In New York City, Stephen Strange is a brilliant, smart, yet egotistical man. Born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City, Stephen studied hard and earned his medical degree before entering a five-year residency at New York Hospital. While Stephen has found success in his career, going on to become a wealthy and a celebrated neurosurgeon, he also became an arrogant, greedy and cold-hearted human being, having a limited amount of close friends that being fellow surgeons Nicodemus West and Clarke Temple, with his interest in his patients genuinely beginning and ending once he received the bill. However his life took a turn for the worst when he got into a major car accident leaving his hands completely crippled. Desperately trying to find the best doctors in the world to help cure or at least heal his disability, Stephen begins to see his medical career fall apart as he is unable to complete the work as a neurosurgeon. Due to his ego and stubbornness to become an assistant or consultant, Stephen goes through a deep depression and decides to lock himself away from the world.
