America Chavez's Mothers In The Comics (& What Happened To Them)
Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduced multiversal traveler America Chavez and a mysterious backstory about her mothers – but who are Amalia and Elena Chavez, and what happened to them in the comics? Doctor Strange 2 didn’t show much of America Chavez’s (Xochitl Gomez) past, as even her name was made known to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) after the second fight between Stephen and America and the demonic monsters sent after her. However, a bit of America’s story was revealed by a shop she and Stephen encountered on Earth-838, letting passers-by see their memories play out on a screen.
This led to deeply emotional memories from both Stephen and America being played out before their eyes, allowing the pair to understand more about each other and foster some trust between them. It also offered a glimpse of the backstory of America Chavez, who would’ve appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home had it been released after Doctor Strange 2 as initially planned. In America’s memory in Doctor Strange 2, two women could be seen walking with a younger America and hugging her before being swallowed by a star-shaped interdimensional portal, accidentally created by America but for which she always felt guilty, as it made her mothers disappear.
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Yet, in the original Marvel comics, Amalia and Elena Chavez’s story is quite different. Both medical researchers from the Bronx, Amalia was a microbiologist, while Elena was a pathologist. The Utopian Parallel, which America believed to be in another universe in Doctor Strange 2, was instead a private island of Long Island owned by billionaire Mr.
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