Doctor Strange 2 Writer Reveals The Darker Alternate Ending For The Sequel
Wrapping up on an interesting note that presented many uncertainties for Stephen Strange moving forward in the MCU, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness originally had a much darker ending for the sorcerer, according to writer Michael Waldron.
After the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Doctor Strange sequel follows Benedict Cumberbatch's sorcerer hero through the alternate realities of the multiverse as he is forced to make new allies in order to defeat new threats. One of those threats is his evil variant corrupted by the Darkhold.
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After traversing the multiverse and killing his evil variant, who used The Book of the Damned's dark magic to dream walk and murder other versions of Strange as he searched for a reality where he could be with Christine Palmer, Stephen Strange of Earth-616 returns to his universe with his supernatural third eye. But that ending wasn't always the case. According to ComicBook, Walrdon opened up about the film's alternate and much darker ending on the digital release's audio commentary. «Strange gets trapped in that [incursion] universe … and then [Sinister Strange] turns around, and the third eye opens,» said Waldron.
The film instead chose to end on another cliffhanger to end on, as one of the end-credit scenes shows Strange crossing paths with a sorceress named Clea, played Charlize Theron, who warns him that his actions have triggered an incursion that he must help fix. Strange then agrees to follow her into the Dark Dimension (the timeless dimension inhabited by Dormammu seen in the first film). «The Multiverse has forced a mirror up in front of his face, and has made him do some self-reflecting, that I think he's
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