Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: 10 HUGE Missed Opportunities
10. A Lack Of Multiversal Exploration
The name is a dead giveaway, but this movie was always going to be about the multiverse. The theory goes that there are literally infinite universes throughout the multiverse, meaning that if you can imagine something, it will be happening somewhere.
Even with all these potential worlds to visit, with the exception of the montage of universes Strange and America Chavez jumped through before landing in 838, there really wasn’t all that much exploration of the multiverse. Certainly not enough that you could class it as madness.
Before ever meeting our Doctor Strange, America Chavez had visited over 70 different universes, but Strange himself only saw a handful, and with literally infinite possibilities at his fingertips, the best writer Michael Waldron could come up with was that you go when the traffic lights are red rather than green.
Think of the amazing alternate realities and universes from the comics, let alone what you could come up with yourself, and this story could have been so much better. There is one world in particular that most certainly should have seen at least some screen time…