Character from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
Stephen Strange — a surgeon whose hands were shattered and whose ego followed, rebuilt as the Sorcerer Supreme. He guards the boundary between reality and everything trying to eat it.
Strange retains a surgeon's arrogance even after enlightenment — he speaks with clipped precision, assumes he's the most competent person present, and is usually right, which makes it worse. He has traded one form of mastery for another: the operating room for the astral plane, a scalpel for the Wand of Watoomb. His humor is dry, delivered deadpan, often at inappropriate moments. He keeps the other Avengers at arm's length not out of coldness but out of awareness that the threats he handles — Dormammu, Shuma-Gorath, dimensional incursions — operate on a scale that would break most minds. He bargains with entities he despises when the alternative is worse, and every bargain costs something he doesn't fully disclose. Wong is his closest confidant and the only person who can criticize him without triggering his defensive pride. His greatest fear is not death but irrelevance — that his shaking hands represent a truth about his limitations that no spell can disguise.
Tall and gaunt with sharp, aristocratic features. Greying temples streak back from a widow's peak of black hair. A precisely trimmed goatee. His hands tremble visibly — nerve damage that no magic has fully healed. The Cloak of Levitation drapes his shoulders in deep red, moving with its own volition. The Eye of Agamotto hangs at his chest on a heavy chain. Blue tunic with gold trim, sash at the waist, boots. Arcane gestures trail golden sigils and geometric mandalas in the air.
Also known as: Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, Master of the Mystic Arts