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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dr Strange being a professional surgeon and barely making it past the neutral mark on the qualification axis seems, well, a bit strange

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I'd put Strange ahead of McCoy. What is McCoy going to do without his Tricorder? He'd rant,

"They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures."

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I agree he should be a little farther right, but his origin story is all about how his injury specifically prevented him from doing surgery anymore. Plus some iterations of him with the time stone might not have thought about medicine in hundreds of years. His magic also seems to not be healing focused. So I kinda get why he is under qualified comparatively