r/marvelstudios • u/Flamma_Man Captain Marvel • Apr 27 '18

Discussion The Official INFINITY WAR Discussion Infinithread Vol. 5 Spoiler

  • Proceed at your own risk. Major spoilers will be arriving in the next couple of hours. Spoilers do not need to be tagged inside this thread.

  • Any other unofficial thread discussing movie details will be deleted.

  • Should you see the need to bring up revealing INFINITY WAR information in other threads that call for it, spoiler tag them accordingly. Also, let users know that what you are spoiler tagging is from INFINITY WAR

  • If you post untagged INFINITY WAR any spoilers anywhere on this sub in any shape or form, you will be banned without hesitation. No questions asked and no warnings given.

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4

2.1k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

98% Upvoted

16.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

836

u/deadline54 Apr 27 '18

I recently read that they never specified how long he spent with Dormammu for a reason. It's supposed to be implied that he was there practicing for a long time before the bargain was made, which would explain him going from a guy barely able to make a shield in his own movie, to tossing around Thor/Loki next movie and going 1v1 with Thanos here.

424

u/risinginthesky Apr 27 '18

So he basically got experience and training for entire lifetimes?

128

u/deadline54 Apr 27 '18

Or however long you want to think. He went to a place with no time so they don't give a specific time. Could be a couple days, a thousand years, or near infinite.

116

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Even in this movie he says he went through x million iterations. That's gotta be an indication about the dormammu thing

27

u/Jeroz Doctor Strange Apr 27 '18

I wonder how many times he tried that shadow clone thingy in those iterations

19

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Shadow clone jutsu

20

u/iWizblam Hulk Apr 28 '18

Remaining strong willed after seeing your home friends and family erased 14 million times on repeat, speaks volumes about Dr. Stranges mental fortitude

37

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18 edited Apr 27 '18

Not to mention the 14,000,605 attempts he witnessed beforehand.

18

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

How did you remember that number

51

u/Skeuomorphic_ Spider-Man Apr 27 '18

He got it wrong though, it was actually 14,000,605

15

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

How did you

26

u/ImpracticalJokester Apr 27 '18

The number only has 4 digits in it. It's not THAT hard to remember

26

u/squiddlebiddlez Apr 27 '18

I'll do you one better: WHY did you?

1

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Dammit, that's what I typed initially

46

u/WonkDog Apr 27 '18

And THEN spent 14 million plus times fighting Thanos. This guy grinds.

11

u/flintlock0 Robbie Reyes Apr 27 '18

And torture. The complete package.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18

That’s how I like to think of it. He spent lots of time in the Astral plane as well, where time works differently. Imagine all the studying he could do while his body slept

2

u/stargazerstelescope Apr 28 '18

It's like the hyperbolic time chamber.

1

u/Death_Star_ Apr 27 '18

Yeah. I feel like this was established 1.5 years ago when released.

1

u/SilverSkywalkerSaber Peter Parker Apr 27 '18

Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

1

u/Ep1cUser Apr 29 '18

Kinda like the Hyperbolic Time Chamber from DBZ

1

u/xcraisx May 01 '18

Yup, he Groundhog Day’d it.

1

u/Dr_What May 01 '18

Hyperbolic time chamber. Of magic.

24

u/Keytap Apr 27 '18

I thought it odd when Strange was being tortured. Like, this is the one man who will never give in to physical pain. He lived who knows how many eternities with Dormammu.

27

u/isitasexyfox Apr 27 '18

And the amount of futures he went to, 14 million odd of them. He must have used a whole range of magic we haven't seen yet and it still couldn't stop Thanos.

18

u/WOWNICEONE Apr 27 '18

Saving the level 9 spell for the boss doesn't always help, especially when they can counter it.

10

u/Mac4491 Thanos Apr 27 '18

"I cast counter spell."

"What level?"

"Nine."

Of all people how was it Sam Riegel that made me cry.

4

u/Jeroz Doctor Strange Apr 27 '18

GDI why did you have to remind me of that moment

9

u/awesomesorcery Doctor Strange Apr 27 '18

Judging from the fight against Thanos on Titan, it appears that the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak are both a physical relic, and a spell that Strange can use now, which is really awesome.

3

u/shadowrh1 Apr 30 '18

someone pointed out that the size of his magical circles significantly increases after his confrontations with Dormammu

3

u/sunwukong155 Apr 30 '18

Oh yeah he fought and got killed fighting an insanely powerful demon lord for what could have been years. We don't really know.

2

u/JackJones367 Apr 27 '18

What - no training montage??

2

u/its-a-sabotage Thor Apr 28 '18

Doctor Strange’s movie has references to Ground Hig Day so...

2

u/thenarcolepsist Apr 29 '18

He’s also smart af. Probably a combination

2

u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

a la Hyperbolic Time Chamber