Falcon and winter solider

[Maxperson]

I'm probably in the minority here, but who would you cast as Harry Dresden?
I would have liked the one from the tv series despite some people not liking that.

Joe Manganiello. He's got the rough look and the height.

 

[hopeless]

They wasn't using magic the telekinetic couldn't dispel any of Strange's spells which was why he took him back to his ship for a bit of investigative surgery whilst leaving Strange conscious...

 

[Stalker0]

He turned into a mustache-twirling villain before the start of the show when he intentionally antagonized a powerful sorceress* who just returned from the Blip and is in triple grief - killing her beloved, watching someone else kill her beloved, and having the cause for which she killed her beloved fail because she had delayed so she blames herself for all of what happened. Oh, and then lying about it to everyone else and framing her for stealing it. (None of this excuses her - it just paints him correctly from the get-go.)

Sorry, he started stupid, villainous (with the frame) and antagonistic. Just because many of his actions are parallel to what someone who was trying to do right would do does make it any less so.

That's fair, I did forget about him talking to Wanda, without having his team stop literally cutting up the body for 5 minutes. So yeah that's pretty evil.

Selvig knows Thor, who is in space, and doesn't own a phone, Nat, who is dead, Tony, who is dead, Steve, who is retired, Clint, who is retired, Nick Fury, who is a skrull, and Banner, who is injured. So, say Darcy overcomes her ego and decided she is out of her depth. She phones Selvig and manages to get through despite the time zone difference. Selvig phones Banner, and manages to get through, despite the time zone difference. Selvig manages to persuade Banner that he is a) needed (even though he isn't), and b) wants to get involved (even though Banner dislikes fighting and knows nothing about magic). Banner hops on a Greyhound bus (because he is too big for a moped now, and couldn't steer anyway with his arm in a sling), and 24 hours later arrives in Westview. Where he finds there is nothing he can science and nothing he can smash.

As others have mentioned, Banner knows Strange. So Banner contacts him, and says "hey man there's this crazy thing going on". Now maybe Dr Strange says "I know I'm watching it", or is in another dimension and can't be reached....but in that case Wong would go, or another wizard guardian.

But now we are falling into the same trap that my original posts were intended to avoid. Trying to rationalize why these key power players don't show up for these big moments is an exercise in insanity. We can go round and round all day about why X person would or would not show up. The real reason is because we don't have the time and money and desire to bring in all the actors on every single marvel project (that would be true insanity).

I used to do this exercise with every move, be like "wait why wasn't X avenger here, did no one make a phone call?" But I've just learned to accept the premise, that when these things happen lots of phone calls are made, XYZ people aren't available for some reason (whatever your mind needs it to be to accept it) and we move on. But the answer is never "oh we didn't try to contact them"....they definitely are trying, off camera, in the background, people are trying.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As others have mentioned, Banner knows Strange. So Banner contacts him, and says "hey man there's this crazy thing going on". Now maybe Dr Strange says "I know I'm watching it", or is in another dimension and can't be reached....but in that case Wong would go, or another wizard guardian.

Why would Wong go? The problem resolved itself. You don't send out a fire engine if you don't need to, because it won't be available when a more serious problem arises.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Also, if they were inclined to call in the cavalry every time things got hard, they'd hardly be the type of person to become an Avenger, would they?

 

[hopeless]

Or Wong mentioned they had someone down there looking into it.
And when Strange returned he goes down to check because he might be a douche, but he's not bad enough to not just check in on her given he knows she lost someone close to her.
And then finds Agnes who panics when Strange reverses what Wanda did to her, which leads to him looking for Wanda knowing Agnes used Wanda to hide her securing the Darkhold something that shouldn't have happened, but he was away and Wong wasn't in charge of who was selected to keep an eye on Wanda.
After all she's the Scarlet Witch so obviously those idiots thought sending a witch to keep an eye on her would be fine.
This is still assuming Wong had no idea they had done this.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Doctor Strange was probably fighting off some extradimensional threat at the time. Him returning and getting the message that he's needed to help with Wanda might literally be the beginning of his next movie...

 

[Older Beholder]

All this talk of what the other characters do during the movies they're not in reminds me of when I first began to like Falcon.
His cameo defending the Avengers compound in the Ant-Man movie was really cool. Unfortunately he never got much time in the big ensemble films, I guess that's the beauty of these TV series.

 

[Stalker0]

Doctor Strange was probably fighting off some extradimensional threat at the time. Him returning and getting the message that he's needed to help with Wanda might literally be the beginning of his next movie...

If the opening was literally a bunch of the avengers calling Strange and being like....hey I heard from so and so whose with this Sword group and they found magic....so and so..... my god that would be amazing

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If the opening was literally a bunch of the avengers calling Strange and being like....hey I heard from so and so whose with this Sword group and they found magic....so and so..... my god that would be amazing

Strange already knows. There is no way he would not know. They showed the "detect magical threats" magic item in the first film.