Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: All Illuminati Members Revealed

7. Doctor Strange

A Doctor Strange variant was a member of The Illuminati. To the still-living members, they consider him the greatest threat to the multiverse, to the point that they needed to kill him. Unsurprisingly, this means The Illuminati do not have the greatest impression of the 616 Doctor Strange.

From what can be gathered, this Doctor Strange is not too different from the Doctor Strange we know and love.

Just like our Doctor, he has a complicated relationship with Christine Palmer where they never had a good grasp of what exactly they were to each other. Just like our Doctor Strange, this one has no trouble playing god with the rules of the universe if it means saving lives or stopping a threat.

In the hopes of stopping Thanos, this Doctor Strange tangled with the Darkhold and used it to possess other "Doctor Stranges" across the multiverse. In his quest in doing so, he accidentally destroyed an entire universe.

The Illuminati defeated Thanos through Doctor Strange’s knowledge but The Illuminati executed him because of his universal transgression.

In his last moments, this Doctor Strange accepted his death at the hands of The Illuminati, crying tears of guilt as it happened. While the Illuminati knows about his sins, the entire earth-838 does not, and continue to worship him as a hero that saved the earth from Thanos.

It is an important plot point, as the movie is all about the 616 Doctor Strange’s hubris playing god, despite the risks. The Doctor Strange that accidentally destroyed a universe is his mirror, and there's always a danger that our Doctor Strange enact a similar mistake if he keeps playing god.