One Show Discovered The Multiverse Years Ago (And They Did It Better)
The concept of the multiverse is certainly having a moment. WithDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU is finally embracing a core trope of both Marvel and DC Comics—one which offers nearly endless possibilities for future exploration. It is not hard to see the appeal of multiverses to viewers; they are a sort of genre-within-a-genre, nesting speculative fiction within fantasy. By introducing variety within an established framework, multiverses offer storytellers the opportunity to invigorate a tired premise (The Man in the High Castle), to subvert a well-known convention (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse), or to retcon a fractured franchise (X-Men: Days of Future Past)....