Film guide · 2016
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Kaecilius and his followers break into the library at Kamar-Taj, kill the librarian, and tear out pages describing a forbidden ritual.
The Ancient One pursues them. They fight in a mirror world where London bends like a kaleidoscope, but Kaecilius escapes.
New York. Surgeon Stephen Strange is good enough to catch what other doctors miss, but he humiliates his colleague West in front of everyone, and turns down his ex and colleague Christine when a case won't boost his reputation.
Driving to an event on a rainy mountain road, Strange speeds while looking at patient files on his phone. His car flies off a cliff.
He survives, but the nerves in his hands are shredded and held together with metal pins. The shaking never stops. He can't operate anymore.
Strange pours all his money into experimental treatments. When Christine tries to help, he lashes out at her, and she leaves.
Strange hears of a man who was paralyzed and somehow walked again. The man tells him about a place in Kathmandu called Kamar-Taj.
In Kathmandu, Strange is mugged in an alley. Mordo saves him and takes him to Kamar-Taj.
Strange scoffs at what the Ancient One tells him. So she pushes his spirit out of his body and sends him hurtling through strange dimensions.
Shaken, Strange begs her to teach him, but she has him thrown out. He waits outside the door all night, and finally she takes him in.
Strange's shaking hands keep him from opening portals. The Ancient One strands him on a frozen mountaintop until he opens one to get back.
Under the watchful eye of librarian Wong, Strange reads through the night and grows stronger fast.
Using the amulet called the Eye of Agamotto, Strange restores a half-eaten apple. Wong and Mordo warn him sharply that breaking the laws of nature is dangerous.
Wong explains the three Sanctums that shield Earth from other dimensions. Kaecilius wants to destroy them and let in Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension.
The London Sanctum falls, and Kaecilius attacks New York. Strange happens to open a portal right into it and has to fight alone.
Cornered, Strange is saved by a red cloak on display. It moves on its own and chooses him as its master.
Stabbed by one of the followers, Strange portals to his old hospital, where Christine operates on him, while his spirit fights another spirit right there in the operating room.
Back at the Sanctum, Kaecilius reveals the Ancient One herself has drawn power from the Dark Dimension to extend her life.
Strange and Mordo are hunted through a mirror world where the city twists and folds. The Ancient One arrives to save them but is badly wounded by Kaecilius.
At the hospital, the Ancient One and Strange talk as spirits, watching the snow fall. She tells him it isn't about him, urges him to live for something bigger, and then dies.
When Strange and Mordo reach Hong Kong, the Sanctum is destroyed and Wong has fallen. The Dark Dimension is spreading across the sky.
Strange uses the Eye to reverse time, bringing Wong back. But Dormammu's power freezes the flow of time.
Strange flies into the Dark Dimension and says he's come to bargain. Dormammu kills him, and he's right back where he started. He has trapped them both in a time loop. Killed again and again, he keeps saying, "I've come to bargain."
Unable to bear the endless loop, Dormammu agrees to leave Earth alone and take Kaecilius and his followers with him.
Disillusioned by how freely the sorcerers break the laws of nature, Mordo leaves.
Strange returns the Eye to Kamar-Taj. Wong tells him the stone inside is an Infinity Stone. Strange stays on as the protector of the New York Sanctum.
Thor visits Strange. He and his brother Loki are searching for their missing father, Odin.
Mordo strips the man who walked again of his magic and declares there are too many sorcerers in the world.