wait but why is everybody mad about cumberbund playing doctor strange?
granted i know nothing about doctor strange like i’m serious please explain
My operating theory is that despite Dr Strange’s comic history (boy from Iowa, whose parents have pretty whitebread names, earns a doctorate in NYC and has POWERFUL magic), there’s a lot of pushback in some of MCU fandom regarding the number of middle-age white men playing leading parts. Dr Strange’s general appearance (black hair, van dyke beard) lends itself to being non-white, and people are afraid of the Cumberbitches (the crazy ones not us sane Cumbercollective) coming in and taking over and being nasty the way they supposedly did in Star Trek fandom. There’s also some pushback against him specifically because of how fannishly popular he is; ‘people’ want someone less well known the way Tom Hiddleston and/or Chris Hemsworth were before Avengers.