It's been a very long time I write a blog, it's strange I'm doing one today now but anyways, ever since the tease trailer release a few days ago, everyone's been asking who exactly who/what is Doctor Strange? Before we get into that, let's look at the tease trailer first shall we:

Now that you watch the trailer, it's time for the breakdown:

Stephen Strange was one of the best surgeons known to man, and he knew it. He was arrogant, and never bothered with any relgions or magic of any kind. He was sure of his skills and a doctor, and wanted to spend the rest of life doing it. He wasn't in it to save lives; he did it because he loved it. Because of this selfishness, he often pushed loved ones away. His heart was cold, and he liked it that way.

One fateful day, he was in a horrific car accident. He survived, but his hands were rendered useless. His life as a doctor was done for. He was distraught, and as far as he was concerned, he had no purpose in life.

He searched the globe, hoping to find a cure for his hands, but all avenues ended up fruitless. He had lost hope. He was grasping for anything to get his old life back.

Eventually, he heard of a place, a place where the people there could fix his hands. But when he got there, they offered him something different: to teach him the ways of the mystic arts. At first, he refused, but after seeing the magic before his eyes, he accepted.

Though his hands never fully healed, he became one of the most gifted sorcerers in history, even quickly surpassing his assigned instructor and fellow student, Baron Mordo.

There's a bunch of other stuff, but to conclude, here are some key points:

• Baron Mordo (the dude with the sword) becomes jealous of Strange, and their relationship just gets worse from there...
• The bald woman is The Ancient One, and holds the title Sorcerer Supreme, and is the one who offers to teach Strange.
• The "alternate realities" are not like different versions of yourself or whatever like the multiverse. Think of them more like the realms from the Thor movies (so what you're seeing when they jump from New York to India in the trailer is only for effect, and they're just different points in Strange's journey). However, in order to enter these dimensions, you must be in the form of an Astral Projection...
• Which is what Strange becomes when he gets the "soul knocked out of him" in the trailer.
• It is Doctor Strange's destiny to become the new Sorcerer Supreme, but at great costs...

Which I'm sure we'll find out about in the movie! Hope this helped, and made everything seem a bit less...Strange. ;D

That's it about him for now until the movie release this November. I may not be a huge fan of Dr. Strange, but I have seen him in other Marvel cartoons when I was a kid to at least understand the character.