{"id":77134,"date":"2025-08-19T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77134\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:22:10","slug":"benedict-cumberbatchs-doctor-strange-role-in-avengers-doomsday-secret-wars-detailed-in-rumor-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77134\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange Role in Avengers: Doomsday & Secret Wars Detailed in Rumor – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been over three years since Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a> last appeared as Doctor Strange<\/a> in a MCU<\/a> production. The actor has been confirmed as appearing in both Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> and Avengers: Secret Wars<\/a>. Originally it was unclear if his part would be more than a cameo. However, a new rumor suggests that Stephen Strange will play a major role in the events of both movies.<\/p>\n

What is Doctor\u2019s Strange role said to be in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars?<\/p>\n

Scooper Alex Perez of\u00a0The Cosmic Circus<\/a> reported that Cumberbatch\u2019s role in Avengers: Doomsday will build on his last MCU appearance. That was in the post-credits scene of 2022\u2019s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness<\/a>. The brief scene showed Doctor Strange being confronted by the sorceress Clea<\/a> (Charlize Theron<\/a>) and leaving Earth to fix a new incursion.<\/p>\n

Regarding Doctor Strange\u2019s role in Avengers: Doomsday, Perez said it was \u201cExactly what he was asked to do. Fix an incursion\u2026 by any means necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Perez also reported that the movie would address what Doctor Strange and Clea had been up to between movies, but that Cumberbatch\u2019s role in Secret Wars would be more substantial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be a good time to remind everyone that the flow of time is different in the Dark Dimension since it is basically nonexistent, Perez noted. \u201cEven though it\u2019ll have been 3 \u00bd \u2013 4 years since Stephen Strange has been on Earth. Imagine how much time would have passed in the Dark Dimension?\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Charlize Theron has not been confirmed to be appearing in Avengers: Doomsday. However, this does not necessarily mean she won\u2019t appear in the film. Then again, it is equally likely that Doctor Strange returns to Earth while Clea deals with matters elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday will hit theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been over three years since Benedict Cumberbatch last appeared as Doctor Strange in a MCU production.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24462,6458,7324,6509,39405,39406,39407,39408,96,5396,10480,5228,6462,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-avengers-secret-wars","tag-benedict-cumberbatch","tag-charlize-theron","tag-clea","tag-doctor-strange","tag-doctor-strange-and-the-multiverse-of-madness","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-comics","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}