LORRAINE CINK: The secret truth about Doctor Strange's powers.
We are now taking your Marvel questions with the hashtag
#MarvelQuestions.
Yes, that's right.
We got this one from @itsjennylu, asking, "What
are Doctor Strange's powers?
#MarvelQuestions."
Ooh, get ready to have your mind blown, Jenny,
because he doesn't have any!
He's a real Hawkeye.
He's born with no powers, no X-Gene, no nothing, nada.
Wow, you got really excited about that.
- Nothing! - Fired up.
OK, look, that's both true and false.
What?
Let's explain.
OK, look, as you said, Doctor Strange,
not born with any powers.
But he kind of has a power in that he's a genius.
He is very, very smart.
And that has helped him throughout his life.
He started out as probably the world's greatest surgeon.
Unfortunately he got into a car accident, mangled his hands,
wouldn't allow him to do what he was maybe born to do.
- Ooh! - Mm!
What do you think about that?
So he went out on a quest to try to get his abilities back.
In doing so, he actually stumbled upon the Mystic Arts.
Because he's a genius, he was able to figure
that out really, really well.
He had a great teacher, as well.
And so he goes through all this to become
the sorcerer that we know.
Yeah, and in fact, he was so good at magic,
he became the Sorcerer Supreme, the foremost magician
in the world, all because he studied, as you said,
super, duper hard.
But you might be wondering, uh, how does that work
if he doesn't have any powers?
Where is he manifesting all this stuff from?
That's because he can siphon off magic from lots
of different elder gods.
Talking about the Vishanti.
Shout out to the hoary hosts of Hoggath!
I'm also talking about primeval dark magic like Chthon.
He's like a little squidy guy.
Mhm, ch-ch-ch.
OK, he's a big squidy guy.
But also, this gives him infinite power.
And he can do sort of infinite things with that power.
He can teleport.
He can conjure objects.
He can put up protective shields.
He can astrally project himself from his body
so that he is just like a little, floaty, ghosty guy.
Or he can use my favorite power, telekinesis,
where you're just like, my phone's across the room.
Oo, oo, oo-- sook.
[CLICKING]
I mean, I like that.
But I would be like, pizza us!
And the pizza would just, like--
BOTH: Pizza.
- All right. - All right.
All right, we've got a business.
All right, so [LAUGHS] and as we keep saying,
Doctor Strange is a genius, right?
It's how he learned all them spells.
But let's say spells don't cut it.
He also has enchanted objects or magical artifacts
that help him.
So let's start with his signature amulet, the Eye
of Agamotto, that grants him psychic powers,
interdimensional travel, and various other projections.
He can just project all types of stuff.
Then, also, as Ryan is wearing, his famous Cloak of Levitation,
which as the name says, grants him the power of flight,
and front runner for maybe the best cape in the Marvel U.
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Then, of course, all this stuff he stores in his home,
the Sanctum Sanctorum, where he keeps
all these magical artifacts, located
at 177A Bleecker Street, right here in New York City.
Don't visit because it's lousy with magical artifacts,
like talking snakes.
You might walk out a room and you're on the ceiling.
You don't know.
But what if you just need something that doesn't exist
yet?
Well, then you go down to what's known as the Sanctum
Machina, which is a place where you can go
and make all types of magical stuff,
or the name of his rock band.
Also, I just love the idea like,
it's fine if I don't have everything I need.
I'll make it.
Build anything he needs--
a magic whatever you need. - Toaster.
[PING] - [LAUGHS] I don't know, maybe.
Sure.
Look, Doctor Strange is truly Sorcerer Supreme
because he uses his smarts to gain
endless mystical knowledge.
And now he's ready to pass that knowledge onto some new people.
Yeah, which is why he's starting
his own school in the new series, Strange Academy.
Check it out.
Yes, with the help of Scarlet Witch, Magik, Doctor Voodoo
and more on his teaching staff, he
is recruiting the next generation of magical kiddos.
Now, would you like to attend?
Yeah.
Do you have a burning Marvel question?
Kind of.
Ask away, and use the hashtag #MarvelQuestions.
Yeah, we'll see you next time.
I'm Lorraine. - I'm Langston.
- I'm Ryan. - And this is Marvel--
ALL: Your universe.
(QUIETLY) Squidy guy.
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