Multiverse of Madness Trailer Shows a Horrifying Doctor Strange Variant, Teases Professor X - CBR - Comic Book Resources

The Marvel Cinematic Universe becomes the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse in a new official trailer for director Sam Raimi's fast-approaching Marvel Studios film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Marvel debuted the full-length official trailer for Multiverse of Madness during the early proceedings of Super Bowl LVI. A new poster for the film has been released as well. The trailer sees Doctor Stephen Strange being detained for his "desecration of reality." He is taken before someone who sounds eerily similar to Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier/Professor X from Fox's X-Men films, which would line up with recent leaks.

The new trailer also features the otherworldly monster known as Gargantos, Scarlet Witch pointing out Strange's apparent hypocrisy regarding his handling of the multiverse crisis and, of course, multiple versions of Strange himself -- including a horrifying, multi-armed zombie Strange (possibly, but not necessarily the same one seen in What If...?) who shows up in the trailer's closing moments.

With Marvel Studios' Disney+ series Loki and What If...?, as well as the film Spider-Man: No Way Home having opened the MCU up to the multiverse, Doctor Strange is going to need some help fending off the threats now facing humanity -- including alternate versions of himself. In addition to being the sequel to 2016's Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness serves as a follow-up to Disney+'s WandaVision, with Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch playing a major role in this new story in the aftermath of the Westview incident.

Multiverse of Madness sees Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams and Michael Stuhlbarg reprise their roles as Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Wong, Karl Mordo, Christine Palmer and Nicodemus West, respectively. The film also features a major newcomer in the form of Xochitl Gomez, who brings the multiverse-trotting superhero America Chavez/Miss America to the MCU. Created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, America Chavez is a relatively recent addition to Marvel's ever-growing roster of heroes, first appearing in 2011's Vengeance #1.

"In Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before," an official synopsis for the Doctor Strange sequel reads. "Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary."

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness premieres in theaters on May 6.

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