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What If...? (TV series)

August 28, 2023

For other uses, see What If (disambiguation).

What If...? is an American animated anthology series created by A. C. Bradley for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name. It is the fourth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, and the studio's first animated series from Marvel Studios Animation. The series explores alternate timelines in the multiverse that show what would happen if major moments from the MCU films occurred differently. Bradley serves as head writer for the first two seasons, with Bryan Andrews directing.

What If...?
Genre
Created byA. C. Bradley
Based onMarvel Comics
Directed byBryan Andrews
Voices ofJeffrey Wright
Music by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producers
ProducerCarrie Wassenaar
AnimatorStephan Franck
Editors
  • Graham Fisher
  • Joel Fisher
Running time30–37 minutes
Production companyMarvel Studios Animation
Release
Original networkDisney+
Original releaseAugust 11, 2021 (2021-08-11) –
present (present)
Related
Marvel Cinematic Universe television series

Jeffrey Wright stars as the Watcher, who narrates the series, alongside many MCU film actors reprising their roles. Marvel Studios was developing the series for Disney+ by the end of 2018, with Bradley and Andrews on board. It was officially announced in April 2019. Marvel Studios' head of visual development Ryan Meinerding helped define the series' cel-shaded animation style, which was designed to reflect the films and take inspiration from classic American illustrators. Animation for the first season is provided by Blue Spirit, Squeeze, Flying Bark Productions, and Stellar Creative Lab, with Stephan Franck as head of animation.

The first season of What If...? premiered on August 11, 2021, and ran for nine episodes until October 6 as part of Phase Four of the MCU. A second nine-episode season is expected to be part of Phase Five, and a third season is in development. The series has received generally positive reviews, with praise for the voice acting, animation, creative storylines, and scenarios, although the episodes' length and writing received some criticism. A Marvel Zombies series, based on one of the What If...? episodes, is in development.

Premise Edit

Following the establishment of the multiverse in the season one finale of Loki, What If...? explores various alternate timelines across the multiverse in which major moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films occur differently, as observed by the Watcher.[1][2] In the second season, following the formation of the Guardians of the Multiverse, the Watcher continues to explore more strange worlds, meeting new heroes and keeping the multiverse safe.[3]

Episodes Edit

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
19August 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)October 6, 2021 (2021-10-06)
29[4]TBATBA

Season 1 (2021) Edit

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?"Bryan AndrewsA. C. BradleyAugust 11, 2021 (2021-08-11)
During World War II, Steve Rogers is chosen to become the world's first super-soldier, but is wounded by a Hydra spy before he can receive the super-soldier serum, stemming from SSR agent Peggy Carter's decision to stay in the main theater. Carter kills the spy and receives the serum instead. She is enhanced but banned from combat by SSR leader John Flynn. After she takes the Tesseract from Hydra with a vibranium shield created by inventor Howard Stark, Flynn reluctantly promotes her to the combat role of "Captain Carter". Stark uses the Tesseract to create a weaponized, armored suit for Rogers to pilot as the "Hydra Stomper". Carter and Rogers fight many battles until he goes missing while attacking a Hydra train. Carter and her allies find Rogers when they infiltrate a Hydra base and see Red Skull using the Tesseract to open a portal and summon an interdimensional creature, which kills him. Carter enters the closing portal to force the creature back. Almost 70 years later, the Tesseract opens another portal from which Carter emerges, meeting Nick Fury and Clint Barton.
Cast : Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Bradley Whitford as John Flynn, Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull, and Darrell Hammond as a Nazi general
22"What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceyAugust 18, 2021 (2021-08-18)
In 1988, the Ravagers are sent to Earth by a Celestial called Ego to retrieve his son Peter Quill, but mistakenly abduct a young T'Challa from Wakanda. Twenty years later, T'Challa has become the famous intergalactic mercenary "Star-Lord" and has been convinced by Ravager leader Yondu Udonta that Wakanda was destroyed. Nebula approaches the Ravagers and proposes to steal the Embers of Genesis, a cosmic artifact capable of eradicating galactic hunger, from galactic kingpin Taneleer Tivan. At Tivan's headquarters on Knowhere, they offer him the Power Stone as a distraction. Meanwhile, T'Challa looks for the Embers, but he finds a Wakandan spacecraft that was searching for him. Nebula seemingly betrays the Ravagers, who are captured, but this is another ruse to obtain the Embers. Tivan's slave Carina rescues T'Challa and helps the Ravagers defeat Tivan. T'Challa forgives Udonta for lying about Wakanda, and they return there so T'Challa can reunite with his family. Elsewhere, Ego approaches Quill, a Dairy Queen janitor.
Cast : Chadwick Boseman as Star-Lord T'Challa, Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector, Kurt Russell as Ego, Ophelia Lovibond as Carina, Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, John Kani as T'Chaka, Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri, Chris Sullivan as Taserface, Seth Green as Howard the Duck, and Danai Gurira as Okoye
33"What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?"Bryan AndrewsA. C. Bradley & Matthew ChaunceyAugust 25, 2021 (2021-08-25)
Over the course of a week, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury attempts to recruit heroes for the Avengers Initiative, but they are each mysteriously killed: Natasha Romanoff gives Tony Stark an unexpectedly fatal injection, Clint Barton accidentally shoots and kills Thor before dying in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, Bruce Banner / Hulk explodes, and Romanoff is attacked and killed while investigating the other murders. Before she dies, Romanoff tells Fury that the murders are related to "hope". The Asgardians, led by Loki, arrive on Earth to avenge Thor, but Fury proposes an alliance to apprehend the killer. Fury deduces that Hank Pym is the murderer and has been using his shrinking technology to commit the murders as revenge for the death of his daughter, Hope van Dyne, who died in the line of duty as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Fury and Loki defeat Pym, who is taken into Asgardian custody. Loki chooses to stay on Earth, becoming its ruler. Fury begins assembling more heroes, finding Steve Rogers frozen in ice and summoning Carol Danvers to Earth.
Cast : Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow, Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark / Iron Man
44"What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?"Bryan AndrewsA. C. BradleySeptember 1, 2021 (2021-09-01)
After losing his girlfriend Dr. Christine Palmer in a car crash, Dr. Stephen Strange travels to Kamar-Taj and learns the Mystic Arts. He discovers the Eye of Agamotto, which can manipulate time, but is warned by the Ancient One and Wong that doing so could destroy reality. Two years later, Strange repeatedly attempts to use the Eye to save Palmer, but she still dies in every scenario. The Ancient One tells Strange that Palmer's death is an "absolute point" in the timeline that cannot be undone, but Strange refuses to listen. Using the power of the Dark Dimension, the Ancient One splits Strange into two alternate versions: one Strange accepts Palmer's death while the other gains power by absorbing mystical beings, becoming Strange Supreme. This evil version overpowers the good Strange, absorbs him, and uses his power to resurrect Palmer, tearing reality apart. Strange Supreme begs the Watcher for help, but he refuses to intervene. Palmer disintegrates and the universe collapses, leaving Strange Supreme to grieve alone.
Cast : Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange and Doctor Strange Supreme, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Benedict Wong as Wong, Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One, Ike Amadi as O'Bengh, and Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart
55"What If... Zombies?!"Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 8, 2021 (2021-09-08)
In the Quantum Realm, Hank Pym finds Janet van Dyne, but she infects him with a quantum virus. They return to Earth and cause a zombie apocalypse. Two weeks later, a group of survivors—Bruce Banner, Hope van Dyne, Peter Parker, Bucky Barnes, Okoye, Sharon Carter, Happy Hogan, and Kurt—learn there is a potential cure at Camp Lehigh. They lose Hogan, Carter, and Hope to zombie attacks on the way there, where they meet Vision. His Mind Stone can reverse the virus, exemplified by a cured Scott Lang's head kept alive in a jar, but an infected Wanda Maximoff is immune to the cure and Vision has been feeding pieces of T'Challa to her. Maximoff breaks free and kills Kurt, infects Okoye, and throws Barnes away. Vision commits suicide by giving the Mind Stone to Parker. Banner transforms into the Hulk and sacrifices himself to battle Maximoff, allowing the others to escape. To broadcast the Stone's energy across the world, Parker, Lang, and T'Challa go to Wakanda, where a zombified Thanos wields a nearly-complete Infinity Gauntlet.
Cast : Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, Paul Bettany as Vision, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / Wasp, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Jon Favreau as Harold "Happy" Hogan / Zombie Happy, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, David Dastmalchian as Kurt, Hudson Thames as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
66"What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?"Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 15, 2021 (2021-09-15)
In Afghanistan, Tony Stark is ambushed by the Ten Rings, but is saved by Erik "Killmonger" Stevens. They return to Stark Industries, where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane's involvement in the ambush before helping Stark build a humanoid combat drone using vibranium. Needing more vibranium to create a drone army, they arrange for James Rhodes to purchase it from Ulysses Klaue. At Killmonger's behest, Klaue leaks word of the transaction to Wakanda to lure in T'Challa. Killmonger kills both T'Challa and Rhodes, staging it as if they killed each other. Stark confronts Killmonger, but Killmonger kills him and makes it look like a Wakandan attack. Killmonger then kills Klaue and reunites with his relatives in Wakanda. Thaddeus Ross sends the drone army to attack Wakanda, but Killmonger helps the Wakandans defeat them, becoming the new Black Panther. As the United States prepares another attack, T'Challa's sister Shuri visits Pepper Potts, who was suspicious of Killmonger, and proposes an alliance to expose the truth.
Cast : Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue, Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S., John Kani as T'Chaka, Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart, and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark
77"What If... Thor Were an Only Child?"Bryan AndrewsA. C. BradleySeptember 22, 2021 (2021-09-22)
After defeating the Frost Giants, Odin discovers the abandoned infant Loki and returns him to Laufey. Centuries later, Odin's only son Thor has become a boisterous, party-loving prince. While Odin sleeps and Frigga is away, Thor travels to Earth to host a large party with aliens from across the universe. His arrival attracts the attention of Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis, who join the party. As Thor and Foster grow close, acting S.H.I.E.L.D. director Maria Hill summons Carol Danvers to end the destruction caused by Thor's antics. Danvers is unable to defeat Thor without exerting her full power, so Lewis and Hill suggest she take the fight to a less populated area while Foster contacts Frigga with Heimdall's help. Hill readies a nuclear strike as Danvers and Thor begin to battle again, but Frigga contacts them and says she is coming. Thor and the party-goers clean up the mess before she arrives. Later, Thor asks Foster out on a date but is interrupted by an army of drones led by Ultron, who is in Vision's body and possesses all six Infinity Stones.
Cast : Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow, Taika Waititi as Korg, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Seth Green as Howard the Duck, Alexandra Daniels as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, and Rachel House as Topaz
88"What If... Ultron Won?"Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 29, 2021 (2021-09-29)
Ultron, having taken the Mind Stone and Vision's vibranium body, has defeated the Avengers and launched a global nuclear holocaust, killing most of humanity. When Thanos appears on Earth to complete the Infinity Gauntlet, Ultron bisects him and takes the rest of the Infinity Stones, using them to create a massive drone army with which he wipes out almost all life in his universe. Ultron then hears the Watcher, discovering the existence of the multiverse, and attacks the Watcher in his multiversal observatory. Meanwhile, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff survive Ultron's attacks and find a copy of Arnim Zola's mind in Siberia. They upload Zola into a drone body to try to destroy Ultron's hive mind, but it fails because Ultron has left their universe. Barton sacrifices himself to allow Romanoff and Zola to escape from the Ultron drones. Ultron battles the Watcher across different universes and defeats him. The Watcher flees to Strange Supreme's collapsed universe to ask him for help while Ultron plans to conquer the multiverse.
Cast : Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Ross Marquand as Ultron and the Sub-Ultron Sentries, Josh Keaton as Steve Rogers / Captain America, Mick Wingert as Tony Stark / Iron Man, Alexandra Daniels as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme
99"What If... the Watcher Broke His Oath?"Bryan AndrewsA. C. BradleyOctober 6, 2021 (2021-10-06)
The Watcher recruits Strange Supreme, Captain Carter, Star-Lord T'Challa, "Party" Thor, Black Panther Killmonger, and a version of Gamora who killed Thanos[a] from their respective universes to battle Ultron, dubbing them the "Guardians of the Multiverse". In Ultron's home universe, the Guardians encounter Natasha Romanoff who, with Carter's help, shoots Ultron with an arrow containing Arnim Zola's mind. Zola destroys Ultron from within and takes control of his body. Killmonger betrays the Guardians and tries to claim Ultron's Infinity Stones for himself. As Zola and Killmonger struggle over the Stones, Strange and the Watcher seal them in a pocket dimension which Strange agrees to watch over. The Watcher returns Strange, Carter, T'Challa, Gamora, and Thor to their respective universes. Romanoff refuses to return to hers, so the Watcher brings her to one in which the Avengers candidates were assassinated,[b] where she helps defeat Loki. In a mid-credits scene, Carter and her universe's Romanoff discover the Hydra Stomper armor with someone inside.
Cast : Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow, Georges St-Pierre as Georges Batroc, Chadwick Boseman as Star-Lord T'Challa, Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Kurt Russell as Ego, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark / Iron Man

Season 2 Edit

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
101"What If... Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?"[6]Bryan Andrews[3]TBATBA
Peggy Carter / Captain Carter believes that the love of her life, Steve Rogers, is long-dead until he is discovered alive as the villainous Hydra Stomper.[6]

An episode, written by Ryan Little and directed by Andrews, will introduce an original MCU character named Kahhori, a young Mohawk woman who seeks to discover her powers after the Tesseract crash-lands in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in pre-colonial America.[7]

Cast and characters Edit

The series is narrated by Jeffrey Wright as the Watcher, a member of the alien Watcher race who observes the multiverse,[8] in a similar role to Rod Serling's in The Twilight Zone.[9] Head writer A. C. Bradley said the character is "above everything else" and compared him to a viewer of the "pizza rat" video, observing and not interfering as he has "no interest in becoming friends with the rat, living amongst the rat, or doing rat things... That is the Watcher's relationship with humanity."[10] Executive producer Brad Winderbaum felt Wright's performance inspired a sense of humanity while explaining the episodes,[11] and Bradley explained that Wright was cast because his voice mixes power, charisma, and authority with a "warm personality".[10] Wright approached the character like he would a live-action role, learning as much as he could about the Watcher so his voice could reflect the character's "uniquely powerful, all-seeing, sagely presence". Wright chose a contemporary American accent rather than having the character sound like "some Oxford-educated, old, fusty guy in a tudor parlor somewhere",[9] and, aside from researching the character's comic book appearances, took inspiration from the series' tone, visuals, and animation when developing the character's voice.[12] The comic book name "Uatu" is not used in the series because this would imply that there was more than one being watching the series' events when Bradley instead wanted to focus on the narrative of "the Watcher" observing the different characters and realities and how those affect him.[13]: 12:04–13:35 

Each episode features different versions of characters from the MCU films, with many actors reprising their roles for the series.[14][15] The final two episodes bring together characters from earlier episodes to form the "Guardians of the Multiverse", including Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Chadwick Boseman as Star-Lord T'Challa, Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Other new versions of characters who also return for the finale include Kurt Russell's Ego and Brian T. Delaney's Peter Quill from the second episode, Tom Hiddleston's Loki and Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury from the third, Ozioma Akagha's Shuri from the sixth, and Toby Jones's Arnim Zola and Ross Marquand's Ultron from the eighth. Additionally, Cynthia McWilliams and Mick Wingert reprise their respective roles of Gamora and Tony Stark / Iron Man from an episode that was cut from the first season but will be included in the second.[16]

The second season sees the introduction of a young Mohawk woman named Kahhori, who is an original MCU character.[7]

Production Edit

Additional production information and episode-specific content can be found at each episode's article.

Development Edit

By September 2018, Marvel Studios was developing several series for its parent company Disney's streaming service, Disney+; Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was set to take a "hands-on role" in each series' development,[17] focusing on "handling" the actors who would be reprising their roles from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films.[18] One of these was an animated series for Disney+ based on the Marvel Comics run What If...?. The anthology series, which would be produced by Feige, would explore how the MCU would be altered if certain events had occurred differently, such as if Loki wielded Thor's hammer Mjolnir. The hope was to have the actors who portray the characters in the MCU films voice them in the series as well.[14] A. C. Bradley was suggested as head writer for the series by Marvel Studios executive Jonathan Schwartz after unsuccessfully pitching as a writer for Captain Marvel (2019).[19]: 1  Bradley was eager to write a Marvel film due to her love for the franchise, and felt What If...? was her opportunity to create many Marvel stories.[20] Marvel Studios was impressed that some of Bradley's ideas for the series matched concepts they were planning for films, and she joined the project in October 2018.[21]: 74 [22] Bryan Andrews, a storyboard artist on many of the major action sequences from the MCU films,[19]: 1  met with Brad Winderbaum—the Marvel Studios executive in charge of the series—about directing the series as early as 2018.[23][24] Bradley and Andrews were officially announced in their roles in August 2019.[25]

In April 2019, Disney and Marvel officially announced the series.[1] Marvel Studios had discussed adapting the What If...? comics in the past, but decided not to do so until after the conclusion of the Infinity Saga so they would have enough storylines to create alternate options of. Making the series animated allowed the studio to explore all of these ideas "unbounded".[23] Winderbaum said it was not a coincidence that the series was set for release so soon after the first season finale of Loki, which introduced the multiverse, since What If...? explores facets of the multiverse in a way that Winderbaum believed made the series as important as any other MCU property;[2] Bradley confirmed that all episodes of the series are canon to the MCU multiverse,[26] with most of the episodes taking place in their own universe.[27] Since work began on What If...? before the development of Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Bradley was unsure how those projects would be exploring and explaining the MCU version of the multiverse. She chose to focus on the possibilities within the alternate timelines of the multiverse, which she described as a "sampler of assorted chocolates", and left elements such as the Time Variance Authority to be explained by those other projects. Feige and Winderbaum kept the creative teams of Loki and Multiverse of Madness informed of what was happening in What If...? as work on those projects began.[28] The creative team of What If...? met with Loki executive producers Stephen Broussard and Kevin Wright as well as WandaVision (2021) co-executive producer Mary Livanos to establish a "rule book" regarding the multiverse, its branch timelines, and nexus events.[29]

Executive producers for the series include Winderbaum, Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Andrews, and Bradley, with Carrie Wassenaar producing.[19]: 2  The episodes are approximately 30 minutes in length.[4] In December 2019, Feige revealed that the first season would consist of 10 episodes, and that work had already begun on a second 10-episode season.[30] However, because of the production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the tenth episode of the first season was not completed in time and moved to the second season; the second season was also reduced to nine episodes.[4] In July 2021, ahead of the release of What If...?, Alonso noted that Marvel Studios was creating an "animation branch and mini studio",[31] known as Marvel Studios Animation,[32] to focus on more animated content beyond What If...?.[31]

Work on a third season began by July 2022,[33] when Bradley revealed that the second season was her final project with Marvel Studios.[34] During Marvel Studios Animation's panel at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, What If...? and the other projects discussed were introduced as being part of the "Marvel Animated Multiverse".[33]

Writing Edit

Feige explained with the series' announcement that it would take "pivotal moments" from throughout the MCU and change them. For example, the first episode features Peggy Carter taking the Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers.[1] Winderbaum felt it was "creatively healthy" to think of What If...? as its own parallel world that "lives and breathes on its own terms" and did not need to have exact adaptions from the main MCU or comics.[11] He added that it was liberating to work within the multiverse concept because the series could take greater risks or opportunities that other MCU projects are not afforded when they are concerned with connecting to future properties.[21]: 75  Alonso said the series was an opportunity to introduce more diversity to the MCU and take advantage of more of the 6,000 characters that Marvel Studios had access to.[24] The writers were initially unsure if they could use Spider-Man in the series due to Sony Pictures owning the character's live-action film rights, but they were ultimately allowed to.[35] Marvel Comics characters who have yet to appear in the MCU are not introduced in the series, but the writers considered creating new characters if it helped the story.[23]

Before considering "what if" scenarios, the writers examined all of the MCU heroes to determine "what makes them tick".[23] They wanted to ensure that there was story potential beyond the inciting "what if" change of each episode,[11] so they could use the different scenarios to explore "the hero behind the shield".[23] Bradley described the series' balance between character examination and action as "Die Hard (1988) meets Wes Anderson".[21]: 75  30 potential episodes were conceived and written by Bradley, Andrews, Winderbaum, story editor Matthew Chauncey, junior executive Simona Paparelli, and script coordinator Ryan Little. The What If...? comics provided inspiration for potential story points,[10] as did the Ultimate Marvel comic book imprint (which told alternate stories to the main Marvel universe) since it was an example of a fully realized alternate universe.[11] Bradley first created simple scenarios out of concern for the series' budget, but was told by Marvel to "go nuts".[21]: 74–75  Feige chose his favorite concepts from the 30 options, which were then narrowed down to the 10 episodes for the first season.[10] After each episode was incorrectly rumored to focus on one film from the Infinity Saga, Bradley clarified that multiple films and characters would be represented in each episode and most of the characters from all the films would appear throughout the season.[10][20] Winderbaum hoped the episodes would intrigue viewers to revisit the original films, like how reading a What If comic could lead a reader to the original comic story.[11]

Each episode and its alternate storyline is introduced and concluded by the Watcher, presenting it as "a cautionary tale in the spirit of The Twilight Zone".[9][19]: 1  The episode's tones vary, with some being darker or lighter than the MCU films that they play off. For example, one episode is a political thriller,[23][36] the episode centered on Stephen Strange is a "dark... tragic love story",[36] and another allowed Bradley to "goof off" and draw inspiration from films she enjoyed when growing up such as Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and the National Lampoon films.[36] What If...? also has a horror, a heist,[23] and a murder mystery episodes.[36] Various films served as touchstones for each episode, such as 1940s serials and war films for the Peggy Carter episode.[23] Some of the writers' concepts were rejected because they matched with story ideas that Marvel already planned to use, such as Professor Hulk, an older Steve Rogers, and Pepper Potts in the Rescue suit, who all appear in Avengers: Endgame (2019);[22][37] Loki becoming a hero as he does in Loki;[38] Jane Foster becoming Thor, which was planned for Thor: Love and Thunder (2022);[10] and an episode that was "half the [planned] plot" of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).[23] Other unused pitches include an episode where Spider-Man turns into a real spider that was deemed "too dark and too body horror" for Marvel's target PG-13/TV-14 rating;[39] a Jurassic Park (1993)-inspired episode featuring the Avengers as dinosaurs during prehistory;[40] and a crossover with Star Wars characters like Luke Skywalker.[41]

Despite the series' anthology format, the writers conceived a story device for the first season that allowed them to have some connectivity between the episodes;[27] this begins to be revealed in the season's eighth episode before the finale in the ninth. Additionally, after the Watcher begins the season distant and appearing in the background, he becomes more apparent as the season progresses. Bradley likened the character to the audience, since "as he suffers [the heroes] triumphs and their tragedies, he becomes also more emotionally invested, and therefore becomes more and more part of their world and wants to be more part of their world even though he knows he's not supposed to".[42] Each episode also ends with a twist or question that could potentially be resolved in a sequel episode, similar to the MCU films' post-credit scenes, though these endings are also a reference to the twist endings of the What If...? comics that were not always resolved.[43] Bradley called these endings "fun" while differentiating them from post-credit teasers which she considered "a promise". Many of the endings for the first season's episodes are resolved in the final episode of the season.[5] Regarding the dark tones and tragic plot points of the first season, Bradley explained that being able to feature things that would never happen in the live-action MCU, such as killing off heroes, was the "most liberating part" of the series, and that some of the episodes ended in tragedy for reasons tied into the first season's overall plan.[42]

As the writers were developing the scripts, they realized that Captain Carter would "bubble up and became more important" alongside the Watcher, and decided to revisit her story in each future season.[44] Bradley was asked to only explore "what if" concepts for existing MCU stories,[27] so Phase Four characters do not appear until the second season.[37] Some of the initial 30 concepts that were not chosen for the first season also appear in future seasons.[11][45][46] Andrews noted that following the first season, in which the "what if" concept were only small changes from what was established, further seasons were able to "expand out" beyond these small moments and "get a little bit wackier".[46]

Casting and voice recording Edit

 
Jeffrey Wright stars as the Watcher, who narrates each episode of What If...?

Marvel's plan for the series was to have actors who portray characters in the MCU films reprise their roles in What If...?,[14] with more than 50 doing so.[19]: 2 [15] Feige revealed half of these actors at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019: Michael B. Jordan as Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, Sebastian Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Chris Hemsworth as Thor,[8] Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter,[8][47] Chadwick Boseman as Star-Lord T'Challa,[8][2] Karen Gillan as Nebula, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang,[8] Michael Douglas as Hank Pym / Yellowjacket,[8][48] Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster,[8] David Dastmalchian as Kurt, Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine,[49] Taika Waititi as Korg, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster, Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta,[8] and Chris Sullivan as Taserface.[49] Feige also announced that Jeffrey Wright had been cast as the Watcher, who narrates the series.[8] Boseman was one of the first actors to agree to appear in the series.[50]

Voice recording began by August 2019 and continued into early 2020,[51][52] taking place remotely when on-site work at the Walt Disney Studios lot was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.[53] Wright did some recording in a make-shift recording studio at his home.[12] In January 2021, Frank Grillo said he had worked on the series, reprising his role of Brock Rumlow.[15][51] Additional voice recording was planned for February.[51] By July, Seth Green was reprising his role as Howard the Duck,[15][54] as was Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue.[15][55]

Ahead of the series' premiere, additional actors were revealed to be reprising their roles in the series, including Angela Bassett as Ramonda,[15] Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange and Doctor Strange Supreme,[56][57] Benedict Wong as Wong, Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector, Bradley Whitford as John Flynn, Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight, Clancy Brown as Surtur, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, Georges St-Pierre as Georges Batroc, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, John Kani as T'Chaka,[15] Jon Favreau as Harold "Happy" Hogan / Zombie Happy,[58] Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Kurt Russell as Ego, Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart, Ophelia Lovibond as Carina,[15] Paul Bettany as Vision and J.A.R.V.I.S.,[15][59] Rachel House as Topaz, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw.[15]

In July 2021, Variety reported that several characters, such as Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Carol Danvers, would be voiced by different actors than those who portrayed them in MCU films.[54] Winderbaum attributed some of the replacements to scheduling conflicts with the original actors,[60] and explained that the creatives did not want the series to be "defined by the actors we thought we could get". When casting replacements, they looked to prioritize the performance for this series over an actor sounding the same as the original. He felt the series' exploration of the multiverse gave a "cerebral justification" for the different actors.[61] Dave Bautista, who portrays Drax in the films, indicated that he was not asked by Marvel to be a part of the series, despite the character's inclusion.[62] Winderbaum expressed surprise at Bautista's claims, assuming that there was some miscommunication at some point as all MCU actors were asked through their agents or directly to participate in the series.[60] Josh Keaton voices Skinny Steve Rogers / Hydra Stomper and Steve Rogers;[63][58] Ross Marquand voices Johann Schmidt / Red Skull[c] and Ultron;[63][64] Fred Tatasciore voices Drax, Corvus Glaive,[65] and Volstagg;[66] Brian T. Delaney voices Peter Quill;[65] Lake Bell voices Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow;[67] Mick Wingert voices Tony Stark / Iron Man;[68] Stephanie Panisello voices Betty Ross; Mike McGill voices Thaddeus Ross; Alexandra Daniels voices Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel;[48] Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker / Spider-Man;[58] Kiff VandenHeuvel voices Obadiah Stane; Beth Hoyt voices Pepper Potts; Ozioma Akagha voices Shuri;[59] Josette Eales voices Frigga;[66] David Chen voices Hogun;[66] Max Mittelman voices Fandral;[66] and Cynthia McWilliams voices Gamora.[16]

In November 2022, Cate Blanchett was revealed to be reprising her role as Hela for the second season.[69] In March 2023, Laurence Fishburne revealed that he would voice Bill Foster for the second season, appearing as the character's Giant-Man moniker.[70]

Animation Edit

 
The series features a cel-shaded animation style, with character likenesses based on the actors from the films such as Hayley Atwell for Captain Carter.[71] During the writing of the first season, Captain Carter emerged as a prominent character who will go on to appear in each subsequent season.[44]

Stephan Franck serves as head of animation on the series,[53] which features a cel-shaded animation style with character likenesses based on the actors from the films.[71] Ryan Meinerding, the head of visual development at Marvel Studios, developed the animation style for the series with Andrews.[10] They considered using different styles for each episode,[20] or basing the look on comic art by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko,[19]: 3–4  before settling on a single style inspired by classic American illustrators such as J. C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Tom Lovell, and Mead Schaeffer.[19]: 3  Andrews felt this resulted in a "kind of heroic, hyper-realized, super-idealized look that feels iconic" while not being "pushed or cartoony",[19]: 2  while Meinerding felt this was a unique approach to translating cinematic superheroes into animation that took advantage of the medium's stylization without losing the realistic, "monumental and powerful" feeling of the films.[72] Disney's Lady and the Tramp (1955) was also an influence due to its lack of "harsh line work" and because they felt it was "beautifully painted".[19]: 3  Traditional 2D animation was considered, but was abandoned when Marvel could not find studios who could handle the necessary work.[23] Instead, the animation is "2.5D", with 3D models rendered with 2D lighting to appear like flat drawings.[73]

Alonso said the medium of animation allowed Marvel Studios to work with new companies around the world.[24] Blue Spirit worked on two of the first season's episodes,[19]: 4 [67] with Squeeze handling animation for four episodes,[74] Flying Bark Productions working on four,[75] and Stellar Creative Lab working on one.[76] Bradley said Marvel was "trying to use the color palette, the lighting, [and] the character design to tell as much story as you can" like they do in live-action films,[10] adjusting the camera and color palettes between each episode.[19]: 4  Production Designer Paul Lasaine and his team painted all of the backgrounds for the series, basing these on frames from the films as well as the concept art and set plans from those productions.[77] Discussing the apparent exaggeration of action and abilities in the series, Franck said they were trying to be consistent with what is seen in the films, but "every medium has its own poetry and reads differently, and there's a level of abstraction and exaggeration that is inherent to animation".[78] Andrews enjoyed the opportunity to mix his knowledge of animation with the MCU, believing there was "an embarrassment of riches" in the storytelling they were able to achieve.[19]: 1  Graham Fisher and Joel Fisher edit the series, starting during the storyboard phase.[19][79]

The series' opening title sequence was designed by Perception, who sought to emphasize the series' themes by displaying "the beauty and idea of space". The sequence draws inspiration from the work of film poster artist Bob Peak, particularly his artwork for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Excalibur (1981), and uses imagery of glass shattering to symbolize the branching of the Sacred Timeline.[80]

Music Edit

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  Main Title (From "What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?"/Audio Only) presents composer Laura Karpman's main theme for the series as heard on the first episode's soundtrack, YouTube audio-only video from MarvelMusicVevo's channel

By October 2020, Laura Karpman was set to compose music for the series,[81] which she called "the perfect composer playground" since she was able to reference existing MCU scores but also deviate from them.[82] Karpman and the producers were inspired by Alan Silvestri's approach to the Avengers: Endgame score for how to incorporate existing music from different MCU films. She explained that Silvestri weaved his own music into other composer's themes, and generally just touched on different elements from the existing music, so her approach for the series became "touch on [existing themes], then go on".[83] Karpman had access to the sheet music and recordings of previous MCU scores but also adapted some elements by ear. For each episode, she looked at how the story aligned with the MCU, how it deviated from the MCU, and what the story itself required musically.[84]

When writing the series' main theme, Karpman knew that the opening sequence would feature images of shattered glass. She recorded the sound of shattering glass and manipulated it to create sound effects that were added to the theme. The main melody is played on a French horn, with Karpman singing in the background as a reference to 1960s science fiction scores that featured female vocalists.[84] Additional choir is also used in the main theme, singing phrases backwards such as "what if", "Marvel", and "Stan Lee".[85] Soundtrack albums for each episode of What If...?, featuring Karpman's score, were released digitally by Marvel Music and Hollywood Records. The first episode's album was released on August 13,[86] with subsequent albums releasing shortly after their corresponding episode.[87]

Karpman is joined by her wife Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum to compose the second season.[88]

Marketing Edit

Footage from the series' first episode was shown during the D23 2019,[25] with footage from the series also included in Expanding the Universe, a Marvel Studios special that debuted on Disney+ on November 12.[89] The first trailer was released in December 2020. Based on the trailer, io9's James Whitbrook felt the series was "looking great".[90] Chris Evangelista at /Film also thought it looked "pretty damn cool" and felt What If...? was a good "excuse to essentially blow up the MCU as we know it and tell completely new, weirder stories that would never get their own feature films".[91] Writing for Polygon, Petrana Radulovic felt the trailer showed "the full extent of [narrative] possibilities".[92] An extended look at the first episode of the series was shown during the Women In Animation panel at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2021.[24] Also in the month, Hyundai Motor Company partnered with Marvel Studios for a marketing campaign to promote the Hyundai Tucson along with What If...?, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki. The commercials were produced by Marvel and were meant to tell an "in-world" story set within the narrative of the series.[93] The What If...? commercial was released in August 2021, which saw Party Thor driving the Hyundai Tucson into a battle against Ultron's robots with Captain Carter, Star-Lord T'Challa, and Doctor Strange Supreme.[94][95] Adam Bentz at Screen Rant felt Hyundai's "Question Everything" campaign was the perfect match for What If...? and its concept, and added the content of the commercial likely was not a spoiler for the series, since the ads for the other MCU series did not correlate with actual plot lines.[95] Barney Goldberg, executive creative director of Innocean, the creative agency working with Hyundai, noted there was "an incredible amount of coordination" to get the ad released at the proper time, in order for them to be relevant and not too late, while not spoiling aspects of the series.[96]

An official trailer and poster for the first season were released on July 8, 2021. Nick Romano of Entertainment Weekly felt they provided more insight into the various "what if" stories the series would be exploring, and said it would be "one to watch" along with MCU films that explore the multiverse like Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.[97] Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge called the trailer "the best look yet" at the series.[98] Writing for Screen Rant, Rachel Labonte said the trailer was a "wild ride" and felt like "almost every MCU character imaginable is glimpsed for at least a few seconds... it's clear there are a lot of exciting stories ahead".[99] Vanessa Armstrong of /Film said she was not a fan of animation, but, after seeing the trailer, believed What If...? would "convert a lot of folks [like her] who are resistant" to the medium. Armstrong was "excited to see how these different realities play out" and noted the impressive amount of content and questions that were posed in the trailer.[100] Three episodes of the series Marvel Studios: Legends were released on August 4, exploring Peggy Carter, the Avengers Initiative, and the Ravagers using footage from their MCU film appearances.[101]

In January 2021, Marvel announced their "Marvel Must Haves" program, which reveals new toys, games, books, apparel, home decor, and other merchandise related to each episode of What If...? following an episode's release.[102] In July, Funko Pops, Lego sets,[103] and Marvel Legends figures based on the series were revealed.[104] The "Must Haves" merchandise for the episodes began on August 13, 2021.[105]

Release Edit

What If...? debuted on Disney+ on August 11, 2021;[106] the first season consists of nine episodes that were released weekly until October 6.[4][107][108] It is part of Phase Four of the MCU.[109] A second season will also consist of nine episodes,[4] and was originally announced to be released in early 2023,[33] though by February 2023, the season was reportedly unlikely to premiere that year as Disney and Marvel Studios were re-evaluating their content output.[110][111] It will be part of Phase Five.[33] Winderbaum said it was their intention to release a new season of What If...? annually.[112]

Reception Edit

Critical response Edit

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.90/10, based on 104 reviews for the first season. The site's critical consensus reads: "What If...? may not add much to the larger MCU narrative, but surprising takes on beloved characters and some of the best action sequences in the entire franchise make for engaging viewing."[113] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the first season a score of 69 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[114]

Liz Shannon Miller at Collider, reviewing the first three episodes, felt the series lived up to the promise of showing "totally fresh but familiar spins" on the MCU. Regarding the animation, though Miller felt at times it "lacks depth" and wished varying styles were used to fit each story being told, the action sequences were "beautifully executed, with an extra bit of comic book flare to heighten the reality of the show, enhancing the whole aesthetic". For Miller, while some of the returning voice actors were not able to capture "the essence of their characters" as well as others, simply having them return enhanced the series, with praise also going to the new actors voicing established characters and noting Wright was a "pitch-perfect" casting as the Watcher. She concluded that What If...? was "seriously an MCU superfan's dream at times, though once you get past the initial discovery of each short's "What if...", it's sometimes hard to stay invested".[67] Giving the first three episodes 3.5 out of 5 stars, Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone said the series was "uneven in the way almost any anthology series is. It's fun simply because the level of quality control at Marvel is pretty high these days... and because some of the ideas are either inherently appealing or are used to cleverly tweak what we know from the films. But not every installment lives up to the title's seemingly limitless potential."[115] In his review of the first three episodes, Tyler Hersko from IndieWire felt the series was a "paradox" since it was both "the most Marvel Cinematic Universe title yet" while also "the first MCU installment in years that doesn't feel burdened by the need to meticulously fit into the franchise's canon or blatantly tease future installments". He called this "a breath of fresh air", with What If...? "offer[ing] the fans exactly what they want while still clinging to a few surprises", presenting plenty of in-universe references and jokes for long time fans, while still creating standalone stories that could appeal to all viewers. Hersko called the animation "an absolute pleasure to witness in motion", and gave the episodes a "B+".[116]

The Hollywood Reporter's Angie Han believed "for a series set in the infinite vastness of a multiverse, What If...? is dreaming awfully small", with some "what if" concepts were not as compelling as others. She added that Wright gave each episode "a boost of gravitas", but noted the animation was awkward at times, with some scenes approaching the uncanny valley and that some of the returning actors gave "robotic" voice performances without the charisma of their live-action portrayals. She concluded, "Dare to hope for more than superficial amusement, though, and What If...? tends to disappoint... It's possible future episodes will do a better job of balancing big concepts with a half-hour run time, or that the season is building to some grander design. If that's the case, What If...? is taking its sweet time showing what it can do."[117] Etan Anderson of /Film called the results of the first three episodes "mixed" with "some glaring shortcomings", such as the "clunky" animation when it was not showing action sequences, the voice acting from some of the returning stars, and the short run times which did not allow enough time for viewers to "fully engage" with these new versions of characters. Anderson added that some of the humor struggled and felt "awkwardly contrived" and believed "the creators seem to be trying too hard to keep the secrets of the series instead of being more forthcoming about the exciting twists and turns within". He concluded that this appeared to be the first Marvel Studios series that might not be "necessary viewing" and one that could be "an uphill battle" for general audiences to continue watching, though dedicated fans would find What If...? to be "a satisfying remix".[118] Following the release of the first season, Adam B. Vary of Variety said the season had been "a fascinating experiment for Marvel Studios", with "fizzy adventures... [that] also leaned into real darkness".[5]

Accolades Edit

Award Date(s) of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards March 5, 2022 Best Edited Animation (Non-Theatrical) Graham Fisher and Joel Fisher (for "What If... Ultron Won?") Nominated [119]
Annie Awards March 12, 2022 Best Editorial – TV/Media Joel Fisher, Graham Fisher, Sharia Davis, Basuki Juwono, and Adam Spieckerman (for "What If... Ultron Won?") Won [120]
Critics' Choice Television Awards March 13, 2022 Best Animated Series What If...? Won [121]
Golden Reel Awards March 13, 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Non-Theatrical Animation Various[d] (for "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?") Nominated [122]
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards August 14, 2022 Best Streaming Animated Series or TV Movie What If...? Nominated [123]
Dorian Awards August 17, 2022 Best Animated Show What If...? Nominated [124]
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards September 3–4, 2022 Outstanding Animated Program "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" Nominated [125]
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance Chadwick Boseman (for "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?") Won
Jeffrey Wright (for "What If... Ultron Won?") Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards October 7, 2022 Most Innovative Advertising for a TV/Streaming Series What If...? Nominated [126]
[127]
Saturn Awards October 25, 2022 Best Animated Series What If...? Nominated [128]

Documentary special Edit

Main article: Marvel Studios: Assembled

In February 2021, the documentary series Marvel Studios: Assembled was announced.[129] The special on this series, Assembled: The Making of What If...?, goes behind the scenes of the making of the series, and was released on Disney+ on October 27, 2021.[130]

Future Edit

Marvel Zombies Edit

In November 2021, a Marvel Zombies animated series was announced, with Andrews returning to direct and Zeb Wells serving as head writer, focusing on "a new generation of heroes" battling zombies.[3] It is a continuation of the reality first introduced in the fifth episode of the series, that "look[s] at that universe with a different lens".[131] It is scheduled to debut on Disney+ in 2024,[132] and will consist of four episodes.[133]

Potential projects Edit

Winderbaum said there was potential for the variant characters in the series to appear in live-action, just as "what if" concepts from the Marvel Comics eventually made their way into the main comics continuity.[23] Andrews and Hayley Atwell both expressed interest in a live-action film starring the latter as Captain Carter,[134] though Atwell wanted the right creative team that could "pave the way for [Carter] to tap into the cultural consciousness of today and become a modern heroine of our times".[135] Atwell first reprised the role in live-action in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as an alternate version of the character from Earth-838 (separate from the versions seen in What If...? and the main MCU) who is a member of the Illuminati.[136] A spin-off series centered on Star-Lord T'Challa had been in development but was left in "limbo" after Boseman's death.[5]

Notes Edit

  1. ^ The episode featuring this version of Gamora was planned to be a part of the first season but was delayed to the second season due to COVID-19-related production issues.[5]
  2. ^ This is the universe featured in "What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?".
  3. ^ Marquand reprises his role as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull from Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), replacing original actor Hugo Weaving.[63]
  4. ^ Mac Smith, Bill Rudolph, Alyssa Nevarez, Cheryl Nardi, Anele Onyekwere, Tom Kramer, John Roesch, and Shelley Roden

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External links Edit

  • Official website  
  • What If...? at IMDb  
  • What If...? on Disney+  

August 28, 2023
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For other uses see What If disambiguation What If is an American animated anthology series created by A C Bradley for the streaming service Disney based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name It is the fourth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU produced by Marvel Studios and the studio s first animated series from Marvel Studios Animation The series explores alternate timelines in the multiverse that show what would happen if major moments from the MCU films occurred differently Bradley serves as head writer for the first two seasons with Bryan Andrews directing What If GenreAction adventure Anthology Science fiction SuperheroCreated byA C BradleyBased onMarvel ComicsDirected byBryan AndrewsVoices ofJeffrey WrightMusic byLaura Karpman Nora Kroll Rosenbaum season 2 Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons1No of episodes9ProductionExecutive producersA C Bradley Bryan Andrews Victoria Alonso Louis D Esposito Kevin Feige Brad WinderbaumProducerCarrie WassenaarAnimatorStephan FranckEditorsGraham Fisher Joel FisherRunning time30 37 minutesProduction companyMarvel Studios AnimationReleaseOriginal networkDisney Original releaseAugust 11 2021 2021 08 11 present present RelatedMarvel Cinematic Universe television seriesJeffrey Wright stars as the Watcher who narrates the series alongside many MCU film actors reprising their roles Marvel Studios was developing the series for Disney by the end of 2018 with Bradley and Andrews on board It was officially announced in April 2019 Marvel Studios head of visual development Ryan Meinerding helped define the series cel shaded animation style which was designed to reflect the films and take inspiration from classic American illustrators Animation for the first season is provided by Blue Spirit Squeeze Flying Bark Productions and Stellar Creative Lab with Stephan Franck as head of animation The first season of What If premiered on August 11 2021 and ran for nine episodes until October 6 as part of Phase Four of the MCU A second nine episode season is expected to be part of Phase Five and a third season is in development The series has received generally positive reviews with praise for the voice acting animation creative storylines and scenarios although the episodes length and writing received some criticism A Marvel Zombies series based on one of the What If episodes is in development Contents 1 Premise 2 Episodes 2 1 Season 1 2021 2 2 Season 2 3 Cast and characters 4 Production 4 1 Development 4 2 Writing 4 3 Casting and voice recording 4 4 Animation 4 5 Music 5 Marketing 6 Release 7 Reception 7 1 Critical response 7 2 Accolades 8 Documentary special 9 Future 9 1 Marvel Zombies 9 2 Potential projects 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksPremise EditFollowing the establishment of the multiverse in the season one finale of Loki What If explores various alternate timelines across the multiverse in which major moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU films occur differently as observed by the Watcher 1 2 In the second season following the formation of the Guardians of the Multiverse the Watcher continues to explore more strange worlds meeting new heroes and keeping the multiverse safe 3 Episodes EditSeasonEpisodesOriginally releasedFirst releasedLast released19August 11 2021 2021 08 11 October 6 2021 2021 10 06 29 4 TBATBA Season 1 2021 Edit No overallNo inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date11 What If Captain Carter Were the First Avenger Bryan AndrewsA C BradleyAugust 11 2021 2021 08 11 During World War II Steve Rogers is chosen to become the world s first super soldier but is wounded by a Hydra spy before he can receive the super soldier serum stemming from SSR agent Peggy Carter s decision to stay in the main theater Carter kills the spy and receives the serum instead She is enhanced but banned from combat by SSR leader John Flynn After she takes the Tesseract from Hydra with a vibranium shield created by inventor Howard Stark Flynn reluctantly promotes her to the combat role of Captain Carter Stark uses the Tesseract to create a weaponized armored suit for Rogers to pilot as the Hydra Stomper Carter and Rogers fight many battles until he goes missing while attacking a Hydra train Carter and her allies find Rogers when they infiltrate a Hydra base and see Red Skull using the Tesseract to open a portal and summon an interdimensional creature which kills him Carter enters the closing portal to force the creature back Almost 70 years later the Tesseract opens another portal from which Carter emerges meeting Nick Fury and Clint Barton Cast Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter Captain Carter Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine Toby Jones as Arnim Zola Bradley Whitford as John Flynn Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt Red Skull and Darrell Hammond as a Nazi general22 What If T Challa Became a Star Lord Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceyAugust 18 2021 2021 08 18 In 1988 the Ravagers are sent to Earth by a Celestial called Ego to retrieve his son Peter Quill but mistakenly abduct a young T Challa from Wakanda Twenty years later T Challa has become the famous intergalactic mercenary Star Lord and has been convinced by Ravager leader Yondu Udonta that Wakanda was destroyed Nebula approaches the Ravagers and proposes to steal the Embers of Genesis a cosmic artifact capable of eradicating galactic hunger from galactic kingpin Taneleer Tivan At Tivan s headquarters on Knowhere they offer him the Power Stone as a distraction Meanwhile T Challa looks for the Embers but he finds a Wakandan spacecraft that was searching for him Nebula seemingly betrays the Ravagers who are captured but this is another ruse to obtain the Embers Tivan s slave Carina rescues T Challa and helps the Ravagers defeat Tivan T Challa forgives Udonta for lying about Wakanda and they return there so T Challa can reunite with his family Elsewhere Ego approaches Quill a Dairy Queen janitor Cast Chadwick Boseman as Star Lord T Challa Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta Josh Brolin as Thanos Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan The Collector Kurt Russell as Ego Ophelia Lovibond as Carina Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight Tom Vaughan Lawlor as Ebony Maw Karen Gillan as Nebula Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer John Kani as T Chaka Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri Chris Sullivan as Taserface Seth Green as Howard the Duck and Danai Gurira as Okoye33 What If the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes Bryan AndrewsA C Bradley amp Matthew ChaunceyAugust 25 2021 2021 08 25 Over the course of a week S H I E L D Director Nick Fury attempts to recruit heroes for the Avengers Initiative but they are each mysteriously killed Natasha Romanoff gives Tony Stark an unexpectedly fatal injection Clint Barton accidentally shoots and kills Thor before dying in S H I E L D custody Bruce Banner Hulk explodes and Romanoff is attacked and killed while investigating the other murders Before she dies Romanoff tells Fury that the murders are related to hope The Asgardians led by Loki arrive on Earth to avenge Thor but Fury proposes an alliance to apprehend the killer Fury deduces that Hank Pym is the murderer and has been using his shrinking technology to commit the murders as revenge for the death of his daughter Hope van Dyne who died in the line of duty as a S H I E L D agent Fury and Loki defeat Pym who is taken into Asgardian custody Loki chooses to stay on Earth becoming its ruler Fury begins assembling more heroes finding Steve Rogers frozen in ice and summoning Carol Danvers to Earth Cast Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton Hawkeye Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner Hulk Tom Hiddleston as Loki Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson Jaimie Alexander as Sif Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff Black Widow and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark Iron Man44 What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands Bryan AndrewsA C BradleySeptember 1 2021 2021 09 01 After losing his girlfriend Dr Christine Palmer in a car crash Dr Stephen Strange travels to Kamar Taj and learns the Mystic Arts He discovers the Eye of Agamotto which can manipulate time but is warned by the Ancient One and Wong that doing so could destroy reality Two years later Strange repeatedly attempts to use the Eye to save Palmer but she still dies in every scenario The Ancient One tells Strange that Palmer s death is an absolute point in the timeline that cannot be undone but Strange refuses to listen Using the power of the Dark Dimension the Ancient One splits Strange into two alternate versions one Strange accepts Palmer s death while the other gains power by absorbing mystical beings becoming Strange Supreme This evil version overpowers the good Strange absorbs him and uses his power to resurrect Palmer tearing reality apart Strange Supreme begs the Watcher for help but he refuses to intervene Palmer disintegrates and the universe collapses leaving Strange Supreme to grieve alone Cast Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr Stephen Strange and Doctor Strange Supreme Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer Benedict Wong as Wong Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One Ike Amadi as O Bengh and Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart55 What If Zombies Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 8 2021 2021 09 08 In the Quantum Realm Hank Pym finds Janet van Dyne but she infects him with a quantum virus They return to Earth and cause a zombie apocalypse Two weeks later a group of survivors Bruce Banner Hope van Dyne Peter Parker Bucky Barnes Okoye Sharon Carter Happy Hogan and Kurt learn there is a potential cure at Camp Lehigh They lose Hogan Carter and Hope to zombie attacks on the way there where they meet Vision His Mind Stone can reverse the virus exemplified by a cured Scott Lang s head kept alive in a jar but an infected Wanda Maximoff is immune to the cure and Vision has been feeding pieces of T Challa to her Maximoff breaks free and kills Kurt infects Okoye and throws Barnes away Vision commits suicide by giving the Mind Stone to Parker Banner transforms into the Hulk and sacrifices himself to battle Maximoff allowing the others to escape To broadcast the Stone s energy across the world Parker Lang and T Challa go to Wakanda where a zombified Thanos wields a nearly complete Infinity Gauntlet Cast Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner Hulk Chadwick Boseman as T Challa Black Panther Paul Bettany as Vision Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne Wasp Paul Rudd as Scott Lang Ant Man Jon Favreau as Harold Happy Hogan Zombie Happy Danai Gurira as Okoye Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter David Dastmalchian as Kurt Hudson Thames as Peter Parker Spider Man and Tom Vaughan Lawlor as Ebony Maw66 What If Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 15 2021 2021 09 15 In Afghanistan Tony Stark is ambushed by the Ten Rings but is saved by Erik Killmonger Stevens They return to Stark Industries where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane s involvement in the ambush before helping Stark build a humanoid combat drone using vibranium Needing more vibranium to create a drone army they arrange for James Rhodes to purchase it from Ulysses Klaue At Killmonger s behest Klaue leaks word of the transaction to Wakanda to lure in T Challa Killmonger kills both T Challa and Rhodes staging it as if they killed each other Stark confronts Killmonger but Killmonger kills him and makes it look like a Wakandan attack Killmonger then kills Klaue and reunites with his relatives in Wakanda Thaddeus Ross sends the drone army to attack Wakanda but Killmonger helps the Wakandans defeat them becoming the new Black Panther As the United States prepares another attack T Challa s sister Shuri visits Pepper Potts who was suspicious of Killmonger and proposes an alliance to expose the truth Cast Michael B Jordan as N Jadaka Erik Killmonger Stevens Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan Chadwick Boseman as T Challa Black Panther Angela Bassett as Ramonda Danai Gurira as Okoye Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue Don Cheadle as James Rhodey Rhodes Paul Bettany as J A R V I S John Kani as T Chaka Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark77 What If Thor Were an Only Child Bryan AndrewsA C BradleySeptember 22 2021 2021 09 22 After defeating the Frost Giants Odin discovers the abandoned infant Loki and returns him to Laufey Centuries later Odin s only son Thor has become a boisterous party loving prince While Odin sleeps and Frigga is away Thor travels to Earth to host a large party with aliens from across the universe His arrival attracts the attention of Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis who join the party As Thor and Foster grow close acting S H I E L D director Maria Hill summons Carol Danvers to end the destruction caused by Thor s antics Danvers is unable to defeat Thor without exerting her full power so Lewis and Hill suggest she take the fight to a less populated area while Foster contacts Frigga with Heimdall s help Hill readies a nuclear strike as Danvers and Thor begin to battle again but Frigga contacts them and says she is coming Thor and the party goers clean up the mess before she arrives Later Thor asks Foster out on a date but is interrupted by an army of drones led by Ultron who is in Vision s body and possesses all six Infinity Stones Cast Chris Hemsworth as Thor Natalie Portman as Jane Foster Tom Hiddleston as Loki Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow Taika Waititi as Korg Karen Gillan as Nebula Jaimie Alexander as Sif Seth Green as Howard the Duck Alexandra Daniels as Carol Danvers Captain Marvel and Rachel House as Topaz88 What If Ultron Won Bryan AndrewsMatthew ChaunceySeptember 29 2021 2021 09 29 Ultron having taken the Mind Stone and Vision s vibranium body has defeated the Avengers and launched a global nuclear holocaust killing most of humanity When Thanos appears on Earth to complete the Infinity Gauntlet Ultron bisects him and takes the rest of the Infinity Stones using them to create a massive drone army with which he wipes out almost all life in his universe Ultron then hears the Watcher discovering the existence of the multiverse and attacks the Watcher in his multiversal observatory Meanwhile Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff survive Ultron s attacks and find a copy of Arnim Zola s mind in Siberia They upload Zola into a drone body to try to destroy Ultron s hive mind but it fails because Ultron has left their universe Barton sacrifices himself to allow Romanoff and Zola to escape from the Ultron drones Ultron battles the Watcher across different universes and defeats him The Watcher flees to Strange Supreme s collapsed universe to ask him for help while Ultron plans to conquer the multiverse Cast Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton Hawkeye Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff Black Widow Toby Jones as Arnim Zola Ross Marquand as Ultron and the Sub Ultron Sentries Josh Keaton as Steve Rogers Captain America Mick Wingert as Tony Stark Iron Man Alexandra Daniels as Carol Danvers Captain Marvel and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme99 What If the Watcher Broke His Oath Bryan AndrewsA C BradleyOctober 6 2021 2021 10 06 The Watcher recruits Strange Supreme Captain Carter Star Lord T Challa Party Thor Black Panther Killmonger and a version of Gamora who killed Thanos a from their respective universes to battle Ultron dubbing them the Guardians of the Multiverse In Ultron s home universe the Guardians encounter Natasha Romanoff who with Carter s help shoots Ultron with an arrow containing Arnim Zola s mind Zola destroys Ultron from within and takes control of his body Killmonger betrays the Guardians and tries to claim Ultron s Infinity Stones for himself As Zola and Killmonger struggle over the Stones Strange and the Watcher seal them in a pocket dimension which Strange agrees to watch over The Watcher returns Strange Carter T Challa Gamora and Thor to their respective universes Romanoff refuses to return to hers so the Watcher brings her to one in which the Avengers candidates were assassinated b where she helps defeat Loki In a mid credits scene Carter and her universe s Romanoff discover the Hydra Stomper armor with someone inside Cast Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter Captain Carter Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff Black Widow Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow Georges St Pierre as Georges Batroc Chadwick Boseman as Star Lord T Challa Michael B Jordan as N Jadaka Erik Killmonger Stevens Chris Hemsworth as Thor Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme Toby Jones as Arnim Zola Tom Hiddleston as Loki Kurt Russell as Ego Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury and Mick Wingert as Tony Stark Iron ManSeason 2 Edit No overallNo inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date101 What If Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper 6 Bryan Andrews 3 TBATBAPeggy Carter Captain Carter believes that the love of her life Steve Rogers is long dead until he is discovered alive as the villainous Hydra Stomper 6 An episode written by Ryan Little and directed by Andrews will introduce an original MCU character named Kahhori a young Mohawk woman who seeks to discover her powers after the Tesseract crash lands in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in pre colonial America 7 Cast and characters EditThe series is narrated by Jeffrey Wright as the Watcher a member of the alien Watcher race who observes the multiverse 8 in a similar role to Rod Serling s in The Twilight Zone 9 Head writer A C Bradley said the character is above everything else and compared him to a viewer of the pizza rat video observing and not interfering as he has no interest in becoming friends with the rat living amongst the rat or doing rat things That is the Watcher s relationship with humanity 10 Executive producer Brad Winderbaum felt Wright s performance inspired a sense of humanity while explaining the episodes 11 and Bradley explained that Wright was cast because his voice mixes power charisma and authority with a warm personality 10 Wright approached the character like he would a live action role learning as much as he could about the Watcher so his voice could reflect the character s uniquely powerful all seeing sagely presence Wright chose a contemporary American accent rather than having the character sound like some Oxford educated old fusty guy in a tudor parlor somewhere 9 and aside from researching the character s comic book appearances took inspiration from the series tone visuals and animation when developing the character s voice 12 The comic book name Uatu is not used in the series because this would imply that there was more than one being watching the series events when Bradley instead wanted to focus on the narrative of the Watcher observing the different characters and realities and how those affect him 13 12 04 13 35 Each episode features different versions of characters from the MCU films with many actors reprising their roles for the series 14 15 The final two episodes bring together characters from earlier episodes to form the Guardians of the Multiverse including Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Supreme Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter Captain Carter Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff Black Widow Chadwick Boseman as Star Lord T Challa Michael B Jordan as Killmonger and Chris Hemsworth as Thor Other new versions of characters who also return for the finale include Kurt Russell s Ego and Brian T Delaney s Peter Quill from the second episode Tom Hiddleston s Loki and Samuel L Jackson s Nick Fury from the third Ozioma Akagha s Shuri from the sixth and Toby Jones s Arnim Zola and Ross Marquand s Ultron from the eighth Additionally Cynthia McWilliams and Mick Wingert reprise their respective roles of Gamora and Tony Stark Iron Man from an episode that was cut from the first season but will be included in the second 16 The second season sees the introduction of a young Mohawk woman named Kahhori who is an original MCU character 7 Production EditAdditional production information and episode specific content can be found at each episode s article Development Edit By September 2018 Marvel Studios was developing several series for its parent company Disney s streaming service Disney Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was set to take a hands on role in each series development 17 focusing on handling the actors who would be reprising their roles from the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU films 18 One of these was an animated series for Disney based on the Marvel Comics run What If The anthology series which would be produced by Feige would explore how the MCU would be altered if certain events had occurred differently such as if Loki wielded Thor s hammer Mjolnir The hope was to have the actors who portray the characters in the MCU films voice them in the series as well 14 A C Bradley was suggested as head writer for the series by Marvel Studios executive Jonathan Schwartz after unsuccessfully pitching as a writer for Captain Marvel 2019 19 1 Bradley was eager to write a Marvel film due to her love for the franchise and felt What If was her opportunity to create many Marvel stories 20 Marvel Studios was impressed that some of Bradley s ideas for the series matched concepts they were planning for films and she joined the project in October 2018 21 74 22 Bryan Andrews a storyboard artist on many of the major action sequences from the MCU films 19 1 met with Brad Winderbaum the Marvel Studios executive in charge of the series about directing the series as early as 2018 23 24 Bradley and Andrews were officially announced in their roles in August 2019 25 In April 2019 Disney and Marvel officially announced the series 1 Marvel Studios had discussed adapting the What If comics in the past but decided not to do so until after the conclusion of the Infinity Saga so they would have enough storylines to create alternate options of Making the series animated allowed the studio to explore all of these ideas unbounded 23 Winderbaum said it was not a coincidence that the series was set for release so soon after the first season finale of Loki which introduced the multiverse since What If explores facets of the multiverse in a way that Winderbaum believed made the series as important as any other MCU property 2 Bradley confirmed that all episodes of the series are canon to the MCU multiverse 26 with most of the episodes taking place in their own universe 27 Since work began on What If before the development of Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022 Bradley was unsure how those projects would be exploring and explaining the MCU version of the multiverse She chose to focus on the possibilities within the alternate timelines of the multiverse which she described as a sampler of assorted chocolates and left elements such as the Time Variance Authority to be explained by those other projects Feige and Winderbaum kept the creative teams of Loki and Multiverse of Madness informed of what was happening in What If as work on those projects began 28 The creative team of What If met with Loki executive producers Stephen Broussard and Kevin Wright as well as WandaVision 2021 co executive producer Mary Livanos to establish a rule book regarding the multiverse its branch timelines and nexus events 29 Executive producers for the series include Winderbaum Feige Louis D Esposito Victoria Alonso Andrews and Bradley with Carrie Wassenaar producing 19 2 The episodes are approximately 30 minutes in length 4 In December 2019 Feige revealed that the first season would consist of 10 episodes and that work had already begun on a second 10 episode season 30 However because of the production delays caused by the COVID 19 pandemic the tenth episode of the first season was not completed in time and moved to the second season the second season was also reduced to nine episodes 4 In July 2021 ahead of the release of What If Alonso noted that Marvel Studios was creating an animation branch and mini studio 31 known as Marvel Studios Animation 32 to focus on more animated content beyond What If 31 Work on a third season began by July 2022 33 when Bradley revealed that the second season was her final project with Marvel Studios 34 During Marvel Studios Animation s panel at the 2022 San Diego Comic Con What If and the other projects discussed were introduced as being part of the Marvel Animated Multiverse 33 Writing Edit Feige explained with the series announcement that it would take pivotal moments from throughout the MCU and change them For example the first episode features Peggy Carter taking the Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers 1 Winderbaum felt it was creatively healthy to think of What If as its own parallel world that lives and breathes on its own terms and did not need to have exact adaptions from the main MCU or comics 11 He added that it was liberating to work within the multiverse concept because the series could take greater risks or opportunities that other MCU projects are not afforded when they are concerned with connecting to future properties 21 75 Alonso said the series was an opportunity to introduce more diversity to the MCU and take advantage of more of the 6 000 characters that Marvel Studios had access to 24 The writers were initially unsure if they could use Spider Man in the series due to Sony Pictures owning the character s live action film rights but they were ultimately allowed to 35 Marvel Comics characters who have yet to appear in the MCU are not introduced in the series but the writers considered creating new characters if it helped the story 23 Before considering what if scenarios the writers examined all of the MCU heroes to determine what makes them tick 23 They wanted to ensure that there was story potential beyond the inciting what if change of each episode 11 so they could use the different scenarios to explore the hero behind the shield 23 Bradley described the series balance between character examination and action as Die Hard 1988 meets Wes Anderson 21 75 30 potential episodes were conceived and written by Bradley Andrews Winderbaum story editor Matthew Chauncey junior executive Simona Paparelli and script coordinator Ryan Little The What If comics provided inspiration for potential story points 10 as did the Ultimate Marvel comic book imprint which told alternate stories to the main Marvel universe since it was an example of a fully realized alternate universe 11 Bradley first created simple scenarios out of concern for the series budget but was told by Marvel to go nuts 21 74 75 Feige chose his favorite concepts from the 30 options which were then narrowed down to the 10 episodes for the first season 10 After each episode was incorrectly rumored to focus on one film from the Infinity Saga Bradley clarified that multiple films and characters would be represented in each episode and most of the characters from all the films would appear throughout the season 10 20 Winderbaum hoped the episodes would intrigue viewers to revisit the original films like how reading a What If comic could lead a reader to the original comic story 11 Each episode and its alternate storyline is introduced and concluded by the Watcher presenting it as a cautionary tale in the spirit of The Twilight Zone 9 19 1 The episode s tones vary with some being darker or lighter than the MCU films that they play off For example one episode is a political thriller 23 36 the episode centered on Stephen Strange is a dark tragic love story 36 and another allowed Bradley to goof off and draw inspiration from films she enjoyed when growing up such as Can t Hardly Wait 1998 and the National Lampoon films 36 What If also has a horror a heist 23 and a murder mystery episodes 36 Various films served as touchstones for each episode such as 1940s serials and war films for the Peggy Carter episode 23 Some of the writers concepts were rejected because they matched with story ideas that Marvel already planned to use such as Professor Hulk an older Steve Rogers and Pepper Potts in the Rescue suit who all appear in Avengers Endgame 2019 22 37 Loki becoming a hero as he does in Loki 38 Jane Foster becoming Thor which was planned for Thor Love and Thunder 2022 10 and an episode that was half the planned plot of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 2023 23 Other unused pitches include an episode where Spider Man turns into a real spider that was deemed too dark and too body horror for Marvel s target PG 13 TV 14 rating 39 a Jurassic Park 1993 inspired episode featuring the Avengers as dinosaurs during prehistory 40 and a crossover with Star Wars characters like Luke Skywalker 41 Despite the series anthology format the writers conceived a story device for the first season that allowed them to have some connectivity between the episodes 27 this begins to be revealed in the season s eighth episode before the finale in the ninth Additionally after the Watcher begins the season distant and appearing in the background he becomes more apparent as the season progresses Bradley likened the character to the audience since as he suffers the heroes triumphs and their tragedies he becomes also more emotionally invested and therefore becomes more and more part of their world and wants to be more part of their world even though he knows he s not supposed to 42 Each episode also ends with a twist or question that could potentially be resolved in a sequel episode similar to the MCU films post credit scenes though these endings are also a reference to the twist endings of the What If comics that were not always resolved 43 Bradley called these endings fun while differentiating them from post credit teasers which she considered a promise Many of the endings for the first season s episodes are resolved in the final episode of the season 5 Regarding the dark tones and tragic plot points of the first season Bradley explained that being able to feature things that would never happen in the live action MCU such as killing off heroes was the most liberating part of the series and that some of the episodes ended in tragedy for reasons tied into the first season s overall plan 42 As the writers were developing the scripts they realized that Captain Carter would bubble up and became more important alongside the Watcher and decided to revisit her story in each future season 44 Bradley was asked to only explore what if concepts for existing MCU stories 27 so Phase Four characters do not appear until the second season 37 Some of the initial 30 concepts that were not chosen for the first season also appear in future seasons 11 45 46 Andrews noted that following the first season in which the what if concept were only small changes from what was established further seasons were able to expand out beyond these small moments and get a little bit wackier 46 Casting and voice recording Edit Jeffrey Wright stars as the Watcher who narrates each episode of What If Marvel s plan for the series was to have actors who portray characters in the MCU films reprise their roles in What If 14 with more than 50 doing so 19 2 15 Feige revealed half of these actors at San Diego Comic Con in July 2019 Michael B Jordan as Erik Killmonger Stevens Sebastian Stan as James Bucky Barnes Josh Brolin as Thanos Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner Hulk Tom Hiddleston as Loki Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury Chris Hemsworth as Thor 8 Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter Captain Carter 8 47 Chadwick Boseman as Star Lord T Challa 8 2 Karen Gillan as Nebula Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton Paul Rudd as Scott Lang 8 Michael Douglas as Hank Pym Yellowjacket 8 48 Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri Natalie Portman as Jane Foster 8 David Dastmalchian as Kurt Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine 49 Taika Waititi as Korg Toby Jones as Arnim Zola Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta 8 and Chris Sullivan as Taserface 49 Feige also announced that Jeffrey Wright had been cast as the Watcher who narrates the series 8 Boseman was one of the first actors to agree to appear in the series 50 Voice recording began by August 2019 and continued into early 2020 51 52 taking place remotely when on site work at the Walt Disney Studios lot was suspended during the COVID 19 pandemic 53 Wright did some recording in a make shift recording studio at his home 12 In January 2021 Frank Grillo said he had worked on the series reprising his role of Brock Rumlow 15 51 Additional voice recording was planned for February 51 By July Seth Green was reprising his role as Howard the Duck 15 54 as was Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue 15 55 Ahead of the series premiere additional actors were revealed to be reprising their roles in the series including Angela Bassett as Ramonda 15 Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr Stephen Strange and Doctor Strange Supreme 56 57 Benedict Wong as Wong Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan The Collector Bradley Whitford as John Flynn Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight Clancy Brown as Surtur Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill Danai Gurira as Okoye Don Cheadle as James Rhodes Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne Georges St Pierre as Georges Batroc Jaimie Alexander as Sif John Kani as T Chaka 15 Jon Favreau as Harold Happy Hogan Zombie Happy 58 Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis Kurt Russell as Ego Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart Ophelia Lovibond as Carina 15 Paul Bettany as Vision and J A R V I S 15 59 Rachel House as Topaz Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One and Tom Vaughan Lawlor as Ebony Maw 15 In July 2021 Variety reported that several characters such as Tony Stark Steve Rogers and Carol Danvers would be voiced by different actors than those who portrayed them in MCU films 54 Winderbaum attributed some of the replacements to scheduling conflicts with the original actors 60 and explained that the creatives did not want the series to be defined by the actors we thought we could get When casting replacements they looked to prioritize the performance for this series over an actor sounding the same as the original He felt the series exploration of the multiverse gave a cerebral justification for the different actors 61 Dave Bautista who portrays Drax in the films indicated that he was not asked by Marvel to be a part of the series despite the character s inclusion 62 Winderbaum expressed surprise at Bautista s claims assuming that there was some miscommunication at some point as all MCU actors were asked through their agents or directly to participate in the series 60 Josh Keaton voices Skinny Steve Rogers Hydra Stomper and Steve Rogers 63 58 Ross Marquand voices Johann Schmidt Red Skull c and Ultron 63 64 Fred Tatasciore voices Drax Corvus Glaive 65 and Volstagg 66 Brian T Delaney voices Peter Quill 65 Lake Bell voices Natasha Romanoff Black Widow 67 Mick Wingert voices Tony Stark Iron Man 68 Stephanie Panisello voices Betty Ross Mike McGill voices Thaddeus Ross Alexandra Daniels voices Carol Danvers Captain Marvel 48 Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker Spider Man 58 Kiff VandenHeuvel voices Obadiah Stane Beth Hoyt voices Pepper Potts Ozioma Akagha voices Shuri 59 Josette Eales voices Frigga 66 David Chen voices Hogun 66 Max Mittelman voices Fandral 66 and Cynthia McWilliams voices Gamora 16 In November 2022 Cate Blanchett was revealed to be reprising her role as Hela for the second season 69 In March 2023 Laurence Fishburne revealed that he would voice Bill Foster for the second season appearing as the character s Giant Man moniker 70 Animation Edit The series features a cel shaded animation style with character likenesses based on the actors from the films such as Hayley Atwell for Captain Carter 71 During the writing of the first season Captain Carter emerged as a prominent character who will go on to appear in each subsequent season 44 Stephan Franck serves as head of animation on the series 53 which features a cel shaded animation style with character likenesses based on the actors from the films 71 Ryan Meinerding the head of visual development at Marvel Studios developed the animation style for the series with Andrews 10 They considered using different styles for each episode 20 or basing the look on comic art by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko 19 3 4 before settling on a single style inspired by classic American illustrators such as J C Leyendecker Norman Rockwell Tom Lovell and Mead Schaeffer 19 3 Andrews felt this resulted in a kind of heroic hyper realized super idealized look that feels iconic while not being pushed or cartoony 19 2 while Meinerding felt this was a unique approach to translating cinematic superheroes into animation that took advantage of the medium s stylization without losing the realistic monumental and powerful feeling of the films 72 Disney s Lady and the Tramp 1955 was also an influence due to its lack of harsh line work and because they felt it was beautifully painted 19 3 Traditional 2D animation was considered but was abandoned when Marvel could not find studios who could handle the necessary work 23 Instead the animation is 2 5D with 3D models rendered with 2D lighting to appear like flat drawings 73 Alonso said the medium of animation allowed Marvel Studios to work with new companies around the world 24 Blue Spirit worked on two of the first season s episodes 19 4 67 with Squeeze handling animation for four episodes 74 Flying Bark Productions working on four 75 and Stellar Creative Lab working on one 76 Bradley said Marvel was trying to use the color palette the lighting and the character design to tell as much story as you can like they do in live action films 10 adjusting the camera and color palettes between each episode 19 4 Production Designer Paul Lasaine and his team painted all of the backgrounds for the series basing these on frames from the films as well as the concept art and set plans from those productions 77 Discussing the apparent exaggeration of action and abilities in the series Franck said they were trying to be consistent with what is seen in the films but every medium has its own poetry and reads differently and there s a level of abstraction and exaggeration that is inherent to animation 78 Andrews enjoyed the opportunity to mix his knowledge of animation with the MCU believing there was an embarrassment of riches in the storytelling they were able to achieve 19 1 Graham Fisher and Joel Fisher edit the series starting during the storyboard phase 19 79 The series opening title sequence was designed by Perception who sought to emphasize the series themes by displaying the beauty and idea of space The sequence draws inspiration from the work of film poster artist Bob Peak particularly his artwork for Star Trek The Motion Picture 1979 and Excalibur 1981 and uses imagery of glass shattering to symbolize the branching of the Sacred Timeline 80 Music Edit External audio Main Title From What If Captain Carter Were the First Avenger Audio Only presents composer Laura Karpman s main theme for the series as heard on the first episode s soundtrack YouTube audio only video from MarvelMusicVevo s channelBy October 2020 Laura Karpman was set to compose music for the series 81 which she called the perfect composer playground since she was able to reference existing MCU scores but also deviate from them 82 Karpman and the producers were inspired by Alan Silvestri s approach to the Avengers Endgame score for how to incorporate existing music from different MCU films She explained that Silvestri weaved his own music into other composer s themes and generally just touched on different elements from the existing music so her approach for the series became touch on existing themes then go on 83 Karpman had access to the sheet music and recordings of previous MCU scores but also adapted some elements by ear For each episode she looked at how the story aligned with the MCU how it deviated from the MCU and what the story itself required musically 84 When writing the series main theme Karpman knew that the opening sequence would feature images of shattered glass She recorded the sound of shattering glass and manipulated it to create sound effects that were added to the theme The main melody is played on a French horn with Karpman singing in the background as a reference to 1960s science fiction scores that featured female vocalists 84 Additional choir is also used in the main theme singing phrases backwards such as what if Marvel and Stan Lee 85 Soundtrack albums for each episode of What If featuring Karpman s score were released digitally by Marvel Music and Hollywood Records The first episode s album was released on August 13 86 with subsequent albums releasing shortly after their corresponding episode 87 Karpman is joined by her wife Nora Kroll Rosenbaum to compose the second season 88 Marketing EditFootage from the series first episode was shown during the D23 2019 25 with footage from the series also included in Expanding the Universe a Marvel Studios special that debuted on Disney on November 12 89 The first trailer was released in December 2020 Based on the trailer io9 s James Whitbrook felt the series was looking great 90 Chris Evangelista at Film also thought it looked pretty damn cool and felt What If was a good excuse to essentially blow up the MCU as we know it and tell completely new weirder stories that would never get their own feature films 91 Writing for Polygon Petrana Radulovic felt the trailer showed the full extent of narrative possibilities 92 An extended look at the first episode of the series was shown during the Women In Animation panel at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2021 24 Also in the month Hyundai Motor Company partnered with Marvel Studios for a marketing campaign to promote the Hyundai Tucson along with What If WandaVision The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki The commercials were produced by Marvel and were meant to tell an in world story set within the narrative of the series 93 The What If commercial was released in August 2021 which saw Party Thor driving the Hyundai Tucson into a battle against Ultron s robots with Captain Carter Star Lord T Challa and Doctor Strange Supreme 94 95 Adam Bentz at Screen Rant felt Hyundai s Question Everything campaign was the perfect match for What If and its concept and added the content of the commercial likely was not a spoiler for the series since the ads for the other MCU series did not correlate with actual plot lines 95 Barney Goldberg executive creative director of Innocean the creative agency working with Hyundai noted there was an incredible amount of coordination to get the ad released at the proper time in order for them to be relevant and not too late while not spoiling aspects of the series 96 An official trailer and poster for the first season were released on July 8 2021 Nick Romano of Entertainment Weekly felt they provided more insight into the various what if stories the series would be exploring and said it would be one to watch along with MCU films that explore the multiverse like Spider Man No Way Home 2021 and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 97 Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge called the trailer the best look yet at the series 98 Writing for Screen Rant Rachel Labonte said the trailer was a wild ride and felt like almost every MCU character imaginable is glimpsed for at least a few seconds it s clear there are a lot of exciting stories ahead 99 Vanessa Armstrong of Film said she was not a fan of animation but after seeing the trailer believed What If would convert a lot of folks like her who are resistant to the medium Armstrong was excited to see how these different realities play out and noted the impressive amount of content and questions that were posed in the trailer 100 Three episodes of the series Marvel Studios Legends were released on August 4 exploring Peggy Carter the Avengers Initiative and the Ravagers using footage from their MCU film appearances 101 In January 2021 Marvel announced their Marvel Must Haves program which reveals new toys games books apparel home decor and other merchandise related to each episode of What If following an episode s release 102 In July Funko Pops Lego sets 103 and Marvel Legends figures based on the series were revealed 104 The Must Haves merchandise for the episodes began on August 13 2021 105 Release EditWhat If debuted on Disney on August 11 2021 106 the first season consists of nine episodes that were released weekly until October 6 4 107 108 It is part of Phase Four of the MCU 109 A second season will also consist of nine episodes 4 and was originally announced to be released in early 2023 33 though by February 2023 the season was reportedly unlikely to premiere that year as Disney and Marvel Studios were re evaluating their content output 110 111 It will be part of Phase Five 33 Winderbaum said it was their intention to release a new season of What If annually 112 Reception EditCritical response Edit The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 94 approval rating with an average rating of 7 90 10 based on 104 reviews for the first season The site s critical consensus reads What If may not add much to the larger MCU narrative but surprising takes on beloved characters and some of the best action sequences in the entire franchise make for engaging viewing 113 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the first season a score of 69 out of 100 based on 16 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 114 Liz Shannon Miller at Collider reviewing the first three episodes felt the series lived up to the promise of showing totally fresh but familiar spins on the MCU Regarding the animation though Miller felt at times it lacks depth and wished varying styles were used to fit each story being told the action sequences were beautifully executed with an extra bit of comic book flare to heighten the reality of the show enhancing the whole aesthetic For Miller while some of the returning voice actors were not able to capture the essence of their characters as well as others simply having them return enhanced the series with praise also going to the new actors voicing established characters and noting Wright was a pitch perfect casting as the Watcher She concluded that What If was seriously an MCU superfan s dream at times though once you get past the initial discovery of each short s What if it s sometimes hard to stay invested 67 Giving the first three episodes 3 5 out of 5 stars Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone said the series was uneven in the way almost any anthology series is It s fun simply because the level of quality control at Marvel is pretty high these days and because some of the ideas are either inherently appealing or are used to cleverly tweak what we know from the films But not every installment lives up to the title s seemingly limitless potential 115 In his review of the first three episodes Tyler Hersko from IndieWire felt the series was a paradox since it was both the most Marvel Cinematic Universe title yet while also the first MCU installment in years that doesn t feel burdened by the need to meticulously fit into the franchise s canon or blatantly tease future installments He called this a breath of fresh air with What If offer ing the fans exactly what they want while still clinging to a few surprises presenting plenty of in universe references and jokes for long time fans while still creating standalone stories that could appeal to all viewers Hersko called the animation an absolute pleasure to witness in motion and gave the episodes a B 116 The Hollywood Reporter s Angie Han believed for a series set in the infinite vastness of a multiverse What If is dreaming awfully small with some what if concepts were not as compelling as others She added that Wright gave each episode a boost of gravitas but noted the animation was awkward at times with some scenes approaching the uncanny valley and that some of the returning actors gave robotic voice performances without the charisma of their live action portrayals She concluded Dare to hope for more than superficial amusement though and What If tends to disappoint It s possible future episodes will do a better job of balancing big concepts with a half hour run time or that the season is building to some grander design If that s the case What If is taking its sweet time showing what it can do 117 Etan Anderson of Film called the results of the first three episodes mixed with some glaring shortcomings such as the clunky animation when it was not showing action sequences the voice acting from some of the returning stars and the short run times which did not allow enough time for viewers to fully engage with these new versions of characters Anderson added that some of the humor struggled and felt awkwardly contrived and believed the creators seem to be trying too hard to keep the secrets of the series instead of being more forthcoming about the exciting twists and turns within He concluded that this appeared to be the first Marvel Studios series that might not be necessary viewing and one that could be an uphill battle for general audiences to continue watching though dedicated fans would find What If to be a satisfying remix 118 Following the release of the first season Adam B Vary of Variety said the season had been a fascinating experiment for Marvel Studios with fizzy adventures that also leaned into real darkness 5 Accolades Edit Award Date s of ceremony Category Recipient s Result Ref American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards March 5 2022 Best Edited Animation Non Theatrical Graham Fisher and Joel Fisher for What If Ultron Won Nominated 119 Annie Awards March 12 2022 Best Editorial TV Media Joel Fisher Graham Fisher Sharia Davis Basuki Juwono and Adam Spieckerman for What If Ultron Won Won 120 Critics Choice Television Awards March 13 2022 Best Animated Series What If Won 121 Golden Reel Awards March 13 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Non Theatrical Animation Various d for What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands Nominated 122 Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards August 14 2022 Best Streaming Animated Series or TV Movie What If Nominated 123 Dorian Awards August 17 2022 Best Animated Show What If Nominated 124 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards September 3 4 2022 Outstanding Animated Program What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands Nominated 125 Outstanding Character Voice Over Performance Chadwick Boseman for What If T Challa Became a Star Lord WonJeffrey Wright for What If Ultron Won NominatedGolden Trailer Awards October 7 2022 Most Innovative Advertising for a TV Streaming Series What If Nominated 126 127 Saturn Awards October 25 2022 Best Animated Series What If Nominated 128 Documentary special EditMain article Marvel Studios Assembled In February 2021 the documentary series Marvel Studios Assembled was announced 129 The special on this series Assembled The Making of What If goes behind the scenes of the making of the series and was released on Disney on October 27 2021 130 Future EditMarvel Zombies Edit In November 2021 a Marvel Zombies animated series was announced with Andrews returning to direct and Zeb Wells serving as head writer focusing on a new generation of heroes battling zombies 3 It is a continuation of the reality first introduced in the fifth episode of the series that look s at that universe with a different lens 131 It is scheduled to debut on Disney in 2024 132 and will consist of four episodes 133 Potential projects Edit Winderbaum said there was potential for the variant characters in the series to appear in live action just as what if concepts from the Marvel Comics eventually made their way into the main comics continuity 23 Andrews and Hayley Atwell both expressed interest in a live action film starring the latter as Captain Carter 134 though Atwell wanted the right creative team that could pave the way for Carter to tap into the cultural consciousness of today and become a modern heroine of our times 135 Atwell first reprised the role in live action in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as an alternate version of the character from Earth 838 separate from the versions seen in What If and the main MCU who is a member of the Illuminati 136 A spin off series centered on Star Lord T Challa had been in development but was left in limbo after Boseman s death 5 Notes Edit The episode featuring this version of Gamora was planned to be a part of the first season but was delayed to the second season due to COVID 19 related production issues 5 This is the universe featured in What If the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes Marquand reprises his role as Johann Schmidt Red 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