User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-26844548-20150801151422/@comment-26918230-20150902203009

@Tkstar27: Actually, never mind, I just checked out the Wiki for Andrew Garner and it notes him as being a "Neurologist and Forensic Psychologist who specialised in working with gifted individuals from the Index". I was just going by having watched all of Season 2 where I thought he was just a really good psychologist; I must not have caught the rest of the information if we were ever given it in the show. So conceivably he could know him even from Stephen Strange's days of being a neurosurgeon. Plus, according to an interview cited on the Wiki for Stephen Strange, he may not have even had any realised magical ability at the time of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Maybe he has his "horrific car accident" sometime this year and next year will be the start of his becoming sorcerer supreme. I figured with Kevin Feige always talking about doing away with the origin story model completely starting with Phase Three that Doctor Strange has already been established in the role off-screen. But this way he can potentially reach out to an old friend in Andrew Garner when he's back in the Muggle realm so to speak, and have a contact with S.H.I.E.L.D.

(Also, this doesn't have much to do with anything, but I was reading through the Marvel comics universe Wiki for Stephen Strange just now when I came across a mention of a character named Kenneth Ward -- http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Kenneth_Ward_(Earth-616) -- described as an "old associate" of Doctor Strange. Since it's far from a major character in the comics the writers could use him as an uncle of Grant Ward’s that had some magical ability but that didn't end so great for him, if they'd ever want to go with the idea of the Ward family having both Inhuman and magical abilities as I hope... I suppose every shady family needs at least one uncle no one ever really wants to talk about...)