Don't go see "Doctor Strange 2" without reading this article

The second film devoted entirely to the character of Doctor Strange, aka Stephen Strange, was released in theaters on Wednesday May 4.

Who says new Marvel film says puzzle.

All MCU films and series are interrelated.

To fully understand the adventures of the supreme sorcerer, it would therefore be necessary to see or review certain classics.

The first installment of

, sure, but also the latest Marvel movie,

.

It is also essential to have in mind several of the series

:

and

.

To make matters worse, let’s add to that the series available on Disney+… WandaVision,

and Loki participate in understanding the plot.

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Fortunately,

gives you a summary of all this.

Warning, it spoils...

To understand the characters

Obviously to understand how Stephen Strange became a wizard, you have to have seen

.

This brilliant neurosurgeon lost the use of his hands in an accident.

In an attempt to heal, he leaves to learn the mystical arts and ultimately becomes the Sorcerer Supreme.

Well, that's the origin of the character.

To find out what happened to him just before the second installment, it happens in the latest Spiderman to date.

Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Stephen, comes to the aid of the spider-man whose identity has been revealed.

He will cast two spells that will weaken the borders of the multiverse.

In

, he will therefore have to face the consequences of the modifications of space-time.

The other key character in this new film is Wanda.

The heroine first appears in

, where she goes from being a terrorist villain (but with good reason to be angry) to being an Avengers (because anger leads nowhere. go).

In the wonderful

, we follow her after the murder of her lover Vision by Thanos.

She takes an entire city hostage where she controls everything and builds herself, thanks to her extraordinary powers, her perfect life with her twins and the resurrected Vision.

She embraces her destiny as a red witch, destined to destroy the world, after defeating the witch Agatha Harkness, who was hiding under the identity of one of her neighbors.

Vision and her children disappear but Wanda hears of one of the twins stuck in another universe.

She then immerses herself in the study of the dark magic book Darkhold.

The Scarlet Witch is back in

To be perfectly in focus on the multiverse

In the What if? series, we explore alternate realities related to Marvel characters.

In this series we have a Wanda who is a zombie and who is killed by Ultron and a Doctor Strange who has not lost his hands but his lover.

He will then become evil and destroy his beneficial double.

But at the end of the series, he clears himself by taking down Ultron with some Avengers.

Could this be a teaser for this second part?

The

series begins when the Avengers alter reality in

.

Loki disappears with the Tesseract into another universe.

Under threat from the Time Variance Authority, he must restore chronological order by stopping a version of himself, Sylvie, who is turning the universe upside down.

Sylvie will unfortunately kill "The One Who Remained", a version of Kang the Conqueror who knows the past and the future.

The result: a new multiverse war.

All that to say that amidst this merry mess,

is an essential step in the new era of the Marvel Universe.

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