10 Times Doctor Strange Outsmarted Everyone
3. Defeating Dracula - Doctor Strange Vs. Dracula
As the Lord of Vampires, it's fair to say that beating Dracula takes more than a dose of garlic and holy water. For Doctor Strange, it takes a magic book, a secret incantation, and roughly 149 pages of comic to outdo the beast - which is still better than many genuine vampire hunters have ever done.
After a series of close battles, Strange traps Dracula in the astral plane in order to weaken him, before bringing him to the physical realm to use the Dark-Hold book to strike him down. This is especially impressive, as the tome is supposed to possess whoever holds it, meaning the Master of Black Art is both resisting possession and reciting a complicated incantation from memory.
Having Dracula on your list of people you've outsmarted is a pretty good brag - as well as something you can hold above the heads of everyone else who failed to kill the vampire prior.