What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
- by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews
- Cartoon
- Fantasy, Superhero
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews, What If . . . ? [s01e04] (Disney+, worldwide, 1 September 2021).
As we all know, when the world’s formost surgeon, Doctor Strange, lost the use of his hands in a car wreck, it prompted him to search out mystic treatments and eventually become the Master of the Mystic Arts. But what if he had lost something else in that wreck?
—Michael Main
The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed home time of the story
- Unspecified Past Year: back to the Library of Cagliostro
- Timeline Models
- Branching Timelines: In the What If . . . ? stories, it’s clear that individual choices create branches in the timeline: “[. . .] a single choice can branch out into infinite realities [. . .].” But the Ancient One can also split the timeline via magic: “I drew upon the power of the dark dimension to split the timeline, to split you, . . . allowing for two of your possible timelines to occur in one universe.”
- Resilient Timeline: The notion of absolute points is a cool form of resilience within the alternate timeline.
- Time Travel Methods
- Magic Time Travel
- Wearable Time Object: the Eye of Agamotto
- Themes
- Alternate Histories: “[. . .] creating alternate worlds from the ones you know.”
- Fix Your Own Past!: stopping the car crash
- Long Life: Strange lives for centuries while absorbing demons.
- Never Change the Past!: Or at least never change an absolute point. “”
- Repeat until You Get It Right: at least nine attempts to save Christine
- Save “Lois”!: Save Christine!
- Self-Defeating Acts: “If you erase her death, you never start your journey.”
- Self-Visitation
- Fictional Tags
- Ancient One (Marvel)
- Dr. Strange (Marvel Comics)
- Infinity Stones: the Time Stone in the Eye of Agamotto
- Vampires and Soul-Suckers: Yep. Strange becomes a soul-sucker: “If they won’t surrender their power, I’ll take it.”
- Watcher (Marvel Comics): narrator and one other appearance
- Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, Magicians, etc.
- Wong (Marvel Comics)
- Groupings
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- “What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews, What If . . . ? [s01e04] (Disney+, worldwide, 1 September 2021).
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created by
Steve Ditko [uncredited] (characters)
Stan Lee [uncredited] (characters)
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“What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews.
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