Benedict Cumberbatch has addressed rumours of being cast as Doctor Strange… sort of.

Making his Comic-Con debut to promote Penguins Of Madagascar , he answered a question 🌳about which superhero he’d like ꦜto play with “Nurse Normal”, quickly adding "that was a joke on Doctor Strange."

Before any further teasing of his possible involvem🎃ent with Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme, he decided the cape he’d most like to don would be Batman’s.

John Malkovich, in🍬 case you’re interested, said he’d like to be Lois Lane.

The DreamWorks Animation panel also saw Cumberbatch reveal – again, sort of – how he got into character for the Madagascar spin-off.

“I worked in Yellowstone as a wolf, and I got accept𒁃ed into the pack quite quickly,” he said. “I became the alpha,

only to discover that two of the oth🗹er wolves 🅘were Daniel Day-Lewis and Christian Bale.”

Co-star Malkovich scored a big laugh when comparing the look of his baddie, scientist-cum-octopus Octavious Brine, to his youngꦡer sister.

But the man of the hour was clearly Cumberbatch, who took the lion’s share – and t🍬𒁃hen some – of audience questions.

Though moderator Craig Ferguson warned that “Comic-Con will be cancelled” if the subject of Sherlock arose, it inevitably did – with Cumberbatch prompting big cheers when༺ he said he’d “love to” rꦯeturn to San Diego to talk Holmes.