What to watch to catch up before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

polygon.com:

After six long years of team-ups and cosmic threats, Doctor Strange is finally back for his own movie. Quite a bit has changed for Stephen Strange since he became the Sorcerer Supreme back in his first solo movie. For one thing, he’s opened up the chaos of the infinite multiverse, which means things could get a little complicated for the sequel.

To help you get ready for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we’ve put together a few lists of the movies you should catch up on. Of course, you could just watch all the Marvel movies again, but that’s a lot of work and you’re probably not going get a lot of Iron Man 2 references out of the MCU’s latest addition to the franchise.

The first two sections are what you should watch if you hope to pick up on all the important story beats of Doctor Strange’s latest adventure. They’re probably not necessary for understanding the story, but watching these six movies, two series, and two episodes will help quite a bit. The last section is entirely optional, but it has a few of our best (and most ridiculous) guesses about which cameos could turn out to be important.

[Ed. note: This post may or may not contain spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — it really depends on how good we are at guessing.]

This list is mostly all of the movies that brought Stephen Strange to where he is at the beginning of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The list has his origin story, his biggest battles, and his worst decisions. But it’s also got a few added bonuses, like Loki, to help give you a crash course in Marvel’s multiverse, as well as Doctor Strange’s animated What If...? episode, just to let you know how weird and bad things could get in the infinite