Doctor Strange 2 Has Made Kang's Multiverse War Inevitable
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness secretly revealed the rules of engagement in the coming multiversal war–and made Kang the Conqueror's triumph inevitable. "The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little," Stephen Strange observed in Spider-Man: No Way Home. He now knows a lot more, of course, after getting something of a crash-course courtesy of America Chavez.
The multiverse has been a background element of the MCU since 2013 when theoretical physicist Erik Selvig scrawled words related to it on a chalkboard. But it's only now, in Phase 4, that the multiverse is increasingly driving the narrative. Loki established the origin of the multiverse and set up Kang the Conqueror as its greatest villain, foretelling a coming multiversal conflict between different variants of the warlord. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has gone one step further, revealing some of the multiversal rules determining how that war is fought.
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Marvel didn't actually hold a creative summit on the multiverse's rules until after production had completed on Loki and Doctor Strange 2. Marvel has cultivated the idea of an MCU masterplan, but in reality, like viewers, they were left looking back at the basic rules that had been established and figuring out how to put the various ideas together. Fortunately, these two stories establish so much that should really prove vital going forward.
The origin of the MCU's multiverse was revealed in Loki. The premiere included an entertaining animated infodump presented by Miss Minutes, in which she explained the
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