How Will Stephen Strange Be Different from Tony Stark?

Thats a damn good coffee.

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You can tell a lot about a man from his taste in booze. I'd start there.

Kevin Fiege's said about a year ago that dr Strange would be the Iron Man of the MCU past AoU.

"blah blah blah something happens and they become a selfless hero"

lol. You can't gloss over two different origins like that and then claim they are similar. You can describe ANY super-hero the way you just did.

The bottom line is, these characters are worlds apart. Sure they both have goatees and were rich before they became superheroes, but thats where the similarities end.

How about the fact that Stark owns a weapons company and creates tools of death and destruction, yet Strange was a surgeon and SAVED lives.

How about the fact that their personalities couldn't be any more different?

How about the fact that their origins and powers are totally different?

Yeah...nothing in common aside from having money and a goatee.

@Cherry

Check out Tom Hardy in RocknRolla. He definitely has a side of him that isn't intense haha

Only thing i know about Dr.Strange is what i seen in the animated film.

Stark and Strange are both rich and don't care one whit about the people around them before they become super heroes. But Stark's an ass because he's only interested in his job/hobby whereas Strange is only in it for the money. That difference makes Strange much more malicious. Stark just needs a wake up call, Strange hears that call and denies it multiple times in various flashbacks.

And then after they become heroes Stark is still a businessman and has to deal with how to combine that with his hero persona while Strange is very specifically not. Stark still gets hung up in his hobbies and ignores people around him, he's still learning. Strange on the other hand has made a full heel face turn and is all about helping everyone around him. (Funny thing, they once tried to give Strange common concerns by putting a tax collector at his door, one or two issues later they realize this is a stupid idea and he just conjures up some money out of thin air and that plot thread gets ejected out the airlock.)

Most of the characters in the Marvel U are still figuring out how to do this whole hero thing. Strange is already done with that, he's completed the hero's journey in full at the end of his origin story. This, oddly enough, makes him much more like a DC character, not a dude with incidental powers rolling with the punches life throws him, but someone who's already figured it out and is now doing his best to do the best he can.


If I were making the movie the origin would be a five to ten minute flashback sequence somewhere just before the middle of the running time. This to set it apart from Iron Man and because its simply not necessary and even detrimental to devote too much time to it. Too much investigation into that part murders the air of mystery he needs to have an impact and only raises more questions that (to be answered) would take up valuable time to develop the characters and plot.


And with that I wrote another editorial on Strange in a comment thread...

Marvel has stated several times they plan for Strange to be the Marvel linchpin moving forward. And here's a big factor, in the original infinity story it was Dr. Strange (and the Silver Surfer) that got everyone to ware Thanos was in order to fight him. Having strange eliminates a lot of logistic questions like "how the he'll did all these heros get all over the cosmos?". Strange did it!

Or if they are talking to hardy or Cumberbatch I think playing Baron Mordo for either of those dudes would be perfect opposite a smaller younger and more frail Jared Leto

Strange is also going to have to be willing to pop up in the Defenders mini series so They need a guy who hasn't gotten to big for his britches. I feel like Cumberbatch and Leto haven't