History[]
Early Years[]
Stephen Vincent Strange M.D.,Ph.D (born April, 1977) was the first child and eldest son of Eugene and Beverly Strange, while the couple was vacationing in Philadelphia. Even though they were originally from Nebraska, where Stephen's younger siblings Donna and Victor were born. As a young child Stephen already began to display signs of the intelligence that would aide him greatly in the future, easily breezing through any work his teachers assigned him thanks to his photographic memory. Because of this he often only studied subjects that interested him, of which there many, medicine among them. The knowledge of which he actually used more often than not to batch up himself, his siblings, and his parents, as they did work around their farm. Though Stephen didn't truly decide on career in medicine until he was fifteen years old. Since that is when while playing on a frozen lake near their home, like they had done many times before, his sister Donna fell through the ice and then drowned and died, the young Stephen unable to help her in any kind of way. Leaving him wracked with guilt, but also a new passion to become a doctor, so he could save lives, especially in situations like the one he faced with Donna.
With that Stephen went on to attend medical school at Columbia University, where he graduated with an M.D. and Ph.D at the same time, and faster than person who had ever enrolled in the program. He then went on to New York Metro-General Hospital to complete his residency, where he also began in neurological surgery and his personal research on the formation of new cells. It was also at Metro-General that Stephen became attracted too fellow surgeon Christine Palmer, whom he eventually entered into a relationship with. Though Christine soon ended it on the grounds of Stephen's arrogance and his focus being more on his career than on them. However despite the break-up they remained good friends and work colleagues. They even developed a revolutionary technique for removing a vertebral bone together. Though this only added to Stephen's already over-inflated ego.
Which soon deflated as one night he got into a car accident, and although he survived his hands had suffered severe and permanent nerve damage, meaning he would never be able to practice surgery again. But not able to accept this reality Strange began searching for a cure the moment he was released from the hospital, using ever resource at his disposal. Until he found a lead in the form of a man named Jonathan Pangborn, a paraplegic who regained the ability to walk again. Seeking him out Strange learned the source of his healing and recovery was a place known as Kamar-Taj and the Ancient One. With that information in hand Strange used the last of his money to head to Nepal, where his life would once again be changed forever by a single moment.