Welcome back to New Rockstars, I’m Erik Voss, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’
WandaVision connection just went from static to clear signal with Kevin Feige confirming Doctor
Strange was originally planned to appear in the WandaVision finale, the source of
those never-explained commercials, but this was removed, causing a rewrite to Multiverse of
Madness, and helping debunked nerd theorists like me sleep again. You cut
Doctor Strange and the bunny turning into a hell demon, but keep Ralph Bohner? COOL.
These reveals tell us a lot about how the Scarlet Witch will return in Multiverse of Madness,
and really, WHAT WAS DOCTOR STRANGE’S PLAN during the events of WandaVision? I'm gonna explain it
all but SPOILER WARNING in case my theories are right but if not I don’t care because it’s more
fun to be surprised. So Kevin Feige confirmed Doctor Strange was going to appear in the
WandaVision finale, but was written out, because they didn’t want to overshadow Wanda’s
story with a bigger-name Avenger stealing focus. WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer revealed
that the commercials were planned to be messages from Strange to Wanda, and that Strange was going
to appear in one of the ads. Looking back, the commercials were one thing I actually managed to
theorize correctly, predicting that the final ad would be one for anti-depressant
medication. And now that we know these were all messages
from Doctor Strange, that changes so much about how we understand WandaVision. In Episode 4, we
learned that everything WE had been seeing as part of Wanda’s sitcom reality was being broadcasted out
on local frequencies, being picked up on Darcy’s AV equipment. That includes the commercials.
The commercials were for The Stark Toast Mate 2000, the Strucker Watch, Hydra Soak
bath soap, Lagos paper towels, Yo-Magic kids yogurt, and Nexus antidepressants. Actually
right as WandaVision began, Feige was asked about these, responding in some choice
language: “That was part of something early on…. How are other truths of the show beginning
to leak out? And commercials were an early idea for that. And if this is the very first Marvel
MCU thing you’re watching, it’s just a strange. It’s just a strange version of the ’50s commercial or ’60s commercial
that you’ll have to keep watching the series to understand. STRANGE. The answer was right there,
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linking to wanda's history like the mysterious red colored beeping of the stark toaster was
indeed wanda's subconscious reminding her of the stark bomb that traumatized her in pietro
the strucker watch and hydra soak were nods to her time with baron von strucker in the
hydra lab lagos paper towels referenced her guilt for the casualty she caused in lagos
nigeria the beginning of civil war but yo magic yogurt and nexus antidepressant remained a bit
up for interpretation like sure you could say they're reflections of wanda's sorcery
and status as a nexus level being that's the score of the witch nexus meaning a marvel being that can
detach oneself from any one reality but the series itself never explicitly confirmed that intention
until now with this doctor strange reveal the west view hex with its shifty and sitcom aesthetic was
mostly wanda's doing of course but other sorcerers could use their magic to meddle within that
hex agatha harkness arrived after it began and manipulated wanda within it trying to steal her
sorcery but doctor strange was also interfering via these commercials his interrupted messages
took the form of classic television because like everything in the hex wanda sorcery warped
strange's messages to fit the broader aesthetic and the fact that wanda trumped strange here is
why agatha told wanda your power exceeds that of the sorcerer supreme doctor strange sensed
the west view hex the same way agatha did and his plan was to awaken wanda from her hex by sending
her these messages at key moments of cognition or vulnerability in episode 1 it was the confused
phone call between wanda and vision that set up the whole second half of the episode which led
to strange sending the message reminding wanda of her sokovian origin which is why wanda brings
up her circovian background right after this in episode two dr strange saw that moment dottie
broke the glass and antagonized wanda which broke juana's reality for just a second allowing strange
to ping her with a reminder of her time with strucker in episode three the commercial comes
right after that scene with that awkward internal jump cut and when wanda's water breaking causes it
to rain inside at which point dr strange comes in with the hydra soap commercial in episode 5
strange comes in with the ad for lagos paper towels right after wanda threatens hayward
and sword to stay out of west view warning wanda about the last time she used her chaos magic to
hurt people then in episode 6 wanda suspects pietro as a bad influence and then shortly
after strange's commercial message is for yo magic yogurt featuring a bro-y predator calling the kid
little dude just like pietro does there you go little dude right on little dude this is a way
of strange telling wanda that the only way for her to survive is to use her magic which wanda
does at the end of this episode and then the final commercial comes in episode 7 precisely when wanda
is shocked to hear the voice of the director which we later discover is agatha's modulated voice
behind the camera and in that moment of cognition strange comes in to tell wanda that she is
a nexus being but in this message he includes this warning you should not take nexus unless
your doctor has cleared you to move on with your life and as i suspected at the time the doctor
is dr strange i think this was the commercial he was going to appear in his message to wanda is to
wake up from the stream and consult your doctor strange to unleash your true potential now while
this was left out of one division feige indicated this cut meant rewrites to doctor strange in the
multiverse of madness so strange's attempts to contact wanda inside the hex still might
be mcu canon and could get explored in that film as the scarlet witch becomes the antagonist of
that story because in this same article elizabeth olsen said that wanda fled westview to a place no
one would find her because she knows she's going to be held accountable and in this post-credits
scene it's now even clearer how it ties in with multiverse of madness doctor strange's music
wanda using astral projection a move used by doctor strange except she's even more advanced
because she doesn't need to be asleep to do this but notice the camera movement the camera
swoops in across the lake never cutting as it glides into the cabin and into the back room
as if seen from the unblinking point of view of the ever watching sorcerer supreme himself
so my friends doctor strange was not a no-show in wanda vision westview and wanda max moth were one
of his biggest failures and as he has to face her in multiverse of madness when the scarlet
witch reaches her nexus potential i don't think she's gonna seek a doctor's prescription not
that anyone will be able to read it anyway i mean even for a doctor steve's handwriting is terrible
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