Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Ending Explained: Who Is The New Female Character Asking Strange For Help?
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the new film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Michael Waldron (Loki, Rick and Morty) that once again brings, to the big screen, the most powerful of the House of Ideas after its origin story in Doctor Strange, released in 2016. The central focus of the film is the great theme of the Multiverse that we have seen directly in other works of the MCU and which takes hold with new drifts, styles and roads that the author of the Spider-Man enjoys pursuing, while adhering to the dictates imposed by Marvel Studios. Experimentation and canon and of course, also scenes after the credits.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, of course, does not depart from this all-Marvelian tradition that has always allowed, for better or for worse, to connect the various titles of the vast world of superheroes and anti-heroes inaugurated in 2007 with Iron Man. We inform you that, within the article, we will make clear SPOILERS on the film, to analyze both the conclusion of the feature film and the two post-credits sequences more precisely.
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: The Explanation Of The Film’s Ending
In the final part of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness we witness the defeat of Wanda Maximoff (who has the face of Elizabeth Olsen), who, once again, ended up in a universe where she lives with her sons Tommy and Billy (thanks to the skills of America Chavez) realizes that she is the villain of the story and that because of her obsession she has become the monster she never believed. In tears, Scarlett returns to the altar of Mount Wundagore, where he used the dark powers then transcribed on the Darkhold and finally decides to bring down the place, to prevent such demonic calls from corrupting someone else in the future. In doing so, the super heroine ends up in the rubble and her fate is uncertain.
After that, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) ends up in the universe of the evil Strange, where our protagonist was manipulating his corpse version in the world of the MCU and rescues him from this dimension, but first our Stephen (Benedict Cumberbatch) finally succeeds to declare his feelings for Christine Palmer (played by Rachel McAdams ) and make peace with himself. The protagonists return to Kamar-Taj where the young Chavez is trained by Wong (Benedict Wong) and the other wizards, before leaving Dr. Strange thanks Wong for his work, bowing in respect for his role as Sorcerer Supreme.
The superhero protagonist returns to his old life in the Sanctorum, repairs the watch given to him by Christine, revealing his will to go on, while, suddenly, a sound of a distorted guitar anticipates the appearance of a third eye on his forehead, of the which was also in possession of his evil version. Could the Darkhold’s powers have compromised Stephen’s abilities forever? Will this have consequences in the future? Knowing Raimi, this macabre detail could be a simple reminder of his journey through the Multiverses, but perhaps also a burden to carry.
What Happens In The Post-Credits Scenes? Who Is The New Female Character Asking Strange For Help?
The first post-credits scene sticks perfectly to the strange sequence we told you about earlier in the finale. While Dr. Strange is strolling the streets of New York, he is joined by a mysterious woman from what appears to be the dark dimension that appeared within Doctor Strange (2016) where Dormammu , the Destroyer of Worlds, resides. The enigmatic figure, wearing an elaborate purple costume, is played by celebrated Charlize Theron (The Old Guard, Mad Max: Fury Road) who makes her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Clea.
This unexpected cameo of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which among other things had already been anticipated by some rumors that later proved to be true, is very interesting because Clea, in the comics, is just Dormammu’s niece, but she is also the love interest of our favorite surgeon. Within the sequence of the film, the woman asks Strange for a hand because the fate of reality is at stake, but we don’t know who the Doctor will have to fight to preserve our world. Perhaps the comics still come to our aid: in the original stories, Clea, initially reluctant, collaborates with Stephen to defeat his uncle Dormammu who we remember having come to terms, in the first of Doctor Strange, with the protagonist, and for this reason he is not been defeated.
Is it possible then that the powerful cosmic entity wants to reclaim its role within the universes, attempting again to conquer the Earth? Surely, knowing the strategies implemented by Feige, we will see links to this storyline in the next films or series in order to understand where we want to go. Before talking about the second scene after the credits which, we anticipate, is useless in the sense of the world of the House of Ideas, there is a small but fundamental element to underline: there is the appearance of the writing “Doctor Strange will return “. Contrary to what one might think, our favorite sorcerer could be the protagonist of another feature film (maybe even by Raimi, why not, but you have to see the takings) or even a show on the small screen.
Returning to us, the other post-credits sequence of Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness takes up a moment already present within the film, specifically the scene in which the magical superhero, meeting a hot-dog salesman in the reality of the Illuminati, to prove that he is the real Strange, he casts a spell at him that forces him to suffer his own punches. This stranger is played by Bruce Campbell, historical fetish actor of Raimi (the iconic Ash from The Army of Darkness) who in the sequence after the credits, once the spell is over, addresses the audience in the room by simply saying: “It’s over!”.
