How Loki Set Up Doctor Strange's Spider-Man: No Way Home Mistake
Kevin Feige explains how the events of Loki allowed Doctor Strange's Spider-Man: No Way Home mistake to happen. Benedict Cumberbatch is gearing up for his next MCU film with Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Doctor Strange sequel is set up by the sorcerer's involvement in Peter Parker's latest adventure, where he deals with the fallout of some of his actions from No Way Home.
Spider-Man sought out Doctor Strange for help after his secret identity as Spider-Man was revealed by Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home. With Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) gone, the sorcerer was compelled to aid the troubled Avenger. Doctor Strange's plan was quite straightforward — cast a spell that would make everyone forget that Peter is Spider-Man. Unfortunately, the haphazard way he executed it caused massive issues resulting in the spell exposing Earth to multiversal threats. In the end, the pair was able to rectify the situation, but it put Doctor Strange in trouble with the Illuminati — something that will be tackled in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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Apparently, the events of Loki, despite happening outside of the Sacred Timeline, set up Doctor Strange's catastrophic incantation to go through in Spider-Man: No Way Home. As explained by Feige during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' red carpet premiere covered by Marvel Entertainment, He Who Remains' (Jonathan Majors) death allowed the spell to go wrong. Read his full answer below:
Loki and Sylvie did something at the end of that series. And sort of allowed all of this to be possible. He Who Remains is gone and that allowed a spell to go wrong in
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