Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here!
Marvel continues its tradition of teasing us upcoming movies in the MCU with two extra
scenes in Doctor Strange's credits.
In this video, I'm going to break down the movie's mid-credits scene and explain some
of its easter eggs.
And just to be very clear, there are spoilers for both Doctor Strange itself and an upcoming
Marvel movie in this video.
So, if you want to avoid those, you can watch my spoiler-free review of Doctor Strange here,
and come back and watch this video after you've seen the movie!
OK, after the initial fancy set of credits roll, we get a funny scene between Doctor
Strange and Thor who are sitting in Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum in New York.
Thor comments that Earth now has wizards.
Strange then offers Thor a cup of tea, but Thor refuses saying he doesn't drink tea,
and Strange magically makes a very large glass of beer appear instead!
This moment is a nice callback to the scene in the first Thor movie where the Asgardian
god and Erik Selvig drink a boilermaker in a bar from a similar sized glass.
And, of course, we also know from that movie that it's coffee that Thor likes, not tea.
But what is Thor doing with Doctor Strange here?
Well, if you think back to the last time we saw Thor, it was at the end of Avengers: Age
of Ultron when he left the Avengers saying he was going back to Asgard to investigate
the visions he had of the Infinity Stones.
Well, it's likely that Thor heard about what Strange did in this movie and might even be
aware that he has access to the Time Stone.
This meeting between the two characters links to the Thor: Ragnarok set photo that was tweeted
showing Chris Hemsworth holding up a card that reads "177A Bleecker Street" which is
the address of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Santorum.
So, back to the mid-credits scene, Strange explains to Thor that he keeps a watch-list
of individuals and beings from other realms that could be a threat to Earth, and he points
out that Thor's brother Loki is on that list, and Thor agrees that Loki is indeed a worthy
inclusion on the list.
Something of course we know ourselves from all the shenanigans Loki's got up to so far,
particularly the events of the Avengers movie Strange then asks, "why bring [Loki] to New
York?", to which Thor replies that he and Loki are looking for their father Odin.
Strange asks Thor if they find Odin, whether they'll all return to Asgard promptly.
Thor agrees that they will, so Strange confirms he'll help him.
To understand this scene best we need to roll back to the events of Thor: The Dark World
and remember that at the very end of that movie, Loki has taken over the throne in Asgard,
masquerading as Odin.
Since that film, even though Thor appeared in Age of Ultron, it still hasn't been revealed
that Thor knows what Loki has been up to, even though we the audience do know.
Which suggests that this mid-credits scene is a snippet of a scene from Thor: Ragnarok
rather than a separate stand-alone scene shot just for the Doctor Strange movie.
After all, this scene was filmed by Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, rather than Doctor
Strange director Scott Derrickson.
I think the last time this happened was with the post-credits scene for Ant-Man which teased
a short clip with Bucky, Captain America and Falcon from Captain America: Civil War.
All of this means that it looks like Thor is going to uncover Loki's ruse back on Asgard
early on in Thor: Ragnarok and that they will then team up with Doctor Strange to search
for the missing Odin.
And it also confirms that as well as Doctor Strange appearing in Avengers: Infinity War
in 2018, we'll be seeing Benedict Cumberbatch back in another Marvel movie in 2017.
So, that was the mid-credits scene from Doctor Strange, which I thought was good fun and
a nice tease for 2017's Thor movie.
I especially liked the way Thor's beer glass kept filling up by magic with more beer!
Must get myself one of those glasses!
But now, I'd love to know what you think about Doctor Strange teaming up with Thor next year
in Ragnarok?
And let me know if you've got any predictions about what we'll see them get up to.
And don't forget there is a second post-credits scene too which I'm going to discuss in this
video here and I've also got a giveaway for this cool book about Marvel's Doctor Strange
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Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers!