Doctor Strange 2's Entire Ending Is A Plot Hole
Warning: This post contains spoilers forDoctor Strange 2.
For all of its box office success, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness' ending has a serious problem: it's one big plot hole. Despite setting up America Chavez's arc as her finding her parents, Doctor Strange 2's ending takes a hard left turn, having her stay on Earth 616. That seemingly replaces her drive to find a family and a place in the multiverse but ignores one of the biggest rules the MCU sequel establishes.
At the end of Doctor Strange 2, America opts to stay in Kamar Taj as a student of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, learning magic presumably as a means to better control her existing powers. But the Illuminati's warnings about meddling in other universes and changing them rings loud in the memory, and it's confusing to note why America's presence in the MCU's Earth 616 doesn't cause an incursion that kills everyone there. There may be logic to it, but crucially, Multiverse of Madness forgets to actually spell it out.
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Even with the implied loophole that America is unique in the multiverse, the rules introduced in Doctor Strange 2 pose a problem. There can be no way that America Chavez's presence in any universe wouldn't be counted as significant, regardless of her not causing a paradox with other versions of herself. After all, the incursion rules never actually spell out that it's those interactions that are problematic. Why else would the MCU's Illuminati have discounted Scarlet Witch as a problem for the multiverse, despite her dreamwalking enough to find a single, unique individual among countless universes? In the absence of concrete rules, it makes no sense that America could rip
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