Doctor Strange is going to reveal a whole new side to the Marvel Cinematic Universe when we pay a visit to The Ancient One's home and meet her disciples of Kamar-Taj, but why exactly haven't that group - whose job it is to essentially protect reality itself - made their presence known during possible world ending events like the invasion of the Chitauri army or HYDRA's rise to power? It turns out that there's an answer for that, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige provided it in a chat with Collider.
"There are people inhabiting the same world that are stopping buildings from falling down, robots from doing this, aliens from doing that – these people in this movie are stopping inter-dimensional forces from wiping out all of reality," he explained, pointing out that they're too busy to worry about what The Avengers are up to. "So although it doesn’t necessarily come up, we’ve always assumed that the sorcerers have bigger fish to fry when they hear there’s something in a city or there’s a bank being robbed. They’re not thinking about it. They’re thinking if we don’t keep vigilant our sense of reality will disappear, and there won’t be a bank to rob and there won’t be a city to be conquered."
That's a pretty convincing explanation, and one which should stop fans from worrying too much about what these Sorcerers have been getting up to these past few years. As for what's next for Doctor Strange, it doesn't sound like we should expect to see him become the next "Science Bro" by spending his time chilling out with various members of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. "I don’t think he does a lot of hanging out, necessarily. No, he usually gets involved when – as I said, he’s not going to intervene in the bodega crime down the street. But as things get bigger and as threats get bigger he can serve a very good purpose and can make his presence known."
Well, Avengers: Infinity War it is then...
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