Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Yeah that was my initial reaction as well. It's kind of odd how safe they play it when audiences by this point would be familiar with films like Harry Potter and Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth where an incredibly diverse and complex magical world exists alongside the mundane world but the fairies and trolls and all that are always kept just out of sight. In Dr Strange you pretty much just have a handful of sorcerers who keep to themselves most of the time and there's not really any indication that there's any other magical beings or even organisations on Earth.

But I guess this is the MCU's introduction to magic so they wanted to ease audiences into it.