Warning! Mild spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ahead!
Incursions in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are events powerful enough to threaten realities, but their Marvel Comics counterparts are actually far more dangerous. No matter how catastrophic the risk the MCU's incursions pose to its characters, the comics they draw how are astonishingly worse in almost every conceivable way.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduces MCU fans to incursions, events caused by multiversal travel that pose an incredible threat to the universes involved. According to Reed Richards of Earth-838, when an individual travels to another universe, they risk destabilizing the multiverse and thus causing what's known as an incursion: "An incursion occurs when the boundary between two universes erodes and they collide, destroying one or both entirely." It is later shown that at least two alternate realities' versions of Doctor Strange have caused incursions by Dreamwalking using the cursed Darkhold.
Writer Jonathan Hickman created the original — and far deadlier — concept of incursions in his 2013-15 run on New Avengers. In Marvel Comics, it is eventually revealed that these events occur as a plot from the Beyonders to kill every universe's version of Molecule Man, a being who is the same in every reality. Molecule Man was created as a "bomb" in an experiment to see what would happen at the death of the multiverse. After discovering the Beyonders' plans, Doctor Doom sets out across time and reality to kill each version of Molecule Man preemptively, eventually using a group of them to kill the Beyonders and take their power. The death of each Molecule Man is what causes the comics' incursions, wherein two realities' Earths would smash together, destroying both realities, unless one Earth was itself destroyed first. These incursions continued until there was only one — or no — Earth remaining, showcasing a far scarier threat than the random events of the MCU.
The incursions of Marvel Comics trump those of the MCU's for a number of reasons. While in the movies it is random whether one or both realities are destroyed, the only way to salvage reality in the comics is the destruction of a world. This creates a moral dilemma for the Illuminati, as they must repeatedly decide whether they are willing to kill another Earth to save their own. While both forms of incursion aren't entirely at random, Multiverse of Madness' are shown to only be activated through multiversal travel, thus far an extreme rarity across the MCU. Even then, the movie shows a traveler could cause a great many ripples before actually ending a reality. Doom, however, systematically ensures that incursions will occur across every universe, only ending when only one is left (in reality, every Earth is destroyed during the final incursion before Doom remade one world during Secret Wars).
Reed Richards, Professor X, Tony Stark, and more of the smartest minds in Marvel Comics try every avenue to avoid these incursions, whether it be using the Infinity Gauntlet, working together with other realities or, eventually, using a bomb to blow up a parallel Earth. In the end, even they are helpless from stopping the decay of the Marvel multiverse, which is later rebuilt by the Fantastic Four and the Future Foundation through Franklin Richards' power.
The MCU may portray incursions as world-ending events, but the comics they borrow from paint a far scarier picture. While Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness shows that a universe may go unscathed without a multiversal traveler triggering the event, in Marvel Comics the incursions causing the decay of all realities, whether from Doom or the Beyonders, are entirely inevitable.
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