#mckiwianalysis

[mckiwi]

I love how the “the greatest threat to our universe is Doctor Strange” line got swept under the carpet so quickly when literally every version of Stephen has proven to be insanely dangerous if he wants to be.

Stephen Strange

-endures 1000+ loops of agony and pain by Dormammu to protect the Earth

-casually deals with two gods, Thor and Loki (tricking the god of mischief nonetheless)

-endures torture, lives and dies through 14 million possible outcomes, fights an intergalactic warlord with four infinity stones one-on-one, gets dusted, brings together an entire army in about ten minutes, fights in a massive battle… all in what was to him a few hours, without a rest

- selectively erases the memory of eight billion people, any record or mention of Peter Parker that there is throughout the entire world, including himself

-uses the Darkhold to dreamwalk into his own corpse. Proceeds to control and command the Souls of the Damned

-gains a third eye

-causes an incursion

Sinister Strange

-frequently uses the Darkhold to dreamwalk into variants of himself

-destroys his own universe as well as others

-gains a third eye

-causes incursions

Supreme Strange

-formulates a team to lead their universe

-creates Waypoint between universes

-causes an incursion

-uses both the Darkhold and the Book of Vishanti

-kills Thanos

Defender Strange

-captures powerful demon

-continues to keep control of demon even while severely injured

-gets impaled, uses spell to save America as his dying breath

Strange Supreme

-spends countless loops watching (and failing to prevent) the love of his life dying

-absorbs power from interdimensional creatures for centuries, with every creature actively fighting to escape him

-senses the presence of and converses with The Watcher

-manipulates the Time Stone into becoming a Reality/Soul/Time Stone merge

-brings Christine back to life

-accidentally destroys his own universe

-opens multiversal portals

-protects his teammates throughout the entirely of the battle agianst Ultron

-absorbs the energy of a destroyed galaxy with no effort

-withstands the force of all six infinity stones one-on-one for several minutes

In Conclusion: Stephen’s endurance and ambition is not to be undermined. If he wants something bad enough, he will get it.

[mckiwi]

McKiwi's Analysis Posts

Strange's Threat Level

Stephen and America's Relationship

"Your Power Exceeds That of The Sorcerer Supreme"

MoM Trailer

MoM Prediction

Stephen's Corruption

Zelma Stanton in the MCU

Stephen's Spell in NWH

How Incursions Could Bring in Donna

Natasha and Stephen's Friendship Potential

"Dreams are the Lives of our Multiversal Selves"

Stephen and Hydra

"When I Break the Rules, I'm the Enemy"

Stephen's Taste in Music

Can Stephen See Skrulls

Stephen's Endurance to Chaos Magic

Stephen Outsmarts His Enemies

[mckiwi]

“How many universes have you been through?”

“How many did you see?”

“72. 73- counting this one.”

“14 million 605.”

“That’s… that’s a lot.”

Stephen giving America the acknowledgment and validation he never got in Infinity War.

[mckiwi]

You know what I find hilarious? The fact we all took “your power exceeds that of the sorcerer supreme” and automatically pitted Wanda against Stephen when this whole time it’s actually been Wong… Wong is the sorcerer supreme… Wanda’s power exceeds Wong’s.

Stephen “the greatest threat to the multiverse is you” Strange was never even in the equation.

[mckiwi]

This took like two days to put together 😭 but I’m like 95% confident in this. I figured out the continuity of the clips (many using injuries as a reference ngl) and this is how I think they will piece together.

Feel free to dm me or leave a comment with your own theories!

[mckiwi]

So are we just gonna ignore the fact MoM introduced Zelma Stanton or…?

Hopefully they’ll actually do something with her character and not have her three-second appearance just be an easter egg.

For those of you who aren’t comic readers, Zelma starts off a woman he basically recruited to organize his books so he wouldn’t be lonely but quickly becomes someone who Stephen can rely on because he was lonely and who isn’t afraid to put Stephen in his place. She even helps run Strange Academy (his school).

[mckiwi]

My thoughts and little analysis of the MoM trailer

For reference and to just make things easier:

This is Doctor Strange

And this is Strange Supreme

Here we also see Strange Supreme

Which happens to be in the same room as this, except the window is broken. I’m also thinking maybe Doctor Strange and Strange Supreme are going to merge here? We can see him using Strange Supreme’s magic, even taking the dragon move straight out of “What If…?”

I also think these two scenes are connected. You can see that the Cloak is still damaged (patched with blue, thanks to Rintrah). Similar to what we saw in “What If…?” the area is turning to ash due to the universe being destroyed. Then in the next gif you can see everything but the Sanctum has been turned to ash and destroyed.

Speaking of Rintrah (the giant bull-like creature), here we can see him in the middle of some lasers raining down. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say these are made by technology, not magic.

The same technology that’s restraining Doctor Strange’s magic here (cause I can’t think of any other reason why they’d be fighting with swords rather than magic unless they couldn’t access their magic):

The multiverse is represented by a room, and it was literally destroyed, I mean… the pieces of the walls are floating around.

I’ve also talked about Christine, Wanda, and Defender Strange in earlier posts, but I have a 10 image limit here, so… go look at those.

Does anyone else think they might be trying to make him a Nexus Being of a sort? Peter’s variants were all different actors, most of Loki’s were different actors, but all three Stephen’s that we’ve seen are played by Benedict. There’s even a nexus point tied to him; he had to defeat Dormammu (either by Christine dying or having his hands damaged).

Anyway. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.

[mckiwi]

Does anybody else find it ironic that Stephen said “I know that it [the darkhold] corrupts everything and everyone that it touches. I wonder what it’s done to you.”

Then 3/4 Stephens use it, get corrupted, cause an incursion, and this is including the Stephen who said that.