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Doctor Strange’s second post-credit scene has meaning (believe it or not)

After months of waiting, on May 6 we were finally able to enjoy in theaters Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a new installment of the UCM that is not leaving anyone indifferent, with fans who love it and baptize it as “one of the best movies of the Marvel factory”, and others who have found it one of the biggest recent disappointments of Disney . Whatever your opinion, there is one factor that everyone agrees on, and that is the fact that this film feels like a Sam Raimi movie, With all that that means.

A very special sequence

And there is no scene that expresses this concept better than in the second post-credits of the film. Before starting to analyze it, it should be noted that there will be spoilers in this article of this second movie of the supreme sorcerer. So you are warned, so there is no drama later. So let’s start this analysis.

Before talking about the scene at the end of the credits we have to go back to another one within the movie itself. Once America Chavez and Doctor Strange have managed to escape from the Scarlet Witch Traveling through the multiverse, our protagonists arrive in an alternative New York in which the character played by Benedict Cumberbatch is the great hero loved by all, since he single-handedly defeated Thanos.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

There they begin to explore the place when they run into a seller of what looks like hot dogs who tells our hero that all the attire he is wearing must have been stolen from the Strange museum. The sorcerer casts a spell on him to make him shut up., charming his hand so that it won’t stop hitting him in the face. That actor, with his characteristic gesture is… haven’t you recognized him?

And now we travel to that second post-credits scene where we see that man is still haunted by hitting himself over and over again. until his hand finally stops and as surprised as relieved he stares into the camera to say “it’s over”. This sequence might seem like the typical joke that Marvel puts on from time to time at the end of their movies, but the factor that makes it different, and epic for some, is the fact that that food vendor is played nothing more and nothing less. than by the mythical Bruce Campbell.

Evil Deadthe origin of everything

For those of you who are fans of director Sam Raimi’s films, you will remember that this actor is one of his favorites because, among other works, is the protagonist of the cult trilogy Evil Dead and has had a special appearance in the films of the trilogy of spider-man by Tobey Maguire, all directed by… Sam Raimi.

Bruce Campbell.

In fact, this post-credits sequence is a reference itself to a scene from Evil Dead 2 in which the hand of Ash Williams, the protagonist played by Bruce Campbell, is possessed by a malevolent spirit that begins to hit the protagonist repeatedly until, to end the problem, he decides to cut it off once and for all, replacing it with the mythical chainsaw

So you know, it’s not a simple you saw that post-credits scene and It has all the sense of the world. At least as far as tributes are concerned.

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