What were your annoyances, likes, cringes, things learned, etc.?
-All of this because of a femcel (correct term?)... ALL OF IT! The whole jist of the movie predicated on a angry PMS Omega level woman with the Darkhold that wants to be with her two imaginary sons. Why the fuck does it have to be those two? Those two kids are one of the worst child actors that I have seen. Even America Chavez was more likeable than those two. That cringy ice cream song they both sang to Wanda made me want to strangle them. Also, if she wanted kids so bad, why not get a man (superhuman or mutant preferred) to fuck her and pump them out? Or does she have a wilted womb like Black Widow?
-This (I think) is the first horror-like MCU movie that we've seen. It wanted to try to go for a sort of jump scare factor but to a much lighter degree but had the elements of horror to it in certain circumstances.
ie: Wanda possessed chasing Strange, Chavez, and Christine Palmer through the tunnels where she stops destroying one of the last doors. The three turn around stupidly (instead of keep on running) to wonder why she didn't destroy the door only for her to appear before them from the other out of nowhere.
-Two moms for America Chavez were the only LGBT reference. She got scared by a bee and teleported them away including herself to other universes and are assumed dead. We'll never know of their true fates.
-No Tom Cruise - Superior Iron Man sadly, a shame.
-Dreamwalking is one of the powers that the Darkhold provides to allow possession of other versions of yourself from the multiverse.
-Illuminati looked powerful on paper but super weak against the Scarlet Witch. It is the first time I think that we've seen super heroes being brutally torn up like that on the big screen. I mean you got Black Bolt's mouth sealed then his skull crushed, Captain America (What If... version) sliced in half by the waistline with her own bloody shield, Captain Marvel crushed by her own statue (which is strange to die from considering her cosmic power level), Professor (X)avier getting his neck snapped (which is also strange considering his telekinesis power level), and Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) with genius-level intellect getting turned into shredded paper. We didn't even get to see Fantastic use any of his powers to any extent. Sorcerer Supreme Baron Mardo on the other hand was busy with our universe Strange.
-Eye of Agamotto on Strange's forehead near the end of the movie and Mid-Credit along with Charlize Theron (Clea). The third eye gives Strange a sort of magically enhanced sight. It’s a revealer of truth that can reenact recent events and see into the souls of others. Most likely awakened by the use of the Darkhold.
-I liked the musical note mystic arts fight with Sinister Strange in the universe corrupted by the Darkhold. They were really throwing the Mozart out there.
-All this talk of the Book of the Vishanti and we never ever get to see it used, ONCE! They really need some magic to protect books containing supremely powerful magic from just getting... BURNED! For christ sakes.
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/what-is-book-of-the-vishanti-in-the-comics
-Clea - Eventual Sorcerer Supreme of the Dark Dimension. A cousin of Dormammu, the one that Strange tortured when he was trapped in the Dark Dimension to let him escape. She's basically a demi-god (half-mortal, half-pure magical being).
https://youtu.be/LrHTR22pIhw
It is my assumption the next Strange movie will involve Dormammu invading Earth, Clea helping Strange which would get her imprisoned by Dormammu, puppet Baron Mardo being the arch nemesis of Strange before being joined by Dormammu with the eventual win for Strange on that movie if they go by the comics. It may even be the first time they'll show a Cosmic entity like Eternity (more powerful than the Celestials that created the Eternals) to deal with Dormammu.
Eventually the only safe place for Clea would be Earth where she'll lose her magic then study in the Sanctum Sanctorum to find a way to regain them. Strange will later become Sorcerer Supreme and take her on as a disciple where they'll grow close and later she'll become Clea Strange (fuck Christine Palmer). She is one loyal woman I can tell you that. Basically a keeper of hotness (rare these days).
-The Necronomicon from the Evil Dead is more or less like the Darkhold hence why we see a cameo by Bruce Campbell, the hotdog or meatball stand owner that Strange used mystic arts on to have him keep hitting himself in the face until Post Credit.
-Hope they didn't officially kill Wanda off. I mean she's gone through a lot of trauma and all that but she is still one of the most powerful Marvel characters out there with more emotion than Captain Marvel herself. Sure she fucked up twice but she eventually found herself again in the end and burned all the Darkhold's throughout the multiverse (not sure how she managed that). She didn't need to crush herself in the Darkhold Castle.