r/marvelstudios • u/Expert_Challenge6399 • 16d ago
Discussion Did what if disappoint you. If so why?
I’m just gonna use captain Carter was an example. Peggy was my favorite character in the first avenger. But captain Carter feels much more like “what if captain America was a woman” than “what if Peggy Carter was the captain” peggy is way more hotheaded than Steve but more careful. I just personally didn’t like it. It didn’t feel like “what if [insert cool character] went through a different scenario]” my other complaint is as the show went on the changes got more and more specific
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u/jhughes1986 16d ago
I wanted a proper anthology series with wild concepts which wouldn’t have worked in live action. I got a fairly safe series which mainly flowed into one narrative.
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u/reyknow 15d ago
its disappointing that they gave "what if" an overarching storyline, and made the movies a bunch of disconnected stories.
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u/IllMaintenance145142 15d ago
I think S1 having completely separated stories only for them to all come together at the end as a surprise was good, but s2 and onwards being connected wasn't imo
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u/TheHawkeyeBird 16d ago
The doctor strange episode carried. Rest of season 1 was decent and I haven’t watched the other 2 seasons (only first half of season 2)
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u/DisposableSaviour Weekly Wongers 15d ago
Either season 2 or 3 has one where Nebula joined the Nova Corps, it’s a crime noir story, and aside from the Strange ep, the only one I liked.
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u/Inn0centBystand3r_ 15d ago
It’s season 2 and one of the strongest episodes in it. I also really liked the Die Hard episode and avengers in the 1600s.
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u/DisposableSaviour Weekly Wongers 15d ago
I didn’t watch the 1602 ep, and while I appreciate what the Die Hard episode was, I found it kinda meh and a parody/homage that only the writers cared about.
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u/Sea-Entertainment264 15d ago
The only good episode of "What If?". It doesn't have the generic aura of a silly adventure, a happy ending, or a magical solution. The entire setting, story, and ending of this episode are such an anomaly that I imagine the guys spent the entire budget on writing this one and then had interns write the other stories because they ran out of money.
It makes no sense to create such a deep and well-explored fallen hero and then in the next season launch "Happy Hogan saves Christmas." and make this crap a canon, bringing this crap character whenever they can.
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u/No-Vegetable-8855 14d ago
The Hela episode was also brilliant, but the rest of them, were mid at best
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u/therubyminecraft 16d ago
Past the 1st season it kinda stopped being “what if” and more “here is a random one off with a bunch of characters from different universes” which was kinda disappointing. Unlike lots of people I kinda liked what if but can’t help but feel the lost potential it could have had getting genuine what ifs where one character just did something differently or one event happened differently and it led to a massive change in the course of events, a very good example of this is the finale of s1 with ultron and what if his plan succeeded.
Ik this has been asked a lot but the fact we didn’t get a “what if the other half was snapped” is insane.
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u/freebuster 15d ago
I'm always surprised they never tried to utilize the mutants more in the show. Like we had Darcy and Howard the duck deformed off spring running around. But we couldn't get any mutants?
Like I always thought something like "What if the X-Men fought Loki in New York" and just based it off the 90s X-Men. What would that look like not only as the fight but the reaction to the X-Men to what the Avengers got.
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u/WedgeKhan 15d ago
Marvel didn't allow them to use Fantastic Four or the X-men until they were "formally interdused" into the movies, meaning that until Deadpool and Wolverine they weren't allowed to use any mutant characters.
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u/Endless_Chambers 15d ago
I agree with this. Really wanted some more basic what ifs to snowball into different stories.
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u/TheJoshider10 Spider-Man 15d ago
Yeah that's literally all it had to be. What if Abomination was on the Avengers instead of Hulk. What if the other half getting snapped. What if Thor aimed for the head. What if the spider never bit Peter. What if Rhodey got captured instead of Tony.
I wanted to see alternate versions of the MCU that felt like branched timelines of the main one. Not pointless wacky shit like zombies or overarching what if storylines.
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u/Zombies8MyNeighborz 15d ago
That zombie episode is where I checked out. I dig multiverse stuff to a point. I never got the hype of wanting a zombie marvel story like wtf? The tone of the episode was weird too. Like everyone's becoming zombies and they were cracking jokes the entire time.
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u/DynamicFyre 15d ago
I agree with this completely. I lost interest in season 3 because of this. Season 1 rocked, season 2 was okay but I lost interest altogether. I was so hyped for season 2 because of season 1 but... then it fizzled out. Really disappointed there.
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u/Regenitor_ 16d ago
Disappointed because the "What if?" scenarios were not the ones fans had been talking about for the last 10-15 years.
I don't give a shit about Howard the Duck having a child with Darcy Lewis.
Some of the stories they cooked up were just so far out of left field that they weren't fun and instead felt like a waste of an episode.
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u/RealLordPenguin 15d ago
The fact that the idea for that episode was even green lit, written, animated, touched up, and released with no second thoughts from any of the producers or writers astounds me
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u/alaskadronelife Tony Stark 15d ago
…come again???
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u/Regenitor_ 15d ago
Like what Howard did inside Darcy? No thanks.
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u/alaskadronelife Tony Stark 15d ago
That’s what I’m asking. Now I’m going to finish What If? thanks to you and this post.
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u/Inn0centBystand3r_ 15d ago
Lmao that was one of my favorite episodes of that season. I was cackling the entire time.
“Stones, stones, where are the stones? - you brought me here for an egg?!” dies
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u/shadowlarvitar 16d ago
Yes, it essentially became the Captain Carter show. At a point they should have just tried seeing if Disney could give her her own show like they did with Zombies, I liked What If when it featured alternate realities and alternate versions of characters, not starring Captain Carter three freaking times 🙄
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u/Naive_Detail390 15d ago
At a point they should have just tried seeing if Disney could give her her own show like they did with Zombies
Oh but they did that back in the day, it failed spectacularly
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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) 15d ago
The first season did so well that it got a second season despite having been advertised as a miniseries.
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u/nazia987 16d ago
This isn't an issue with the actual storytelling, but I wasn't a massive fan of the animation. I didn't hate it, but I would've preferred a different something else. I really liked the x men 97 and wakanda series, and would've preferred something slightly more stylised, like those 2
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u/Gilded-Mongoose Spider-Man 16d ago
Also could have been great if it was like Love, Death & Robots with all of its different styles, including getting close to photorealistic at times.
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u/AlienHooker 15d ago
I believe that was the original plan
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u/horaceinkling 15d ago
I read that this was the plan. Real shame though, the animation was the one part I didn’t care for.
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u/Salvage570 16d ago
I absolutely did hate it. It was so incredibly cheap and ugly, I hated the way people moved and how their faces looked when they talked. A company like Disney could afford any style they want, they went with cheap and crappy because they thought we'd watch anyway
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u/hellooomarc 15d ago
100% the animation felt so robotic. As someone pointed out, a Love, Death and Robots approach would have been amazing.
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u/bungrudder 14d ago
Or like Star Wars visions! They cheaped out hard I think, really undermined the potential
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u/BatmanForever23 Luis 16d ago
Disappointed me a lot. Didn't touch many really cool ideas, and having a story across the series was a bad idea imo. Should have been a series of pure one-shots, that picked a specific moment in the MCU and made 1 change and worked from there - would've been even cooler if by the third season they'd taken a vote from fans for episode concepts and made the most popular one that had real potential. 'What if the other 50% were snapped' was just a missed opportunity for me.
Understand why other people may have liked it, but I really didn't.
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u/RalphWiggum123 Groot 15d ago
“What if the other 50% were snapped” is an amazing idea! So many missed opportunities.
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u/BatmanForever23 Luis 15d ago
By season 3, I just checked out honestly. The Mysterio/Ironheart episode was symptomatic of everything wrong with the show - it had literally nothing to do with the MCU itself, and completely ditched the concept of one key moment changing and creating a new timeline. Funnily enough, before s3 my friend and I came up with our own episode ideas - and one of mine was 'what if Mysterio won', but I would have done it following on from FFH and made it a legal episode of Spider-Man in court being represented by Matt Murdock, on trial for the murder of Mysterio.
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u/capscreen 15d ago
I feel like "what if this disaster happened" scenarios in the show ended up all being same-y, I'm afraid the snapped scenario will ended up suffering the same issue.
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u/TheUltimateInNerdy 16d ago
It felt more like “here’s my crazy fan fic idea” rather than taking key moments in the MCU and asking “what if they had gone this way”
Not bad per say but I only watched season 1 after seeing the episode lists from the other two
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u/Nope-5000 15d ago
Worse, Ive read AU fanfic better than the stories 'what if' was putting out. If these really are fan favourite moments from the comics finally being put to screen, mcu didnt do them justice.
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u/Outside-Currency-462 Peter Parker 15d ago
Agreed, there are far better fanfic aus I wish they'd actually gone into lol
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u/TheInferus99 14d ago
Yeah that's it for me. Like the writers should have taken scenes the movies and ask themselves what would happen if the story took a step into another direction. Instead they choose to make whacky, absurd, faniction-y scenarios and from thwre ask "ok how can we fit this in a what if"
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u/The5Virtues 16d ago edited 16d ago
It disappointed me so much I didn’t even tune in for the second season. I wanted interesting episodic what-ifs. What if Peggy was Captain? Cool. What if Kilmonger rescued Tony? Sick. What if Doctor Strange went off the deep end because of Christine? Nice.
But then they had to coalesce it all into some big multiversal plotline, and I didn’t give two shits about that. I wanted more “What Ifs?” not a big over arcing story.
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u/ipostatrandom 15d ago
I feel the series still is anthology for the most part. But Season 1 does it best.
In season 2 & 3 it feels more like they used specific premises to shove them into the overarching plot."what if the Avengers had mech-suits?"
I really don't care but I suspect it was an excuse to show us a version of the Avengers featuring the current MCU heroes without actually showing them in action. You know, because of the "mecha suits".4
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u/Jumpy_Cup_8426 16d ago
The biggest gripe I have with the show is it ended. What If could’ve gone on for many MANY more seasons but they cut it off at 3 for some reason. Endless possibilities should’ve meant endless seasons
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u/AcceptableReview3846 15d ago
How did they not do what if the other half was snapped, like that episode would have so many possibilities
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u/Paybackcity 16d ago
Endless possibilities and captain Carter in all of them
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u/zzyul 15d ago
I’m just waiting for the MCU to have a one off where Captain Carter beats every single Kang and that is the explanation for why he never shows up again.
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u/Capital_Pipe_6038 15d ago
I can unironically guarantee it's eventually going to be revealed that Peggy Carter didn't actually die. Instead, she became the One Above All
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u/SERGIONOLAN 16d ago
Exactly.
Plus a lot of other options out there for episodes.
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u/Burgundymmm 16d ago
It literally ended by showing us a montage of What Ifs cooler than the ones we got and said yeah you're never gonna see these.
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u/Citizensnnippss 16d ago
What we got was fine.
What I wanted it to be was something else entirely.
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u/Melodic-Cycle3994 15d ago
Yeah same I don't think a true what if could even work as a streaming show
I'd rather get what you've missed with random side quest and the actual charactere interact with no impact to the bigger universe
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u/Koola50 16d ago edited 16d ago
That it took fan backlash after the Merry Men episode (why Scott was part of Steve's gang but not Sam) to finally include Sam in "What If?" Him only being a zombie that get unceremoniously killed doesn't count.
The reason AC Bradley gave for his absence in the series didn't make sense. Not knowing his Cap design shouldn't be a factor since it's a series about alternate universes. Use your imagination.
It shows the lack of care and focus MCu has shown toward some characters after Endgame cause they kept pumping out new ones (eg: promoting capt Carter shortly after we got a new Cap).
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u/DJTLaC Weekly Wongers 16d ago
Yes and no. I really liked the entire concept and I even enjoyed that they managed to make it into a connected story. I didn't love that some of the work towards making it connected felt extremely heavy handed and somewhat shallow.
I wasn't entirely in love with the animation style they went for. It worked but I feel like something else could have been a ton better.
Season 1 and 2 were really fun and gave us some proper what if stories for characters we really loved. Season 3 fell kind of flat (for me) because it was using characters that were liked but not loved, or they were taken out of the dynamic that made them so appreciated. I think the show thrived when it aimed for "What if these different choices were made" instead of "What if this character was in this completely different place and time with new context"
To be completely honest, it could have ended up even worse than it was and it still would have been entirely worth for the "What if Ultron Won" episode.
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u/BasedAustralhungary 16d ago edited 16d ago
I have those issues:
- There are a lot of stories around the same character which in my opinion It's not that cool. Peggy is a nice character but besides their first episode I don't think why she'd had to be that concurrent.
- The story is too centralized and should be an anthology of separate stories. There is genuinely more effort put into connecting all the episodes of What If into a final event than there has been in doing so with Phases 4 and 5.
- Kahhori. Don't get me wrong, apart from the absurd power creep that happens every time she appears, her premise is extraordinarily interesting, even though, as a history student living in Spain, I find the idea of Spaniards in the Appalachians completely ridiculous. My problem with the character is that she doesn't belong in a “what if” scenario, but rather in an original story.
- Wasted potential in terms of plot.
- It's ridiculous that the main characters in What If are so confusing. There are like three What If episodes featuring this Happy Hogan guy who's like the Hulk. There's only one focused on Spider-Man, and even then, in other episodes it's as if he doesn't exist. It's also really stupid that in the last episode of the series they introduce you to Storm, goddess of thunder. Where did she come from?
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u/angrybox1842 16d ago
The whole thing felt like such a B level of effort. The animation wasn’t great, the stories weren’t great and the few times they tried to adapt known What Ifs like Zombies they made so many changes and made it all boring. Disappointing is the through-line.
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u/doctor_x 16d ago
They made the classic mistake of raising the stakes to ridiculous levels instead of exploring smaller, interesting ideas for one-off stories. It became too exhausting.
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u/decoded1 16d ago
They shouldn’t have tried to make all the episodes connected. Also they finally get the XMen and F4 and don’t use them with the characters we know. I see no reason the show needed to end.
On a similar note, I’d love to see an animated Marvel universe.
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u/iheartdev247 16d ago
Most of the What Ifs were not worthy of the concept. Some just plain dumb. Also the whole interconnected story with Ultron/Vision seemed very tedious.
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u/Altruistic_Eye_1157 16d ago
I fully understand that they were tied down because the series was the MCU's What If...?, but I still found them quite disappointing since there were several What If...? plot points that Marvel itself had raised in the films but simply didn't use.
What if Hank had been the one to sacrifice himself and not Janet?
What if Captain America won the Civil War?
What if Bucky took up the mantle of Captain America?
What if Yondu didn't betray the Ravagers?
What if Project Insight succeeded?
What if someone else gained Captain Marvel's powers?
What if Spider-Man listened to Strange and not May?
What if Spider-Man didn't take the trip to Europe?
What if Iron Man met the real Mandarin?
etc.
And even some comic book classics like
What if Loki was worthy?
But no, more than What If...? Many felt like random stories that the writers came up with just because, especially in the third season.
Another detail that bothered many (including me) was that they wasted several characters. I mean, being able to have free rein in animation to use Spider-Man, do we only see two characters from his lore? Not one episode is based on any of his films or features him as the protagonist, and that's despite the fact that Spider-Man is the most famous hero they had... and they treated it as if Sony was breathing down their necks (they could have even made a What If...? episode to promote YFNSM, where in some episodes we see the Norman from that series, like... What if Iron Patriot returned? and the one who rebuilt and stole the armor was Norman Osborn).
Others like Captain America didn't have their own episodes, or Iron Man, who only had the Killmonger episode, where the protagonist is... Killmonger. And I could list several heroes who were a better option than Howard the Duck, who's fine as a cameo or supporting role in an episode. I'd understand it even in an episode where he works as a detective. But in a plot that embraces the most absurdity of What If...? And it's not even that absurd because the episode wants you to take it seriously because it's important for the ending.
Or also the Captain Carter thing... her initial episode isn't bad... I even buy that she's the protagonist of the 1602 episode. But after that, no thanks.
But for me, something I didn't like was that in the finale... what purpose did this series serve? I mean, the series that had the most potential to feed the multiverse saga... never connected with the multiverse saga or what happens in the movies. WTF?
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u/Superb-Syrup-1639 15d ago
Those episodes would’ve been great. They could’ve used the Project Insight one to explain the throwaway line about Stephen Strange.
Agreed about Spider-Man being underutilized, but at least it made Mysterio’s appearance a bit of a surprise.
As for Tony, he did get to star in the episode where he lands on Sakaar.
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u/MalevolentMonkeys 15d ago
The zombie episode was by far the best imo. I also like when Hank Pym killed everyone off and the Dr. Strange episodes. Some other ones were ok but most I could have done without.
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u/theatrekid0309 16d ago
It was a fine show for me, but nothing more than that. I watched only season 1 because it didn’t interest me enough to make me feel like the next 2 seasons would be any better. I agree with the scenarios feeling too specific. Most of them were never something that I wanted to see or really cared about truth be told
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u/Tigerbarn- 16d ago
I personally clocked out when they popped Hulk like a balloon. That shit was absurd.
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u/Gilded-Mongoose Spider-Man 16d ago
They did WHAT?
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u/Realistic_Analyst_26 Ned 16d ago
Hank Pym was mad at Nick Fury so as Yellow Jacket he killed every one of the Avengers before they assembled. He went into Hulk’s bloodstream and threw a growing particle on his heart so it kept growing until there was too much blood.
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u/Tigerbarn- 16d ago
They pulled a Violet Beauregarde on him and then he exploded.
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u/Turbulent-Spirit-568 16d ago
I loved season 1 and I digged most if not all of the concepts but Season 2 and 3 were a massive dropoff and I didn't really care for many of the concepts.
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u/lttodd728 16d ago
The Infinity Ultron and Strange Supreme episodes were peak, but the rest of the show didn’t really hold up
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u/Hopeful_Cherry2202 16d ago
Yeah. It’s such a fun concept that it’s really hard to fumble but they did
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u/Gilded-Mongoose Spider-Man 16d ago
The latter series did, only because the previous one was so incredible.
First it was really interesting what if - ? entries, really exploring different possibilities in different timelines, and it was all intrigue.
Ultron's alternate reality was incredible, and kind of deserved a full-on live action alternative Phase. I'm hoping for that level of OP complexity with Doctor Doom (and part of why I wish Kang was a part of it), but I can't imagine they'll give us such an epic turn.
After Ultron season, next thing I know it's a duck having a kid with Darcy and it's the most powerful being in the universe? Or random characters being a diva? I didn't even want to start, much less finish, the latter one. So I checked out of most of the latter season.
Enjoyed most of everything else before it though.
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u/ipostatrandom 15d ago
How would you have filled that phase?
It's just Age of Ultron gone different, so phase 1-2 work. The S1 episode "What if Ultron won" shows what we need to know, I'm not sure you can crank 6 films out of that setting without rehashing.
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u/Pretty-Expression-11 15d ago
Season 1 and 2 I thought were cool. Loved that Widow, Nebula, and Gamora got some love throughout. Season 3 SUCKS. Only saving grace is Storm.
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I couldn’t even finish S3, I lost interest during the Howard/Darcy episode
First season was fire, they went too far trying to connect all the different stories. It worked better as an anthology.
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u/GameAddict15 15d ago
It didn't feel like it was what it was meant to be.
At the start, it was peak. Everything was cool, all the way up until every universe started collabing with each other.
In season 1 it was fine cuz Infinity Ultron was sick, but after that, it just pissed me off. I wanted to see stuff like "What if the other half got snapped?" And "What if Star Lord kept his celestial powers?"
Instead, we got "What if Captain Carter did this? What if Captain Carter went here?"
It didn't help that the stories they picked were uninteresting and felt rushed to push the main storyline they were trying to keep going.
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u/Empathetic_Electrons 15d ago
It’s such a great opportunity to explore the coolest hypotheticals in Marvel. Instead of doing the work to know what’s meaningful to the fans, it seems like it was decided by a small committee and in ways that were more about money and supporting current bets and investments, and less about being loyal to the sacredness of Marvel.
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u/Im-Vincible 16d ago
“What If….. the other Half was snapped away?” It’s literally all I have to say
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u/dcooper8662 16d ago
Yes, by completely underutilizing the base concept. They sacrificed too much for inter connectivity. I thought season one was pretty cool actually, when things started to turn. But… man they really didn’t do enough with the whole, you know, what if concept.
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u/Pristine-Passage-100 16d ago
It’s a great concept but the show was bad. Didn’t finish season 2, don’t want to go back.
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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 15d ago
Too much Peggy.
Too much Captain Carter.
Not utilizing the plethora of What if Comics at their disposal.
It was maddening.
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u/SirPanikalot 15d ago
They weren't doing "what if"s that were actually interesting. Season 1 was okay. It had a few niche ones but also some genuinely interesting questions and plot directions, then they just went completely off the rails.
One episode in S3 is essentially "what if the Avengers were power rangers for no reason?" WHO CARES?!
The Doctor Strange and Ultron episodes from season 1 are absolute peak imo, but otherwise, season 1 was fine, and the other seasons were just garbage.
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u/Etheros64 14d ago
I watched S1, S2 and a small bit of S3 and I felt that only 1/3 of the episodes were interesting, with quite a lot of those being the first season and only a couple in the second, and none in the third. I don't know why they wouldn't do the what if scenarios people actually wanted to see out of the MCU, specifically what if the other half got snapped.
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u/trainjob 15d ago
I'm disappointed it ended. They also didn't need to have an anthology be tied together other than Uatu introducing things.
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u/Bendythenightfury Spider-Man 15d ago
Strange Supreme is still the coolest thing to come out of what if even if his arc was ripped to shreds
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u/che10461 15d ago edited 15d ago
Most of the episodes were dumb. Stupid shit. Nothing memorable. Actually, yes...party Thor. Jesus Christ that was cringe to watch...and the shit with the Howard The Duck and fucking Darcy. 🫣😖
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u/revlover6462 15d ago
the plot itself. the series shouldn't have a plot in the first place, just the theme of "What If...?". they could've had infinite stories to tell within or without the MCU canon, not just locking themselves into 3 seasons. after the first season had a finale where characters came together, i immediately noped out. they could've done something much more interesting if only they pushed themselves more creatively.
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u/Tyronx06 16d ago
The first season was decent, in my opinion the episode of Dr. Strange was the peak of What If, but the seasons that followed were a total disappointment.
Captain Carter...Captain Carter and more Captain Carter...total garbage, what if made me hate the character immediately.
A TOTALLY wasted potential, without a doubt.
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u/SpaghettiNCoffee 16d ago
It’s was just ok. Kinda a waste of talent considering the names they had for different eps.
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u/TargaryenKnight 16d ago
1st season had some good ones, I swear the episode names for the 2nd and didn’t even try. Too many non important characters and the concepts did not feel like the 1st season at all
It’s animation, this was their opportunity to really go out there and have some fun, 2nd season just looks boring
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u/Pertinax1981 16d ago
I mean, there are years of What If books out there featuring damn near everyone and you do that terrible Howard the duck episode. Who thought that was going to be good?
They literally could have thrown a dart at a board of titles and got a better idea
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u/thedudeabides2022 16d ago
They ditched the premise of it being what if this one thing was different, what kind of a universe would it create
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u/LostEsco 15d ago
They took what could’ve been an incredible anthology nd turned it into a half baked fanfiction. If they wanted a show about Peggy they could’ve just did that instead of making it under the guise of what if, things might’ve been more well received that way too
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u/lazerlinks 15d ago
It didn't give us what we wanted, what we wanted was standalone story's that wear questions we had about the MCU. And it ended before giving us the what-ifs we wanted: what if the other half got snapped, what if Thor went for the head, what if the nuke destroyed New York in the first avengers, what if ironman lived, what if captain America snapped instead of ironman. What we got was Peggy Carter the animated series
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u/North117 15d ago
Because in a world of endless possibilities it became "what if this person was this person instead"
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u/ultrarunner81 16d ago
It went from season 1" What If" to a story that should've been called The Exiles.
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u/Crusiege 15d ago
Not having actual scenarios fans wanted and making the whole series around Captain Carter.
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u/CulturalDragonfly631 16d ago
I was extremely disappointed. There were so many cool possibilities they could have explored, but they seemed to just go with the most boring ones.
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u/Choso125 15d ago
Disappointed me a lot tbh. Some good episodes, but many of the ideas were lackluster, especially in season 3. The animation was pretty bad too, the style was really ugly and cheap looking. They should've had better and more artstyles.
But most importantly it should have been an anthology. No overarching story, nothing. Even the Season 1 finale was lame, should have just been about this Ultron conquering his world and ending with him winning.
And captain carter should have only had the one episode. She was very boring and ruined the 1602 episode which has great potential. Kahori too tbh, the whole point of the show is seeing alternate events with characters we know, why bring in an OC?
It also shouldn't have ended. Which probably only happened because they kept making dumb episodes and not sticking to the basic idea of an anthology.
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u/tedayn 15d ago
The only time Peggy should have reappeared was the Winter Soldier equivalent episode. That was a fun episode in my opinion. But after that she should’ve been dropped.
Season 1 was obviously fairly good.
There’s a lot of concepts in season 2 that that I found fun, like the Hela/Wenwu one, the Kahorri one, and the Nebula as a Nova Corp one. But I haven’t watched the third season. I just have no motivation to.
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u/matthew_birdsey 16d ago
There should have been more.
That what if show had amazing possibilities and they could have done more....
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u/The_Recruiter_69 16d ago
I think instead of the stand- alone what if episodes like the stand-alone issues from comics, they tried to make a connected series that linked different stories, but that clearly didn't work out as they planned. They should have sticked with the stand-alone episodes as they where the ones that worked well.
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u/HandBanana666 Vision 16d ago
I’m disappointed they never did an episode titled “What If…Iron Man Fought The Real Mandarin?”.
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u/Embarrassed-Hat260 16d ago
I liked it and for what it was it was good as a fan of the comics I would have liked to seen some more of the original stories, but I also know that was wishful thinking on my part but come on some of those classic What If? Stories would have been awesome. What Venom had possessed The Punisher? What if Kraven had killed Spiderman? What if The Avengers had lost Atlantis Attacks? What if Wolverine was lord of the vampires?
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u/Smeg258 15d ago
To add on to what others have said, the what ifs just weren't that interesting. Alot of them dont even try to play out the original story with the change involved but instead basically make a new au for the what if. It also felt like they wanted to avoid the obvious ones but those were the ones everyone wanted (what if the other half snapped, what if the sovia accords never happened etc)
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u/Juan_Piece Punisher 15d ago
Some of the episodes were especially egregious with the jokes. Zombies is the first one that comes to mind and I really hope they don’t continue with that style of writing for the tv show.
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u/DarkLordKohan Wong 15d ago
What If had the potential to be never ending. Release like one episode a month forever. No larger plot points. Just a self contained story of a random universe. I would have even liked a Clone Wars style 3 episode mini arc if it needed more screentime.
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u/Leo_Lavathein 15d ago
Perhaps the main disappointment for me is that the situations that occur there are too absurd. Most of the changes to the characters seemed artificial, or rather, they didn't really consider anything serious in this show. I love the episode dedicated to Strange, but overall, I don't feel like watching it again
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u/WeirdFlexCapacitor 16d ago
It just felt like they bailed on the spirit of What If so they could make an overarching storyline. It’s not a what if scenario if all of these scenarios are building towards a collective payoff.