Doctor Strange 2 incursions explained

 Marvel announced Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in late July 2019, and it was immediately clear that it would be pivotal in Phase 4. Now that Doctor Strange 2 is playing in theaters, we know what it brings to the MCU and why it’s so important. The movie gives us a better look at the multiverse than any previous MCU adventures, setting the stage for even bigger crossovers. In particular, Doctor Strange 2 introduces the concept of incursions, something we’d yet to see in the MCU.

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But this new MCU phenomenon already carries some problems that aren’t immediately clear when you first watch the movie. The more you think about incursions, the more you realize that Marvel has lots of explaining to do. Before we discuss this further, you should make sure you to see Multiverse of Madness, as big spoilers follow below.


Doctor Strange 2 advances the arcs of several characters, including Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), and Wong (Benedict Wong), against the backdrop of the multiverse. But the purpose of the movie is also to introduce the elements that Marvel needs to set up stories that can be as ambitious as Avengers: Endgame.


That’s where the incursions factor in. An incursion occurs when the boundary between universes erodes, and they collide.


Universes on a collision course can lead to the destruction of one or both of them. As a result, the respective superheroes of those universes might have to fight for survival. Marvel comics fans expect the incursions to lead to an adaptation of Secret Wars.


Doctor Strange 2 gives us the first Mister Fantastic (John Krasinski) to appear in an MCU movie. It’s not the primary Reed Richards, but it’s the closest we’ve gotten to having the Fantastic Four in the MCU. Richards describes the perils of messing with the multiverse when Doctor Strange meets the Illuminati in the latter half of the movie.


Also interesting is the incursions fall in line with a warning from the main universe’s Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in the first Doctor Strange movie. The bill comes due for the magical actions that mess with the order of things. In this case, those actions include multiverse transgressions from various characters.


Doctor Strange 2 explains the rules of incursion

The Mister Fantastic of Earth-838 explains to Doctor Strange that the latter’s presence in the 838 universe confuses and destabilizes reality. The larger the footprint 616-Strange leaves behind, the greater the risk of an incursion. That’s the first rule of incursions. You can create one by messing with the reality you’re traveling to that’s not your own.


But you don’t have to be physically present in that universe. The 838-Strange (Strange Supreme) used dreamwalking to explore other universes in search of a way to defeat Thanos (Josh Brolin). Dreamwalking is using a Darkhold spell to take over the body of one of your variants from another reality.


He never explained what he did wrong while he was inspecting other universes that way. But 838-Strange caused a chain of events that ultimately got out of hand. That’s what he told the Illuminati. This led to an incursion. And one of the two worlds involved in that phenomenon got wiped completely.


That’s the second rule of incursions. Dreamwalking can cause them


By the end of Doctor Strange 2, Clea (Charlize Theron) appears in the primary universe, telling the MCU’s Doctor Strange that he had triggered an incursion, and the two of them have to fix it.


It all makes sense. Doctor Strange traveled physically to two universes, including Earth-838, where the Illuminati died. And the devastated world of Sinister Strange where he killed that Strange. Moreover, 616-Strange also dreamwalked into the corpse of Defender Strange, who died in a different part of the multiverse, but ended up on Earth-616.


So Strange’s footprint in other realities was quite large. And he dreamwalked. But that’s when you realize the incursion phenomenon just caused plot hole-grade issues for Marvel.


Why they’re a big problem for the MCU

Considering the rules that Reed Richards explains in Doctor Strange 2, you’ll quickly remember that 616-Strange isn’t the only superhero that can cause incursions.


Wanda must have been dreamwalking for a long time to find America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), the only being in the multiverse that can portal to other realities. And then she used the same trick to invade Earth-838. Not to mention that she killed up to 5 Illuminati members in that reality. Her footprint was quite large, although we can’t measure that objectively.

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