Doctor Strange 2 Continuity Errors Already Spotted | Screen Rant
Fans have already spotted a continuity error in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, even though it's a full week before the film comes out. The movie, which is due in theaters on May 6, 2022, is the first theatrical MCU project to arrive this year, though it was preceded by the streaming series Moon Knight on Disney+, which will air its finale the day before. It will follow up on the various multiversal threads that Marvel has been laying down in projects including Loki and Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which Doctor Strange's spell gone wrong caused villains from various other Spider-Man universes to spill into the MCU, forcing Tom Holland's Peter Parker to team up with Andrew Garfield from The Amazing Spider-Man and Tobey Maguire from 2002's Spider-Man.
Doctor Strange 2 will also be a direct follow-up to the events of 2021's WandaVision, in which Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch created a fictional reality to deal with the death of her partner, Vision. Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange, the sorcerer Wong (Benedict Wong), and new heroine America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) will have to team up to face off against a terrifying new enemy as the different threads of the multiverse begin to blend together yet again. This will include the arrival of multiversal variants like Evil Doctor Strange, What If...?'s Captain Carter, and, now that Disney has the rights to the 20th Century Studios Library, Patrick Stewart's Professor X from the X-Men franchise.
YouTube user vernonator6497 has uploaded a short eleven-second video pointing out a hilarious gaffe involving an extra in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The video, which is titled "Doctor Strange 2 Clip but just the continuity errors," is taken from the scene where Doctor Strange is preparing to fight a giant monster on a busy city street. As the video points out with a helpful counter, the same extra dressed as a businessman runs past Doctor Strange four different times in multiple shots. Check out the video below:
It's important to note that this clip may not be the one that ends up in the movie itself. Most movie trailers are cut using an early workprint of the film, so final editing may not have been completed before the Doctor Strange 2 trailers and other promotional materials were created. Eagle-eyed fans will have to pay attention in the theater to see if the mistake is still present.
It's also possible, though incredibly unlikely, that these shots all take place in slightly different universes where that extra starts running at different times. Unless the filmmakers want to use that as an excuse, it will be difficult for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to avoid landing a major entry on its IMDb Bloopers page. While it's hardly the first blooper to enter the Marvel canon, it's definitely at least slightly embarrassing that it was caught so early that the film hasn't even been released yet.
Source: vernonator6497/YouTube