How does Doctor Strange end up utilizing the Time Stone if at all?
In the final scene of Avengers: Endgame Dr Strange materializes portals to bring the fight to Thanos. He's also clearly not wearing the Time Stone. What is going on with it at this point?
Since Doctor Strange's arc so closely interacts with the Time Stone, is it in use to catch people up after the reversal of the Snapoclypse by Professor Hulk?
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These are just portals - they're nothing to do with time or the time stone as no travelling through time is occurring. These portals are no different from the portal used to bring Tony Stark to the Sanctum Sanctorum at the start of Infinity War. They're also the same portals used for capturing/releasing Loki and transporting Loki and Thor to Odin during Ragnarok.
Professor Hulk snapped his fingers, this bought everybody back to life at the location they were dusted. The team on Titan reappeared on Titan immediately after Hulk's snap and then travelled back to Earth. There is no time travel involved.
As for what is going on with Doctor Strange's timestone - it was destroyed already. Thanos destroyed it at the start of Endgame. The timestone in play right now comes from a time predating Doctor Strange becoming a master of the mystic arts and at this exact moment in the movie, the team's intention for the stone is to return it to the past.
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How come Dr Strange can use the Time Stone?
During his training at Kamar-Taj, Doctor Strange began to read the Book of Cagliostro and learned of the Eye's full power. Seeking to push himself, Strange donned the Eye and opened it, revealing the Time Stone, first testing its power on his apple before using it to recreate the lost pages from the Book.Why didnt Dr Strange just use the Time Stone to stop Thanos?
In universe, because Dr. Strange saw all 14+ million possible futures and there was only one that led to victory for the Avengers and co--the one he took. Presumably taking any other path, including going back to warn the others, would lead to one of the futures wherein Thanos "won" forever.Can Dr Strange time travel without the Time Stone?
Doctor Strange may not be able to MANIPULATE TIME but he can still time travel without the time stone. Here's how. In Doctor Strange movie, we learnt that "Sling Rings" allow us(not us tbh) to travel anywhere throughout the MULTIVERSE. The loki series establishes that different timelines is also part of multiverse.Doctor Strange NEW EYE OF AGAMOTTO in Multiverse of Madness Explained!
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