20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2022
12. Wanda Wrecks The Illuminati - Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
For the standards of the MCU, Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange sequel certainly went to some off-the-wall places, pushing the envelope with regard to the franchise's reliably family-friendly PG-13 rating.
This is best embodied by the genuinely horrifying Illuminati sequence, where on Earth-838 we meet the superhero secret society comprised of Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell), Black Bolt (Anson Mount), Captain Marvel (Lashana Lynch), Reed Richards (John Krasinski), and Professor X (Patrick Stewart).
Before long, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) crashes the party, making short work of the Ultron drones patrolling the facility and then slaughtering every member of the Illuminati save for Mordo.
Black Bolt has his mouth removed and head brutally caved in, Richards is turned into spaghetti, Carter gets sliced in two by her own shield, Captain Marvel is crushed by a statue, and Professor X gets his neck broken.
Raimi took a fan-serving sequence and flipped it totally on its head, showing the audience the thing they wanted to see and then ripping it apart before their very eyes. The scene is harrowing enough that some observers even credited it with causing the film's box office to take a slight hit.