Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: 24 WTF Moments
5. Strange Puppeteers His Own Zombie Variant
You couldn't be blamed for assuming that the undead-looking Strange in the movie's trailers was perhaps the real third act villain, but hilariously that's actually not the case at all.
As it turns out, Strange uses the Darkhold to dream-walk into the corpse of the Defender Strange who died at the start of the film and whose corpse was left buried on Earth-616.
It's extremely funny watching this gangly, decrepit, half-decayed version of Strange awkwardly lumbering to where Wanda is holding America captive, while being "puppeteered" by the living Strange.
The makeup job to have Benedict Cumberbatch resemble a person mid-decomp is terrific, and the sequence where Zombie Strange then has to fend off "dark forces" which accost him for dream-walking into a corpse feels so very Sam Raimi in the best way.