Doctor Strange has unwittingly unleashed much multiversal chaos on the MCU. To be fair to him, though, some of that isn’t his doing. The franchise’s space-time continuum has been a mess since the conclusion of the Infinity Saga. While Strange, Wong, and many of his friends can bend space and time to their will to a degree, most Marvel characters have not mastered the art of hopping back and forth between here and there. One doesn’t expect that Deadpool will be a master of it, either.
While Peter Parker (Tom Holland) manages to meet some of his variants and has himself erased from the memory of his friends and family to restore the timestream to its correct order, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) has monkeyed with reality itself to cope with her grief after losing Vision (Paul Bettany). Loki’s (Tom Hiddleston) typical business may be causing havoc, but in the 2nd season of his show, he’s a member of the Time Variance Authority and must master time travel to rescue his friends. As for Strange himself, he must combat evil versions of himself as he hops from dimension to dimension during “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
Thus, the timestream continues to be a yawning issue that bedevils the MCU — and, with luck, may provide an easy escape for Deadpool and Wolverine.
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