Doctor Strange: 25 WTF Moments

16. The Ancient One Basically Tries To Kill Strange

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This is not the right kind of tough love lesson: it's not like Strange has actually shown any real aptitude up to this point for magic, because of his utter reluctance to get over his ego. Dropping him into a situation that will kill him within minutes absolutely shouldn't have worked.

That fact even dawns on The Ancient One even as she's enacting it: Mordo challenges her and she seems to accept it was careless. Almost as if SHE HASN'T EVEN THOUGHT IT THROUGH.

Except she must have, because she's seen the future - or several possible ones - which means rather grimly that her slight flicker of doubt comes from somewhere very real. In other futures, in other words, she killed him. And yet she still does it, dropping him into a swimming pool he can't hope to swim out of without the safety net of the Mirror Realm. Even Morpheus took Neo back into the Matrix to train him - this is just careless.

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