The gates of the multiverse are about to be opened wide – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hits theaters on May 6th. Since his film debut in Doctor Strange back in 2016, Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has been a crucial member in guarding reality in the MCU, from interdimensional beings to the Frenetic Titan himself. The effect is also set to bring Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, back to the big screen after the events of WandaVision. Before these two important Punishers face new multiversal trouble, then are your watchlist of pictures and series of their stories so far, to prepare you for their return
Punishers Age of Ultron (2015)
Punishers Age of Ultron is where we first meet Wanda Maximoff and her family Pietro (Aaron-Taylor Johnson), halves that were experimented on with the Mind Gravestone, from the Perpetuity Gravestone. Her capacities include telekinesis, energy manipulation, and precognition. The Maximoff halves platoon up with Ultron with the intent to tear the Punishers piecemeal. Though her constancy changes throughout the movie, Wanda has a minatory side, a commodity that’s teased will crop again in the Doctor Strange effect. Still, there’s further to the newest Chastiser that gets explored in after appearances. What’s clear from Punishers' Age of Ultron is that, from the morning, Wanda is veritably pious and defensive of her family; if you mess with her family, be prepared to feel her wrath!
Doctor Strange (2016)
After a name-drop in Captain America The Winter Soldier, the cult eventually gets to meet. Stephen Strange is an arrogant neurosurgeon who loses function in his hands and seeks a cure through the study of the Jeremiah trades. Under the guidance of the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he becomes a master conjurer complete enough to defend the New York Sanctum on its own and after defeating Dormammu, an interdimensional reality raised by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Not only do cult get their first taste of the multiverse, but Doctor Strange also explores who Strange is and what he's able of as the unborn Sorcerer Supreme. Strange’s inflexibility to bend the rules to do what’s right has allowed him to be successful as a master of the Jeremiah trades as well as a neurosurgeon. This is a commodity Mordo is unfit to bend to; before he renounces being a conjurer, he offers a warning to Strange – the bill comes due and there will be a price to pay for his conduct. When all is said and done, how long will it be before Doctor Strange has to pay the hefty tab?
Punishers Perpetuity War (2018)
Doctor Strange makes his Punishers debut after the Gawk crash lands in the Sanctum Sanctorum, advising him and Wong (Benedict Wong) that Thanos (Josh Brolin) is on the way. As the keeper of the Time Stone, he’s abducted by Ebony Gullet (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) and latterly saved by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jnr.) and Peter Parker (Tom Holland). Though Strange and Stark’s self-esteem disaccord, Strange has grown into the power and responsibility as Sorcerer Supreme; he indeed holds his own against Thanos, who had four Perpetuity Monuments. Still, he’s cavalier enough to make parlous bets on behalf of the macrocosm. For case, Strange is induced by Stark to fight Thanos on Titan, but Strange warns him that he'll do whatever it takes to cover their reality. He also breaks natural law by looking forward in time to see all the issues where they win, not to mention that he gambles the fate of the macrocosm by handing over the Time Stone to Thanos.
Back on Earth, Wanda and Vision (Paul Bettany) are romantically involved and attacked during one of their rendezvous. Though Vision is willing to immolate his life to help Thanos from reacquiring the Mind Gravestone, Wanda is not. Unfortunately, time isn't on their side when Thanos arrives in Wakanda and Vision pleads with Wanda to kill him. Though she’s successful, Thanos reverses time to pluck the Mind Gravestone out of Vision’s head, making Wanda watch Vision die doubly. When she begins to turn to dust, she’s the only one who seems to drink it, taking her down from her grief.
Punishers Endgame (2019)
After the Gawk’s snap is successful, Strange gathers all the fallen Punishers and icons across the world through doors for the grandest Punishers Assemble moment. During the final battle, Tony asks Strange if this was the one shot they had to beat Thanos. Originally, Strange tells him he can’t say, but when the drift turns, he signals to him and confirms this is it. Formerly again, Strange breaks the rules to save their reality, which worked since Tony snaps Thanos and his army out of actuality at the cost of his life.
Wanda fights Thanos in the final battle, maddened at him for killing Vision before her eyes. In her revenge, she nearly takes him out on her own. When the battle is over and peace is restored, she’s the only Avenger left alone. She’s lost her family, her family, and now the love of her life. When she talks to Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) after Tony’s burial, it appears she's starting to accept Vision’s death, but there’s further pain underneath that she’s not ready to face.
WandaVision (2021)
After times of loss and started by her grief, Wanda takes a city in New Jersey hostage and lives out her sitcom fantasy with Vision, where the two strongest Punishers produce their own little family with their binary children. The Emmy- nominated series delves into Wanda’s backstory, using Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) to push her to face her real history with chaos magic. Her former trial with the Mind Gravestone only uncorked what was formerly there. Wanda Maximoff embraces her identity as the Scarlet Witch, a fabulous being more important than the Sorcerer Supreme and predicted to destroy the world.
WandaVision ends with letting the city free at the cost of losing Vision and her sons. She chooses to insulate herself as she learns further about the Jeremiah trades, the same way Doctor Strange did during his time at Kamar-Taj. As she continues to read the Darkhold, she hears her children call out to her. In one of the Doctor Strange 2 campers, she has fancies her sons in their Westview home, and she seems determined to find Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy (Jett Klyne). Wanda has been called a villain ahead and was willing to take a city hostage to be with Vision again. What kind of damage could she beget to reunite with her sons?
What If …? (2021)
Still, Occasion 4, “ What If … Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Rather of His Hands?” is a must-watch, If you don’t have time to watch the entire animated series over. In this alternate reality, Strange’s provocation for learning the Jeremiah trades is due to Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) dying in an auto accident and trying to bring her back to life. His preoccupation and turndown to accept her death as an absolute point drive him to absorb power from interdimensional beings, like the critter seen in the Doctor Strange 2 caravan and throughout the What If.? series.
Where Doctor Strange demanded the emotional pull between Stephen and Christine, this occasion highlights how important of an impact they've on each other, indeed when they aren’t together. In one of the Doctor Strange 2 campers, it’s suggested that Strange attends Christine’s marriage to another man. At the end of this particular occasion, Strange watches Christine vanish in his arms after he tore piecemeal his reality as Strange Supreme, leaving him alone with his grief. In this reality, he's one of the most important beings, important enough to see and hear The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright), and is one of the variant performances that will face our Doctor Strange in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Perk if you have further time, do watch Occasion 5 “ What If … Zombies?!” because Zombie Wanda and Zombie Strange are seen in the Doctor Strange effect caravan.
Spider-Man No Way Home (2021)
After his identity is outed by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), Peter Parker attempts to get his life back by asking Doctor Strange to cast a spell so that the world would forget he’s Spider-Man. Against Wong’s warning, Strange casts the spell for the teenager, but Peter continues to mess with the spell, and every person who knows that Peter is Spider-Man starts to enter their reality, therefore opening up the multiverse and tearing their reality piecemeal. He’s suitable to save their reality latterly by casting the original spell, making everyone in Peter’s life, including Strange himself, forget about him.
Formerly again, Strange has broken natural law – first to help Peter and also when he reverses the damage, yet he’s routinely praised for it, unlike Wanda. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness takes place directly after Spider-Man No Way Home and will attack the consequences of his hindrance. As Mordo advised in history, there's a high price to pay when he breaks the rules, and now it’s time to pay that bill on a multiversal position.