Three Doctor Strange sequel theories you need to know

Dr. Strange is finally getting his second solo outing in 2021, but the title, we don’t know much about it. Granted, the title is pretty evocative all on its own: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

And that’s enough for many Marvel fans, who have come from all corners of the internet with ideas about where the story could be going. Rather than throw them all at you, though, we’re going to go through some of the recent ones we’ve seen and see if they actually make something resembling sense.

Nightmare will be the villain

This one comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which theorizes that Nightmare, a villain in the comics, might use Wanda’s grief over Vision’s death in Avengers: Infinity War as an entry point to start changing reality in different dimensions, possibly also warping what some heroes look like, with the use of Wanda’s powers.

To be honest, this all sounds perfectly plausible. The first Doctor Strange had a multidimensional being as its villain — Dormammu — and it helped set the movie apart from other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And Nightmare has his own dimension, it would certainly open the way to the “multiverse of madness” in the title.

Tobey Maguire’s Spider-universe will appear

Comicbook.com has picked up this theory, which suggests that Stephen Strange might get the crossover that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse didn’t: the first cinematic adaptations of Spider-Man. It all has to do with Doctor Strange getting a brief shout-out in 2004’s Spider-Man 2, implying that he does exist in that universe. If you want to play this to the extreme, we could get two Doctor Stranges working with each other, one probably younger than the other, for a brief time.

This one seems like a stretch. It might get a return shout-out, but this seems like something that should be saved for Into the Spider-Verse 2.

Blade will get worked in somehow

Blade is also confirmed for the MCU, although his movie isn’t even close to being scheduled. ScreenRant proposes that he’ll show up early, though, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness thanks to it being more of a horror film. Could the dimension-ripping let vampires into the MCU, necessitating Blade’s intervention? Or will Doctor Strange’s investigation lead him to a hunter already working in the shadows? Honestly, even more than Nightmare, this one could work very well.

One piece of the universe setting up another has been used to great effect before, with Black Panther a good example thanks to his appearance in Captain America: Civil War leading to his own solo film.

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All in all, it’s a long wait for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 7, 2021, but there’s plenty of time to dive into theories and see where the other upcoming films take us.

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