Doctor Strange is a character known for hopping from mystical dimension to mystical dimension,
but he very seldom goes from alternate universe to alternate universe.
The multiverse is filled with literally endless possibilities, so let’s take a look at the
stranger sides of the Marvel Mythos and see what the Doctor is really missing out on,
shall we?
Hello and welcome to Parallels, the show that takes a deeper look at the alternate universes
of comics, I’m Auram, and today our subject is Doctor Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme
and all around magic man of Earth-616.
To start off let’s talk about the biggest of Marvel’s alternate universes, the Ultimate
Universe, also known as Earth-1610.
At face value, this earth’s Doctor Strange is eerily similar to Earth-616’s, but things
quickly get a bit… strange.
Strap in, guys, the strange jokes aren’t gonna stop.
Anyway, the Stephen Strange of this Earth was a brilliant brain surgeon who shattered
his hands in a car crash on the way home from a gala thrown in his honor, also killing his
wife and child in the process.
He traveled the world looking for a cure until, you guessed it, he met the Ancient One and
eventually became the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth-1610.
This is almost beat-for-beat the origin of 616’s Doctor Strange, it’s only when Ultimate
Strange one day got trapped in another dimension that things would begin to change.
Strange had disappeared leaving his wife, Clea, and the world distraught and in need
of a new Doctor Strange.
Enter Stephen Strange, Jr., Clea and Stephen Sr.’s only son.
Clea, upset and grieving at Stephen Sr.’s disappearance, decided it would be best to
raise her child outside of the realm of magic, so that he wouldn’t disappear as well, so
that’s what she did!
It wasn’t until Strange Jr. enrolled in college that he would run into Wong, his father’s
old friend, that he would learn of magic and his destiny to become Sorcerer Supreme.
Wong took Strange under his wing and he became known as Dr. Strange, the famous magician.
Dr. Strange’s mortality, just like the Ultimate universe’s, was short lived seeing as he
died horrifically during a fight with Dormammu during the Ultimatum wave.
It’s really just terrible to look at.
Honestly, not unlike the rest of the book!
What’s strange about Ultimate Stephen is that he’s a lot more light hearted and jokey
than that of Earth-616.
He’s not a real doctor, he’s a lot younger, and he hasn’t been studying magic as long
as his father so it kinda creates kind of a recipe for disaster when it comes to being
a possible Sorcerer Supreme.
Speaking of more light-hearted takes on the Doc, though, let’s take a look at Earth-791021,
better known as Duckworld and the home of Howard the Duck.
Simon Strange was a veterinarian turned sorcerer who could often be seen drunk and homeless
in an alleyway.
He trained under the Ancient Wino who taught him the ways of “communing with the spirits,”
which led him down the path where he would become known as Ducktor Strange, Mallard of
the Mystic Arts.
Not a lot else happened with this version of the Doc, he just occasionally helped out
Howard and went back to being the alcoholic magician that he is.
Now, let’s take a trip to the future, the year 2099 to be exact!
Although we’re also dimension hopping to Earth-928 because Marvel 2099 isn’t actually
the future of 616, it’s just a possible version of its future which resides in an
alternate universe and it’s just, well, strange.
Anyway, here the Sorcerer Supreme is actually the Sorceress Supreme and has pretty much
no relation to the name and title Doctor Stephen Strange.
Her real name is unknown, but she goes by the alias, “Strange.”
Studying magic from an early age, Strange’s misadventures include accidentally summoning
a Lovecraftian monster that inadvertently killed her brother, fighting a zombie army
with this universe’s Spider-Man, and even attempting to save the entire universe with
Captain America’s Avengers.
She even recently teamed up with Spider-Man 2099 again to put a stop to the Maestro’s
tyranny over the newly birthed version of Earth-928.
So there you have it, a handful of alternate versions of Doctor Strange plucked straight
from the expansive and endless Marvel multiverse.
Who was your favorite of the three Doctor Stranges I talked about?
Or maybe you just have another alternate Doctor Strange that you love even more than those
three.
Let’s talk about it all in the comments!
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