveal. Also, I believe Hulk is in the new Thor, so we’re going to have Thor, Hulk and Strange? That could be good… I had heard he’d be introduced to the main MCU storyline and the upcoming Infinity War, but I don’t think I’d heard about his being in Thor. That was good news for me. Doctor Strange is one of Marvel’s big guns, and can duke it out with cosmic level baddies. He’s a natural match up for Loki, both as an adversary and reluctant partner. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/102 "2016-11-14T15:14:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I shall reiterate. > > In _Winter Soldier_ SHIELD (I think it’s Maria Hill) mentions Stephen Strange as being somebody of interest. The only reason they’d say that is if he’s already demonstrating powers, not just because he’s an arrogant surgeon. Therefore the _Doctor Strange_ movie must cover that period in its timeline. That means it covers at least three, and more like five, years. Reiterate all you like, but McAdams specifically yells at him for having been gone six months. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/103 "2016-11-14T15:32:18Z")
Did she actually give a specific length of time? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/104 "2016-11-14T18:32:29Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > Reiterate all you like, but McAdams specifically yells at him for having been gone six months. McAdams is apparently still single and available after all of Strange’s training. So…four, five days, max? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/105 "2016-11-14T18:43:23Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > McAdams is apparently still single and available after all of Strange’s training. So…four, five days, max? Just because she’s still single doesn’t mean she ain’t gettin’ down. I’m sure there’s plenty of guys with nurse fetishes to keep her…ahem…entertained. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/106 "2016-11-14T19:02:01Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Just because she’s still single doesn’t mean she ain’t gettin’ down. > > I’m sure there’s plenty of guys with nurse fetishes to keep her…ahem…entertained. Not a nurse. She’s an ER trauma doctor. They probably should have ditched the Christine Palmer name. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/107 "2016-11-14T19:16:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Not a nurse. She’s an ER trauma doctor. They probably should have ditched the Christine Palmer name. Much like Jane Foster in “Thor” – a nurse in the original comics (who later became a doctor), and a physicist in the films. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/108 "2016-11-14T19:53:55Z")
> [@Me](#): > > In comics, does the Cloak of Levitation have a personality, and if so is it like a faithful dog? I thought that was a nice touch and don’t recall knowing about that from my old reading days. I wish the movie had a scene where they Strange and the Cloak were playful or communicative outside a fight scene. The little bit in the mirror where Strange tried be a badass was perfect. Quoted my own post from the previous page - can anyone speak to this? If so, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/109 "2016-11-14T20:23:43Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Much like Jane Foster in “Thor” – a nurse in the original comics (who later became a doctor), and a physicist in the films. True although they muddied it up further with the Clare Temple character in the Netflix series. Christine Palmer was one of the iterations of _Night Nurse_. Now she is an emergency room doctor. Clare Temple was a doctor and a pioneering black female character. Now she is a composite of the original \*Night Nurse \*and the original Clare Temple from Luke Cage. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/110 "2016-11-14T20:51:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > It’s looking like Thor 3 is going to be Avengers 2.75 the way Civil War was 2.5. Wait a sec… wait a sec… [punches at buttons on adding machine for several minutes] Okay, that adds up. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/111 "2016-11-14T21:16:39Z")
So, just out of curiosity, for you doctors out there, How likely is it that someone with a pierced pericardium can get it sewn up, flat line, be defibrillated, and then leap off the table and fight a couple of epic battles? I personally have never been stabbed in the heart, but the last time I got a boo-boo that required stitches, I went, got a nice lunch and took the rest of the day off. Also, and I understand that I’m supposed to suspend my disbelief here, how come Dr. Strange, a rank novice in fighting with mystic powers, was able to survive a bout with the bad guy and two minions, while the Hong Kong sanctum, with a small army, fell to the same force? Aside from the after-movie quibbles, I rather enjoyed it. Good special effects (would no doubt have been even better if I sprung for 3D-IMAX) and a reasonable story. I agree that, like Thor, the time span was a bit too compressed. I wish they’d thrown in a “You’ve been gone for five years!” or even a “Time moves differently here in Shangri-La”. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/112 "2016-11-14T21:30:24Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Quoted my own post from the previous page - can anyone speak to this? If so, thanks! > **[Doctor Strange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_of_Levitation#Abilities)** > > Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in Strange Tales #110 (cover-dated July 1963). Doctor Strange serves as the Sorcerer Supreme, the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats. Strange was introduced during the Silver Age of Comic Books in an attempt to bring a different kind of character and themes of mysticism to Marvel Comics. > The character starts ... In the Dr. Strange comic _The Oath_ it showed semi-sentient behavior. I haven’t read that series and I don’t follow Dr. Strange enough to know if it behaves like this now or not. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/113 "2016-11-14T21:40:15Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Also, and I understand that I’m supposed to suspend my disbelief here, how come Dr. Strange, a rank novice in fighting with mystic powers, was able to survive a bout with the bad guy and two minions, while the Hong Kong sanctum, with a small army, fell to the same force? > > Aside from the after-movie quibbles, I rather enjoyed it. Good special effects (would no doubt have been even better if I sprung for 3D-IMAX) and a reasonable story. I agree that, like Thor, the time span was a bit too compressed. I wish they’d thrown in a “You’ve been gone for five years!” or even a “Time moves differently here in Shangri-La”. Well, you don’t get to be Sorcerer Supreme without being a natural prodigy at it. The temple was full of students, but it looked to me like Strange quickly advanced further than the other students and after portaling into the library the Ancient One decided he needed to spend more time in the mirror dimension, presumably to keep him from accidentally destroying the temple. Who knows, maybe time does move more slowly in the mirror dimension. The reason he survived a bout with the bad guy is because he’s a natural talent, further evidenced by the Cloak of Levitation choosing him, “no easy feat,” according to the Ancient One. The cloak did save his butt a couple times. He also seemed to get pretty good with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, although I don’t think they actually called it that. I assume that’s what those reddish tendrils people were throwing around were. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/114 "2016-11-14T22:30:47Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > So, just out of curiosity, for you doctors out there, > > How likely is it that someone with a pierced pericardium can get it sewn up, flat line, be defibrillated, and then leap off the table and fight a couple of epic battles? I personally have never been stabbed in the heart, but the last time I got a boo-boo that required stitches, I went, got a nice lunch and took the rest of the day off. > > Also, and I understand that I’m supposed to suspend my disbelief here, how come Dr. Strange, a rank novice in fighting with mystic powers, was able to survive a bout with the bad guy and two minions, while the Hong Kong sanctum, with a small army, fell to the same force? > > Aside from the after-movie quibbles, I rather enjoyed it. Good special effects (would no doubt have been even better if I sprung for 3D-IMAX) and a reasonable story. I agree that, like Thor, the time span was a bit too compressed. I wish they’d thrown in a “You’ve been gone for five years!” or even a “Time moves differently here in Shangri-La”. I’m no doctor but, a wizard did it. I’m not sure why you are putting spoilers in a thread labeled open spoilers. We had someone in the movie who used magic to reverse maiming and paralysis. It’s not too far a leap to say he only needed enough help to get past the almost dead stage and then he was able to help himself. > [@levdrakon](#): > > Well, you don’t get to be Sorcerer Supreme without being a natural prodigy at it. The temple was full of students, but it looked to me like Strange quickly advanced further than the other students and after portaling into the library the Ancient One decided he needed to spend more time in the mirror dimension, presumably to keep him from accidentally destroying the temple. Who knows, maybe time does move more slowly in the mirror dimension. The reason he survived a bout with the bad guy is because he’s a natural talent, further evidenced by the Cloak of Levitation choosing him, “no easy feat,” according to the Ancient One. The cloak did save his butt a couple times. He also seemed to get pretty good with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, although I don’t think they actually called it that. I assume that’s what those reddish tendrils people were throwing around were. Showing him devour books 4 or 5 at a time and mention of his photographic memory illustrated that he was learning at an accelerated rate. Even so he barely held his own and won almost exclusively due to his wits rather than his skills. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/115 "2016-11-14T23:34:11Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Showing him devour books 4 or 5 at a time and mention of his photographic memory illustrated that he was learning at an accelerated rate. Even so he barely held his own and won almost exclusively due to his wits rather than his skills. I freely admit I’m quibbling, but it’s like a guy who has read all the books on Judo and Krav Maga getting in the cage at a MMA event with three champions and holding his own in his first ever real match. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/116 "2016-11-14T23:50:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I freely admit I’m quibbling, but it’s like a guy who has read all the books on Judo and Krav Maga getting in the cage at a MMA event with three champions and holding his own in his first ever real match. It’s okay. He’s a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/117 "2016-11-14T23:55:21Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I freely admit I’m quibbling, but it’s like a guy who has read all the books on Judo and Krav Maga getting in the cage at a MMA event with three champions and holding his own in his first ever real match. He had better books. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/118 "2016-11-15T06:56:44Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > She’s an ER trauma doctor. Who wears black nail polish, which kind of struck me as odd. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/119 "2016-11-15T07:19:16Z")
Nah, it happens to be in fashion, specially in the US. I’ve noticed lots of black polish on interviewers who nobody would mistake for anything but “mainstream”, with all the US-news-watching I’ve been doing. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784/120 "2016-11-15T07:43:42Z")
Well, I meant specifically on a trauma doctor (was she a trauma surgeon?), and colored nail polish in general. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-strange-seen-it-open-spoilers/769784.md?page=7)