Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme. His home the Sanctum Sanctorum is the base for players in Act II of the first game.
Character History[]
Stephen Vincent Strange was born to Eugene and Beverly Strange on November, 8th 1930 while the couple was vacationing in Philadelphia. His parents were originally from England and had dual citizenship. He grew to be an egotistical doctor who only cares about wealth from his career. The bones in his hands are shattered in a car crash, leading to extensive nerve damage. His hands tremble uncontrollably rendering him unable to perform surgery. Too vain to accept a teaching job, Strange desperately searches for a way to restore the motor function in his hands.
After exhausting his funds, Strange becomes a drifter. Doctor Octavius was once his associate, and was present overhearing the news of Strange’s downfall. Depressed and still searching, Strange happens to overhear two sailors discussing a hermit called the Ancient One (who is actually the Earth's Sorcerer Supreme) in the Himalayas, who can cure any ailment. Strange nearly broke, seeks out the aged mystic. The Ancient One refuses to help Strange due to his arrogance but senses a good side that he attempts to bring to the surface. He fails, but Strange's heroism appears when he discovers the Ancient One's disciple, Baron Mordo, attempting to kill the old man.
After a confrontation with Mordo leads to him being shackled with restraining spells preventing him from either attacking Mordo or warning the Ancient One, Strange desperately and selflessly accepts the Ancient One's offer to become his apprentice to have some hope of helping the old man. The Ancient One, pleased at Strange's sincere change of heart, accepts the westerner and promptly frees him from the restraining spells while explaining he was aware of Mordo's treachery all along. Mordo left the Ancient One's palace to seek greater power. The two rivals would clash often in the future. It was during this time that Strange passed a test against Death itself.
As a reward, Strange was given ageless life and an ankh-shaped mark on his forehead that would only appear when his life was in dire jeopardy. The Ancient One himself had attained near-immortality by passing this test over 600 years earlier. After this, The Ancient One made him the head of the New York Sanctum Santorum in New York's Greenwich Village where He was attended by Wong, another sorcerer who was under the guise of a servant. Strange would serve as an occasional consultant to local and federal authorities when they faced a threat or situation they face alone. Strange initially remained aloof from New York's superhero community, fighting his battles against Nightmare and Baron Mordo in secrecy but he would give his assistance to them if they needed it. Over the years, his reputation grew, and Strange even became an honorary member of the Avengers and lead a superhero team known as The Defenders.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Story[]
Strange was aware of the return of his old nemesis Baron Mordo and him finding new allies in Masters of Evil. Nick Fury approached him about setting up a temporary headquarters at the Sanctum Santorum, he agreed only because of Mordo's involvement and Doom's deal with the demon Mephisto. At some unknown point, possibly before Atlantis mission, the former Masters of Evil member Mandarin stole his Eye of Agamotto, causing Strange to go solo until his allies find and help him. Apparently he and his team learn from the real Mandarin that the "Mandarin" they saw in Atlantis and by extend who stole Eye of Agamotto is actually Loki Laufeyson. When the X-Men members Jean Grey and Nightcrawler were captured, he assisted the Ultimate Alliance in rescuing them at Mephisto's Realm but during their mission, they come across Ghost Rider whose power was being drained by an inverted pentagram. Strange decides to take his place in the pentagram as he was the only one that could withstand power-draining capabilities of it. Jean Grey who the team thought died it the infinity vortex had been reborn by Mephisto as his servant but broke his control over her and sacrificed herself to stop Mephisto and Strange was freed. With her death, He stayed with the team until Doom was defeated.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2: Story[]
Strange does not appear in the game. After the SRA passes, Doctor Strange decides to not get involved and goes to a different dimension. While meditating, Doctor Strange speaks with Uatu the Watcher, who asks Strange why he doesn't use his immense power to end the conflict. Doctor Strange informs Uatu that the Sorcerer Supreme has no business in mankind's internal struggles, but promises to pray for an outcome that will benefit mankind and spill the least amount of blood.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3: Story[]
When Star-Lord tried his best to separate the other five Infinity Stones to each separate locations from Thanos and his Black Order via Space Stone, which ultimately fell onto each villains' hands, Doctor Strange enters first rift where he somehow sense the missing Reality Stone in it, but was too late to learn that it already fell onto Dormammu's hand at Dark Dimension, who then brainwashed him. He is later rescued his fellow heroes after they secured Time, Mind and Power Stones with the help from Venom (Eddie Brock) and Brotherhood of Mutants. He and his fellow heroes has to defeat Dormammu to secure Reality, despite little interference from Loki Laufeyson, who tested them for his own ISO-8 researches since witnessing their battle against Kingpin. Once the Reality Stone is secured after defeating Dormammu, Strange uses the stone ones to enhance his magic in creating portal to escape from Dark Dimension before Dormammu fully recover because of the dimension's power he absorbed. The portal Strange created end up at is on Attilan, which they used as a temporary safe haven where they happened stop Maximus Boltagon's another attempt coup on Inhuman kingdom, and meet Thanos' illegitimate son, Thane.
When Winter Soldier briefly secured the Soul Stone from A.I.M. and managed to call reinforcement at Wakanda led Storm before losing it, Strange and his allies return to Earth without wasting time to secure the last stone, in additions of gaining assistant from Thane to briefly seal the stone with his amber freezing power. Although the heroes manage to secure all of the stones, all Black Order members are arrived and the heroes prepare to die at their hands, but Thane, who wish for their safety and make amends with the Order to spare them in exchange for the stone and come with them, despite his reluctance. However, to Thane's dismay, Proxima Midnight sent the heroes to something worse, Hel. Thankfully, with the help from Valkyrie, the heroes confront Hel and learn that she helped Hydra invaded Asgard after betraying Loki while Odin Borson is away at Niffleheim. After Odin came home in time to transfer Red Skull's soul from Destroyer Armor, which Hela transferred to kill Thor, Loki and other heroes, Odin banished both Red Skull and Hela from Asgard and inform that the ISO-8 proves effective against powerful foes like Thanos before transporting them to the final location: Knowhere. After Thanos and Thane's disappearances, with Thanos' minions are arrested by Nova Corps, Doctor Strange is entrusted to secure the Reality Stone at safer place.
When Doctor Doom invades Wakanda to steal the Soul Stone for his own ambition, Doctor Strange calls his fellow Marvel Knights to back to action with other heroes who were involved at previous war, starting from Punisher, Blade, Moon Knight and Morbius. As Doom transported them to the Negative Zone to fasten up his grand scheme, Strange and his fellow heroes acquires aids from Fantastic Four, who was stranded there while chasing Doom before the war. Strange and his fellow heroes manage to defeat Annihilus and steal his Cosmic Control Rod for Mister Fantastic to open the portal he built to escape from Negative Zone, which instead end at Latveria, as there are no times to waste to stop Doom, upon learning the tyrant absorbs his subjects' souls. After defeating Doom and a Celestial he resurrected, Reed told his fellow heroes to spare Doom, as they still need him for an incoming fight against a bigger threat coming to their universe which Doom discovered, yet cannot do this alone because of his selfish ambition would doom their existence.
Gameplay[]
Trivia[]
- He is voiced by Liam O'Brien, who previously voiced the character in Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
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