The most potent image is Strange using the souls of the damned to fly as a third eye bursts from his forehead. This is not heroism; this is self-mutilation for power. Raimi forces the audience to feel disgust at Strange’s methods, even when they succeed. By the time he casts a spell using a corpse (his own variant), the film asks: What is the difference between a sorcerer and a monster? The answer, delivered via Wanda Maximoff’s parallel arc, is love versus control. Wanda wants to control reality to love her children; Strange wants to control reality to avoid grief. Both are wrong.
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The Variant lunged. "Let it go, Stephen!" The most potent image is Strange using the