What If...? (TV Series)

What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? (2021)

Jeffrey Wright: The Watcher

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• The Watcher : One life, one moment, one choice can destroy the entire universe.

• [the universe implodes] 

  Strange Supreme : [sees the Watcher]  You... You can stop this! Please, fix this!

  The Watcher : The same way you fixed Christine?

  Strange Supreme : What? I was wrong. I...

  The Watcher : You were warned!

  Strange Supreme : I know! But the world! The world shouldn't pay for my arrogance. I read about you, sensed your presence. You're a god. You can undo this!

  The Watcher : I'm not a god. And neither are you.

  Strange Supreme : Then punish me! Not the world, not Christine!

  The Watcher : Honestly, if I could fix this, if I could punish you instead, I would. But I can't interfere. You, more than anyone else, should understand that meddling with time and events only leads to more destruction.

  [fades away] 

  Strange Supreme : No. No!

• The Watcher : He's on the wrong path. I could warn him, intervene. But the fate of his universe is not worth risking the safety of all others. Besides, I doubt he'd listen.

• The Watcher : [opening narration]  We have watched how one moment, one choice, can ripple across space and time, giving birth to new stories, heroes, whole universes. But what if it's the wrong choice? What if the best of intentions has very strange consequences?

• The Watcher : It was true. He wasn't alone. He wasn't even the only Dr. Strange in this universe.

• The Watcher : One life, one choice, one moment can destroy the entire universe.

• The Watcher : In this universe, Stephen Strange didn't lose his hands...... .but his heart. Grief-stricken, Strange sought answers across the world and in the Mystic Arts.

  Doctor Strange : The Eye of Agamotto, cradle of the temporal singularity discovered by Cagliostro, manipulation and alteration of timelines. Time travel.

  Wong : What are you doing?

  Ancient One : Tinkering with time can weaken the very fabric of the universe. We protect reality. We don't threaten it.

  The Watcher : And when the threat came and The Ancient One was lost, Stephen Strange stood tall. The man of science became the Sorcerer Supreme.

  Doctor Strange : Dormammu, I've come to bargain.

  The Watcher : Yet despite all he'd gained, Stephen Strange could not let go of the past.

• The Watcher : Meddling with time and events only leads to more destruction.