In particular, the first gag playing on his signature catch-phrase, “Excelsior,” feels like it would have been the bigger laugh.
That said, each of those cameos crafted for the Sorcerer Supreme’s initial outing sound like perfectly fantastic Stan Lee moments.
But presumably his reading the text of “The Doorways of Perception” was meant to be the centerpiece of the gag, and it still delivered.
Seeing as James Gunn revealed (through a post on Facebook) he was shooting both Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, as well as Doctor Strange’s cameo sequence, it really doesn’t seem like he’d have run through several film’s worth of cameos in one day.