Hayley Atwell criticizes Captain Carter's Doctor Strange 2 death

Actress Hayley Atwell has renewed her criticism of how her character, Captain Carter, was portrayed and killed off in the 2022 Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, calling the scene a "complete disservice." Speaking at the For the Love of Fantasy SciFi convention in London over the weekend, Atwell expressed frustration with the brief cameo, which saw her alternate-universe version of Peggy Carter swiftly defeated by Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch.

Atwell, who first introduced the live-action Captain Carter in the animated series What If...?, was brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe's live-action fold for the Sam Raimi-directed sequel. In the film, Carter appears as a member of the Illuminati, an elite group of heroes from another universe. The character engages in battle with a variant of Wanda Maximoff, only to be killed when her own vibranium shield is thrown back at her, slicing her in two.

"If I'm really like brutally honest, I was so disappointed with how they positioned her and what happened to her in that scene," Atwell told the audience. "It's so small, and she gets frisbeed to death." She highlighted the scene's anticlimactic nature,...