The time has officially arrived to unleash the Madness.

Whether you can believe it or not, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is here and we are hyped. Of course, if you have been following us you know we have been talking about it quite a bit, both in relation to other shows and also in its’ own episodes. This is quite a moment, as this is the only film to have had two (semi) predictions episodes come prior to our official predictions episode, so for the sake of making it easy, I have dropped the links to both of our earlier episodes covering the first two trailer drops. This latest episode picks up from there, talking about some more theories that we have leftover going into all of this. I do want to let you know that the day AFTER we recorded this episode, another huge TV spot left us with more information, so this blog post will include some of the theories and thoughts that came from that as well. If you’re ready to go into Madness, click the button below or listen to all three of the podcasts linked.

Since we spent most of our newest episode discussing it, I want to start off talking about Wanda and her fate in this film. By this I mean, is she going to be a good guy or a bad guy. Now, we did discuss this before, but the newer trailers are painting her to possibly now be a good guy (as the first few weren’t looking too hot). Here’s our take: Wanda won’t be evil when Strange shows up for help, but I think she will realize what he is asking means the Multiverse is open and can be used for her to find her children. I don’t think she is going into this a villain, however, I do think she will seek her opportunity to find her kids and if that places her on the wrong side I don’t think she will care. I also think she will help Strange with his Multiversal problem until her helping him no longer helps her agenda. This is why I think we see some scenes where she appears to be fighting with him and others where it seems she is obliterating the good guys (y’all know exactly what scene I’m talking about). We also now have gotten a scene of her storming into the Illuminati and wreaking havoc, so I think it is safe to say Wanda is a mother who will do absolutely whatever it takes to get her children back, no matter who stands in her way.

Now Mordo’s involvement in this film has been discussed before, but now we see that he is involved with the Illuminati. This doesn’t really surprise me, since the Illuminati acts as special beings police essentially and Mordo really hates magic users. Strange being forced to see them/captured isn’t all that shocking since he sorta destroyed the universe and allowed for the Multiverse to create chaos. I think the biggest thing that threw me off was Mordo’s involvement in this film altogether. We obviously knew he was set up for a villain role in another Dr. Strange film, but this movie is so congested with chaos that I was really shocked they had him in this one. I’m going to be intrigued to see if this will be the end of Mordo and if he will act as the main “big bad”, if you will, of this film. He doesn’t have a ton of screen time in the trailers, which obviously indicates near to nothing, but it still means that there is so much else going on already in the trailers that I feel the movie might end up the same way. My best bet is Wanda will possibly stop Mordo, since I think there’s an element to where she needs Strange’s help, so him being captured doesn’t exactly help her.

So a huge TV spot spoiler was the scenes of Captain Carter making her appearance. I don’t think this fully surprised people, since we also see Evil Strange from the What If? series as well. I think what suprised a lot of us was that we got this confirmation at all. We knew What If? was going to play a role (and if you haven’t watched it literally go watch it NOW), but the role seems to have increased drastically. If they are willing to show Captain Carter, then what else should we be expecting to see from that series? I am 100% hinting at the possibity of seeing Ultron Vision, which would be literally so amazing and terrifying I think I would cry. But the entire series is up for grabs and we now have to be prepared to see any of the What If? scenerios, including zombies as well.

As I said, the biggest shock to Marvel from the fans was Captain Carter’s cameo, since it left many fans asking: Who are the big cameos then? If they’re willing to show us that, then there are some major cameos making their way, even bigger than we anticipated. So who the heck are they? Can we expect the X-Men? I’m betting if we get any X-Men (minus Professor X since he is confirmed) it would be either Quicksilver or Wolverine. Quicksilver for the sake of Wanda, but Wolverine for the final fairwell to Hugh Jackman in that role. Friendly reminder de-aging technology is possible, so we could see him at any point in his film journey. Are we going to see old friends? I would be shocked if we didn’t. I’m thinking some people who we won’t ever see again, like Cap, Iron Man, or Nat. If we consider the What If? series, then we have to consider that they took one Natasha out of one story and put her in another, so it is possible that we could see something similar (please, I’m begging). But I think the cameo I would absolutely love the most would be the Human Torch played by Chris Evans. There’s just something about having Cap back not as Cap that would be both hilarious and satisfying. But like I said, if we saw Captain Carter already, then the cameos that are going to happen have to be HUGE.

Let’s discuss our end credit scene predictions, since those are going to be a mess. Taylor and I essentially have reached the conclusion that because we have not a clue what will happen in this film, predicting end credit scenes is close to impossible. But we do have some thoughts. I’m going with one of the end credit scenes being related to Wanda, as there has been a lot of talk about her getting her own film(s). I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a little end credit scene setting this up in some way or setting up something for her kid’s future. But I think the shock factor end credit scene, the one that will leave the audience screaming, crying, or throwing up is going to be a full introduction to the next big group, aka the new X-men (or old?) or the new Fantastic Four (or old?). I put the old ones in only for the sake that what would leave the audience really shocked would be seeing the older groups, just like seeing our Spider-Men. But, for the sake of an end credit and the setting up of another film or show, introducing the next generation of either of these groups would make the most sense.

I hate to bring up what I am about to bring up, but since we are talking about end credit scenes, I want to share a thought Taylor and I both included as a possible end credit scene. This would be THE shock factor, the end credit scene that would leave us talking more than Venom licking a little Tom Spidey on a TV screen. And that would be the introduction or mega hint to the man (or demon?) himself: Mephisto. I know I just caused a major uproar and I am so sorry since I know we have quite literally been talking about Mephisto since WandaVision. But for those of you that are familiar with the comics, Mephisto plays a HUGE role in essentially most of the storylines we have been seeing and some of the ones predicted to come our way. This is so important to us to try and prove my guy is coming, so I’m linking here a link to his comic book appearances and summaries of them for all of you to do some light reading and understand the roles he could be playing.

I want to wrap this up with some talk on the Multiverse itself. Clearly, this film is a culminating point to what much of Phase 4 has been creating. So now the big question we have been asking is will it stay open? My best bet is no, but we will be living with the consequences of whoever comes through while it is open for a very long time. We also have received confirmation on how some of the Multiverse opening process works, so we finally found out that Loki and Sylvie’s actions and Kang’s death is what allowed Strange’s spell in NWH to go wrong. This let’s us know a little bit better of a time line and how some of that process goes together. But the Multiverse is endless and the things we could see because of it are huge. If they do choose to keep it open, which would make sense for characters like America Chavez who travels through the Multiverse, we would have literally endless storylines and possibilities. No one would stay dead, nothing would be permanent, and there will always be bad guys worse than the one before.

Well, we have come to the final end of our predictions and the next time I will talk to y’all will be after Taylor and I both have seen MoM. I am hoping everyone bought tickets, as early showings start TONIGHT and this is a huge opening weekend. I can’t lie and say I am not sitting here currently anxious about what I am walking into in a few hours. I genuinely hope everyone is super excited for what we are going to see, as this is one of the most anticipated Marvel films ever. As far as our show, we will have our (possibly) first reactions episode coming out this weekend, giving you plenty of time to watch the movie then come and catch up with us. Depending on what this film leaves us with, we may have a second reactions episode coming out next week to cover the rest of the content if this film is as crazy as we have been told it would be. So with that, get ready for some major content from us and let’s hop into the Multiverse this weekend, since Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, Christine Dinh, Marvel