What Could Multiverse Of Madness Be Setting Up For Loki Season 2?
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
From Sam Raimi’s direction to Danny Elfman’s score to the breathtaking performances to the stunning visual effects, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has been widely praised for various things. But Michael Waldron’s script has been heavily criticized for its overuse of exposition dumps and its focus on worldbuilding over plot. The emotional arcs feel like an afterthought while the setups for Marvel’s multiversal future take precedent (at least in the first and second acts before it becomes a full-blown Raimi horror movie with zombified Strange teaming up with the souls of the damned to fight the Scarlet Witch).
Waldron was already in Marvel’s pocket when the Doctor Strange sequel needed a new writer, as he’d been the head writer of Loki in its first season. When Waldron was asked about the connections between his various MCU projects in an interview with The Playlist, he cryptically teased, “It’s all intertwined and it all stands alone.” This is exactly the kind of spoiler-free answer that Marvel’s creatives are trained to deliver. If anything, this quote created more buzz for Multiverse of Madness because it was unclear if, on top of everything else, it would also manage to cram in a few references to the events of Loki.
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Alas, Multiverse of Madness doesn’t have any overt connections to Loki. There are no cameo appearances by Sylvie or Mobius or Loki himself and Strange doesn’t stumble across the Citadel at the End of Time. During their jaunt through various alternate realities, Strange and America Chavez never stop off in one of the familiar universes from
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