Avengers Endgame theory: Doctor Strange changed timeline to reign unchallenged and supreme

Across both Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame, it’s pretty clear just how powerful and key a player Doctor Strange was. He knew the one possible future in which the Avengers could defeat Thanos and he ensured that that timeline occurred, at the expense of Iron Man and Black Widow’s deaths. Now Reddit user Arc_the_lad has proposed another theory that Doctor Strange’s actions reflect his own selfish ends to reign “unchallenged and supreme” in the reality that best suits his interests.

They write: “We don’t know what’s really happened in the real MCU because we haven’t been part of the prime MCU timeline since The Avengers.

“By botching the Time Heist and allowing Loki to escape with the Space Stone, Iron Man rewrote the future so that option #14,600,005 cannot occur.

“So Dr Strange travelled back in time to make sure it did happen because option #14,600,005 is a paradoxical alternate timeline where he reigns unchallenged and supreme.”

In terms of evidence, the theorist laid out an extensive argument.

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Whether Doctor Strange is good or bad or if it’s more complicated than that, he looks like he’s met his match in his next solo out.

Next summer sees the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Not much is known about the film, although Scarlet Witch will co-star following her prelude Disney Plus series WandaVision.

Presumably, the aftermath of Endgame has left the MCU multiverse in something of a flux.