I asked a simular question in the strange thread, i am shocked that at all these comic con panels and junkets no one has raised the question of how he was already a sorcerer in TWS. Yet his own movie (which is set in the present) was an origin movie It would be like tony in AoU refering to the ruler of wakanda as king t'challa
Marvel dropped the ball continuity wise.
Dr. Strange's accident should have happened before the events of this movie. And you could say his training was ocurring when this was said in this movie. But they didn't and now this Easter egg makes no sense. He was a selfish neurosurgeon at this time. Something in his past records and actions predicted he would become a sorcerer? That's stupid.
So when this movie came out it was a cool Easter egg. But they shytted on it when they made Dr. Strange.
No. This question comes up a lot, but people forget that the algorithm, predicts who might become a threat to Hydra in the near future. Although Strange wasn't a sorcerer at the time of TWS, the algorithm predicted that Strange would somehow, some way turn into a person who could become a threat to Hydra.
this, strange was targeted because of his surgeon skill and that the algorithm determined he wldnt be down with the hydra shyt, like if tony wasn't iron man his ass wld still be targeted too. the timeline is fine just left open for interpretation, the avenegers towers I believe was shown in his film and wong mentions the avengers so logically Doc strange took place sometime after the avengers. we also dnt know how long he was at the school during the film, cld have been months or years.Even though they dropped the ball it still works just fine because they never said he was a sorcerer....the other people named around him were "a TV anchor in Cairo, a high school valedictorian in Iowa City". Obviously neither of those people were important....the algorithm was targeting random people. It could've been something as simple as a phone conversation or an email.
Fred.