I’m guess there will be a lot of time jumping in this one, ala Batman Begins.
As far as his reference in Winter Soldier, remember that Project insight was designed to take out anyone who could become a threat. It was targeting thousands of people. Presumably they didn’t all have powers, just the potential to get them.
Regarding Strange, my understanding is that he eventually becomes the most powerful magic user on Earth. Is there something specific to him that allows that?
Potential Hydras threats who were current nobodies wouldn’t have been notable names to reference when asked about the target list. When we hear Strange’s name, it’s Sitwell talking to Cap and he throws out the name like Strange is someone any high ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. agent would know. He certainly says the name like he expects that Cap would know who he’s talking about.
Twice in one trailer is a lot of times to get magically blowed away. It’s starting to look like a thing with this guy. But, hell, I can spend two hours watching Cumberbatch flying backwards looking astonished.
Even if Project Insight was just using really advanced computing to anticipate potential future supers, Stephen Strange was still one of the ones mentioned specifically. The name already means something to those in the know, in a way that the thousands of other targets don’t.
And I’m guessing that the portion of the movie taken up by the origin story is little more than what we’ve seen in the trailer.
They could be doing a story that isn’t an origin story but have any needed bits of story inserted as flashbacks, which would hardly be a new technique.
Chronos:
Of course, he could simply be notable for being a brilliant surgeon.
Kevin Feige has confirmed in an interview that Strange wasn’t Sorcerer Supreme at the time, but was simply brilliant and opinonated. I guess that could conceivably make him a threat to Hydra in the future, if he wasn’t going to just knuckle under quietly…
But still, it’s a shame. I was kind of hoping they were going to explain that by pulling an Elsa and making him already have some sort of magic potential that he suppressed out of fear. Then the Ancient One could offer him the choice of restoring him to his old life, with all the fear that entailed, or helping him start on a new path.
(And Stephen walks out into the snowy Tibetan landscape, lost in thought…and cue piano chords…)
It’s conceivable that he was of concern to them because of his professional capabilities. They’ve been known to engage in neurological manipulation of various sorts; if they were planning something major in that vein, he might have been in a position to detect it early and possibly find a way to reverse it. Farfetched, sure, but it’s not that big a stretch in a comic-book setting.
I hadn’t thought of that–cool!
I just now got a chance to see it with the sound up. His accent annoys me. It took a little while for me to figure it out but he sounds like a hacky black comic doing a stereotypical white guy voice. It’s a small sample so hopefully the full effect will be less jarring.
In this clip his American accent is better. Not great but better. He is off on certain words like “there.”
Also, if magic is a real thing, Hydra almost certainly knows about it - particularly given their origin as an appendage to the Third Reich - and may have its own mystics working for it. We know prophecy is a thing, because of that weird scene with Thor and the pool in Avengers 2, so Hydra might know that Strange is destined to become a powerful sorcerer even before he did.
I’d be willing to bet that the big bad will be Dormammu. Mainly because he was in the cast of Marvel vs Capcom 3.
That game actually had input from Marvel, and many “odd” choices for characters (Rocket Racoon, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Nova, Deadpool, Thor) have actually appeared in movies.
Of the 25 Marvel characters in that game (which movies aren’t licenced out), I believe the remaining characters are MODOK, She-Hulk, Shuma-Gorath (which was a Capcom request), Taskmaster, Iron Fist. Except for Shuma, I believe all of them have a good chance of appearing in a future movie.
Iron Fist is getting his own TV show next year, so he both re-enforces your theory that ties the game to the MCU, and pretty much guarantees he won’t be in an actual movie.
Interesting. So that leaves MODOK, She-Hulk, Taskmaster. I could see She-Hulk and Task being in a TV series. MODOK would probably need the big screen though, and he is a big Captain America opponent - although Cap’s run is probably near done.
A She-Hulk TV series is pretty high on my “TV shows I wish they’d make” list.
I imagine it like The Office, but with more punching.
And Dwight is a Doombot.