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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness offers the potential for some familiar faces to come crashing through the tears in reality. But, as Benedict Cumberbatch tells Total Film magazine in its new issue, one potential Doctor Strange variant isn’t who you think he is.

Yes, the variants will come thick and fast in The Multiverse Of Madness, with trailers revealing that, alongside the Sacred Timeline Strange, we’ll also see Benedict Cumberbatch as a combat-ready Defender Strange, a clean-shaven Supreme Strange and a corrupted Sinister Strange.

Many were quick to point out the similarities between the darker Sinister Strange and the Strange Supreme who features in episode four of Disney Plus' animated series What If...?, but Cumberbatch confirms that his Sinister Steve "is nothing that you’ve seen before. What If...? is a beautiful riff of a potential. And this is something different."

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Director Sam Raimi, on the other hand, offers an honest assessment to counter increasingly out-of-control expectations. 

"I don’t think anything can rival the surprise in a Spider-Man movie of having the previous two Spider-Men appear with the current one. I mean, I don’t think we’re going to top them on that!" he says. "But our film does have other surprises and other interesting revelations."

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