And while this moment could easily be overlooked amid Infinity War’s climactic battle and the fateful Snap, in retrospect, everything hinged on it. The long-game move allows the Snap to take place - even making it easier for Thanos to assemble the Gauntlet to do so - and seemed baffling at the time. Presumably, Strange understood that he needed to simply stop fighting and give Thanos the Time Stone at a specific point to make all that happen. In Infinity War, Doctor Strange’s peek through a myriad of futures began on the planet of Titan as the Avengers waited for Thanos. RELATED: MODOK Just Got His Own Version of Thor's Mjolnir - and It's DEADLY To achieve that future, however, he has to murder future M.O.D.O.K.’s family, which gives the show a way to echo the MCU’s darkest moment. now calling himself the Anomaly - travels to millions of futures, just as Doctor Strange did in the MCU, and engineers the only one that obtains the future he desires. After meeting his older self, the young version of the titular villain commences a lengthy scheme designed to destroy his future self and what he considers an appalling life for the would-be supervillain.Īnd thanks to a clever riff on one of Avengers: Infinity War’s main plot points, he succeeds. and his wife Jodie travel back in time and make a sworn enemy out of his younger self. Time travel, specifically, plays a big role in the show’s first season, as M.O.D.O.K. enjoys poking fun at specific Marvel tropes, which includes the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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