Spoiler Alert: Dr. Strange The Sorcerer Supreme, Part 1 · 12:36pm Aug 1st, 2014

: Saw the 2007 Dr. Strange animated movie yesterday.

: The film begins as an unseen monster kills several maintenance workers in the New York sewers. My guess was that the Ninja Turtles were raging over having to work with Megan Fox, until whatever it is burst through the ceiling and up to the surface. We then discover that the monster is actually invisible, and can only be seen using the eye-shaped necklaces being worn by a squad of mystical warriors.
: They are led by Wong, who has been given hair for some reason, and Mordo. Hmm, the name really loses something without the 'Baron' in front of it. He makes up for it, though, with a simply MARVELOUS voice. Kevin Richardson's vocal experience is far too prolific to be related here, but as a means of comparison, this is the man who voiced TRIGON.

: The warriors turn themselves invisible, so's they c'n avoid revealin' who they are, but need a cover story fer all the destruction their rumble'll cause. Their solution? A twister. Not an illusion of a twister, but an actual, honest ta Celestia, tornado. 'Cause, yeah, let's cause e'en MORE destruction an' risk e'en MORE lives. They manage ta kill the critter, but not 'fore'n a passin' driver sees their fight. His name is Doc Stephan Strange, an' Wong knows there's no way he shoulda been able ta see past their spell.
: Strange, however, doesn't tell anyone about what he saw, presumably because he doesn't want to be taken away by the pon...er, the men in white coats. And can I just say, this man was doomed to be a superhero. As if having an alliterative name wasn't bad enough, his last name is STRANGE! How can you live a normal life with a name like that!
: Certainly didn't work for Adam or Hugo.
: No kidding! Anyway, Stephen is a rude, arrogant, and greedy surgeon, much like in the comics. However, in this version, they claim that the reason for his behavior was his younger sister. See, his sister was the first person he ever operated on, and she didn't make it. This caused him to become a much less empathetic person, creating a wall between him and other people. I have to say, it's a nice addition to the story; not only do we have more empathy for his actions, but it also creates more distinction between him and Tony Stark. That's important because, as you'll notice, there is a lot of similarity between the two heroes' origin stories. Heck, they even LOOK the same!

: So Strange's ex-girlfriend/coworker shows him an entire ward of the hospital filled with kids in unexplained comas. He touches one of their foreheads, causing an image of a flaming, horned skull to pop into his mind, and he runs from the room, refusing the case. Yeah, things like that happen around my exes, too.
: Um, do I want to know?
: NO!!
: Right. Stephen drives home, but swerves off the road to avoid hitting what appear to be ghost children. The accident mangles his hands, preventing him from performing surgery. He spends the next several minutes of the film spending all of his money trying to get them repaired. Finally, broke and incapable of doing his job, he prepares to jump off of a bridge. That's when Wong intervenes, and gives him a map to find the Ancient One in Tibet, hinting that he'll be able to fix Stephen's hands. Stephen asks his ex for plane fare, then climbs across a treacherous mountain range...with practically useless hands and no climbing equipment.
....wait, what?
: Strange reaches the mountain village he was looking for and begins what he believes is the system that will restore his hands, which mostly involves washing floors and taking apart brick walls by himself. It's a good thing the Ancient One's techniques don't require payment, because he's already getting free labor.