The Illuminati In MCU Explained - What To Expect!

2. A Monica Rambeau Spotting?

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While some shots of the aforementioned glowing, flying figure look to show what appears to be a male with a goatee, other shots of a similar presence have fans speculating that Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau is involved in the action.

Played by Parris in Disney+'s WandaVision, Monica is an agent of S.W.O.R.D. who developers her own powers by the end of that miniseries. That wasn't the first time that the character had appeared, though, for Akira Akbar played a younger version of Monica in 2019's Captain Marvel. There, Monica was shown to idolise her mother's best friend Carol Danvers.

With the options of variants very much on the table in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, some are also suggesting that the figure shown battling Scarlet Witch in this trailer is actually an alternative version of Monica's mom Maria. In the main MCU canon, Maria died of cancer while her daughter was absent due to the 'blip' caused by Thanos' infamous finger snap in Avengers: Infinity War.

Due to the multiverse, though, this could be A.N. Other character than either Monica or Maria taking it to Wanda Maximoff.

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