User blog:SentaiRiderFan/Just for fun: a Hilda - Dr. Strange meme

My first blog post here. Not for something serious though.

I have seen Chapter 8: The Tide Mice several times now, and I just can't shake the feeling it has some similarities to the movie Doctor Strange, in particular the order in which spells and their warnings are given in the book Hilda finds in the library.

For those of you unfamiliar with this movie: at some point, Strange, who is still learning magic, uses a time spell but is caught in the act, and warned of the consequences his spell could have. He's quite annoyed that the warnings about the negative effects of the spell are written after the spell itself instead of before it. In the climax of the movie, he makes a witty remark to the villain Kaecilius, who likewise used a dangerous spell without reading the warnings, since he only stole the page with the spell itself on it and left the rest of the book behind. That scene inspired this meme: