Strange doesn't mess around. This is one reason he's difficult to use--in his stories he nearly always puts Batman in an impossible position requiring a truly clever writer to get him out of it and few are up to the task. Here, he actually defeated him--only because of Thorne did Batman survive this one, ironically. Strange may be the only Batman villain who's actually smarter than Batman, which I guess makes HIM the most dangerous man on Earth. More often than not, Batman doesn't defeat him so much as Strange gets carried away on his own and makes mistakes.

And I always loved that here, he went, ":Screw it, I'm taking off the cowl." No games here like with the Joker. Straight to the point. This is why he is so hard to beat.