DOCTOR STRANGE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS TRAILER BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trailer frame-by-frame analysis by New Rockstars' Erik Voss!

welcome back to new rock stars i'm eric

voss and this is a breakdown of the

latest trailer for marvel's doctor

strange in the multiverse of madness

which assures us i will always be there

old friend

check me we are getting an mcu

illuminati lineup including patrick

stewart charles xavier what is this

movie i gotta admit i've outdone myself

on this one folks analyzing this trailer

frame by frame for details i don't think

anyone else is insane enough to see or

to talk about and uh yeah i'm also gonna

include some stuff in the tv spot

version of the trailer and clues in the

official poster and thanks to true bill

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every night

i dreamed the same dream

then

so the trailer opens in strange's

nightmare a frightening hellscape

covered in bones and skulls dead trees

bent askew and in front of him a

representation of the sanctum sanctorum

melting into inky nothingness like the

other new york buildings we saw in the

first trailer all evoking the comic book

ink melting of reality and what if

episode 4 except that this isn't exactly

strange's sanctum it's significantly

thinner than we last saw in spider-man

no way home and it is one floor taller

the effect is a more gaunt structure

like a croaking haunted hotel what was

his healthy sanctum fortress is now a

withering skeleton of itself and notice

in the sky is a glowing red eye

reminding us of course of the red edges

of wanda maximoff's hex reality and one

division this whole nightmare could be

being projected into strange's mind by

the scarlet witch since the commercials

in wanda vision were confirmed to be

messages from strange to wanda these two

share a psychic link now this strange

has a patch of blue sewn into the cloak

of levitation an inverse of the red

patch on blue of defender strange who

saves america chavez in a second blue

versus red seems to be an important

point of contrast in this film strange

has been shifted from his normal red

tones to blue tone along with a lot of

the settings in this to signal passivity

all to contrast wanda maximoff's red

chaos and violence now on the other side

of the sanctum doors there's a reverse

shot of strange's entrance from the

first trailer now we see how the stormy

sea has claimed the whole sanctum

structure saved for the central

staircase which now extends up and up

and up into nowhere like a trick luring

one to heaven except it's not it goes

into this hellish red eye and at the

base of the staircase these weren't

there the pastimes we saw the sanctum

now these two statues one male one

female both bearing torches may be

representing the maximoff twins then a

teacup shatters on the ground behind it

looks like the wheel of an old

wheelchair now this isn't exactly the

wheelchair professor x from the x-men

films but i suspect a lot is going to be

changing for whatever cameos show up in

this film then america chavez gets

strung up in front of a star portal

which if you look closely opens up to

endless more star portals within that

portal this is our best known power to

kick open these star-shaped portals we

might actually be seeing the origin of

our powers right here we actually saw

the same setting in the first trailer i

think it is her home reality the utopian

parallel in the comics the utopian

parallel faces destruction from black

holes so her mothers sacrificed

themselves their particles dispersing

throughout the multiverse and the

creature attacking her here maybe go

with me on this the demiurge who is the

embodiment of earth's sentient life in

the comics the original source of her

powers and we should mention is one

final form of billy kaplan wiccan wanda

maximov's son which could be how this

film ties the fate of wanda and her sons

to that of american chavez then again

the demiurge hasn't really been shown to

be this hostile and demonic actually

another possibility here this entity's

ribbony appearance like glowing

electrical tape could connect to

strange's spell the crimson bands of

citrax which he used to restrain thanos

and infinity war which could make this

fella maybe citrac himself now the tv

shot actually showed in this moment an

alternate defender doctor strange hair

tied back in a ponytail with stripes

saving america chavez from this thing

using what looks like a

three-dimensional version of strange's

normal flat eldritch magic to hold off

the entity which would then lead to the

shot we see in this trailer of that same

ponytail doctor strange tumbling through

a star portal a shot that flips upside

down to find us back with our doctor

strange in bed but is it our doctor

strange because his hands are fully

healed when in past films strange's

hands are always meant to be forever

scarred and weak there's an ipad left

open on his bed coffee filters into test

tubes on his nightstand strange said in

this part of the trailer that he has the

same dream every night hell sanctum his

alternate self saving a kid and then the

nightmare begins so the nightmare might

be this reality that he wakes up into a

reality where he never became a sorcerer

he never injured his hands and really

just aged into a lonely douchebag

falling asleep with its pornhub tab

still open moving on the nightmare

begins

i did what i had to do

now when strange says the nightmare

begins we should also acknowledge the

possibility that the demonic entity

nightmare could be the villain of this

film as this idea was floated by the

original director scott derrickson the

marvel studios title card turns purple

and has tentacles snaking across the

letters evoking the limbs of gargantos

but also one of the multi-limbed

creatures and what if which this movie

seems to be showing the live-action

versions of in fact on the poster for

this film in the lower right corner one

broken shard of glass shows the shield

of captain carter hinting that haley

atwell may show up in this film as a

live-action version of that character

then dr strange conjures these red orbs

if you look closely they are coming from

the dark hole on the floor there that's

marvel lore's book of the damn that

appeared on wanovision first in agatha's

possession before it was claimed by

wanda that's why the magic he conjures

is now red like wanda's chaos magic as

we saw her conjuring in that final wanda

vision scene we could be seen a

depiction of the various universes being

connected in this movie with dr strange

trying to locate one world in particular

and in the foreground of that shot that

looks like that is one of maximoff

standing there with him but then strange

suddenly afraid slams all this magic

back into the book as if he's trying to

hide it from the person in the room with

him and on that page you can see a

triangle perhaps a symbol of marvel's

illuminati a location he wants to hide

from wanda maximov for reasons i'll get

to later as we move on to protect our

world

you can control everything strange

you open the doorway between universes

and we don't know who or what will walk

through it

so strange argues that he did what he

had to do to protect our world our world

as in his actions saved his universe at

the expense of all other universes

strange used the time stone to give his

universe an improper advantage to undo

thanos's snap and more recently he used

his magic of the runes of cough call to

basically gaslight and warp society into

a whole bunch of plot holes mordo warned

us about this that when strange would

push the laws of reality like this the

bill comes

due

always and like strange in that what-if

universe bypassing an absolute point

this strange's reality has begun to melt

the same exact way and opened itself up

to interdimensional threats we see a new

look at this melting from the rooftop

individual bricks breaking off cars

floating in that blizzard headlights

still shining now the melting of the

buildings here seems to merge into these

black strands reminding us of the

ancient one's dark branch timeline that

she warned bruce banner about an endgame

and here it's not just that reality is

melting into nothing but that chaos is

spinning into one beneficiary

destination on to the next clip

wanda

what do you know about the multiverse

this had his theories

he believed it was dangerous

he was right

so we see scarlet witch once again

holding the seance in the comartaj

courtyard we know that's where it is

because you can tell from the statues

behind her in the floor beneath her the

same tiling that we see beneath that

minotaur sorcerer later we get a better

look of him in this trailer this is

rantra from the comics but yes the

scarlet witch is probably the one

attacking kamertage because actually in

the tv spot the sorcerers in that

courtyard race their shields to some

floating figure overhead i'm pretty sure

that is wanda now compared to her look

at the end of wanda vision during the

seance her scarlet witch wardrobe has

evolved her sleeves now cover her arms

fully and darker tones streak through

her chest piece and her tiara also as we

pointed out before the tips of her

fingers are black similar to agatha's

fingers when she would use dark magic

and i like this right as we hear strange

say wanda a shock wave blows out from

her body now in her orchard if that is

what it really is wanna tell strange

that vision had theories about the

multiverse that was dangerous so despite

vision warning wanda she still created

an alternate reality in that westview

hex and now continues to peer through

alternate universes to find her children

and yes this peaceful orchard with sheep

is probably an illusion because later in

the trailer as wanda points out the

double standard of strange breaking the

rules and him getting to be a hero

strange is wearing the same outfit as he

is here in the orchard suggesting that

wanda is actually in a much darker place

in this moment both in her mindset and

in her literal surroundings moving on

i'm sorry stephen

your desecration of reality

will not go unpunished

so strange brings america chavez and

christine palmer to the ruins of what i

think is utopian parallel and christine

wears this sleek blue outfit and that's

because this might actually be an

alternate christine palmer whom strange

found working at illuminati hq because

the tv spot reveals christine in these

clothes plus a white lab coat in their

detainment sector then mordo or perhaps

an alternate version of mordo that might

actually be sorcerer supreme from his

native reality detain strange using

these nifty

love the design of these because it's a

mix of analog sorcerer machinery with

runes engraved into that spinning lock

in the middle but overall they have this

chunky silver chrome of something more

futuristic something that might be

connected to the vibranium tech of these

ultron sentries ultron centuries who

escort dr strange in this awesome

location that looks like a supreme court

hall of justice you see four kneeling

winged statues and then a warrior with a

sword in a ring the way a certain

multiversal warrior captain carter

emerged from a circular portal with her

sword in hand now this whole interior

the glass ceiling the curved staircases

the classic columns is actually the

interior of the british museum in london

a place i've been to many times i love

the british museum it's famous for

having the rosetta stone one of the

earliest artifacts that anthropologists

have used to translate and decode

cross-reference old languages which is

super fitting for charles xavier to

model his multiversal nexus point on

such a cultural touchstone now assuming

this is illuminati hq i find it

fascinating the parallels between this

and the citadel of he who remains in

loki which also had a lit tower inner

columns and four statues in its central

chamber one of which was mysteriously

destroyed we never got an answer to what

that was all about now there are six

chairs on the illuminati panel but we

only see three members in this trailer

could kang have been a fourth member of

the illuminati who was cast out leading

to him constructing his own crude

imitation of the illuminati citadel a

citadel and a sham judicial bureaucracy

of his own run by three puppets it's

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[Music]

we should tell him the truth

ooh baby yes one of the biggest reveals

in mcu history one that we will be

unpacking for months to come yes that

was the voice of patrick stewart

professor charles xavier in the fox

x-men films now in the marvel cinematic

universe as a member of what is almost

certain to be the illuminati now

marvel's illuminati is a secret alliance

of tony stark charles xavier reed

richards doctor strange black bolt and

namor black panther was initially gonna

be part of it but he backed out actually

in iron man 2 tony stark had a little

app on his phone labeled illuminati fun

little easter egg there but here the

illuminati if they will still go by that

name in the mcu seem to be serving as a

multiversal governing body with

representatives from across universes by

bringing fox x-men characters into this

they're building on the metal logic from

spider-man no way home marvel studios is

now adopting formerly separate cinematic

universes as mere universes within their

multiverse and expanding to the fox

x-men titles but if patrick stewart is a

representative from a separate reality

that could limit how much of that

separate reality we actually see in this

movie and which other fox x-men cameo

just yet like ian mckellen magneto hugh

jackman wolverine maybe maybe not but

ryan reynolds deadpool very likely as he

has been long confirmed to cross over to

the mcu and now that door has been

opened i mean this could also give us

some context finally to why evan peters

was cast as wanda's brother pietro in

her hex now yes the show producers did

say this is just a ralph boner joke but

the logic is all in place now we never

saw ralph after wanda's hex so it could

just be as simple as wanda's ability to

warp reality might have caused her to

pull the likeness of a pietro from the

nearest adjacent universe like if tom

holland peter parker were to die in the

mcu and juan maximoff wanted to create a

pocket reality where peter was alive

once more the peter in that hex might

look like andrew garfield if that makes

sense to you evan peters actually being

pietro from his fox x-men timeline

crossing over into juan division could

make an equal amount of sense now

meanwhile i don't know if this is the

charles xavier from the exact fox x-men

timeline whatever that was at the end of

that series because one thing that was

clear is that charles xavier died in the

year 2029 in logan after it was revealed

he accidentally killed all the x-men or

most of them i think it's likelier that

this charles could be from a branch

timeline within that universe because

time travel screwed up a lot of stuff

there let's be honest he actually could

be something closer to a live-action

version of the x-men 97 a version of

charles xavier that existed in the

branch timeline that eventually

discovered multiversal technology now

yes there are six chairs so let's try to

fill these chairs who they belong to two

of the figures are seated and one walks

in with a cane so i'm wondering if this

could be charles who in this form has

found his ability to walk once more now

the seated figure on the left wears a

form-fitting suit that you could say

looks a lot like the vibranium armor of

black panther and yes this illuminati

lineup may include a new actor playing a

variant t'challa however i think this

particular figure just looks a bit more

slender in the arms like reed richards

but that would also make it less likely

to be john krasinski yeah let's be

honest he's jacked ryan but let's slide

over to that other seated figure who is

hooded could this be sorcerer supreme

mordo or all reality photon or spectrum

monica rambo or were those ultron

centuries a clue that one member of this

panel is actually ultron infinity from

what if or that brilliant ship of

theseus white vision from one division

but my favorite version of this would be

this could be a reality in which tony

stark's ultron protocol actually

succeeded instead of turning on him

which led to him being able to evolve

into the superior iron man one played by

tom cruise

i mean we've heard this speculation for

years and now it just seems all possible

doesn't it but let's focus on what

charles actually says here we should

tell him the truth what truth the truth

that strange maybe didn't do anything

wrong or that him becoming a sorcerer

was a mistake or that all of this is

just some kang exposed sham organization

perhaps but i think the truth here is

that the mcu that we have loved all

these years is not the core reality of

this multiverse that instead we have

actually been living in an incomplete

post house of m reality where mutants

have been erased this whole time we just

didn't see it as anything wrong and now

it is time to fix that let's move on

[Music]

things just got out of hand okay some

real bonkers here doctor strange

and american chavez fall through a

reality with dinosaurs a t-rex fight a

triceratops but then to top that they

insanely smash into an animated cartoon

reality this could be one way doors open

to crossovers with what if this can

actually be how the animated captain

carter gets roped into this then strange

in america explode into cubic puzzle

pieces a visual that looks like a mix of

draxes reality stone hit and infinity

war and joe quesada's art of the scarlet

witch on the house of them variant cover

some of their blocks look like stones

from a statue and you can actually see

the rows of steven's individual teeth

still intact in his gums on each block

onto the next clip

[Music]

you break the rules look up

become a hero

i do it i become the enemy so yeah it

looks like wanda will invade illuminati

hq and get into a huge brawl with

someone who looks like they're going

binary the way captain marvel does but

if you look at that person closely this

is a woman of color now i know some of

you think this is tom cruise with a

goatee but that's just a contouring of

her cheeks tom cruise's figure is not

this womanly folks this is definitely

either monica rambo or her mother maria

rambo maria rambo's call sign was photon

and in the main mcu she died of cancer

during the blip but in one of vision

monica rambo powered up into the

superhero we assume will either be

photon or spectrum and the moment that

happened her body was split into several

alternate selves as she passed through

that hex wall and i think one of those

alternate selves could be this one we

are seeing now if you think about it

monica fighting wanda seems to be the

most epic collision considering these

two were both there for the battle of

west view in wanovision then we see the

attack on camertaj in the tea room that

we saw in the 2016 film including master

hamir returning from that film then a

close-up of america chavez gives a good

look at her wardrobe stars embroidered

on her jean jacket along with the phrase

amores amore love is love and flag pen

signaling some lgbtq plus representation

gargantos throws the bus with an ad on

the end for la llave coffee the key with

the tagline unlock a better day and then

over to the left the phone booth has an

ad for celestial tea the magic of tea

then i love this shot strange looks up

at another alternate sanctum with a

statue out front a statue that has no

facial hair though in this new york

greenery and oddly curved wind turbines

cover all the buildings and white

flowering trees line the streets trees

like the ones in wanda's fake orchard so

in strange's nightmare we saw the

darkest timeline here this looks like

the brightest timeline where a variant

strange has used his powers only to

better society moving on

that doesn't seem fair

[Music]

okay so interesting two wandas meet each

other and this is wanda's west view

house in one division you can see two

scooters in the background belonging to

her sons billy and tommy one of their

baseball gloves on the floor there but

this place is wrecked the staircase

handrail the blusters are broken as if

there was a fight between these two

wandas and the standing one is the one

who is barefoot yacht i actually wonder

if this kneeling wanda tried to recreate

the west view hex to have her children

once more but failed and now defeated

she's letting the darker side of her

identity take over if you think about it

the last time we saw her in one vision

her consciousness was split into two

conscious selves something people who

astrally project normally can't do there

was one in casual wear brewing tea and

then the other one in the scarlet witch

forum searching for her kids actively

now i'm wondering which of those two is

actually the deadlier threat the one

who's searching for her kids or the one

who's just sipping tea not giving up can

we see that shot again of morto striking

strange's cuffs now i'm wondering if

mortar might be doing this on purpose to

freeze strange so that strange can help

them fight this invading scarlet witch

but it might be too late because a huge

explosion from red chaos magic tears

through the hq leading to these

elaborate fireworks as we think rambo's

form gets blasted through that explosion

then this other sorcerer uses a sick

move with a lasso to attack gargantos

the tv spot actually showed american

chavez beneath this gross underbelly and

in these close-ups so you can see how

each of its tentacle suckers are

actually barbed with teeth ugh then this

gnarly shot of wanda aiming red chaos

magic she's at the doorway of illuminati

hq her face is bleeding like crazy and

separately she has black ink stains on

her shirt behind her in the distance

looks like one of the bells of camartage

perhaps after sacking that location and

holding her seance there she used that

to access the gateway to this compound

but why does she want to get in here

well when the camera zooms into her eye

there's a brief image of two holding

cells these are illuminati detention

cells dr strange was cuffed in one of

these and in the tv spot christine

palmer works among other techs who hold

america in another cell so i think the

reason wanda hasn't been able to find a

reality with their sons the reason why

her attempt to recreate west view didn't

work is that the illuminati are

detaining billy and tommy here in these

two cells and for wanda that's

especially infuriating because it's

exactly what hydra did to her and her

twin brother locking them up in adjacent

cells like in the comic house of m all

of this madness comes from a denial by

professor x and by doctor strange to

allow wanda reality with her children

and it's gonna end with wanda

drastically warping all that reality but

in this case i think a restoration of

mutants alongside avengers in the mcu on

to the final clips

[Applause]

so we end with a version of doctor

strange and wong on this snowy

mountaintop trying to reign in these

demonic figures these beans look like

they're actually made of the same inky

texture that the buildings and the other

surfaces are melting into as if this is

the chaos that it's all bleeding into

now the tv spot actually shows strange

facing another peak across the way with

some winged devil at the peak of it that

spot also shows a close-up of strange

whose face is rotting away looking a lot

like his zombie strange self and what if

episode v i pointed out because the tv

spot also includes a shot of wanda

looking especially zombie-like now while

zombie strange and that episode got

devoured by ants zombie wanda survived

and she returned in the final episode so

i don't know if these are zombies as

much as they're just animated corpses

but it is insane to see their souls so

strong that they can keep their bodies

intact long after their flesh should

have expired the final shot shows this

rotting strange blocking a rift into

darkness dozens of inky skeletons trying

to shove out past him skeleton arms fan

out behind him evoking the images of

icon pose that he formed when fighting

thanos infinity war now counteracting

that spell was the one time we saw the

soul stone being used in the mcu and i

find it interesting that strange's soul

is all he has left the film title comes

together from hundreds of pieces like

the shattering and reassembling shards

of reality in this movie but this is the

third title design we've seen it's

almost like the studio wants us to

constantly reframe the reality in which

we see this movie every time they talk

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