He "doesn't work" because they keep him on Earth too much. Dude's supposed to be the high-muckety muck of defending our entire plane of existence from Cthullu-type threats and he's slumming it with "the cool kids" working as their personal taxi service. He (or whomever ends up being sorcerer supreme) needs to tell the heroes to fuck off with their "I need a spell to make me invisible" and "I need to talk to my dead mother" shit. He's a little busy as the only man on the interdimensional rifle wall between us and the mystical threats that would eat our souls from the inside out, and would melt our brains if we even tried to comprehend them.Well, can you? Lovecraftian elder gods > Ninjas.
Keep him in the other dimensions where the threats can be bigger and badder than what he can face on Earth, and where he's in legit danger.
Can you imagine what a Dr. Strange comic would be like, if instead of fighting fucking ninjas, he was in a parallel dimension, far from friends and allies, and was fighting eldrich elder gods on a regular basis?
Sunday, December 7, 2008
The Curious Case of Stephen Strange, M.D.
A little bit earlier, over on Jinxworld, I was reading a thread asking why Dr. Strange "doesn't work" as a character. Meaning why do writers complain that he's difficult to write and avoid him at all because they think he is only good as a deus ex machina. Here are my thoughts from that same thread:
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