Doctor Strange 2 Villain Leaked

| November 2, 2021 |

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Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange — *Photograph: Curiosity Studios*

Given its premise, pretty much anything could happen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , the upcoming Medico Foreign sequel that sees Strange messing with the Time Stone in a postal service- Loki MCU. Possibly that's why whatsoever concrete details most the Sam Raimi film are both then precious and also then precarious. In Strange's Multiverse, reality—and therefore catechism—is a bit more malleable. That being said, merch is forever, so you lot meliorate believe we're side-eying what appears to exist some official Marvel tie-in toy teasing a Doctor Strange antagonist who has recently popped up elsewhere in the MCU…

Australian retailer Booktopia has a thou-piece adult coloring pad and puzzle currently listed for pre-order that showcases the Sorcerer Supreme facing off against a wide-eyed, tentacled creature that certainly looks like Shuma-Gorath, the Cthulhu-like demon from Marvel Comics. Leading particular credibility to this leak is the fact that Shuma-Gorath showed upwards not once, but multiple times in the first season of Curiosity'south What If…?

Shuma-Gorath first popped up in the What If…? series premiere, when Captain Carter had to forcefulness the massive monster back through a portal in an alternate, WWII-era of our universe. Shuma-Gorath gets a scrap more to do in Episode 4 of the flavour, which sees a selfish, grief-stricken version of Stephen Strange seeking massive amounts of power in an attempt to opposite Christine's expiry. The procedure involves Stephen traveling to the Library of Cagliostro, where he summons various supernatural creatures in order to blot their power(southward). The first is Shuma-Gorath, and he doesn't manage to defeat the mythical-like creature on his first try. Nevertheless, if at commencement you don't succeed… Stephen proceeds to summon and absorb the dark ability from countless other creatures before returning to Shuma-Gorath a much-inverse (for wont of a better substantive) human.

In the terminate, the Shuma-Gorath is no match for the Night Sorcerer, which begs the question: Why bring Shuma-Gorath back for Medico Strange ii ? We've already seen a version of Strange defeat the creature in What If…? Well, in that location's the draw of seeing the Shuma-Gorath realized in live-action, of form. Only there'south besides the possibility that the puzzle-fied Shuma-Gorath is not what information technology seems. Could Doctor Strange bring back the version of Foreign we come across in What If…? We come across him apply his Shuma-Gorath powers in the What If…? flavour finale, which means some incarnation of the creature features in three of What If 'due south nine episodes. That's a lot of screen fourth dimension for a character you're never going to run into again. Could What If 'southward darker version of Strange, the i that harnessed Shuma-Gorath for his own purposes, be the truthful antagonist of Multiverse of Madness ?