MCU: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Doctor Strange

4. Cape Is Still The MVP

Doctor Strange Cape
Marvel Studios

Even with Benedict Cumberbatch perfectly cast as Doctor Strange and Chiwetel Ejiofor on particularly good form, the best character in Doctor Strange - or at least the one that steals its limited scenes - is the Cape Of Levitation.

The effects work is good, but it's the decision to channel the roguish spirit of the Magic Carpet from Disney's Aladdin that really makes it stick out as the best. It has more personality than several of the supporting cast - particularly the villains - and that's without having the luxury of a face.

And if we don't see more of it in Infinity War and the Strange sequel(s), it will be a travesty.

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