
Anybody who is/was a fast reader in school will get a kick out of Doctor Strange's first meeting with Wong.Doctor Strange likes the books, so he's putting his Sling Ring on it. She's a huge star!") And the payoff to the latter? Wong listening to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"! Better yet, Doctor Strange is teleporting books from under his nose as he's head bobbing. Aristotle? Drake? Bono? Eminem?" By the next time they meet, he calls him Beyoncé. Upon meeting Wong, Doctor Strange reacts with "Just Wong? Like Adele? Or.


even the one he was currently reading gets snatched while he's turning round to look, and he jumps in surprise when he realizes. What's even better is that Wong reacts after each book is taken.As Mordo is leaving, he hands Doctor Strange a simple piece of card with just the word "Shamballa" written on one side in fine calligraphy. When Doctor Strange has just been accepted in Kamar-Taj, Mordo shows him his room.It's hard not to feel sorry for Doctor Strange, but it's also Kafka Comedy at its finest. However, upon meeting the Ancient One, Doctor Strange quickly devolves to chewing her out and yelling about her seemingly phony pitch, including sneering at her book for showing things that he has "seen before - in gift shops!" She brings him down a few pegs by sending his astral-self on a trip across the multiverse, telling him about the true nature of reality the whole way through the experience, and when he rejoins with his body, she very drily asks "Have you ever seen that in a gift shop?" On his knees, looking up at the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange pleads with a simple "Teach me", to which the Ancient One promptly replies " No", and has him thrown out on his arse. Doctor Strange has just spent all of his remaining money to get to Kamar-Taj, he's been broken, beaten, and driven half-mad by his obsession with getting his hands fixed.Doctor Strange: What was in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?Īncient One: Just tea.
