Our sources have informed us that the final matchup explored leading into the next Avengers films will be pitting Doctor Strange vs. Kang on the opposite sides of the battle to come. Both Strange and Kang will serve as the key players for each side. This matchup is comparable to Tony Stark vs Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

However, the distinct detail that separates this story from the one told before with Tony and Thanos is the role that Kang will take in this matchup. Kang’s perspective (and the angle Marvel Studios will want to pitch to audiences) is that he’s the hero trying to save the Multiverse from its greatest threat yet… Doctor Stephen Strange.

According to our sources, Sinister Strange has been terminating his variants to avoid the inevitable future of an incursion between two universes. This is in order to avoid leading to Sinister Strange and his current circumstances in the future.

Think of him as the anti-Immortus. Immortus wants to find Kang Prime so Kang can become Immortus. Sinister Strange is trying to avoid his future from ever happening to other universes. Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, it’s inevitable. 616 Strange has already begun an incursion on his own universe, and the consequences will surely be catastrophic moving forward.

This concept is an interesting way to depict Sinister Strange’s motives for doing what he has done. And while these concepts were not explored in the Doctor Strange sequel, it’s not unlikely that we’ll never know what the original vision for the film was. It is possible, according to one source, that the original concepts written for Derrickson’s Multiverse of Madness script focusing on Stephen and his character may be used in another project. That is potentially for Doctor Strange 3 or one of the upcoming Avengers films.

If Marvel decides to go this route, it would raise multiple ethical questions. Although Doctor Strange has good intentions, it’s clear that his actions are not the best ones suited to handle multiversal threats moving forward. It’s an interesting case of the lesser of two evils. What is worse, allowing Kang to rule or risking causing an incursion to stop him? But that will be a question answered another day.