Captain America 2 Ending: 11 Big Implications For Marvel Phase 3

7. Doctor Strange Is Set For A Big Role

One of the most highly publicised Easter Eggs of the whole of Winter Soldier was all but leaked before the film was even screened to the press: there was to be a nod to Steve Strange in some guise, suggesting, somewhat excitingly, that the not-particularly-quiet whispers about a Doctor Strange movie would come true. In the film, Strange is identified as a target for Project: Insight, which sought to eliminate supposed Terrorist Targets using the new improved helicarriers, and because Cap, Falcon and Black Widow manage to take down all of the helicarriers, he manages to miss the hail of bullets that almost come his way at the climax of the movie (though the helicarriers do pretty much land exactly where they were supposed to be destroying, so who knows how many of those targets actually did survive...) So What Next? A Doctor Strange movie is already tentatively in the works: Kevin Feige is more than willing to talk about it, somewhat in riddles, and he has revealed that he would like to think that Strange's stand-alone movie (which is how he would foresee his involvement starting properly) would come sometime in Phase 3.