Right because messing with multiverses DOES involve time manipulation. That doesn't have to include time travel though. Those are two different things.
People have been saying why did strange do xyz time thing.
Nothing involing time manipulation or time travel has been shown yet.
They could be jumping from endless multiverses where doc oct is alive, or any other crazy combinations of things happen.
None of that has to involve time travel or manipulation


I’d take it a step farther and say a lot of kids today don’t even know who FF is unless they into the old comics

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. Let the all time A listers be A listers until proven otherwise like Superman has proven he can't.
