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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
YOU'VE COME TO DIE. YOUR WORLD IS NOW MY... WHAT IS THIS? ILLUSION?
[realizes he's repeating himself]
Strange
No, this is real.
Dormammu
GOOD.
Strange
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
[bored]
Dormammu
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Strange
Just as you gave Kaecilius powers from your dimension, I brought a little power from mine. This is ]. Endless looped time.
[gestures to a loop of magic on his wrist; [time]
Dormammu
YOU DARE!?
Strange
No.
Strange
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
[Re-appearing]
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
Yes, but everyone on ] will live.
[[Earth]
Dormammu
BUT YOU WILL SUFFER!
Strange
]'s an old friend. Dormammu…I've come to bargain…
[[Pain; Dormammu repeatedly kills him; Strange re-appears again]
Dormammu
END THIS!
Strange
Dormammu…Dormammu…Dormammu…
[killed and revived repeatedly]
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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Question Reality to Change Your Destiny
Taglines
Question reality. Change your destiny.
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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
What is this?
[notices himself and his remaining Zealots fading away]
Strange
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 breaks into a wicked smirk]
Strange
Yeah, you know, you really should've stolen the whole book, because the warnings... the warnings come after the spells.
[To the departed Kaecilius]
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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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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
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.
[Takes his hand]
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Wi-Fi Password in Unconventional Context
Strange
What is this? My mantra?
[After Mordo hands him a card that reads "Shamballa"]
Mordo
It's the Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.
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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
Teach me.
[After a long beat]
The Ancient One
No.
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Consequences of Ignoring Forbidden Knowledge
Mordo
STOP! Tampering with continuum probability is forbidden!
[Bursting in]
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.
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Endless Possibilities in Doctor Strange
Taglines
The impossibilities are endless.
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Mind Expansion
Taglines
Expand your mind.
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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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Expanding Perceptions and Transforming Reality
Taglines
Open your mind. Change your reality.
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Consequences of Rituals and Hypocrisy
The Ancient One
Master Kaecilius, that ritual will only bring you sorrow.
Kaecilius
Hypocrite!
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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
I don't drink tea.
[finds himself holding a cup]
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
It's a worthy inclusion.
[the mug refills itself]
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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