Doctor Strange

## Biography

Stephen Strange was born to Eugene and Beverly Strange in November 1930 while they were vacationing in Philadelphia. He shares blood with both Batman adversary Hugo Strange, and Rann explorer Adam Strange. His sister Donna, was born in 1932 at the family's Nebraska Farm. His brother Victor was born in the late 1930's. When Donna Strange was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Stephen vowed to become a Doctor to help her even as other Doctors said she would die. He eventually earned his license but the operation ended in tragedy with Donna's death.

The Death of Donna caused Stephen Strange to become emotionally distant and he cared little for anything but money even as his reputation grew to being a famed surgeon, though he purused a brief relationship with Madeleine Revell, a UWO translator. Baron Mordo learned that the Ancient One was looking at Strange as a potential successor and attacked him, killing his remaining family including his parents and brother. Soon after in 1963, Stephen Strange suffered a car accident. The operation was carried out by an admirer of Strange and the son of Herbert West, Nicodemus West. West saved Strange but his hands were paralyzed. Strange would spend his fortune searching for a way to restore his hands, which brought him to the Ancient One in Kamar-Taj. The Ancient One offered to teach Strange magic instead, but he refused until he learned Karl Mordo was plotting against his master and while this was averted, Strange wished to learn magic to stop Mordo. His training began as The Ancient One already knew he would be his successor. He taught Strange about Dormammu, Satannish and the Vishanti among others over a period of years. Strange passed a test by Death to gain immortality and was given an Ankh. Strange noted that Death appeared in the form of a goth girl. Strange met several other magic users such as travelling to England to meet Merlin, Albus Dumbledore, Julian Phyffe and others, Cardinal Alfeo Spinosa in Italy, Omar Karindu, Rama Kaliph, and Turhan Barim in the Middle East. Wai Chee Yee, Sen-Yu and I-Ching in Asia, Aleister Kane, Kenneth Ward, Frank Brukner, and Yen Sid in America, He worked with many heroes and faced many threats. Strange operated in Metropolis' Sanctum Sanctorum alongside the Ancient One's former servant Wong. Strange fought Shapeshifters from another dimension called the Possessors or the Alternates, preventing them from invading this earth, the warlord Agamon in 1964, The House of Shadows, an offshoot of the Black Lodge, travelled back in time to save Cleopatra from the ancient egyptian Wizard Zota, One of Strange's greatest foes was Nightmare, the Lord of the Nightmare Realm, who had risen following the disappearance of Dream of the Endless.

Strange's first encounter with other superhumans was helping Thor defeat Loki in 1964. Sensing The Ancient One's rising death, Dormammu planned to attack Earth. The Ancient One sent Strange into the dark dimension in 1964, where he first met Dormammu's niece, Clea. Clea warned Strange weakening Dormammu would allow the Mindless Ones to invade. Dormammu defeated Strange but was too weak to hold off the Mindless Ones until Strange granted him power. This forced Dormammu to be honor bound to led Strange go as well as Clea leaving with him. Enraged, Dormammu manipulated Mordo and Strange into several battles until the being Eternity was convinced to get involved and destroyed Dormammu. Strange attended the wedding of Susan Storm and Reed Richards in 1966. Strange battled the Demon Asmodeus in 1968. He fought Demons called the Undying Ones in 1969, which required him to recruit the hulk and the Silver Surfer to help fight. They were joined by the Silver Surfer and the four formed a "non-Team" called the Defenders in 1971 to counter such threats. Following the Kree-Skrull War, Strange and several others formed a group known as the Illuminati, which went to confront the Skrull homeworld and were briefly captured before escaping. In 1973, The Old One Shuma Gorath attacked Earth specifically for the Ancient One, who officially passed his title to Strange upon death. Strange immediately made Clea his disciple as he had been extensively studying magic in the Sanctum Sanctorum. As Sorcerer Supreme he would clash with entities such as Nyarlathotep, Mandrakk, Slaanesh, Bill Cipher, the Mind Flayer, the Ancient Ones, and Starro. He also battled the Antichrist Damien Thorn several times.

The roster of the Defenders grew to include Nighthawk and Hellcat. He battled Magneto, Nebulon, the Sons of the Serpent, and the Headmen. In 1976, he was briefly corrupted by the jewel the Star of Capistan but the other Defenders defeated him, leading him to leave the group to focus on protecting his mind with magic ad improve his weakening hold on magic. A group of Sorcerers called the Creators attempted to fool Strange into giving up the mantle of the Sorcerer Supreme by impersonating the late Ancient One but they needed his help in defeating the In-Betweener. The ruse was exposed and he returned weeks later on Earth. Strange began battling Vampires in the 70's, heavily devastating their population with the Darkhold spell Montesi Formula. They even revived his dead brother Victor as a Vampire to use against him, which failed. Clea returned to the Dark Dimension to liberate it from her mother and Dormammu's sister Umar, who had ruled it after his death. After she was defeated, Clea departed to rule the Dark Dimension, meaning she and Strange could no longer see each other. After the crisis in 1985, the alien Urthona challenged Stephen Strange for the Sorcerer Supreme title in 1986, while victorious Strange was forced to destroy many of the powerful artifacts Urthona had stolen. This lead to a rise in magical threats. He was assisted by the Minotaur Rintrah, He reluctantly agreed to learn dark magic from Kaluu, the Ancient One's old master. This magic led him to absorb Shuma Gorath and later expel him when the Old One attempted to invade Earth again and finally decided to begin a relationship with Clea. He also took Rintrah as an apprentice.

In 1991, Strange and Clea worked to gather allies to battle Thanos when he gathered the Infinity Gauntlet and his damage was eventually undone.Strange was challenged for the title by Ian McNee and Nicodemus. Strange formed a new alliance of supernatural hunters including Morbius, Ghost Rider, and Blaze in 1992. They fought the Demon Lilith. Strange also briefly trained Lord Julian Phyffe before he abandoned sorcery. He fought against the Magus along with other heroes. The original Defenders came together to defeat the Demon Shandar, a self proclaimed Sorcerer Supreme of another universe. Around this time, the war of the Seven Spheres broke out which several gods including the Vishanti. Strange refused to particpate as the battle could have taken thousands of years. The Vishanti therefore depowered him significantly to return the abilities they granted him. As a result he was unable to end the Eugenics Wars and the Harvester invasion, but fought against both in reduced power. He took on another apprentice in Kyllian Boddicker in 1993. He was brought in to aid the being the Goddess in both the Infinity Crusade and the War of the Seven Spheres, largely to regain most of his power. Kyllian was pulled into another dimension and met a girl named Iskelior, choosing to remain there. Lilith began to attack Earth again with Strange and the Midnight Sons, battling her forces. Thus resulted in the death of Wong's wife Imei in 1993, which caused Wong to leave. Lilith's forces were banished and Kyllian rescued by the sorcerer Mordred. Strange thwarted the schemes of the British Corporation Mys-Tech, the magic focused government of the Norsefire Regime. In 1994, Strange fought the dragon KhLOG. He was challenged by the former Sorcerer Supreme Salome and was defeated. He trained for a rematch while creating duplicates of himself, one to help the Midnight Sons and one to study more magic. This split persona took on a life of its own and took the name Dr.Orpheus, even having a family of his own. Strange decided to allow him to continue to exist despite the fact he possessed a fraction of the real Strange's power. He also recruited Doctor Druid for help. Salome was never officially declared Sorcerer Supreme due to their alliance with Lord Voldemort. It was this action that led to Wong switching sides to helping Strange, but refusing to return to being a servant, now being seen as an equal. While Strange defeated Salome, he was now forcibly pulled into the War of Seven Spheres, where the Vishanti fought the Trinity of Ashes for 5,000 Years but returned months later on Earth, during which Wong had acted in his place. Strange was offered and accepted a position as President of MACUSA in 1995.

In 1998, Strange fought the cultist Jonathan White. He also fought his old enemy Yandroth with the aid of the reformed original Defenders. Strange also took the Mystic Topaz as his 5th known disciple, but she left his teachings. He and other magically gifted beings guided in training Harry Potter due to his potential role in the future as Sorcerer Supreme. In 2003, Doctor Strange defeated the Bottle Imp, a sealed off Genie. In 2004, after Wanda Maximoff lost control of her powers in a mental breakdown and attacked the Avengers, Strange took her for training, making her his 6th Apprentice. This ended when she snapped, creating a short lived alternate reality in 2005 before she went missing, something later discovered to be manipulated by Doctor Doom. Strange stayed out of the Superhuman Registration Act though he was strongly against it and cut off ties with Tony Stark and Mr.Fantastic. He even supported Captain America's Secret Avengers. Peter Parker asked him to see if he could remove memories of his unmasking but this nearly broke the multiverse and alternate versions of Spider-Man and his enemies from across time as well. He helped battle the Hulk when he came to Earth after his exile. Strange recruited the mutant Dead Girl to investigate the Hellish Pitiful ones in 2006. He was attacked the mystically powered Supervillain the Hood in an ambush which delayed his response to the 2007 Skrull Invasion. He began training Wiccan as his 7th apprentice. Jericho Drumm was considered a successor before his death. Strange defeated the Ancient Ones when they awoke in 2012.

In 2013, Strange and the Illuminati learned about the Incursions, which were destroying realities. Determined to find a way to stop the Incursions, Strange dove more and more into the study of Dark Magic. Strange rescued America Chavez from a corrupted Wanda Maximoff during this time as well as defeating an alternate version of himself. His corruption led to his removal as President of MACUSA in 2014 and an alliance with Doctor Doom, who had found a way to protect Earth at the cost of becoming its ruler. Strange was thus seen as a traitor for siding with Doom and his takeover in 2015, which lasted until 2018 when he was finally overthrown, though many heroes including Spider-Man perished. Strange also worked with Doom to defeat the Beyonders and the Empirikul, who seeked to destroy all magic. Now a pariah, Strange largely remained hidden until the attack by Thanos to claim the Infinity Stone in his possession. He was forced to give the Stone up to save a life, resulting in half of all life being erased including himself until it was undone by the Avengers in 2023. While Strange defended that he had looked into countless futures and had seen the outcomes as the only way, he was largely hated and there were calls to remove him from the position of Sorcerer Supreme or even arrest him. These points would be rendered mute when his old enemy Kaecilius, apprentice of Baron Mordo, ambushed Strange and stabbed him to death before being subdued. Strange had selected his wife Clea as his successor, but was overruled due to the recent controversy involving Strange, though Clea is immortal and will likely take over after the most recent Sorcerer Supreme resigns.