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Strange treats a minor street dispute as something that justifies a multi-week compulsion spell He has access to layered defensive and containment options, yet the first response to a vendor refusing free food is a self-sustaining curse that forces continuous physical harm The choice implies he views the spell as low-cost and low-risk, even though the duration and autonomy of the effect sit outside normal escalation. It creates a quiet inconsistency with how the film otherwise frames his caution around lasting magical consequences

Thanos spent the entire fight treating Strange like another sorcerer he could just outmuscle until the clones showed up He’d already walked through most of the Avengers and was still moving like the only real threat was the stones. Then Strange opens multiple portals at once, multiplies himself, and starts hitting from angles that don’t exist in normal combat Just a sudden shift from one man in a cloak to a coordinated attack that forces Thanos to actually track threats instead of charging. That’s the exact second the Titan stops treating him as background and starts treating him as a variable he didn’t plan for