Welcome back to new rockstars i'm eric boss and this is a breakdown of doctor strange and the multiverse of madness a movie that teaches us all a valuable lesson about what happens when marvel fans dream too big the scarlet witch will break all your toys and make you watch director sam raimi gave us the mcu's first true horror film that also rewrites the rules of the mcu in so many cool ways so let's break down this movie Scene by scene for the incredible attention to detail and deeper layer of meaning that you might have missed
also we have a new multiverse of madness inspired ladies obsession shirt that looks amazing you gotta get your hands on that one over at newrockstarsmerch.com so the marvel studios title card in this movie has been updated the shots that previously showed in-game moments have all been replaced with wanda's scarlet witch Power-up and wandavision and various shots of doctor strange from the 2016 film infinity war and end game the final shot on the m of marvel studios is strange's final scene in the 2016 film but in the inner top of the r was wanda's team up
with her family in one division so this is actually the first time anything from a disney plus title has made it into the title card just proving how important wanda's experience with their kids from that show is to This movie also fun to note that behind wanda's family in that shot is the west view cinema with oz the great and powerful plane a 2013 movie also directed by sam raimi oz and its witches definitely have parallels in this movie story i'll get to that later the film opens in the gap junction as defender strange races
with american chavez toward the book of ashanti fleeing this ribbony monster marked with runes later we learn a puppet marionetted by the Scarlet witch merica chavez is a young multiverse hopper from the comics who comes from the utopian parallel and you'll notice how the opening words exchange in this film are in spanish underlining chavez's role as the first latina superhero of the mcu as well as the first lgbtq plus superhero her star emblazoned jacket has a pride flag pin on it honor jacket has also written the phrase amores amour spanish for love is love now
the book of vashanti also from The comics is a book of positive counterspells sharing its name with the seal of vishanti the shape formed by the window of the sanctum sanctorum now the gap junction is later described as the space between universes and here it's presented as a sacred church-like plain but now in ruins as if the damage already done to the fabric of the multiverse and titles like loki and spider-man no way home have taken a toll on this place and this week marvel had Kevin feige confirmed that the multiversal crises of those titles
directly set the stage for the crisis of this film the platform with the book on it has 16 walkways converging out from it many of them broken off a cool way of showing how all the universes that connected this are all backdoors leading to this one book but many of those universes and those pathways have crumbled and eroded now defender strange seems at first like the gallant to the Goofus that we've known multilingual only using defensive spells like freezing and binding hair tied back in a ponytail like the chillest barista ever but we learned the
constant among all strangers a willingness to sacrifice friends in this case america he says this is the only way and in the grand calculus of the multiverse your sacrifice before it gets cut off both of these lines being callbacks linking this strange variant to our doctor strange Who after sacrificing the time stoned thanos infinity war told tony stark there was no other way and recently in spider-man no way home told these exact words to peter parker in relation to the deaths of norman osborne and the rest being necessary in the grand calculus of the multiverse
their sacrifice means infinitely more than their lives but a fatally wounded defender strange tumbles with america through a star portal and the camera Work of sam raimi and director photography john matheson rotate in a really fun way so that we wake up with our doctor strange in bed having seen all of this as a dream now this movie actually defines all of dreams as us seen into the lives of our multiversal selves a concept that has been explored in real world metaphysics but in the mcu poses some interesting questions were the nightmares wanda gave the
avengers and age of ultron visions of other Universes tony's dream that he told pepper about an infinity war last night i dreamt we had a kid so real we named him after your eccentric uncle uh what was his name morgan of course they would eventually have a kid named morgan so tony's dream there likely was an alternate universe so strange glances over at his broken wristwatch the one from the 2016 film Given to him by christine palmer and broken by robbers outside comtaj a watched face that he left broken to reflect the unhealable wound of
his hands and his mastery of the mystic and the mental over the physical in this film the watch symbol evolves to symbolize his forever broken relationship with christine and how that's actually okay strange uses magic to tie his tie a reminder that his hands are still damaged from his accident in The 2016 film his hands truly are his unhealable wound at the wedding he passes this mom with two sons just a little echo of the conflict that he's about to face with wanda trying to reunite with her sons who are roughly the same age dr
nick west returns to the 2016 film and reveals he too dusted in the blip and lost two cats and oh yeah a brother too he ponders if there could have been any other path strange might have taken infinity war and by having to Think about this strange faces that his sacrifice play at the time stone while it eventually led to the avengers being able to fix things sort of in endgame it also left survivors living with the emotional toll of that conflict and in wanda's case thanos using that same time stone to render her heartbreaking
killing a vision meaningless strange turns a glass of water into wine freaking jesus over here also reminding us of when he refilled thor's beer mug In ragnarok really the best way to use magic if you ask me strange apologizes saying that he made sacrifices to protect christine but that he's glad she's happy really this whole movie is the tug of war between sacrifice on one hand and happiness on the other our heroes begin this movie thinking that sacrifice comes at the cost of personal happiness but must learn by the end of the film that sacrifice
and what we think we want is really how we find Deeper fulfillment and inner peace strange here's a commotion outside and tugs his red pocket square revealing it as his cloak of levitation and he would not believe the i got in trailer breakdowns for theorizing that pocket square was his cloak i love how he summons it in free fall making this his version of tony stark being caught by the mark 7 armor while falling in the avengers film now this beast is initially invisible similar to how the Supernatural forces of moon knight are initially invisible
to onlookers but strange decloaks it to reveal the squid monster of gargantos a lesser-known comics foe to namor the submariner and i love how the animators used his single eye to characterize him his surprise when strange dismantles a bust his eyelid creased to show anger his pupil dilation when strange severs his tentacle and of course the look of oh when the eye is about to get Skewered now danny elkman's score charges this whole film with a mad cap feverish energy and here he uses some great horns [Music] evoking missouri's night on bald mountain aka the
fantasia devil music the back of the bus has an ad for la llave coffee unlock a better day are they being spanish for key a hint at strange's upcoming quest to use his watch to unlock the back door and also This spanish-speaking superhero being the key to his multiverse also nearby is an ad for the magic of celestial tea and when strange jumps on a taxi there's a sign behind him for stan lee's which might be a nod to stan lee whose real name was stanley lieber and the 2008 hulk movie paid tribute to him
with stan lee's pizza wong shows up to try to restrain gargantos gargantus uses one of his suction cups to detach his canal maybe showing how he does have some Defensive moves against the kinds of attacks namor might hit him with he scales the building sam raimi evoking his sequence with doc ock scaling the building in 2004 spider-man 2. meanwhile back at the wedding behind christine and charlie is a cameo by this movie screenwriter michael waldron strange uses his giant remote hands to use the lamppost to javelin gargantos in the eye and then pumps that eye
out with its connective tissue looking a lot like sam Raimi's hilarious flying eyeball in evil dead 2. strange and wong mentioned their recent deal with spider-man and no way home and america asks if he shoots webs out of his butt harvesting how tom holland peter and andrew garfield peter were both pretty grossed out by how toby maguire peter's webbing came out of his body a production design choice that was actually made by sam rainey in that initial series like does it just come out of your wrists or Does it come out of anywhere else only
only the wrists now wait didn't strange and wong forget about everything after that movie's final memory wipe spell well not exactly they only forgot who peter parker is they still remember a masked spider-man being part of their history like notice here they never call him peter parker and aren't really sure how his webbing works just further proof that he's just back to being a stranger to them but they still know of a Spider-man existing in this universe america shows them defender strange's corpse on the sanctum roof and strange buries him up there saying that he's
quote buried worse and i'm dying to know who else in strange's life that he has buried and where now they realize that the matching runes on the two beasts was witchcraft and so we returned to wanda's kitchen in west view using the same wanda vision episode 2 bewitched inspired intro music just composed by The lopez's in this kitchen they have a hamster cage labeled max maybe short for maxum off replacing poor sparky the dog billy and tommy return here back to wearing the same red and green colors as wicken and speed do in the comics
wanda wakes up from this dream alone in her bed and i love how the warm golden color tone of the room shifts to a colder gray as she sits up just another example of dreams being windows into her alternate selves then wanda prunes branches in an Apple orchard just really cool symbolism here she says apples eventually as they haven't yet borne fruit as her efforts to produce a life with her sons has also been fruitless she prunes errant branches parallelly in the ways he who remains in the tva would prune branch timelines to exert control
over the multiverse kind of like how wanda has been using the dark hole to x off universes without her sons in them and these being apples definitely reminds us Of the poisoned apple of the witch queen of snow white which actually gets a cameo later on in this film strange says the flowers smell real and wanda claims she put reality warping witchcraft behind her after westview yet even here the simulation seems real enough to nearly full strange they chat what do you know about the multiverse this had his theories he believed it was dangerous and
then she drops the branches in a crate labeled volkers or Bjolkers now in the comics wendell volker is an academic who along with reed richards discovers that baron zemo has traveled back in time in a 2007 thunderbolt story i don't know maybe this is on a sokovian estate that wanda has overtaken temporarily somewhere close to that mountain cabin we saw her in wanda says there are other avengers and strange mentions the archer with the mohawk and several bug-themed crime fighters of course referring to hawkeye Ant-man the wasp spider-man and possibly now the scarlet scarab from
moon knight and he says we'll get you back on the lunchbox there actually is a vintage marvel superheroes lunch box with spider-man cap and thor on the front fantastic four in the back and on the side scarlet witch daredevil and yellowjacket wanted mistakes using america's name when strange hadn't yet so she drops the illusion that red hex looking just as it did when it warped The structures of west view and wanda vision all of this coming from the dark hold marvel's book of the damned which wanda got from the witch out of the harkness in
wanovision this whole dead landscape is likely near that mountain cabin from the monovision post-credits scene all the plants now rotting more and more as the dark hole corrupts the landscape and actually in the background of this burnt orchard are the ruins of some structure that was probably what The large house was when the illusion was up that structure might be the cabin she was in in the one of vision post credits scene wanda scarlet witch wardrobe has evolved since we last saw it in wanovision scratches radiate from the heart region showing how her fracturing of
reality all stems from a broken heart and the stitching on her collar leaves an opening in the shape of vision's mind stone reflecting how that heartbreak began when she had to shatter Her love's mind in infinity war wanda says america's sacrifice would be for the greater good which strange says is the justification of their enemies but it's also essentially what defender strange told america so when juana criticizes strange for giving up the time stone and infinity war so that thanos could render her heartbreak and sacrifice his revision pointless she's totally right strange is a hypocrite
that doesn't seem fair back at commerce Wong explains that the scarlet witch was prophesied to either rule or annihilate the cosmos recalling what agatha read from the dark holes your power exceeds that of the sorcerer supreme it's your destiny to destroy the world commerce mounts its defenses master amir returns to the 2016 film and we meet sarah likely based on wong's romantic partner of sarah wolf in the comics and the minotaur sorcerer of rintra also from the comics sorcerers from the hong Kong and london sanctums joined them remember the 2016 film established the three sanctums
of earth being in new york london and hong kong and behind that one guy the portal to london has one of the city's signature red phone booths because that because that always means london wanda arrives with a dark cloud similar to the wicked witch of the west attack on the emerald city writing surrender dorothy and smoke this being another witch demanding the magic girl From another reality give herself up so she could use her in her quest to power actually you can map this whole movie over the wizard of oz the shots of them running
along a brick road defender strange being the brainless scarecrow who ends up wobbling around puppeted our strange the heartless tin man who cuts wong the lion who gets his nerve the illuminati of course the great and powerful oz ultimately proving to be total liars variant christine glenda the Good witch who ultimately teaches strange that there is no place like his home reality i mean the wizard of oz is one of the coolest scariest and most visually invented films of all time any multiverse movie is right to follow its lead wanda probes the kamatage barrier and
then finds a sneakier way in by whispering into the mind of one sorcerer similar to how she dismantled the avengers in age of ultron by implanting visions in their temples and just Freaking them out she blasts the hell out of kamertage all of its artillery and its archers leaving one poor sorcerer in pain that she just obliterates which seems cruel at first but the guy was also in a lot of pain you could also read as an act of mercy strange trap swan on a mirror dimension trap that ticks down with mechanical music box music
until the shards jab out at her at this point juana's fingertips have turned black the way agaves did in Wanovision when she used magic derived from the dark hole they retreat into the inner chamber where the camera glides and distorts this door's slam remy shoots all this with the same claustrophobia and external evil trying to break in that made the evil dead so fun and like the possessed woman there we only see the demon hands reaching up to grab people which is also the kind of imagery raymie used to drag me to hell strange realizes
wanda is using Reflective surfaces to get in and as they rush to cover each mirror in puddle on the first one that strange covers for just a few frames remy sneaks in one of wanda's eyes glaring up at strange creepy wanda's eye returns to scare america and then her hand reaches out through the gong as she crawls in with distorted limbs looking like the girl from the ring strange unleashes serpents from his hands looking similar than when supreme strange absorbed and weaponized In what if episode four and wanda begins to drain america's power so strange
dives into america and they tumble through the multiverse and it is insane they pass a dimension with three cloaked heads these are the faces of the living tribunal the ultimate legal cosmic entity in marvel lore who oversees natural law of the multiverse with three faces representing necessity equity and revenge i like how here they are not on the same head just three different heads Maybe away this universe in the fourth dimensional space shows how they would look from a fourth dimensional being in the infinity gauntlet comics the living tribunal acquitted thanos for snapping away half
of all life and the infinity war writer said they actually drafted a scene where strange and thanos would have faced the living tribunal during their wizard duel then they enter this cosmic realm with all these curved paths that snake back toward a glowing source Kind of looks like a mix of the celestial's world forge and eternals but i think we might be seeing cerebro professor x's famous way of connecting with all the minds of mutants then they fall through a freaking beehive filled with bees lined with honeycomb now we later learned in this movie it
was a b landing on america's finger that first triggered her fear and opened the star portals that took her moms from her is this what the hexagons and the beekeeper From one vision were all about can someone tell me please then they're underwater beside a coral reef and some of those fish swim out with them back in the open air in new york where they pass taxis with the ads grindhouse releasing which is a company that remasters cult films that partnered with sam raimi to restore the evil dead and it's run by bob marowski who
also edited this movie the next universe is a grid of techie tubes it's actually filled with stark Drones from spider-man far from home perhaps it's a reality where they overthrew humanity then a hellish space filled with bones true fire and brimstone here strange runs into a pile of skulls other skeletons are climbing lampposts made out of spines all the buildings are made of bones i mean i would say this is just the mcu hill but this movie also shows us like multiple possible hells and moon knight did just explain that the mcu afterlives of the
Egyptian underworld and the wakandan ancestral plane are actually part of the same realm just subjectively taking the form of whatever the believer believes so these various hells might be part of that same belief-oriented afterlife system next a universe with a t-rex fighting a triceratops then an animated universe with some goofy marching band music now this is not exactly the animated style from what if and they do pass that jonas and james sign so this Is actually the same spot where they fought gargantos then this interesting reality with the wreckage of some propeller plane with green
flames i don't know i thought maybe this could be the valkyrie plane from the first cat film if it had made it to its intended target of new york then a reality where everything takes a cubic form i just love how the break line between the blocks separates on the teeth of strange's open mouth then they shift Into sloshing paint reality where america says she's been trapped in before making it really hard to eat then i love this an old-timey film desaturated with wear on the celluloid showing 1930s new york model t's the brooklyn bridge
in a blimp overhead this is the world that steve rogers and bucky barnes grew up in then this interesting alien setting that also looks a bit ancient because it includes a stonehenge configuration remember thor the dark World suggested stonehenge was part of a coordinate layout to triangulate the convergence so maybe this is the alien society who helped lay out those coordinates then two more futuristic looking realities then a rocky volcanic setting with lava rivers looking a lot like mustafar from the star wars universe actually in a similar montage in what if episode 8 ultron infinity
in the watcher that also looked a lot like mustafar and they land in dimension 838 A utopian manhattan covered with plant life and wind turbines all built into the skyscrapers the empire state building has a waterfall coming from it this actually seems like the direction 616 manhattan was going in the mcu with far from home revealing a new atrium constructed into the avengers tower and various fantastic four hints at the ground level all the advances of this reality were almost certainly innovations of reed richards they're on The roof of the 838 sanctum you can actually
see the same greenhouse and mound where defender strange was buried back in 616. strange said he had been on weird trips before of course referring to the similar multiverse montage from the 2016 film the world building of 838 is really cool all the citizens wear monochromatic colors which might just be a hint at the cold functionality of the society the emphasis being on natural beauty over the artificial kind of Beauty of fashion and just visually for the sequence it helps strange in america stick out like sore thumbs here also a little detail i thought was
interesting if you look around pretty much everyone is carrying an umbrella that might be connected to those rainbow colored clouds overhead which might be an indicator that in this universe rain and weather patterns are actually artificially controlled scheduled on clockwork coordinated by reed richards Maybe by aurora monroe storm as well a measure that they take to help combat climate change ensure plant life is properly hydrated and the people who live here just kind of have to deal with rain being part of their lives all the time of course the traffic colors are reversed green for
stop thus the x's red for go thus the arrows now the fact that 838 proceeds on red when we would stop does foreshadow how the foolish illuminati is gonna proceed on the Scarlet witch when they definitely should not our man bruce campbell cameos sam raimi's star from the evil dead films who cameoed in all three of his spider-man movies and all those characters were actually planned to be mysterio quinton beck in sam raimi's sports spider-man film before sony canceled it here campbell's playing pizza papa a vendor who sells pizza balls time to deliver a pizza
ball strange curses his hand to punch himself In the face for three weeks a nod to ash's cursed hand and evil dead two a memory lane bank reveals the flashbacks of christine giving steven that watch and america's origin losing her mothers in the utopian parallel but in the comics this was not america's fault or even the bee's fault and really her mother sacrificed themselves and ended up disintegrating to becoming part of the universe but here in the mcu it's hinted that her moms might still be Alive so they arrive at the 838 sanctum and the
statue of supreme strange which has been built out into the street from the sidewalks the cars have to go around it and i'll look at it and pay respect the plaque reads dr steven strange gave his life to feeding thanos we express eternal gratitude to earth's mightiest hero earth's mighty ciro of course the nickname for the avengers and comics there's a rare book shop on the other side of the street called mcclouds which Could be a nod to comics writer bob mccloud who co-created the new mutants with chris claremont mordo returns the 2016 film strange
says mordo dedicated his life to trying to kill him referring to that movie's post-credits scene where mordo turned against all sorcerers too many sorcerers we never got to see any real conflict between them since that moment mordo confirms darkholds exist in every universe and explains the concept of Dreamwalking projecting one's consciousness into one's alternate self and over this raymie shows cross-dissolving montages of wanda's ritual the visuals evoke the dream sequence of rosemary's baby there's surrealism superimposed shots close-ups of the eyes and i love how danny elfman scores this with rock we hear some drums electric
guitar really this is the sound of witchcraft in the 90s to me like the craft buffy the vampire slayer i very Much dig it but mordo drugged the tea with green powder that also powers the cuffs called the sands of nisanti a spell from the comics that prevents the usage of magic for three minutes wanda dreamwalks into another universe's west view house the camera voyeuristically glides in and peeks out from behind the staircase these point of view shots evoking john carpenter's opening shots of halloween the way wanda creeps in here is very much like a
stalker like Michael myers now billy and tommy are watching on the tv a black and white cartoon of oswald and ortenzia a 1928 walt disney short called the sky scrappers now walt disney made oswald shorts for universal before contract dispute led to him launching mickey mouse and steamboat willie so oswald has actually gained a cult following over the years as the mickey who could have been and i just love how he shows up here in this alternate universe now Secret cameos and surprise twists are pleasant surprises when you're watching a new marvel movie just like
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rockstars so they know that i sent you and thanks honey for sponsoring today's video a birthday photo of wanda turns to Stare at her especially creepy since the champagne is still frozen mid-spill the peas roll around on the plate evoking the way the food squirmed around in the kitchen in poltergeist an ocean churns in the coffee cup an early sign of the incursions that dream walking risks an ocean similarly crashed through the post-incursion universe of sinister strange and a dreamwalking wanda takes control of this wanda giving us this chilling moment when elizabeth olsen Looks directly
at the camera breaking the fourth wall as if to tell all of us i see you it's just a really spooky horror trope that we've seen in the closing shots of horror films like psycho and paranormal activity sarah breaks wanda out of this dreamwalking state by stabbing the darkhold and sarah burns crying a single tear so one it turns to torturing rintra and the others to get wong to confess that the darkhold was actually a copy of the spells carved Into the walls of the temple on mount wondergore which in the comics was a place
where the demon cathan inscribed the spells that were eventually drafted into the darkhold book this is also the mountain where in some comics wanda and pietro were actually born in the castle of the high evolutionary we got a nod to that comic backstory in one division with a sighting of bova milk bova being one of the high evolutionaries annie men who nursed wanda and pietro wundegor Mountain is where cathon initially cursed wanda as a baby though in the 616 mcu want a vision established that she was born to arena in oleg maximoff in sokovia though
in that flashback wanda showed she already had as a girl low-level probability hex capabilities so it remains to be seen if the mcu will trace that back to cathodon's curse or if they're going to define wanda as a mutant or both wong takes wanda to that temple where the walls are carved to Look exactly like the scarlet witch page of the dark hole that we saw in juan division episode nine this temple is guarded by hulking creatures that may be based on the ingary c'than's elder spawn minions from the comics but when they take a
knee wanda realizes that the chamber isn't a tomb but a throne the altar she stands on is actually carved with that same horned head figure as we saw on the dark hold cover this is perhaps the horned form of c'thon from The comics meanwhile variant christine explains that they are in dimension 838 and she has designated strange's home universe as 616. 616 is the numerical designation of the primary universe in the comics and until now the mcu has really been considered earth 19999 based on a joke by kevin feige that he planned for the mcu
to run for that many years but now it is firmly codified as 616 which was hinted at in the tva's film strip in loki episode 1 and an easter Egg on a storage locker and end game and interestingly mysterio's line from far from home there are multiple realities peter this is earth dimension 616. i'm from earth 833 now quentin bank was lying in that moment he was reciting a script written by guterman so it's just a total uncanny coincidence that they chose the correct numerical designation or maybe guterman is a tva agent no probably not
now christine compares 616 steven to 838 steven using his hand Injuries a kind of multiversal fingerprint so like for peter parker losing a parent figure and the with great power quote are absolute constants for those variants their hand injuries are the constant and on that screen you can see stephen cell is d23 which is a disney easter egg d for disney 23 for 1923 the year walt disney founded his animation studio christine says that this is the baxter foundation and not of course to the baxter building Headquarters to the fantastic four in the comics strange
speculates that this could be part of the avengers or shield or hydra hydra was an organization that was tracking strange since 2014's captain america winter soldier what targets you bruce banner steven strange anyone who's a threat that being the first time we're at stephen strange mission in the mcu but morto declares the illuminati will see you now the illuminati in the Marvel comics is a six-member group of leaders representing different super factions you got tony stark leader of the avengers charles xavier leader of mutant kind reed richards leader of the fantastic four doctor strange sorcerer
supreme black bolt leader the inhumans and neymar king of atlantis as is the case here though their med lane often gets in their own way serving the illuminati are these ultron sentries which are actually voiced by actor ross Marquan who voiced ultron in what if in red skull infinity war now the baxter foundation hq is in central park of 838 manhattan and the interior is modeled on the lobby of the british museum of london mordo introduces the 838 illuminati lineup including himself naming himself baron carl mordo the character's name from the comics strange dodges the
union jack shield of captain carter leader of the 838 avengers played by hayley atwell looking just as she Does and what if so presumably there are other avengers in this 838 universe then there's captain marvel maria rambo defender of the cosmos lashanna lynch returning from the 2019 captain marvel film presumably from a history where maria not carol danvers was irradiated by that light speed engine then black agar bolt gun aka black bolt leader of the inhumans and keeper of the terrigen mist ons amount reprises the role from abc's short-lived inhuman series now and Humans are
superpower genetic experiments created by the cree who live on the moon black bolts voice releases a powerful sonic blast so the guy rarely talks here he's seen with this tuning fork headgear from the comics terrigen miss meanwhile is the cree technology that creates inhumans via cocoon we actually saw this process with quake in agents of shield intelligent mist may tie into miss marvel since that is how kamala khan gets her powers in the Comics though the disney plus series may be going in a different direction but of course reed richards aka the elastic mr fantastic
of the fantastic four played by fan cast dreamboat john krasinski i like how he teleports in via the square portal which is a completely new kind of tech than we've seen in the mcu seems very much like the kind of tech richards and dr doom used in the comics strange asks if the fantastic four quote charted in the 60s of course comparing them to The beatles similar to the way bruce banner talked about the avengers infinity war broke up like a band like like the beatles and the way toby and andrew thought the avengers was
a band and no way home well you don't have the avengers is that a bad are you in a band now strange is probably just joking but ant-man director peyton reed did pitch doing a fantastic four movies set in the 60s like the beatles movie a hard day's Night and many of us have speculated that the fantastic war could have existed in the 60s of the 616 mcu contemporaries of a younger hank pym the way that in the silver age comics the fantastic four and hank pym ant-man all kind of work together now reed explains
that strange's arrival in 838 risks an incursion which is determined marvel comics for when universes collide like a series of incursions between earth 616 and the ultimate universe of 1610 the Universe of miles morales is what led to the 2015 secret wars event when all these variant heroes and villains met in dr doom's battle world which is why many believe that the mcu might be headed toward a similar event in a fifth avengers crossover film the villain of which in this case might be kang the conqueror because we saw what may have been incursions in
the mcu in miss minute's intro video in loki episode 1 and kevin feige just confirmed that loki And sylvia killing that kang variant he who remains led to the sacred timeline unraveling into various incursions and that's really what set the stage for the crisis of this movie and remember the original kang variant nathaniel richards was a 31st century descendant of reed richards so really this is all connected and of course the sixth member of this illuminati floats in professor charles xavier with patrick stewart returning for the fox x-men franchise we should Tell him the truth
but rather than the exact character from those films which do have their own convoluted timeline in which charles dies in logan this charles has a yellow hover chair a green suit the blue and black tie looking exactly as he does in the 90s animated series actually if you listen closely the music of this moment is ron wasserman's theme music from that series also when they introduce captain carter they bring in alex of esther's captain America theme now there is one more chair that's left empty on this illuminati deus suggesting some past seventh member or just
an extra chair that they keep open now those ultron centuries might suggest a variant iron man since it was his tech that led to this appearance of ultron in the 616 mcu then again in the comics it was hank pym who created ultron so that seventh seat could be his but also in the comics the illuminati originally reached out to T'challa the black panther who ended up deciding not to join the group that might be his seat and the ultron centuries were just created by reed richards so they finally revealed the truth that during their
infinity war conflict with thanos 838 steven used the dark hole to try to find a solution in the multiverse but in doing so accidentally caused an incursion that killed everyone in that alternate universe now reed does say that 838 Steven never told them the details so there's probably more to that backstory now charles uses telepathy to thank goodness show not tell taking us to the day they beat thanos using the book of ashanti look closely at thanos's corpse yikes his double-bladed uber blade is broken and plunged into his chest and importantly his gauntlet does not
yet have all the stones we see the power stone space stone reality stone and soul stones but the mind stone is missing Which tells us that vision may still be alive in 838 838 strange's fingertips are black showing the darkhold's corruption on his soul just like we saw on the fingers of wanda in agatha blackbolt whispers i'm sorry i like how his voice echoes louder and louder with onson mount recording multiple versions of this line building up to a complete shout to school of showing how that sonic blast obliterates strange wanda uses the dark temple
to dreamwalk into 838 wanda's house i like that little detail of her knocking over the dominoes but this also confirms to us that in the 838 dimension wanda had that perfect life with billy and tommy so the mind stone being missing from thanos's gauntlet and vision survival might have been the key difference there so this possessed wanda attacks the baxter foundation and charles tells stephen to get to the book of ashanti and he says just because someone stumbles and loses Their way doesn't mean they're lost forever which is a direct quote from 2014's x-men days
of future past when charles said this line to his younger self just because someone stumbles loses their way it doesn't mean they're lost forever now that movie ended with charles in his first hover chair we saw in live-action film so who knows maybe that restored timeline from days of future past didn't lead to logan it could have led to this and then after Finishing off the ultrons wanda marches in covered in their oil like it is blood recalling that dark moment in age of ultron when she ripped out ultron's heart and just let it bleed
that oil the oil streaks on her face totally evokes spacek and carry which totally influences the blood bath wanda unleashes here also the way her hand bursts out of the darkness later in her mind reminding us of brian de palma's final shot of that movie reed says that He has children of his own and that their mother is alive referring to susan storm the invisible woman and their children franklin richards and valeria richards in confirming that lineage that will one day lead to nathaniel richards kang wanda erases blackbolt's mouth like neo in the matrix and
folks this is the most horrific death we have seen in the mcu and i hate to do this but we gotta go through it here just think about it black bolt does not have to scream the Guy spends most of his time not at all using his vocal cords but it's just the panic of his mouth being erased that rattles him to his core so he ends up making the worst possible mistake of vocalizing anything that scream ricochets around his jaw you can see it glowing on the other side of his skin until it amplifies
and amplifies and goes back into his brain blood blowing out of his nose his eyes bulging a bit and his skull blows out the back then Caving in and then brains oozing out the side as his tuning fork flickers out god almighty then reed makes the mistake of attacking and wanda unravels his elastic body into ribbons and then pops his head like a pinata so then peggy and maria jump in peggy using jetpack thrusters that she presumably got from reed peggy spits out some blood and then quotes cap's iconic line of i can do this
all day but then poor peggy gets severed at the midsection by your own shield Actually if you look closely after that shield goes through peggy is still initially in one piece but as the camera refocuses on the shield in the foreground her blurry form in the background slumps forward but in two halves and then wanda collapses a statue on maria at least for maria it can be an open coffin i mean each of these four actors must have been directed on how to emote their own deaths but there is no way all these actors were
on set with Each other or told how each other would die because they should be screaming and horror otherwise these four must be pretty desensitized to people dying this way charles enters wanda's mind depicted as a white void where he's able to walk he was a black turtleneck and beyond that door is a pile of rubble including the tv set playing the intro to one division episode one air sirens raid in this rebels clearly the rebel that wanda and pietro were buried under in sokovia When stark warhead landed in their home but the scarlet witch's
red cloud closes in and she snaps his neck making this the third time we have had to see patrick stewart charles xavier die now all these marvel heroes coming together to try to stop the scarlet witch who does not care who she hurts that she tries to be with her kids or block points inspired directly by the house of m comic event but whereas that story goes deeper and deeper into x-men lore Make some major moves on whether or not they even exist in reality this movie's connections to mutant kind stop right here so strange
american christine flee as wanda chases them her eyes glowing red looking a lot like her zombie form from those episodes of what if they find the hatch the waypoint in the book of ashanti but it is locked requiring a special key strange's wristwatch given them to him by christine another absolute element shared by all strangers So they get to the book of ashanti in the gap junction but wanda attacks and a page from the book burns out showing a star if you look closely so remember the dark hold page showed the scarlet witch this book
shows america chavez's symbol proof that the girl was destined to be the perfect antidote to the dark sorcery of the scarlet witch and strange sees this page burn which is how he knows what to tell america in that final act strange and christine get banished to a Post-incursion universe which slowly melts that melting looking a lot like the way reality eroded in what if episode 4 after strange broke an absolute point and they passed a floating honey beige 1973 oldsmobile delta 88 the same car sam raimi puts in all of his movies it was uncle
ben's car in the spider-man movies and appeared in the evil dead series and in drag me to hell now you'll notice this incursion universe has two red streaks racing Through it the same color as that looming crescent shape beyond the sanctum stairway now kids what are crescents crescents of course are formed by the shadow of the earth on the moon from the light of the sun behind us so i wonder if this crescent could be this dead world's shadow being cast on the other world that collided into it maybe earth 838 the reality of 838
strange that collided into this universe the dimension of sinister strange that could Have been the unseen annihilation that the illuminati referred to 838 strange might have used the dark hole to dreamwalk into sinister strange and sinister strange tried to cast him out and that war between the two dragged their worlds together in a way that killed everyone and sinister strange's universe that could bend the war that he lost that he was talking about and the guilt over winning that war might have been what 838 strange confessed to the Rest of the illuminati and now these
two streaks might represent the lifelines of those two universes synced forever parallel but never touching yet still way too close i mean the creepiest detail about this place is the fact that a freaking field of bones stretches in front of the sanctum everyone in this reality died from an incursion but no human remains are visible anywhere else that means that these unfortunate souls of this universe led to the sanctum Looking for sanctuary begging this strange to save him and he watched as they died strange brings up their dead sister donna whom he says fell in
the ice when they were kids in the comics donna drowned after getting a cramp in a swimming pool sinister strange reveals a third eye on his forehead now strange sometimes has the third eye in the comics as a manifestation of the eye of agamotto a way of showing the mystical sight that the ancient one referred to When she touched this spot on his head open your eyes but in this case the third eye represents the twisted evil of the darkhold the curse of kathan living on these two strangest duel sinister strangest sorcery is purple the
same color of agatha's magic the color of the dark dimension and dormammu which is something that's going to play a very big role as dormammu's niece clea shows up in the post-credits scene to work With a strange with three eyes during the fight strange grabs the piano making that same horror music sting that up until now in this movie has meant fear but instead now he weaponizes the fear to lift the music notes off the page each note making the same note it would if you were to play it on the piano i love this
music duel so much swedish strange blocks the notes by conjuring the five lines of a scale which is how you would contain loose notes and sheet Music and forming a new arrangement which plays as johan sebastian box famous organ chords [Music] [Applause] strange launches sinister strange out the window impaling them on the fence like saruman but the third eye still opens because the evil lives so strange now uses the dark hole to dreamwalk into the one strange still left in 616 the buried defender strange resurrecting the Corpse now remember earlier wong told wanda that no
sorcerer can pass the barrier to whitagor temple so those souls of the dam that attack defender strange are not just an obstacle using them by turning them into a new cloak is literally the only way strange could fly over there that's just a really smart example of what screenwriters call economy of story repurposing story elements we thought were just set dressing or characterization or raised Stakes like the defender strange corpse the watch strange scene a star page in the book of ashanti these souls of the damned and instead giving them new practical functions for the
hero to advance so when a bunch of nerds in your movie theater started applauding in this moment going yes it isn't just because we love sam raimi's zombie i mean we do it's because this moment was a culmination of all these seeds that were planted throughout the movie now when The souls of the damned attacks christine she banishes them with the breezier of bomb goliath the same artifact strange tried to use on kaiselius in the 2016 film you don't know how to use that do you ah yeah so that is why gaisel is hesitated that
thing could have banished him to hell strange arrives with the damned soul cape and wanda says dreamwalking you hypocrite the same thing kaiselius Shouted at the ancient one when she used dark dimension magic hypocrite now realizing america's power is needed to beat wanda strange repeats this is the only way so once again we have looped back to the opening scene a defender strange must once again face this moral quandary of sacrifice in america this time though america accepts her fate so why does strange now make a different choice what has changed what makes this strange
different well this strange Trusts america to control her own power because every portal she opened in this film has brought them to where they needed to go remember this is the same strange who looked at 14 million six century five paths and found the one correct path for his life and so unlike all the other strangers who are always seeking a better life including 838 strange who looked in a different universe for one our strange finally realizes he has gratitude for the path That he is on because folks the true ideal of america is not
the pursuit of happiness it's gratitude for what we have so america punches wanda first into hell i love that that's where she thinks she needs to go but america learns that the better destination for wanda is just to give the woman what she wants her west view home where her sons actually see her true nature now based on the other wandest bruises this is actually 838 the same wanda that she possessed Earlier interesting how now on the tv is snow white in the seven dwarves remember in the alt universe there was an alt universe walt
disney short starring oswald the lucky rabbit but in this one it's the iconic walt disney first feature length animated film snow white and seven dwarves also remember a story with an evil witch queen that haunted me as a little kid so these poor boys are on pins and needles about an evil witch queen coming in through a portal into Their living room and despite being possessed into doing horrible things this other wanda forgives the scarlet witch assuring her that these boys will be loved telling the mother what she needs to hear and so wanda collapses
the temple on herself and she destroys the dark holes in every reality and while it seems like 616 wanda may be dead we do still have this other wanda who was there for all the craziest that happened in this movie awanda who Remember shares this 838 reality with mutants with the fantastic four so some version of the house of m no more mutants moment may be on the way in the mcu in the final scenes of this movie strange gets closure with christine he leaves america in training at camertaj and finally gives sorcerer supreme wong
the bow he deserves and most importantly he finally fixes the broken watch the camera transitioning from the broken lens to clarity but that clear vision Proves itself a curse in the final shot of the film the man is seen too well with three eyes as the curse of the dark gold lives on it's a scarlet letter for his sins and a new unhealable wound for the surgeon to suffer now i broke down the post-credit scenes in another video and we got lots of multiverse madness videos coming down the pipeline so subscribe for more takes on
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