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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
★ 7.2 · 10,258 ratings on TMDB
Enter a new dimension of Strange.
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
DirectorSam Raimi
The emergence reading
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, power, authority, multiverse, magic.
zero-distanceUSgriefpowerauthoritymultiversemagic
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0multiversethe universe permits innate, uncontrolled travel between parallel realities (as wielded by America Chavez) (technology · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, multiverse
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)E9/E12 · rare rung · grief, power
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · authority, powerAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Watchmen (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Flash (2023)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Last Action Hero (1993)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Disenchanted (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Serenity (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Southland Tales (2007)alters at E0 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
