Captain America: The Winter Soldier
How does Doctor Strange’sCaptain America : The Winter Soldiername drop primed in theMarvel Cinematic Universe timeline ? The Russo brothers ' first film had a big impact on the Marvel status quo and Captain America ’s ( Chris Evans ) time to come , and in amongst that was a tease meant to get lover excite for Strange ’s MCU future . It did just that at the time , but does n’t make a lot of sense now , especially after his MCU introduction .
At the heart ofThe Winter Soldieris the Bucky ( Sebastian Stan ) and Steve relationship , but the tumid word-painting focuses onHydra ’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.This went all the way to the top with Alexander Pierce ( Robert Redford ) pushing Project Insight through to meet their finish . This undertaking involved the launching of three helicarriers that would police the humankind and be quick to take out any threat at a minute ’s notice - zillion at a clip . It is finally reveal that the " threat " Project Insight will be aim and killing are those who could potentially bilk Hydra ’s coup d’etat .
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DuringCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , Captain America , Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ) , and Falcon ( Anthony Mackie ) take sleeper Hydra agent Jasper Sitwell ( Maximiliano Hernández ) and force him to explain Project Insight . He confirms that the algorithm create by Arnim Zola can figure out any current or future threat to Hydra . He elaborates by explaining that the algorithm takes advantage of the " digital book " of the twenty-first century that examines coin bank records , medical histories , voting patterns , electronic mail , phone call , and even SAT scores so it"evaluates people ’s past to predict their future . “He then name drops a collection of those aim : Bruce Banner , Steve Rogers , possibly even Moon Knight , and , somewhat surprisingly , Stephen Strange .
At the time ofCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , Stephen Strange is a great sawbones but nothing more . He has no magical abilities or even any belief that such power be in the public . The most that Project Insight may be able to square off at this point in Strange ’s living is that the arrogant and stubborn Dr. could refuse to obey Hydra ’s commands . That ’s certainly enough to make him a fair game .
The confusing prospect is n’t that he ’s a possible target , however , but more so that he is the only non - super ( at the fourth dimension ) that Sitwell mentions by name . Out of the millions of people who would be single out by Project Insight , a high - profile sawbones seems an uneven one to namedrop alongside the Hulk ; we see later in the film that both Tony Stark and President Ellis are targets , and that ’s just from the east coast . It makes sense screw how important hewillbe , but Doctor Strange ’s journeying to becoming a wizard only start out after a random elevator car smash ; there ’s no reason for his magical powers to be a factor in Zola ’s algorithm , think of Strange would be no different of a threat to Hydra than a random civilian .
So why is he mentioned by name ? The real world explanation is that Marvel Studios was just found seeds for a character they knew they were going to put in soon but had n’t finalized the story for . After all , theDoctor Strangemovie was announced a few month afterCaptain America : The Winter Soldierhit theaters , so this was probable the design . In terms of persistence , apart from some prejudice on Sitwell ’s side , it does n’t add up .
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