Is It Just Me or Did Doctor Strange Open a Multiverse Pandora’s Box?

“I just finished Doctor Strange and I’m a bit confused. Is Strange supposed to be the Pandora’s box now? Has he basically unleashed chaos? I’m honestly not sure what I just watched, everything felt so messy. Can someone explain what’s actually going on?”

Voir le contenu lié

Commentaires

PLZ_N_THKS2025-12-09 12:15

Will make more sense if you’ve seen Loki season 1

sabrinavd2025-12-09 12:49

who is loki?

MrSpookShire2025-12-09 13:22

Seriously?

sabrinavd2025-12-09 13:22

what happened?

beardiac2025-12-09 13:38

To *very* loosely paraphrase "The Lord of the Rings", one does not simply walk into the MCU at "Doctor Strange". If you're asking the question posed by this post, the presumption is that you've seen most or all of the MCU movies that led up to this one, at least 2 of which include Loki as an antagonist and another where he's straddling the hero/villain fence like a tight rope.

So to have this question would suggest (a) you didn't watch any of the other movies, (b) you did, but due to some language barrier he has a different name in the movies you watched, or (c) this whole conversation is in bad faith or AI sourced.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 13:48

i watched the last two avengers movies with the thanos and the last spiderman movie

BelieveInTheShield2025-12-09 13:59

Loki died at the beginning of Imfinity War

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:02

thanks

sabrinavd2025-12-09 13:54

but why you been so mean though? i mean u can't just help me? i didn't watch marvel like 12 years

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-09 14:00

To put it simply, think of the MCU like a 500 page book. You started at page 400 and are confused…kinda hard to explain.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:15

yeah i guess that community is not for me yeah i can see that

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-09 14:20

No one is trying to be mean but you have to understand the basics of what’s going on first and so you would need to watch a bunch of other stuff first.

beardiac2025-12-09 14:03

I'm sorry if that came across as mean. That wasn't my intention.

I'm just very confused. When it comes to the MCU, while there are definitely films that can stand alone, there is a flow and meta-arc to the series that makes watching them in order and certain films being essential an important factor.

So that leaves me unclear on how to help you as I don't know what you know or don't know. By not knowing who Loki is implies a pretty big gap in your overall understanding of this franchise. So without knowing more about what you know and want to know, I can't really answer the question well.

At a high level though, the multiverse does play a big part in the films that follow Doctor Strange - both in its direct sequel and many other MCU series. But I wouldn't say that Strange's actions in that film are causal to such issues.

AndrewInMN2025-12-09 14:10

If you really want the answers then get caught back up with the MCU. Don’t come here asking questions if you haven’t even seen the stuff that will give you answers.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:12

kill me

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-09 14:02

I'm honestly confused as to what you mean by Pandora's Box and I also don't know if you watched the first film or the second. The comments don't help either.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:14

pandoras box is chaos with all the sorrows of the world i mean in other movies that they have warlocks or those kind of creatures you can't do those changes that easy and not create unbalanced to the universe without creating chaos and then comes the void and it takes you with him

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-09 14:29

So.. the Marvel movies are based on comic books and shouldn't really be compared to other movies with wizards and the like.

In a general sense, the whole point of Multiverse of Madness is that there are consequences to messing around with other realities and powers he doesn't fully understand. The mid credits scene shows that Strange's actions in the film caused an Incursion and Clea approaches him to help her fix it.

In the comics, Incursions are when two universes collide, creating a catastrophic event destroying one or both universes. The world where Strange fought an evil version of himself was likely being destroyed by an Incursion caused by the evil Strange.

As for overall consequences, it would make sense for Incursions to be a major plot point in the upcoming Doomsday and Secret Wars movies, as the most recent version of Secret Wars in the comics was all about Incursions. So far, it has not been announced if Doctor Strange will be appearing in either upcoming movie.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:31

thanks 🙏

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:55

i will try to find the comics so i can read them is there any possible way to read it in the right order bc am confused now i prefer to read the comics

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-09 14:56

Which comics? 2015 Secret Wars? All of Doctor Strange?

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:57

from the beginning

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-09 15:19

That's complicated. The MCU movies are based on different comics made since about 1939. The movies are a variation of different stories mixed with wholly original stories from the film writers.

You could try reading from the very beginning, but it would mostly be confusing because the writers would change things over the decades. The movies take a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate brand of comics, but mostly in grounded themes and visual inspiration. The writing in the Ultimate comics are generally not very good, with the exception of Spiderman.

sabrinavd2025-12-09 14:59

i know am sound stupid but if that helps the last movie that i saw is amazing spiderman after that i didn't watch anything new until now