Greetings nerdy list aficionados and it’s time for more alternates those versions of
popular characters with a twist usually from alternate realities but not always.
Today we’re checking back in with Doctor Strange who has fewer alternates than you
would think but the ones that do exist are pretty interesting.
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I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Strongest alternate versions of Doctor Strange part
2.
That and just part 2 of Doctor Strange in general.
10 – Carl Strange.
This one is a bit of a reach but an intriguing tale none the less.
So Doctor Strange debuted in Strange Tales number 110 in 1963.
However just two months later Stan Lee, Robert Berstein and Jack Kirby created another character
of the same name another Doctor Strange.
This one a criminal a scientist Dr Carl Strange.
He appeared in issue of Tales of Suspense specifically number 41 in the story The Stronghold
of Doctor Strange.
So yes that was his villain moniker.
The story due to a freak lightning strike the Dr. had developed psychic powers that
he used for evil.
Now we all know psychic powers are a credible threat on the strength scale but keeping this
character around would have proved too confusing, and I’m happy with the Doctor Strange we
have, and all his more legitimate alternates.
Come on you know you like reaching with me, it’s a workout.
9 – 1602 If you’ve been hanging around this channel for awhile then you’ve heard
that Title before.
Marvel 1602 was an 8 issues comic series published in 2003 though 2004 and written by Neil Gaiman
of Sandman and American Gods fame.
The series premise centered around a world wherein super powers had appeared far earlier
manifesting in the Elizabethan era which of course altered the course of human history.
In this universe Doctor Strange is Doctor Stephen Strange or rather Sir Strange and
is queen Elizabeth the firsts court magician, he is also the court physician.
He occupies the space of a real life person or rather is fictitiously modelled off of
said person in that fusion of reality and fiction that Marvel enjoys doing in this case
the figure that partially inspired this version was John Dee an advisor to queen Elizabeth
who did study alchemy.
Strange in this universe still has access to mystic power but is not as adept without
all his modern materials so while he can astral project he doesn’t really remember much
of what he sees there, and using his powers tires him.
Still especially for the time he is formidable.
Though he does allow himself to be executed for witchcraft, but get this is so Clea can
keep his head alive Futurama style so he can help stop the destruction of reality.
8 – 2099 – Future Strange.
Marvel 2099 is a marvel imprint that began in 1992 it was at first it’s own thing a
potential future but was later retconned to being the future of the prime marvel earth
616.
It ran from 1992 to 1998 but characters from it especially Spider-Man 2099 appear to this
day, at the time of this recording.
In this universe Strange is The Sorceress Supreme a young woman who shares her body
with a demon, gone gone the form of man just kidding this is totally different…kinda.
She is still learning to control her powers which are quite strong but require mastery
and some feel she has yet to earn the title of sorcerer supreme.
This version has actually met the mainverse Stephen strange who ended up sending her on
a quest.
Aside from housing a demon her powers include, healing, levitation, force blasts, teleportation,
psychometry, illusions and sleep spells.
7 – Ducktor Strange – Ducktor has to be on here just for that pun tis a powerful pun.
Ducktor Strange hails from Howard The Duck’s home dimension.
Funnily enough Duck World was a concept that Howard’s creator Steve Gerber absolutely
hated.
In this universe Strange is still a sorcerer bearing the title mallard of the mystic arts,
but he’s also a drunk who lives in an alley drinking sorcerer’s sauce which is really
just alcohol.
I dunno there was a period where some people at marvel just though alcoholism was hilarious.
Despite all of this his powers are legit and he even send people across universes he sends
Beverly and howard back to Earth.
So don’t be afraid to seek out Ducktor strange sorcerer’s sauce and all.
6 – TV’s Doctor Strange 1978 – So Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange is not the
first doctor strange movie no that honour goes to the made for tv disaster Doctor Strange
starring Peter Hooten as the sorcerer supreme.
(clip) So this was meant to be a pilot for a tv series that obviously never happened.
In this movie Doctor Strange is a psychiatrist who has mystic powers latent in his veins
and a signet ring from his father in fact magical forces know he is slated to be the
next sorcerer supreme.
With instincts that can sense the mystic he finds himself drawn into a battle for the
many realms and that his parents died saving him.
He manages to defeat a demon first try when he is dispatched to the astral plane.
He ultimately decides to give up being mortal and become the sorcerer supreme which comes
with all kinds of powers including astral projection, and 70's magic.
He’s strong by the movies own logic with the caliber of foe he defeats but my god this
movie is bad and only fun bad some of the time.
Most of the time it’s boring which to me is just the cardinal sin any movie can commit.
5 – Doctor Mordrid – So this is a 1992 movie with b movie actor extraordinare Jeffrey
combs as the the titular doctor Mordrid.
Reanimator is amazing if you haven’t seen it watch it.
He was also on Star Trek DS9.
Fangirling over anyway Doctor Mordrid was supposed to be a doctor strange movie.
The producer and co director Charles band had the option but it expired before production
could get started but he didn’t scarp the project instead he reworked it rewriting key
scenes to make it much loser and adding new characters.
Still the character was originally going to be called Doctor Mortalis and the concept
art was done by the late great Jack Kirby.
I don’t know what the movie would have been but the movie that was made camp gold
Mordrid is sent to earth by the watcher to stop a hell mouth from being opened by the
evil kabal who needs to sorcerors stone to open it.
Mordrid does not age as mortals do waiting for kabal for 140 years and has mastery over
a wide array of spells such as being to reanimate dead creatures.
Of course there’s lots of energy blasts lots of 90's energy blasts.
He can wander the magical dimensions and of course has the rest of your standard sorcerer
repertoire.
This movie sparks joy not for the reasons I’m sure they wanted but joy is joy.
4 – Ultimate Strange – Yes the ultimate verse it’s the revamp marvel imprint meant
to draw in new readership and was also utilized as an opportunity to tweak a whole bunch of
origins and just take things in a new direction.
Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it was odd or just gruesome for the sake of gruesome.
In this universe Doctor strange had married clea and had a son with her Stephen who was
raised away from magic after his father mysterious vanished.
Later approached and trained by Wong Stephen Jr takes on the mantle of Doctor Strange despite
not having a doctorate and also the mantle of sorcerer supreme despite not being as good
as his father, a fact he blames on being raised away from magic but I mean so was strange
sr so a poor workman blames his tools that’s all I’m saying.
Still with time Strange jr could have reached the heights of his father however he was brutally
killed in the controversial story arc ultimatum that some say was the downfall of the entire
ultimate universe.
He was killed by Dormammu twisting his robes around him til his head exploded burst like
a grape.
Ultimatum was gross but seemingly just to be so which is probably why it went over so
badly that and it just killed people left right and centre.
3 - Punisher Supreme, so when it comes to characters you expect to team up be honest
how high up on this list were the Punisher and doctor strange for you.
Now they actually do have a team up miniseries from 2017 called Magic Bullets let that sink
in but that’s not what we’re here to discuss.
Instead we’re here to discuss two separate what ifs that saw Doctor Strange possess the
Punisher.
What if #24 from 1991 and Secret Wars battleworld which isn’t exactly a what if but functioned
in a similar way playing out these different scenarios.
In both of these Strange possesses the punisher because of a vampire scourge.
In the latter he gives the punisher access to his mystic powers and as you can imagine
a lot of people get slain.
Doctor Strange's powers and the punisher's weapon and lack of remorse about just mowing
his way through hoardes of people.
It was a potent combination.
I wish it looked like the cover for magic bullets but it’s fine I’ll always have
these covers.
2 – The MCU – That’s right the marvel cinematic universe now some balk at this but
if you think about the mcu is just another universe branching off of the 616 one making
all the characters there up for grabs.
Doctor Strange here has much the same origin as his comic counterpart, but his skill set
especially in the power scale of the mcu is quite something to behold.
From being able to enter the mirror dimension, transport people and objects across space
and dimensions.
Learn new spells and just knowledge at an accelerated rate.
Timewalk, astral project, heal create shields, manage massive objects with little effort
and more.
Doctor Strange is a force to be reckoned with.
Plus he has the obligatory mcu power of snark which seems to add to these character’s
power scale.
Sass sass everywhere.
1.
Soldier Supreme – This is Stephen rogers a combination of Doctor Stephen Strange and
Steve Rogers Captain America from warp world in the warp universe from the arc infinity
warps.
This occurred after gamora used the infinity stones to seal the souls of the universe in
the soul gem and then also folded that universe in half resulting in an amalgam universe where
people were fused together.
This created the soldier supreme so in this world Stephen goes out for doctor erskine’s
super soldier serum experiment but that’s just a cover for a mystic ritual which enhanced
rogers strength yes but also gave him access to phenomenal cosmic power.
So here we’ve got all the access to Strange’s power set put the super serumness of Steve
Rogers combined.
Sounds like the perfect combination of magic and brawn I wouldn’t want to take on the
soldier supreme.
In fact when the soldier supreme finds out that he’s made up of two souls he decides
to stay fused together even after warp world is made separate so that the people there
can continue to exist and separate should they so choose.
Cause he knows how good of a combo they are even if the captain America helm on top of
the cape is silly.
It’s fine.