Wanda Showed TONY the Multiverse in AGE OF ULTRON | Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness Dream Explained

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduced a game-changing aspect of the MCU: when people dream, they are observing the multiverse. So does this mean that every time an MCU character dreamed, they were seeing the multiverse? we think so! we'll go you one better: the visions Wanda showed the Avengers in Age of Ultron were actually glimpses of the multiverse. This theory connects to all aspects of the MCU, including WandaVision, Loki, Endgame, Punisher, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor: Ragnarok.

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According to this movie, when a character in the MCU dreams, they’re actually seeing their multiversal selves. This is actually a game changer for this franchise. We’re going to go back and look at some other dreams in the mCU, explaining they’re new meaning.

But most importantly, this means that the Marvel multiverse actually first appeared all the way back in Age of Ultron, and that Wanda has always had the power to see across the multiverse–and, that she will be a key figure in the great Multiversal wars to come: the Secret wars.

We have already seen MCU characters use a dream state to ascend to a different plane of consciousness. For instance, when the black panthers visited the realm of the dead

Now, I know some of you are going to say that I'm just retconning, going through the MCU and acting like they always had this planned. I have a response to that, that I’m going to go over in just a minute.

So, let’s talk about dreams. In our world, you know, reality–dreams are actually byproducts of our REM cycle, when unique electrical pulses fire off in our brains. Most researchers agree that dreams are a way for our minds to process and catalog memories, or to process traumatic events. A good metaphor is that your brain is sorting its memories into recycling bins and dumpsters.

I’m saying all this, because I think a portion of this still applies to the characters in the MCU. Characters are drawn to certain multiversal counterparts with experiences they relate to. For instance, Wanda misses her boys, so she always dreams of her other selves that have kids.

I also think the dreamer’s individual experience can affect what they see in a dream. Like, if someone has had a particularly traumatic life, then it creates a kind of static interference that inhibits the dream signal they’re receiving from the multiverse.

Let me give you an example from the show Punisher.

Doug: Wait, is Punisher in the MCU?

That’s a great question. Now, before the multiverse entered the MCU, I would have said, probably not. The Marvel movies refused to acknowledge the TV shows, because they were made by a competing division with Marvel–boring corporate stuff [boring corporate clip]

But recently, those Marvel Netflix shows have migrated to Disney Plus. Charlie Cox and Kingpin have appeared in Spider-Man No Way Home and Hawkeye. And Vincent D'onofrio said that this isn't the same version of the character, that he's a little different. We’ve made videos in the past that surmised that these Marvel Netflix shows took place out there in the multiverse. Marvel can keep any elements they want, and disregard others. Like Punisher can be in the MCU, but he’s not as violent.

I’m going through all this so we can establish that Punisher is more than likely part of the MCU, but in the multiverse.

So, in Punisher season 1, Frank has a dream. His family is alive, and they’re having dinner with Micro’s family. Everything is perfect.

But then, leaves start to fall from the ceiling, like the day Frank’s family was killed. Then men with guns storm into the dining room. Now, is this surreal stuff literally happening to Frank’s multiversal self?

I think that Frank was longing for his family, so his mind reached out to a version of himself where they had never died–where they also knew Micro’s family. But, Frank’s own trauma resisted this image–his brain rejected the perfect reality. So it sent these other images into his mind to show him what was real.

We see a similar dream in falcon and the winter soldier, when Bucky relives his days as Hydra’s number one assassin. [clip]. At this point, Bucky spends all his free time with the father of the man he killed. His guilt is all consuming, he cannot stop thinking about atoning for this murder. So, his mind gravitates toward a reality where he is in the act of killing this kid.