What caused Doctor Strange to repent of his selfishness and become Earth's protector?
In the movie, Doctor Strange learns the mystic arts for entirely self-interested reasons, in order to effect healing of his hands and to be able to resume his surgical work.
As matters escalate, Strange finds himself fighting for his life against Kaecilius and his acolytes. However, he still fights out of self-preservation, and Mordo rebukes him.
MORDO: "These Zealots will snuff us all out and you can’t muster the strength to snuff them first?"
STRANGE: "What do you think I just did?"
MORDO: "You saved your own life! And then whined about it like a wounded dog!"
However, by the end of the film Strange appears to have repented of his selfishness and takes his place as Earth's protector. What caused Strange's character to develop in this way?
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Obviously, this is a hero origin story so it would be pretty pointless for Strange NOT to evolve into the hero of the tale.
However, essentially, he learns from The Ancient One that the universe does not revolve round him, he gains perspective and lets go of his previous selfishness.
There is a conversation...
AO: You have such a capacity for goodness. You always excelled, but not because you crave success,but because of your fear of failure.
SS: It's what made me a great doctor.
AO:It's precisely what kept you from greatness. Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
SS: Which is?
AO:It's not about you.
Having learned that there is a wider universe around him and the fact that he is/could be a major player in it, "failing" takes on a much wider meaning than just being unable to perform surgery.
So he continues to excel, this time as a hero because the stakes are now so much higher.
Further, when the discuss Jonathan Pangborn (of the crippled legs)...
AO: He uses magic to walk. Constantly. He had a choice, to return to to his own life or to serve something greater than himself.
SS: So, I could have my hands back again? My old life?
AO: You could. And the world would be all the lesser for it.
Finally, he realises that he could still heal his hands but there is still more he could do...
SS: You said that losing my hands didn't have to be the end, that it could be a beginning.
AO: Yeah.
SS: Because there are other ways to save lives.
AO: A harder way.
SS: A weirder way.
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I'd agree with Paulie_D, but I'd also add that, at the climax of the movie, Dr. Strange was (voluntarily) stuck in a time loop, for an unknown period of time, so you could also look at his change as happening in a Groundhog Day type of way, instead of, or in addition to, any changes that had happened before. You could argue that up until then, everything he did was still self-preservation, if you wanted to, but during the time loop, his outlook changed.
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