40 “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness” Details You Might’ve Missed The First Time

“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is important to the MCU’s overarching narrative, but it also contains a number of winks and callbacks to other Marvel universes. Within the film’s two hours, there are several references ranging from vintage animated shows and comic book plots to live-action films set in whole separate canons.
There is a lot of potential for subtle references to other movies, characters, and plotlines in a picture that deals so heavily with both magic and the multiverse. The title character in “Multiverse of Madness” wholeheartedly embraces the infinite possibilities of the namesake environment. Every opponent, battle, and alternate world is full of entertaining tiny details for keen eyes to spot and make hardcore fans swoon.

America Chavez’ Jacket

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduces us to America Chavez, a multiverse traveler. On closer inspection, you can spot a star on the back of her jacket, which depicts the star-shaped portals she produces, and an LGBTQ+ pride pin, which is a reference to her moms.

The term “Amor is Amor,” which means “Love is Love” in Spanish, describes her. Because of America’s tragic origin tale, her mothers aren’t in her life, yet they helped mold the hero she is today. America and her sister Catalina are the daughters of Amalia and Elena Chavez, who were renowned doctors.

Doctor Strange’s Doctor

You might not remember Dr. Nicodemus “Nic” West from the 2016 Doctor Strange movie, who sits next to Strange at Christine’s wedding and talks about how he lost his two cats (and brother) during The Blip. Since then, so much has happened in the MCU. Dr. Nicodemus West admired Dr. Stephen Strange’s surgical expertise.

After Strange’s car accident, Dr. West conducted the operation that spared his hands but left him with serious nerve damage. Nicodemus, plagued by remorse for depriving the world of Strange’s medical services, followed Strange to Kamar-Taj, arriving just days after Strange had completed his mystical training.

Shuma-Gorath First Appears In What If…?

Multiverse traveler America Chavez is hunted by a gigantic tentacle thing when she lands in our universe. Shuma-Gorath, a fabled one-eyed, multiversal tentacle monster who frequently clashes with Doctor Strange, is the name of this creature in the comics. Previously, the creature appeared in a few episodes of What If…?

This TV series is the first animated series in the MCU. It is now evident that this show had a significant role to play in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, since each episode in Season 1 depicted parallel universes in which critical events unfolded differently. What If…? is a DIsney+ production.

Secret Clue On The Bus

Shuma-Gorath pulls up a bus with the number “6192” on the top during the fight with Doctor Strange and America Chavez. Since this is Marvel, numbers are usually essential. We speculate the numbers refer to Avengers Issue #61 and Avengers Issue #92, which both feature Doctor Strange seeking out the Avengers for the first time and Scarlet Witch departing.

Shuma-Gorath is an extradimensional, eldritch creature that existed and ruled over his own dimension within the Multiverse. He was unleashed onto the earthly plane by Wanda Maximoff, but was stopped and banished back to his dimension by Doctor Strange and Wong.