Is There A Second End Credit Scene

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hitting theaters earlier this month and sent the Marvel Cinematic Universe's charmingly grumpy sorcerer on an take chances that spans multiple realities. Information technology brings director Sam Raimi back to Marvel for the start time since 2007's Spider-Man 3 and leans hard into his signature horror mode, with one of the two post-credits scenes riffing on a moment from early on in his career.

The picture show takes place after the events of Spider-Homo: No Mode Home, which saw Strange offering Peter Parker some magical aid equally the teen dealt with the entire globe knowing his clandestine identity.

Let's step into a portal and explore a universe full of SPOILERS. We besides take a divide catastrophe explainer, a deep dive into the Illuminati and a list of WTF questions the movie left usa with.

Another wizard

In a mid-credits scene, Strange is happily strolling through Manhattan'due south streets, having seemingly accepted the abuse caused by his use of the Darkhold. He'southward intercepted past a blonde sorcerer in a purple and pink costume (Charlize Theron). She opens a portal to the Dark Dimension, the hellish reality ruled by 2016 Doctor Strange big bad Dormammu.

"You created an incursion and we're gonna prepare it... unless you lot're afraid?" she says.

"Not in the least," he responds, his Darkhold-induced tertiary eye opening.

Doctor Strange 14 cover — Clea has been amongst Medico Strange'south most reliable allies in the comics.
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What does it mean?

She isn't named until the credits kickoff rolling after this scene, merely Theron's graphic symbol is Clea -- a Night Dimension magic wielder who's been in the comics since the '60s.

She's the daughter of Dormammu's sister Umar and Dark Dimension Prince Orini, and became fascinated by Strange during 1 of his early adventures in that reality. Their paths accept crossed many times in the years since, with Clea becoming Strange'south student and later his wife.

Following the events of 2021's Decease of Doc Strange miniseries (you can imagine the premise), Clea replaced Foreign as Wizard Supreme of Earth. Stephen volition undoubtedly be resurrected and render to the role presently though, since status quo shifts similar this seldom concluding long in the comics.

You might accept been too decorated reeling or screaming with joy when Reed Richards (John Krasinski) explained what incursions were earlier in the pic, but they're catastrophic events that occur when a multiversal reality crashes into some other. In the comics, this happened in 2015 event Surreptitious Wars.

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Information technology's unclear how Foreign acquired an incursion -- he jumped through a whole bunch of realities in Multiverse of Madness -- or what this ways for the MCU, but information technology could see elements from a different cinematic universe crossing into this i.

Such a crossover already created a dangerous scenario (filled with delightful cameos) in No Manner Home, so it's possible we'll encounter characters from Flim-flam's Ten-Men reality next. The presence of Professor X (Patrick Stewart) may have been foreshadowing this.

Or maybe that's just more wishful thinking.

Bruce Campbell's cameo pays homage to his iconic Evil Dead character Ash Williams.
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Poppa Pizza returns

In an alternating reality'southward Manhattan, rude street vendor Pizza Poppa (Bruce Campbell) before accused America Chavez of stealing his precious dough assurance. Strange striking the poor guy with a spell to get him off their backs, and they left him to be attacked by his own hand.

The post-credits scene brings us back to Pizza Poppa just as his meat hook'due south campaign of violence ends.

"Information technology's over!" he says joyously.

What does it mean?

This scene is unlikely to have any MCU-scattering implications, since it's more of an homage to Campbell and Raimi'due south relationship. The pair accept been friends since high school, and the role player played hero Ash Williams in Raimi's 1981 breakout feature The Evil Dead. In that movie'southward 1987 sequel, Ash's hand is bitten by one of the undead, becomes possessed and tries to impale him.

Unlike Pizza Poppa, he tries to solve the problem past severing his manus and replacing it with a chainsaw (which is extremely metal). His former hand stalks him for the rest of the motion picture.

Campbell also shows upwardly in Raimi'due south non-MCU Spider-Man trilogy, seemingly playing three different characters. He was a wrestling announcer in the commencement movie, a snooty usher in the sequel and a French maître d' in the third. If the scrapped Spider-Man 4 had come to fruition, the thespian could have played Mysterio, Raimi confirmed to Rolling Rock.

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