Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is quickly becoming one of the most successful movie sensations so far this year, and that’s despite dividing fans between those who love her for how unique she is within the Marvel Cinematic Universe landscape, and those who hate her for not reach the epic levels of previous films What avengers endgame either Spider-Man No Way Home.
Looks are deceiving
If we have specifically mentioned those two films, it is not by chance, since both have something in common with the second solo installment of the sorcerer supreme, and that is that the three have lived a trailer campaign full of deception. How to forget the scene in the first trailer of Avengers: Endgame in which we saw a Thor identical to the one from the previous film when in reality he would have a totally different appearance (beer profile we could say) or the already infamous invisible kick (propitiated by an eliminated Spider-Man from Andrew Garfield) to the Lizard within the second trailer of Spider-Man No Way Home.
However, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness maybe a new level of… cheekiness has been reached? It should be noted that from now on let’s talk about movie spoilersso you are warned.
And it is that for the marketing campaign devised by those responsible for Marvel they had no better idea than to make us think in the trailers that one of the protagonists was going to help Doctor Strange when she is actually the villain of the entire story. We are talking, as you may have already imagined, of nothing more and nothing less than the Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff, that in almost all the previews we could see the scene in which Strange is going to ask her for help about the multiverse, implying to the viewer that she would be an ally of our favorite magician, even emphasizing a phrase that the sorcerer comes to pronounce that “we could use an Avenger.”
What’s more, in one of the trailers we can see a scene of Wanda and Wong fighting against what seem to be giant demons, not to mention that in a promo in the US a scene was even shown with a phrase that was never included in the film. (and that also helped this “deception”, of course).
All this sought to reinforce the theories that the witch would not take the step of unleashing all her power against the forces of goodAnd that if we review what happened in the Disney + series, many fans had little doubt about what their final inclination would be.
America and the Illuminati
Nothing could be further from the truth. If we go to the film itself, when Stephen goes to her seeking advice on how the multiverse works, after having met América Chávez, it is revealed that Wanda has been sending demons all over the multiverse. in search of the girl, in order to absorb her power and go to the rescue of her children, whom we met in the series of WandaVision. That doesn’t sound very heroic, does it?
To add salt to the wound, when he finds out that America and Strange are in another dimension different from his own, he decides to possess the body of Wanda from that alternate universe to go looking for them, killing characters along the way in a very painful way. as beloved as Captain Carter, Mr. Fantastic or Professor X.
As we can see, Marvel at this point is an expert in vilely deceiving fans making up altered scenes in the trailers. And what do you think? Do you like the trailers to play games with you or do you prefer them to be more “honest” about the plot?
