Doctor Strange Fanbook

Docter Strange Quotes

Baron Mordo: This is a relic. Some magic is too powerful to sustain so we imbue objects with it... allowing them to take the strain we cannot. This is the staff... of the Living Tribunal. There are many relics. The Wand of Watoomb. The Vaulting Boots of Valtorr.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Really just roll off the tongue, don't they?

Christine Palmer: Where have you been?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.
Christine Palmer: Kathmandu?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah.
Christine Palmer: What? Like the Bob Seger Song?
Dr. Stephen Strange: 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...
Christine Palmer: Oh. So you joined a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange: No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.
Christine Palmer: Yeah. That sounds like a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange: It's not a cult.
Christine Palmer: Well, that's what a cultist would say.

The Ancient One: I've spent so many year peering through time, looking at this exact moment. But I can't see past it. I've prevented countless terrible futures and after each one there's always another, and they all lead here but never further.
Dr. Stephen Strange: You think this is where you die.
The Ancient One: You wonder what I see in your future?
Dr. Stephen Strange: No. Yes.
The Ancient One: I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You've always excelled, but not because you crave success but because of your fear of failure.
Dr. Stephen Strange: It's what made me a great doctor.
The Ancient One: It's precisely what's kept you from greatness. Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Which is?
The Ancient One: It's not about you! When you first came to me, you asked me how I was able to heal Jonathan Pangborn. I didn't. He channels dimensional energy directly into his own body.
Dr. Stephen Strange: He uses magic to walk.
The Ancient One: Constantly. He had a choice, to return to his own life or to serve something greater than himself.
Dr. Stephen Strange: So I could have my hands back again. My old life?
The Ancient One: You could and the world would be all the lesser for it. I hated drawing power from the dark dimension but as you well know, sometimes one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Mordo won't see it that way.
The Ancient One: Mordo's soul is rigid and unmovable, forged by the fires of his youth. He needs your flexibility, just as you need his strength. Only together do you stand a chance of stopping Dormammu.
Dr. Stephen Strange: I'm not ready.
The Ancient One: No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, your time is short. You'd think after all this time I'd be ready, but look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand just so I can watch the snow.

Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You've come to die. Your world is now my world. Like all worlds.
[He disintegrates Strange easily]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You've come to die. Your world is now my... What is this? Illusion?
Dr. Stephen Strange: No, this is real.
Dormammu: Good.
[he kills Strange again]
Dr. Stephen Strange: [bored] Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
Dormammu: What is happening?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Since you gave Kaecilius power from your dimension, I brought some power from mine. This is time. Endless, looped time!
Dormammu: You dare?
[he kills Strange again]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You cannot do this for ever.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Actually, I can. This is how things are now! You and me. Trapped in this moment. Endlessly.
Dormammu: Then you will spend eternity dying!
Dr. Stephen Strange: Yes, but everyone on Earth will live.
Dormammu: But you will suffer!
Dr. Stephen Strange: Pain's an old friend.
[Dormammu kills Strange again. And again. And again... ]
Dormammu: End this! You will never win.
Dr. Stephen Strange: No. But I can lose. Again. And again. And again. Forever. That makes you my prisoner.
Dormammu: No! Stop! Make this stop! Set me free!
Dr. Stephen Strange: No! I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: What do you want?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Take your zealots from the Earth. End your assault on my world. Never come back. Do it and I'll break the loop.

Kaecilius: What have you done?
Dr. Stephen Strange: I made a bargain.
Kaecilius: What is this?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, it's everything you've ever wanted. Eternal life as part of the One. You're not gonna like it.
[Kaecilius and his Zealots are sucked into the Dark Dimension]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah, you know, you really should have stolen the whole book because the warnings... The warnings come *after* the spells.
[Wong laughs]

Dr. Stephen Strange: We did it.
Baron Mordo: Yes. Yes, we did it. By also violating the natural law.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Look around you. It's over.
Baron Mordo: You think there will be no consequences, Strange? No price to pay? We broke our rules, just like her. The bill comes due. Always!

[after credits]
[Pangborn senses someone in his workshop]
Jonathan Pangborn: Can I help you?
Baron Mordo: They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.
Jonathan Pangborn: Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?
Baron Mordo: I've been away for many months now and I've had a revelation. The true purpose of a sorcerer is to twist things out of their proper shape. Stealing power. Perverting nature. Like you.
Jonathan Pangborn: I've stolen nothing. This is my power. Mine.
Baron Mordo: Power has a purpose.
[Pangborn picks up a crowbar and tries to attack Mordo, who strips him of his powers and restores his paralysis]
Jonathan Pangborn: Why are you doing this?
Baron Mordo: Because I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.