‘Ms Marvel’ solves a ‘Doctor Strange 2’ mystery

In addition to dealing with the multiverse, ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ saw the Doctor Strange confront his past actions and possible mistakes.

One of those actions was his direct involvement in Thanos wiping out half the life in the universe when he gave him the Time Stone. The rationale, of course, was that it was the “only way” the Avengers could eventually save the day.

The problem was that the day of final victory came five years later, half a decade in which those who did not dust off lost the people they loved and thought they would never return. Nor surprised that some survivors are bitter about how it turned outand Strange finds out firsthand.

At Christine Palmer’s wedding, early in the sequel, Strange is reunited with his old colleague Nicodemus West. West didn’t evaporate and lose everyone he loved, so he asks Strange, “Did it have to happen that way?“

But wait. How did West find out about something that happened on Titan that, we imagine, Strange hasn’t exactly been open about? Fortunately, ‘Ms Marvel’ may well have the answer to this mystery.

You might think that we are talking about the interviews of the Scott Lang’s podcast on ‘Big Me Little Me’ that Kamala Khan mentions in the opening sequence of the first episodewhich we pick up in Ms Marvel’s review, and that was where she got all the information about what Captain Marvel did in the Battle of Earth.

However, Scott was in the Quantum World for five years and wasn’t on Titan, so he may not know everything since he’s not a main Avenger. (Sorry Scott, we love you.)

Instead, the answer to how the world seemingly knows every little detail about the battle against Thanos could come in an Easter egg in the background. When Kamala visits AvengerCon, there is a book advertised called ‘I Was There’… Which you can see below on the left side.

From the episode itself, we don’t get any more information about it and you might miss it entirely. Thanks to Marvel.com, we know it’s a book written by an agent of SHIELD detailing “the clash between Earth’s heroes and the scourge alien that threatens our fragile planet.”

It appears to be mostly about the Battle of Earth, as the agent claims to have a first-hand account of Tony Stark’s sacrifice, even though he was “6,000 feet away” at the time. From this far away, we doubt the agent saw Strange give Tony the “one way” gesture or knew its meaning.

Strange’s decision happened five years earlier on Titan, but there’s a way this book could have contained the details. The book also includes “a conversation with Hawkeye” and if any Avenger was upset by Strange’s decision, it would be him.

Hawkeye lost his entire family for five years to Strange’s call, so it’s easy to imagine him bringing up Strange’s decision and the fact that it was supposedly the only way. After all, it’s not like Hawkeye is talking about his vigilante ways as a Ronin, so he’d have to have something else to talk about.

In the same way that a quote from an interview can flip the real world upside down, it’s easy to imagine someone picking up on this and going viral. We could be speculating, but if you want an answer about how everyone knows everything about the Avengers, that’s the best you’re going to get (probably).

There was a similar mystery on the ‘Hawkeye’ show where Captain America’s iconic ‘I can do this all day’ line appeared in ‘Rogers: The Musical’.

“We imagine that at the MCU, people writing a musical or writing a book or writing a magazine article would have done their due diligence and homework and interviewed people who had been there“, he explained.

“Maybe even in things we’ve never seen, members of the Avengers had actually given interviews about this or that. There was a certain freedom about it. Maybe Natasha in some CNN interview might have said, ‘Oh, you know this guy, he’s always like, ‘I could do this all day.. It could have come up somehow.”

Perhaps Strange’s “one way” decision could have carried over to ‘Rogers: The Musical’ which, we assume, also carried over to the Battle of Earth. Perhaps ‘The Only Way’ was a dramatic number in the second actbefore a triumphant ending set in the final battle.

Shaiman certainly felt that the events of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ would have carried over into ‘Rogers: The Musical.’

“The very moving ending and the romantic fact that he chose to grow old so he could have his big love story…it’s beautiful. That would make a magnificent musical“, he speculated.

So maybe we’re not as wrong with this explanation as you might think.