Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Writer Teases America Chavez’s MCU Future

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The newest MCU movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness brought back a handful of known characters, but also introduced some new ones that will certainly have a big and long future in the biggest Cinematic Universe of all time. One of them is America Chavez, played by Xochitl Gomez.

America Chavez is a teen superhero with the ability to travel across the Multiverse, the character was created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, and she debuted in Marvel Comics in September 2011, which makes her one of the newest Marvel heroes that joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, America was hunted by Scarlet Witch while Doctor Strange tried to protect her. The movie ended with Scarlet Witch’s alleged death, and America joined the school at Kamar Taj, where Stephen Strange also learned his first lessons as the Master of the Mystic Arts.

One thing is for sure, Doctor Strange will return, the post-credit scene of the movie confirmed that, but America Chavez will return as well. When and where? No one knows. The movie’s writer recently spoke about America’s MCU future.

“I think that’s the sort of thing that that I’d like to see explored in the next chapter of America’s story. Clearly, she’s a very significant being in the universe. Whether you want to call her a Nexus Being or whatever. I think that’s all stuff that’s up for grabs as we continue to explore her story.” — Michael Waldron for Screen Rant

In an additional interview, Waldron also talked more about what’s to come for Xochitl Gomez’s character:

“Yeah, that’s definitely me collaborating with Marvel and with Sam. Really, that is as much about trying to drive America’s story in this film, as it is attempting to set up a mystery to be solved in the future. She’s somebody without a family. That’s what she’s searching for. […] And that’s what she finds—surprisingly—in our Doctor Strange and Wong. She finds a home in Kamar-Taj at the end. When it’s all said and done, it looks kind of tidy. We also set up the next chapter in the America Chavez story.” — Michael Waldron for Vanity Fair

Directed by Sam Raimi, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness now plays in theaters.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.