10 Movie Characters Who Just Needed To Listen To Reason

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) was always something of a reckless character. The entire reason he found himself learning the Mystic Arts at Kamar-Taj in the first place was because he crashed his car while checking X-rays and speeding on a wet, winding cliff road in the dark. Basically, not always one to listen to the rules.

In fairness, this often allowed the would-be Sorcerer Supreme to be effective as a superhero, as directly disobeying what he was taught about the Time Stone helped him defeat both Dormammu and ultimately Thanos (Josh Brolin). However, it did also cause a big multiversal issue when Peter Parker (Tom Holland) came to him for help in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

After Spider-Man's secret identity was outed to the world in Spider-Man: Far From Home, he came to Strange asking for a spell to fix things in the sequel. Strange obliged, but thanks to the magic being tweaked several times while being cast, things went incredibly wrong and the sorcerer essentially ended up breaking the multiverse, bringing multiple Spidey villains to Earth-616 who all had Parker on their hit list.

If only there was someone who could have warned him against performing such a dangerous spell! Oh, wait, Wong (Benedict Wong) immediately did just this, claiming that it travels the dark borders between known and unknown reality, and most people would have listened. Not Doctor Strange, though.