Doctor Strange 2: Every Connection To WandaVision And Other Marvel TV Series (Including, Yes, Even THAT One)

The following contains major spoilers from the motion picture Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, now in theaters.

When the very first teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came out, in which Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) assured Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) that he had zero interest in discussing her Westview misdeeds, one might have thought that the events of that Disney+ TV series would not play a big role in the latest MCU movie.

And one would have been quite wrong.

Because that idyllic Westview family life is still very much on Wanda's mind, and as a result, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is in many ways "Season 2" of WandaVision.

That is far from the latest MCU Phase Four film's only tie-in to assorted Marvel TV series from over the past few years, however. Below, TVLine recaps the big TV-related cameos and Easter eggs. After you make your own appointment with Doctor Strange, come back and weigh in on your favorite callbacks.

Once again, we warn you: SPOILERS AHEAD for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness!

For starters, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has stated as fact that Sylvie (Sophia di Martino) killing He Who Remains aka the Kang variant (Jonathan Majors) in the finale of Disney+'s Loki is what unsettled the multiverse to begin with, paving the way for Doctor Strange to cast a reality-altering spell in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

"Loki and Sylvie did something at the end of that series that allowed all of this to be possible," he told Marvel.com (here at the 48:00 mark). "He Who Remains is gone, and that allowed a spell to go wrong in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which leads to the entire multiverse going quite mad in this."

With the multiverse now vulnerable and ripe for exploitation, Wanda proves to be no heroic Avenger in Doctor Strange 2, as the early trailers wanted us to believe. Quite the contrary. The Scarlet Witch in fact is the movie's Big Bad, determined as she is to reunite with Billy and Tommy, the sons she conjured using magic (and who are again played by WandaVision's Julian Hilliard and Jett Klyne).

Yes, Wanda appeared to selflessly choose to bid her twins adieu in that finale, but WandaVision's final bonus scene strongly suggested that her witchy wheels were turning as she frantically flipped through the Darkhold — ergo her Doctor Strange 2 plot to steal America Chavez's multiverse-hopping power and find her boys (and replace their actual Moms while she's at it).

Midway through Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mordo — the Sorcerer Supreme on Earth-838 — presents Stephen Strange to the Illuminati, a secret society led by Patrick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier (of the X-Men movies) and counting among its ranks Reed Richards (the Fantastic 4's "Mr. Fantastic," played here for a first time by Jack Ryan's John Krasinski) and Maria Rambeau in her super-powered Photon Captain Marvel persona (Lashana Lynch reprising her Captain Marvel role).

But the Illuminati also includes Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter, rocking the Captain Carter supersoldier persona that was teased in Disney+'s animated What If...? series. (We'll get to the Illuminati's final member in a minute....)

Speaking of What If...? — and before we get to that other Illuminati member – Multiverse of Madness' last act delivers another nod to the animated Disney+ series, when Doctor Strange goes "dreamwalking," with the help of a very dead doppelgänger he had buried earlier on Earth-616. That gives us a hilarious and haunting live-action version of Zombie Doctor Strange, who, like Captain Carter, figured into a What If...? scenario.

OK, back to the Illuminati....

Also seated on that superhero dais was Blackagar Boltagon aka Black Bolt, who was played again by Anson Mount of ABC's very short-lived Marvel's Inhumans — and with both a bit of a wink and a much-needed costume upgrade.

Getting that callback to what has arguably been Marvel's most tepidly received TV series... well, it left us speechless.

What was your favorite "TV crossover" in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? Tell us in the comments,