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Endless Possibilities in Doctor Strange

Taglines: The impossibilities are endless.

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Question Reality to Change Your Destiny

Taglines: Question reality. Change your destiny.

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Expanding Perceptions and Transforming Reality

Taglines: Open your mind. Change your reality.

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Mind Expansion

Taglines: Expand your mind.

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The True Purpose of a Sorcerer

Pangborn: Can I help you?

Mordo: They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.

Pangborn: Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?

Mordo: I've been away for many months now, and I've had a revelation. The true purpose of a sorcerer is to twist things out of their proper shape. Stealing power. Perverting nature. Like you.

Pangborn: I've stolen nothing. This is my power. Mine.

Mordo: Power has a purpose.

Pangborn: Why are you doing this?

Mordo: Because I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.

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A Conversation About Drinks and Wizards

Thor: So Earth has... wizards now, huh?

Strange: Tea?

Thor: [finds himself holding a cup] I don't drink tea.

Strange: What do you drink?

Thor: Not tea.

Strange: So I keep a watch list of individuals and beings from other realms that may be a threat to this world. Your adopted brother, Loki, is one of those beings.

Thor: [the mug refills itself] It's a worthy inclusion.

Strange: Yeah. So why bring him here to New York?

Thor: It's a bit of a long story. Family drama, that kind of thing. But we're looking for my father.

Strange: Oh, okay. So if you found Odin, you'd all return to Asgard promptly?

Thor: Oh, yes. Promptly.

Strange: Great. Allow me to help you.

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A Bargain for Eternal Life

Kaecilius: Isn't it beautiful? A world beyond time? Beyond death?

Strange: I made a bargain.

Kaecilius: [notices himself and his remaining Zealots fading away] What is this?

Strange: [Strange breaks into a wicked smirk] Well, it's uh, it's everything you've ever wanted. Eternal life as part of the One. You're not going to like it.

Strange: [To the departed Kaecilius] Yeah, you know, you really should've stolen the whole book, because the warnings... the warnings come after the spells.

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Bargaining with a Powerful Entity

Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!

Dormammu: YOU'VE COME TO DIE. YOUR WORLD IS NOW MY WORLD, LIKE ALL WORLDS.

Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain.

Dormammu: [realizes he's repeating himself] YOU'VE COME TO DIE. YOUR WORLD IS NOW MY... WHAT IS THIS? ILLUSION?

Strange: No, this is real.

Dormammu: GOOD.

Strange: [bored] Dormammu, I've come to bargain.

Dormammu: WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Strange: [gestures to a loop of magic on his wrist; [time] Just as you gave Kaecilius powers from your dimension, I brought a little power from mine. This is ]. Endless looped time.

Dormammu: YOU DARE!?

Strange: No.

Strange: [Re-appearing] Dormammu, I've come to bargain.

Dormammu: YOU CANNOT DO THIS FOREVER.

Strange: Actually, I can. This is how things are now! You and me, trapped in this moment, endlessly.

Dormammu: THEN YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY DYING!

Strange: [[Earth] Yes, but everyone on ] will live.

Dormammu: BUT YOU WILL SUFFER!

Strange: [[Pain; Dormammu repeatedly kills him; Strange re-appears again] ]'s an old friend. Dormammu…I've come to bargain…

Dormammu: END THIS!

Strange: [killed and revived repeatedly] Dormammu…Dormammu…Dormammu…

Dormammu: YOU WILL NEVER WIN!

Strange: No. But I can lose. Again. And again. And again. And again, forever. And that makes you my prisoner.

Dormammu: NO! STOP! MAKE THIS STOP! SET ME FREE!

Strange: No. I've come to bargain.

Dormammu: WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Strange: Take your zealots from the Earth. End your assault on my world. Never come back! Do it, and I'll break the loop.

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The Complexity of Power and Consequences

Strange: She's dead.

Mordo: You were right. She wasn't who I thought she was.

Strange: She was complicated.

Mordo: Complicated. The Dark Dimension is volatile, dangerous. What if it overtook her? She taught us it was forbidden while she drew on its power to steal centuries of life.

Strange: She did what she thought was right.

Mordo: The bill comes due. Don't you see? Her transgressions led the Zealots to Dormammu. Kaecilius was her fault, and here we are in the consequence of her deception. A world on fire.

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Confronting the Unseen Future

The Ancient One: I've spent so many years peering through time, looking at this exact moment. But I can't see past it. I've prevented countless terrible futures, and after each one, there's always another, and they all lead here but never further.

Strange: You think this is where you die.

The Ancient One: You wonder what I see in your future?

Strange: No. Yes.

The Ancient One: I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You've always excelled, but not because you crave success, but because of your fear of failure.

Strange: It's what made me a great doctor.

The Ancient One: It's precisely what's kept you from greatness. Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.

Strange: Which is?

The Ancient One: It's not about you. When you first came to me, you asked me how I was able to heal Jonathan Pangborn. I didn't. He channels dimensional energy directly into his own body.

Strange: He uses magic to walk.

The Ancient One: Constantly. He had a choice, to return to his own life or to serve something greater than himself.

Strange: So I could have my hands back again. My old life?

The Ancient One: You could, and the world would be all the lesser for it. I hated drawing power from the Dark Dimension, but as you well know, sometimes, one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good.

Strange: Mordo won't see it that way.

The Ancient One: Mordo's soul is rigid and unmovable, forged by the fires of his youth. He needs your flexibility, just as you need his strength. Only together do you stand a chance of stopping Dormammu.

Strange: I'm not ready.

The Ancient One: [Takes his hand] No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, and your time is short. You'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand…just so that I can watch the snow.

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Doctor Strange Introduces Himself to Kaecilius

Kaecilius: How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...

Strange: Doctor.

Kaecilius: Mister Doctor?

Strange: It's Strange.

Kaecilius: Maybe. Who am I to judge?

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Consequences of Ignoring Forbidden Knowledge

Mordo: [Bursting in] STOP! Tampering with continuum probability is forbidden!

Strange: I was just doing exactly what it said in the book!

Wong: And what did the book say, about the dangers of performing that ritual?

Strange: I don't know, I hadn't gotten to that part yet.

Mordo: Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings! Spatial paradoxes, time loops! You want to get stuck experiencing the same moment over and over again forever, or never having existed at all?!

Strange: They really should put the warnings before this stuff.

Wi-Fi Password in Unconventional Context

Strange: [After Mordo hands him a card that reads "Shamballa"] What is this? My mantra?

Mordo: It's the Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.

The Limits of Healing and Obsession

Palmer: Maybe it's time to consider stopping.

Strange: No, no, this is exactly the time not to stop. Because, you see, I'm not getting any better!

Palmer: But this isn't medicine anymore, this is mania! Some things just can't be fixed.

Strange: Life without my work --

Palmer: -- is still life. This isn't the end. There are other things that can give your life meaning.

Strange: Like what? Like you?

Palmer: This is the part where you apologize.

Strange: This is the part where you leave.

Palmer: Fine. I can't watch you do this to yourself anymore.

Strange: What, too difficult for you, is it?

Palmer: Yes, it is. It breaks my heart to see you this way.

Strange: No. Don't pity me.

Palmer: I'm not pitying you.

Strange: Oh, yeah? Then what are you doing here? Bringing cheese and wine like we're old friends going for a picnic? We are not friends, Christine. We were barely lovers. You just love a sob story, don't you? Is that what I am to you now? "Poor Stephen Strange, charity case. He finally needs me." Another dreg of humanity for you to work on. Patch him up and send him back into the world, hearts just humming. You care SO MUCH, don't you?!

Palmer: Goodbye, Stephen.

The Ancient One: You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole. You've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole. To see more. To know more. And now on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine, you reject the possibility.

Strange: No, I reject it because I do not believe in fairy tales about chakras or energy or the power of belief. There is no such thing as spirit! We are made of matter and nothing more. We're just another tiny, momentary speck in an indifferent universe.

The Ancient One: You think too little of yourself.

Strange: Oh, you think you see through me, do you? Well, you don't. But I see through you!

Strange: What did you just do to me?!

The Ancient One: I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.

Strange: What's in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?

The Ancient One: It's just tea. With a little honey.

Strange: What just happened?

The Ancient One: For a moment, you entered the astral dimension. A place where the soul exists apart from the body.

Strange: Why are you doing this to me?

The Ancient One: To show you just how much you don't know. Open your eye!

The Ancient One: You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is "real"? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts form reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number. Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life-giving, others filled with malice and hunger. Dark places where powers older than time lie, ravenous and waiting. Who are you in this vast multiverse, Mr. Strange?

The Ancient One: Have you seen that before in a gift shop?

Strange: [After a long beat] Teach me.

The Ancient One: No.