Doctor Strange
Warning : SPOILERS forJustice League Odyssey#21
The MCU’sDoctor Strangewasted the Time Stone . The Time Stone was fundamentally the great weapon ofthe Masters of the Mystic Arts . The Ancient One moot herself to be this reality ’s rely protector , using the Time Stone to peer into the time to come and identify potential threats .
" I ’ve spent so many age peer through time , " she told Doctor Strange at the minute of her death , " looking at this accurate moment . But I ca n’t see past it . I ’ve foreclose numberless frightening futures . And after each one , there ’s always another . And they all led here , but never further . " Doctor Strange proved theTime Stone ’s potential when he used it against the Dread Dormammu , establishing a prison term loop-the-loop and forcing the extradimensional encroacher to swear never to intrude on Earth again . But inAvengers : Infinity War , the next Sorcerer Supreme put the Time Stone to the same use as the Ancient One . He explored over 14 million different future timelines , identify the one where Thanos could be tucker out . To Thanos ' surprise , Strange then miscarry to use the Time Stone for offensive purpose . " Yet you never once used your gravid weapon system , " the Mad Titan observed .
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The truth is that Doctor Strange - and , indeed , most likely the Ancient One before him - wasted the Time Stone ’s potential . This fact is ably demonstrate over in DC Comics , where Dan Abnett’sJustice League Odysseyhas revealed just how powerful a weapon worldly manipulation can be . The book featuresEpoch , the self - proclaim Lord of Time , who has develop absolute mastery of the timestream and even the Multiverse itself . Unlike Doctor Strange , Epoch uses this power to crushing event ; he moves people and objects through the timestream at a whim , transporting them to the past or future . This , couple with his intimate knowledge of fourth dimension , stand for he can lay complex four - dimensional traps for his resister . It would also think he could deal with Thanos with astounding ease , plainly moving the harebrained Titan forward in time by a millennium or so .
One of Epoch ’s most fascinating strategy saw him manipulate his own timestream , pulling past and future edition of himself into shimmer , and even alternate - universe loop . In this elbow room , he can assemble a small army of Epochs , all knock-down and potent . There are risks to this gambit ; if a retiring version is killed , Epoch needs to swiftly figure out how to repair history before he simply stop to live . But , again , imagine Thanos confronted not with one Doctor Strange - but with an U. S. Army of them , plume from dissimilar points in the Multiverse , all wielding the same unfathomable power . Even the crazy Titan could n’t have handled that .
So why did n’t Doctor Strange utilise the Time Stone in this sort of agency ? The most potential solvent is offered byDoctor Strangeitself , because it suggests the cloth of meter is very vulnerable indeed . In one scene , Wong and Mordo saw Doctor Strange experimenting with an apple , and they were outraged . " secular manipulations can create offshoot in clip , " Mordo warned furiously , " Unstable dimensional hatchway . spacial paradoxes , fourth dimension loops ! " If just playing with an apple risked breaking time , unwary use of the Time Stone would have the potential to displume it aside . Disturbingly , the MCU subtly hinted this has actually been done before ; the Masters of the Mystic Arts keep the ancientBook of Cagliostro , a magician who had experimented with the powers of the Time Stone and had learned wisdom the intemperate way .
That , presumptively , is why the spells were always writtenbeforethe warnings ; because Cagliostro came up with an idea , jot it down , tried it out , and then found out just what could go incorrect . No doubtDoctor Strangewas not penetrative to take over that process of uncovering .
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