Film Theory: 5 Post-Multiverse of Madness Theories (Doctor Strange)

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Theorists, I made some predictions about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness right before the release of the movie. Now that it is out I can say, I was RIGHT! Well, mostly. It's time to talk about the future of the MCU (again) and what we should expect in the aftermath of the madness that was this movie.

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Bob Chipman
Editors: Forrest Lee and Koen Verhagen
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (viridianrosette)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[ahmedshaharyarejaz]

The idea that Wanda could just go to a Universe where she died but her kids and Vision are still alive is just so obvious it kind of hurts.

[Welcometotheslam]

It's honestly kind of hilarious how the movie sorta implies that Doctor Strange is maidenless in every timeline.

[FalseCode]

Wanda was seeing those universes thanks to the corrupting power of the Darkhold. Pretty simple explanation why she didn't witness any universes where her children were dead but she was alive, the Darkhold didn't want her to see a fairy tale solution the Darkhold wanted to lead Wanda on a path of as much chaotic destruction as possible.

[Phosfit]

I think the movie hosting Wanda as the villain just dulled the film altogether. Though i couldn't get hype abt most of her screentime, the film makers REALLY hit a home run with America Chavez showing Wanda how her kids are terrified of who she's become. That was the most human emotionally realistic scene i've seen in the movie.

[wickedshaggy]

I think everyone keeps missing that Wanda straight removed Captain Marvel's powers right before she crushed her. You can see her glow disappearing, her face looking in horror as she is slammed to the ground then the pillar crushing her

[unknownvariable]

Just remember there’s a universe where all of MatPat’s MCU theories are true

[kan]

Honestly with the whole Wanda suicide by falling rocks thing, I found it quite enjoyable to see her method of suicide be 'pick up and drop massive object', felt like a subtle nod to Ultron's plan to, well, 'pick up and drop massive object'

[Dark-uxbi]

5:41 well if you noticed in the movie, right before the statue falls on her, her helmet deactivates, and her suit is tied to and powered by her powers. which means the reason she was able to die to a simple statue falling on her was because wanda had absorbed her powers right before hand, during the explosion.

[xdecatron]

I have seen absolutely no one talk about how this movie explicitly states that EVERY dream that everyone has is a vision of an alternate universe. I don’t specifically remember any dream sequences in the MCU, but I would LOVE to see a video on the implications of this crazy claim!

[AdamNYLONSTROKE]

I just saw doctor strange MoM last night and the whole time I was thinking:

All they need is to get Clint Barton to show up and give Wanda a pep talk and that would have solved everything.

[justsomejerseydevilwithint]

3:03 Multiverse of Madness is also a reference to one of wanda's most apocalyptic storylines; in the comics, wanda at one point has a _complete mental breakdown_ after the events of Wandavision, and as her mind frays, _so does the rest of reality, _ shattering apart like the hexes of glass in the Wandavision outro; even using that "Shattering hexes" design, which the outro of wandavision is a nod to, so as wanda goes mad, the multiverse is destroyed, multiverse of madness, in wanda's red? it made too much sense to me, even before the Wandavision T.V. show

[cadidaddi]

Your theory at the 11:03 mark was proven true in the second episode of the show of Ms. Marvel. Listen for a line of dialogue Bruno tells her mid-episode.

[magehunter]

Wanda wasn’t satisfied with just one universe with her kids because she wanted there to be literally no possibility of losing them. She said if they caught an illness that universe couldn’t cure, there’s another universe out there that has it. Hence why she wanted America’s power, a guarantee that she could never lose her loved ones again because for any problem, at least one universe has a solution

[JBKiser]

Wanda absorbed Captain Marvel's powers and removed her suit, so she was just a regular person when the stone statue thing fell on her and killed her. So nothing to doubt.

[a_dmon]

For those that are watching this AFTER Ms Marvel started, her powers in the new tv series is based on Noor (otherwise known as light energy) that comes from the dimension of Noor and also exists inside of the creatures from it, including their descendants if they have any outside the dimension.

That is the case with this iteration of Kamala Khan whose great-grandmother is a being known as a Clandestine/Djinn from the Noor dimension. Clandestines native to Noor can NOT use their full range of abilities outside of Noor without 2 bracelets (at least that's the current assumption based on what happened so far) to trigger their powers while hybrids, beings descended from a Noor ancestor, can access most, if not all, of the powers of Clandestines with one bracelet.

[Jaundyce]

Your stock picture of Century Theaters @1:30 is literally the theater we go to. It always get a kick out of seeing it pop up in your videos

[mr.prankster]

About the whole "captain marvel dying under a rock" thing, upon rewatching the movie, I think they meant for Scarlet Witch to have stripped away Maria's powers (there's a big yellowy explosion and Captain Marvel no longer shines, stops flying to fall to the ground before getting crushed). So that's that.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

14:20
When Secret Wars does end up happening, it’ll probably surpass Endgame and Infinity War. I’m pretty excited when The Beyonders are finally introduced to the MCU.

[Maximise]

A big misconception about infinity:

Multiverses and infinite universes doesn't mean there is a universe where some event HAS to have happened aka there MUST be a universe where steven does get the girl right? or there must be a universe where Wanda could slot in perfectly without power stealing, where all diseases have been cured, and no risk of harm could ever come to her family right?


Nope. That's not what infinity means.

I want you to count even numbers. 2, 4, 6, 8. Keep counting to infinity. Tell me when you count an odd number. Tell me when you count a letter. Is the string of numbers you are counting any less infinite because they don't include these possibilities? No, you're still counting an infinite string. But within that infinity you will NEVER count an odd number.

Just because things are infinite doesn't mean they include everything.

[woodrobin]

While there is something to the notion that she could find a universe where she died and her kids survived and slot herself into the missing part of their lives, the universes she can connect to are ones where a version of her exists. She's connecting to their waking lives via her dreams (and presumably the reverse is occurring as well, them seeing parts of her life in dreams). No living Wanda, no dream connection, no beacon to home in on. So those universes may exist, but she'd have no way to navigate to them. I suppose she could find a way to tap into someone else's dreams who would have reason to interact with her children and navigate to that universe by following that person's dreams, but Vision seems the most likely person . . . Do Androids Dream of Improbable Children?

In the comics, Wanda is a Nexus Being, meaning a version of her exists in every universe. So she wouldn't be able to find one where she died before another nexus being was in place to replace her, because the structure of the universe would not allow that to occur. She's a fixed fact. Every universe has a Nexus Being, each acts as a node anchoring and focusing that universe's mystical energy, and two Nexus Beings can't exist in the same universe. So it's only Wanda who can't go to another universe except by projecting, because there can't be two Nexus Beings in the same universe at the same time. That rule obviously doesn't apply to Peter Parkers 1, 2, and 3, for instance.