Returning to Wanda's attack on Kamar-Taj; after the shield fails, Strange tries to defeat the Scarlet Witch with misdirection instead. Strange traps Wanda in a mirror dimension maze. Her walking through it in a vain attempt to escape is one of the few parts of "Multiverse of Madness" which reuses the kaleidoscope imagery from the first "Doctor Strange."
After her attempt to blast her way out fails, Wanda looks into her reflection and reaches out, the glass turning to black water as her arm dives deeper. The shot recalls not only Raimi's own "Evil Dead II," but also John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness," another film about a monster trapped between worlds with their only way out being through a mirror.
From there, unnamed sorcerers disappear into their reflections as Strange, Wong, and America are reframed with Dutch angles. In a Raimi movie, the camera tilting sideways is always a sign that something evil is brewing. After their attempt to block all reflections in the room fail, Wanda emerges from the mirror dimension contorting like a stop-motion character. The sound of her bones crackling and then repairing themselves is audible as she resumes her upright posture.
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