>>81371898Honestly, I don't see why there should be a Dr. Strange movie in the MCU. Especially after they went and made Thor a space alien from planet Asgard with sufficiently advanced technology.
One of the biggest problems with the Marvel universe is that's it's too fucking old and crowded. It stopped making sense a long time ago for there to be any normal life anywhere. The superheroes and villains completely dominate global affairs.
Iron Man was great because they started with something that was basically the real world.
Then they started putting the Avengers together, and yeah, that sort of worked. You can have Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, and Nick Fury together in one universe, with some sidekicks and hangers-on. But they were already getting lazy and top-down about it. The Thor and Captain America movies didn't stand on their own merits, they were just setting up The Avengers. And when The Avengers arrived, it was like it was just setting more stuff up. They aren't waiting for good scripts to come in, it's all just compliance with corporate strategy.
Now it's increasingly obvious that they intend to shoehorn the whole unworkable shitshow in.
No, the MCU doesn't need Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange doesn't need the MCU. The MCU should have stayed the Tonyverse, where the world went crazy as a sequence of events logically following from the emergence of Iron Man, not just the world arbitrarily going openly crazy in a hundred ways that all started at the same time for no reason.
Like, Vanko propagates arc reactor technology to the point that aliens detect it as evidence of an emerging cosmic-class civilization. This brings Asgardian investigators, who incidentally activate the Tessaract, waking Captain America and the Red Skull, who crashed with it (and who are both infused with Tessaract nanites/energy/whatever, giving them Asgardian physical capabilities and longevity). So there's a reason for it to all change at once.