Strange and Weird Moment in Doctor Strange

Although they’re allies in the upcoming movie, Baron Mordo has been one of Strange’s oldest foes, battling him many times over the years—especially in the character’s earliest stories in the pages of Strange Tales. After being thoroughly smacked about by Strange multiple times, Mordo finally teamed up with Strange’s other longtime foe, the demonic Dormammu, to beat the sorcerer once and for all in Strange Tales #132. The three-issue arc culminates in issue #134, in an epic battle between the spirit forms of Strange and Mordo that takes place on and inside the heart of the sun itself, surrounded by atoms.

Almost every superhero has had a time in their career where they’ve found themselves stripped of their powers. When Strange found his sorcerus abilities diminished for dabbling in forbidden magics for the 2010 storyline The Doctor Is Out, he decided to try and find new magical apprentices he could teach to do continue helping safeguard the Earth.

Doctor Strange has always been kind of an asshole—he was extremely arrogant even before he became a sorcerer—but this has got to be one of his most shocking dick moves. In Strange Tales #129, the sorcerer declines an appearance on a TV news show to discuss the existence of magic, instead allowing the hosts to muck about with a powerful artifact that, live on TV, sucks them into the dimension of an evil tyrant named Tiboro.

It’s only then that Strange decides to get involved, so he promptly follows the reporters to Tiboro’s dimension, beats the evil being, and then decides to wipe the minds of the hosts to forget everything that just happened to them. Next time, Strange, just say yes to the interview.

James Whitbrook, gizmodo