Marvel's What If?

So based off this trailer, there will definetely be episodes about

• Peggy as Captain Britain

• T'Challa as Star-Lord (did Chadwick Boseman finsih recording for the series or not?)

• some variation on Marvel Zombies

It also looks like there will be ones around the first Thor movie/Iron Man 2/Fury's Big Week, Dr. Strange, and the first Avengers movie.

How many episodes are there supposed to be?

I assume so, it is one episode.

Where does Zombie Cap fall?

Edited by Cortez on Dec 10th 2020 at 9:47:43 AM

I assume Marvel Zombies will be a separate episode from that, since Zombie!Cap is attacking Bucky as the Winter Soldier, who showed up well after the first Avengers film.

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/chadwick-boseman-voices-tchalla-black-panther-marvel-what-if-kevin-feige-confirms/

According to this article, Kevin Fiege said that Chadwick Boseman recorded at least 4 episodes.

Makes sense, this was probably recorded a year to a year and a half ago.

I wonder if they're going to do at least one for every single MCU subfranchise. Like, we've got one for Cap and one for GOTG (which doubles as one for Black Panther, but is largely centered on GOTG). So are we going to get a What If? for every other movie trilogy: Ant-Man, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Hulk, etc.

I could see them doing a nice spread of them, like:

• "What if Killmonger was never abandoned by his family?" - that's a no-brainer, even if HISHE did do it already.
• "What if Thunderbolt Ross became the Hulk" - which did of course happen in the comics, but is probably unlikely to happen in the MCU, so it could be our only means of getting Red Hulk.
• "What if Carol Danvers never defected from the Kree?"
• "What if Hammer had succeeded in creating an Iron Man knockoff?"
• "What if Ned or Michelle had gotten bitten by the Spider instead?"
• "What if Zola had uploaded into Vision or Ultron's body?"

Etc...

Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 19th 2020 at 11:38:47 AM

According to the Other Wiki, there are currently 2 seasons planned, each with 10 episodes. So it might be that they focus on different ones between each season. We know at least 3 episodes ("Star-Panther," Captain Britain, and Marvel Zombies), and I think based on the trailer there'll also be ones for Dr. Strange and the first Avengers movie.

Also, if I had to guess, in the "Star-Panther" scenario, T'Chaka may have felt a need to rescue N'Jadaka since his son got kidnapped.

EDIT: Grammar

Edited by Aleistar on Dec 20th 2020 at 9:37:17 AM

How about What If Thanos destroyed the other half of the universe? Meaning everyone who survived Infinity War gets dusted while those who got dusted in IW survive (not sure how this would affect Ant-Man). It would be interesting to see how THOSE heroes would find a way to defeat Thanos.

Second me for wanting that one; it feels like a pretty obvious one to tackle. I guess it would sorta depend on if Thanos got snapped in this version, but I think he would exclude himself from contention there. Also, I think the screenwriters have said that Scott would have survived the Snap regardless of him being in the Quantum Realm or not, but I can't seem to find the exact quote.

So let's see, not counting the ones who were murdered like Vision, this would leave us with a hero unit consisting of:

Bucky

Falcon

Black Panther

Scarlet Witch

Groot

Mantis

Drax

Star Lord

Dr Strange

Spider-Man

Maria Hill

Nick Fury

Hank Pym

Wasp

Janet Van Dyne

and possibly Ant-Man

You could probably do a decent 1-hour season finale with them struggling with the snap and how to defeat Thanos.

I think Shuri was also either snapped or implied to have been. I think she would have filled out the "genius" role among the survivors that Tony played in Endgame.

Then Black Panther would walk up to the pile of ashes that used to be Thanos, pick up Gauntlet from the ground, and figure how to bring back everyone from there.

I'm not totally sure that's what would happen. Was it stated in the movie in that Thanos would have let himself get snapped? Or was it a Word of God thing? Because otherwise I think Thanos would rather have "enjoyed a thankful universe" rather than let himself be snapped.

Given his motive as stated in Endgame was to be worshipped and praised for his “brilliant” plan, I don’t think Thanos would have killed himself for it by putting himself in the Snap pool.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Dec 20th 2020 at 11:42:10 AM

Did he want to be praised? He seemed content to retire alone as a farmer.

I just thought that he should include himself, otherwise the Snap isn't as fair as he claimed to be.

When he's asked what he'll do after killing half the universe, Thanos simply says that he'll watch the sun set on a grateful universe. Note that he doesn't add "if I survive" to that statement.

He wanted to go and retire looking at the sunset of a grateful universe. But as it turns out, the universe either wouldn't recover or just hate him forever.

x3 Thanos is the villain who wiped out half of all life, I don't think it would be too detrimental to the films to say that he might have been more selfish than he presented himself, especially given 2014!Thanos' characterization in Endgame.

He was on his farm for like three weeks, so perhaps at some point the novelty would wear off and he'd look for a way off the planet.

(In retrospect it's weird that it took him three weeks to get around to destroying the Stones. Did it slip his mind all that time, or did he want to keep them around until he decided the risk wasn't worth it?)

I think in this scenario, both of the Peters (Quill and Parker) would be most traumatized, especially Parker as he would have seen his mentor get snapped (likely with Tony saying the iconic line) in front of him, and that would be REALLY traumatizing to a younger character like Parker.

The main snag I see coming from a scenario where the opposite victims of the Snap survived is that if they came up with the same plan to retrieve the Stones with time travel, they would likely have less direct familiarity with them the way the original Avengers did. It's not an insurmountable obstacle, but it would limit their quick thinking in cases like how Steve was able to talk his way out of multiple scenarios in the past because he knew what the people he met would respond to.

On another detail, the writers claimed that Scott was not immune to the Snap by being in the Quantum Realm, so opposite Snap means no Scott.

I wonder how many of the heroes and villains we haven't seen yet but have their own movies announced already (Fantastic Four, Shang Chi, etc) will have made it clear if they were snapped or not.

So there have been some leaks about what if idk if were allowed to post here but there pretty interesting

Yeah, I saw some leaked concept art.

I guess this is one way to see Annihilation: Conquest adapted.

The show comes out in August.

https://www.ign.com/articles/marvels-what-if-august-release

This is the MCU project I’ve most looked forward to.