Marvel Studios’WandaVisionspawned unnumberable fan possibility when it originally beam in early 2021 . Many of the theories that sprouted around it grow out to be faulty . The most well - known among these is the belief certain viewers had thatWandaVision‘s final episodes would unveil a red-faced - skinned comic book flesh namedMephistoas the show ’s secret villain . However , one strong hearsay that also grew in the calendar week leading up toWandaVision‘s finale back in March 2021 was that Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) was going to make a surprise cameo appearance in the show .
That never finally came to pass , but it turns out that fans were n’t all misguided in thinking it would . In a recent interview withVariety , WandaVisionandAgatha All Alongcreator Jac Schaefferrevealed that Stephen Strange was at one decimal point supposed to appear inWandaVision . When ask if she could divulge any argufy position - credits setting that she ’s written for Marvel over the years , Schaeffer respond , “ Yes . I ’ll tell you this one , because it ’s been a long time , and so maybe the statute of limitations is up on it . ab initio , Doctor Strange was going to appear in the rag forWandaVision . ”
Schaeffer went on to describe the scrapped scene in interrogative , revealing , “ It ’s Wanda sitting on the porch of that cabin , and she ’s shake peacefully . And you know how Strange can do those circle around someone and make them go somewhere ? The roofy starts around her , like she ’s going to be teleported somewhere , and she break off it , so Strange has to show up in mortal . I just loved that so much , that Wanda would be like , ‘ No , I ’m not endure to go where you want to teleport me . You ’re run to have to occur to my doorway . ’ It was a good one , but another tag take its position . ”
Schaeffer ’s initial idea was replaced by a scene that still findsWanda Maximoff ( Elizabeth Olsen)living in a distant cabin . Rather than her seemingly peaceful existence being disrupt by Doctor Strange , though , WandaVision‘s post - credits scene instead reveals Wanda ’s astral figure feverishly studying the pages of the perversive book known as the Darkhold and try the voices of her two boy , Billy and Tommy , calling to her for help . The scene hard foreshadows the events ofDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , in which Wanda take on a villainous twist when trying to hop into an alternate universe of discourse where her sons are still alive .
The shot that Schaeffer describes would have similarly set upDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , particularly Wanda ’s opposer relationship in that film with Stephen Strange . Not much was , therefore , lose by cutting the latter character ’s cameo , though Marvel Cinematic Universe fans were certainly let down in 2021 when he did n’t appear in the show ’s closing curtain . At least those same viewers can now take solace in recognize that theirWandaVisiontheories about Doctor Strange were n’t nearly as unfounded as their Mephisto ones .
WandaVisionandDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessare both well out now on Disney+ .
