DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE Reportedly Considered A Surprising Supervillain For Earth-838's Illuminati
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GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/14/2022, 12:08 PM
If you zoom in on one of the Illuminati chairs it looks like whoever is sitting there has some sort of necklace on. Maybe a variant Black Panther.
Schme83
Schme83 - 2/14/2022, 4:42 PM
@BlackBeltJones - I saw that too. For those wondering it’s the person sitting on the far left.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 2/16/2022, 6:09 PM
@BlackBeltJones @Schme83 - I think I'm really the only one out here thinking it's either Mr. Fantastic (preferably Gruffurd's) or Black Bolt as it kinda looked like a white collar to me
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 2/14/2022, 12:16 PM
In Raimi I trust. That trailer won me over. I'm more excited for this than even The Batman now, all be it for different reasons.
Repian
Repian - 2/14/2022, 12:18 PM
I can imagine Superior Iron Man and Ultron as A.I. of the armor.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 2/14/2022, 4:37 PM
@Repian -
JonC
JonC - 2/15/2022, 12:41 PM
@SonOfAGif - Ultimate Iron Man... can't see it being CM or Rambeau
Juggernaut2021
Juggernaut2021 - 2/16/2022, 10:43 AM
@SonOfAGif - not buying it, looks like exactly the same to me with some shadows.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 2/16/2022, 12:27 PM
@SonOfAGif - Those are the same person...
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 2/16/2022, 6:04 PM
@Juggernaut2021 - same here. Just mostly looks like Maria Rambeau to me
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/14/2022, 12:21 PM
According to leaks (which this trailer proved right) movie goes something like this (POTENTIAL MASSIVE SPOILERS INCOMING):

The reason why Strange is on "trial" is because he [frick]ed up reality in Infinity War, Thanos was suppoused to win.
Since then, the MCU is trying to fix itself, and this is causing all the multiverse problems we saw in Loki, Wandavision, and NWH.
The "judges" are The Illuminati, and they are formed by Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) from the Fox movies, Tony Stark (Tom Cruise) from a universe where Tony actually managed to create his "armor around the world" and the Avengers kicked Thanos's ass went he came to Earth, and according to one source, Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) from the Ang Lee movie (I think this is BS, because we see only three chairs in the trailer).
The children Wanda hears are the children of her Fox variant, the "twist" in the second act of the movie is the revelation that she used Strange to access that universe, she is the real antagonist of the film, so she goes to the Fox universe and fights the X-Men (the original cast, although no mention of Hugh Jackman), in the process she pretty much "breaks" that universe, and now both the MCU and the Fox universes are [frick]ed up.
Big third act fight with heroes from all the universes (the original X-Men, the 4F from the early '00s movies, Tobey's Spiderman, and some claim Chris Evans's Johnny Storm also appears) fighting an army of demonds unleashed by another variant of Strange.
Wanda realices the mess she caused, and sacrificed herself to merge both universes (only way to save them), so now mutants exists in the MCU, although there is no mention of the same actors playing the "new" variants created in this new universe.

Again, while the trailer proved some of these leaks, and we just saw how accurate the NWH leaks were, take this with a big grain of salt.
rebellion
rebellion - 2/14/2022, 12:51 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - the last two paragraphs arent from the same leak and were tacked on by people making stuff up.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/14/2022, 1:31 PM
@rebellion - The summary is from various sources, the last two paragraphs were "confirmed" by more than two, while only one talked about Eric Bana playing Bruce Banner, that is why I doubt its true.
Fogs
Fogs - 2/14/2022, 2:09 PM
@rebellion - yeah, I haven't read of the "demons unleashed by an Strange variant" yet.
Menks123
Menks123 - 2/14/2022, 2:39 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - Yeah a lot of that sounds off and I will definitely point to Wanda sacrificing herself. Marvel ain't going to let the character die off with her popularity right now lol.

But I can see her doing some kind of realization and being the turning factor in the 3rd act.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/14/2022, 3:16 PM
@Menks123 - Yeah, she is really popular, but she already had her own TV show, and might be the character with the biggest character development in the entire MCU, where do you go after this?

And if you asked me about the leaks 24 hours ago, I would've told you "you are insane if you think Tom Cruise is in the movie", but the Ultron Bots and Patrick Stewart pretty much confirms it, so these leaks might be true, just like they were for NWH.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 2/14/2022, 12:37 PM


Welcome Professor.
IcePyke
IcePyke - 2/14/2022, 2:22 PM
@Doomsday8888 -
WaffeX
WaffeX - 2/14/2022, 12:50 PM
Is White Vision in this movie?
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 2/14/2022, 1:35 PM
I'm kinda shocked they gave away as much as they did. I just hope all the cameos and things don't take away from strange, though after Civil War and Spider-Man, Marvel has earned the benefit of the doubt
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 2/14/2022, 3:02 PM
@MyCoolYoung - it makes me think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/14/2022, 3:21 PM
@MyCoolYoung - Makes you wonder if Profesor X is the smallest reveal.
I think it is.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 2/15/2022, 1:08 AM
@TheHumanSpider2 - it has to be. They promised a trippy foray into the multiverse so we shall see
DoubleD
DoubleD - 2/14/2022, 2:24 PM
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness looks like the Universes are in serious trouble because of Dr. Strange pass mistakes in Spider-Man.

Which also includes letting Thanos destroy the Time Stone.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/14/2022, 3:23 PM
@DoubleD - If you believe in leaks, the events in NWH were a consequence, not a cause.
Dr Strange is responsable for thinking he could manipulate destiny/reality/time without consequences.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 2/14/2022, 3:25 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - This trailer told me all that. The trailer had a lot of information in it.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 2/14/2022, 3:03 PM
Been confirmed who the main villain is and that is Dr. Strange mistakes. Disappointed if it is.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 2/16/2022, 6:07 PM
@DoubleD - I think that evil Strange might still be the final villain of the movie. Or maybe even the zombie Defender Strange.

Definitely something Strange had a hand in
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 2/14/2022, 3:28 PM
Man, this trailer really cranked it up a notch from an anticipation perspective. Really pumped for this one. Seems like so much going on and so many possibilities, but it really seems like they might have nailed it here. Also, Elizabeth Olsen...such a damn fine looking woman.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 2/14/2022, 3:44 PM
After all of Dr. Stranges mistakes there is only one hero that can restore the Multi-Verse that's the Cosmic Hulk.

DartOfHarkness
DartOfHarkness - 2/14/2022, 4:58 PM
It looks pretty good. The one thing bothering me is the heroes from other universes. Not only do I wish they'd start fresh with characters we've seen before from the foxmwn and possibly others, but their mere existence,the fact they've been doing their thing long enough to have formed the Illuminati and not being in contact with anyone from the MCU, immediately puts the MCU at the kiddie table in the hierarchy of the multiverse. Now the MCU characters are running around the multiverse f'ing up things, it's almost like the Illuminati would almost have the right to say "We're better than you, you know it and you're proving it to everyone."
Knightrider
Knightrider - 2/14/2022, 6:49 PM
@DartOfHarkness - You could argue that the MCU is the kid at the table as these other universes started earlier. That doesn’t mean the MCU is weaker, just that it like stony Stark finding out he is part of a much bigger universe the MCU has found out it is part of a much bigger multiverse
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