What If’s Midseason Trailer May Point to Another Massive Marvel Event

Though Marvel’s What If collection might be thought of an formidable crossover occasion—within the sense that most of the studio’s characters have made appearances within the present’s first season alone—not one of the episodes thus far have precisely targeted on an Avengers: Endgame–fashion plot wherein a number of, previously-established storylines are woven collectively. That might be altering quickly, although.

In addition to reimagining Peggy Carter as a super-soldier, and T’Challa because the adoptive son of alien pirates, What If has explored totally different branches of Marvel’s multiverse the place the efforts of Earth’s heroes haven’t been sufficient to maintain the planet shielded from devastating threats. While the Disney+ animated collection is an anthology, most of the first season’s particular person episodes have left open the potential for there being extra down the road that reveals a bigger narrative identified solely to the Watcher (Jeffrey Wright). A brand new midseason trailer launched at the moment undoubtedly means that may be the case due to an attention-grabbing handful of pictures from upcoming episodes that includes characters like Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain Marvel (Alexandra Daniels), and Iron Man (Mick Wingert) of all folks.

In the brand new clips, there’s a quick alternate between a younger Thor and the variant of Doctor Strange who grew to become corrupted by the darkish magics (Doctor Strange Supreme) in regards to the presence of zombies. Though What If has but to characteristic a Thor variant who has many strains, the darkish Strange appears to be the identical one from episode 4, and the zombies the pair are discussing are probably from episode 5, a fusion of the Marvel Zombies comics, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers Endgame.

Those particulars alone recommend that, in some way, components of at the very least three branches of the multiverse all find yourself interacting with each other in some unspecified time in the future in What If’s story. But the teaser additionally spotlights pictures of different characters like Captain Marvel, Korg, and Iron Man. Iron Man’s look in a second mirroring his snap on the finish of Endgame is especially attention-grabbing, because it factors to What If coming again to that pivotal level within the MCU’s historical past. But given the way in which the present deviates from the canon (and the truth that it’s already form of touched on beats from that movie), it would possibly imply that this snap exists in a unique context.

What If’s additionally already given us an alternate model of Thanos who has little curiosity in exterminating half of the universe, which means that he isn’t essentially the particular person Iron Man’s utilizing the Infinity Stones in opposition to. A world plagued with zombies definitely feels just like the form of factor the Avengers would possibly need to use that for—but when that finally ends up being the case, it means the collection is about to mash up the multiverse in some reasonably vital methods because it builds to the season one finale.

What If airs Wednesdays on Disney+.

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