America Chavez’s Powers In Doctor Strange 2 Explained

Producer Richie Palmer explains America Chavez’s powers in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Chavez was created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta and made her comic book debut in 2011’s limited series Vengeance before going on to appear in 2013’s Young Avengers and 2015’s Ultimates and finally getting her own solo series with 2016’s America. The character has the ability to create portals to the multiverse in the shape of a star while also having superhuman strength, speed, flight and time travel in the comics.

Xochitl Gomez is bringing America to life in her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness alongside the returns of Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular hero, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mordo, Benedict Wong as Sorcerer Supreme Wong, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Michael Stuhlbarg as Nicodemus West and Patrick Stewart as a version of Professor X. The MCU sequel picks up after the events of WandaVision, Loki season 1 and Spider-Man: No Way Home as Strange grapples with breaking the doors open to the multiverse and accidentally unleashes a powerful mystery adversary. As the film gears up for its theatrical release, those behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are offering new insight for what’s to come from the sequel.

In the latest issue of D23 Magazine (via CBR), Marvel producer Richie Palmer opened up about America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Palmer opened up about why the sequel was the right time for her to make her MCU debut, believing that her multiversal powers would fit best in the film. See what Palmer shared below:

“America is someone we’ve been trying to get into the MCU for a long time. This felt like the best place to do it, because ‘Multiverse’ is in the title and her powers specifically have to do with the Multiverse – her powers being that she can punch open doorways to other universes. That’s something we haven’t seen in our movies, a character who can actually walk from one universe to another. That’s maddening in itself for characters such as Doctor Strange and Wong, whose jobs are to protect those barriers.”

Before being set for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, America Chavez was set to make her MCU debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home, though the former film’s development delays saw the webslinging threequel rewritten to take place prior to it and saw her role removed. While the Tom Holland-led film did explore the dangers of the multiverse, it did already proved to be a nearly overstuffed affair as it built the bridge between the MCU and Sony’s previous Spider-Man franchises by bringing back both its lead stars and villain actors, which would’ve made America’s introduction difficult to fit in. As Palmer notes, the Doctor Strange sequel’s primary focus on the consequences of multiverse tampering does serve as a better introduction for the character and her powers.

It is interesting to note that Palmer describes America Chavez’s powers in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as being maddening for its titular hero and Wong, a dynamic already teased in a recent image in which the two are seemingly confronting her in an alleyway. With Chavez set up as an ally and new heroine for the MCU, she becomes the latest member of the Young Avengers comics team to make her debut in the franchise, with Wanda’s kids Billy and Tommy having been introduced in WandaVision, Kate Bishop arriving in Hawkeye, Eli Bradley premiering in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Cassie Lang undergoing some form of a retcon in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Only time will tell what the future holds for America Chavez when Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hits theaters on May 6.

Source: D23 Magazine (Via CBR)

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