Amph "Ponder the Question" Marvel's 'What If...?' [Disney+]

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Oh. I missed/forgot that. I thought it was a particularly bulky member of the Groot race and eating/breathing in those spores caused him to grow uncontrollably.

 

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So that would mean that in this alt timeline, obviously Rogers is/was Captain America and that we shouldn't expect T'Challa Starlord to ever meet up with Captain Carter.

 

Looks at my previous post and yours. Falls off computer chair...dead.

Why?

“Bad date...”

Apologies to Sallah for screwing up his punchline to Indy.

 

So I have never watched guardians of the galaxy.

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yet this episode worked so much better than the last. Like so much better. I know the general plot of both the guardian movies but it’s because the plot diverges so much that I think it works way better

 

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What do you think is the word on Gamora? As I mentioned before, it's probably safe to assume that she never met Thanos in the first place; but does that mean that her overall story in that timeline is probably as insignificant as Rocket's, Groot's and Drax's is?

 

Yeah, literally everyone online I've seen has said "he needs to do more comedy VO work, like immediately"...

 

As I was saying about the biggest shock moment of the latest episode.

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After being pretty nonplussed by the first episode this second one was just fantastic. Obviously Chadwick's last ride was gonna be emotional, but it means quite a lot that it's an outing that has so much fun with the premise, his performance itself is winning and meaningful and there's so many great character moments for everyone involved here. With the trailer and the last episode I was worried that the voice acting wasn't going to work out but everyone in this ep brought it fully. Brolin having a great time being Thanos and Djimon Honsou are my highlights.

Stellar. When I heard "What if....T'Challa was Star Lord?" I thought it had little merit. I've never been happier to be wrong.

 

And no

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old Cap.

Though it looks like

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Ego will successfully recruit Peter

in this timeline.

 

Well, let's also be honest...

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Dead Cap, Thor, Hela, probably all of Asgard, etc. -- so we don't know what that means for Tony, Banner, Widow, etc...

 

Agree. I rewatched this today (the first MCU thing I've rewatched since The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,

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and I loved Djimon getting a chance to play a comedic foil. He was adorable.)

 

yah about the Collector and Ego

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I was wondering the Collector is clearly more powerful this time around, not just exaggerated animation but looks actually more powerful and his stash is huge. So there's basically two butterfly effects I can see here. Somehow non-mass killer Thanos means that it led to Collector getting all his gear and the Black Order, which they probably got a bunch of stuff for him. Or the other big butterfly effect I could see happening is Prime Peter Quill/Ravagers somehow stole a critical widget or effected something that meant that Collector didn't get the aforementioned critical widget and then became Uber-Collector. I'd like to think it's the latter, because Quill was "small, good for thieving."

this could basically be what the Collector wants to be overall, his stash and personal power so huge. But it was great to see his slave be the one who turns around on him in the end, in both realities she has some sort of final revenge but this one left her alive.

As for the very last scene, I think the Watcher straight up said it could mean the end of the world, any maybe a bunch of worlds, if Ego is able to turn Peter. Although you'd figure that Ego would have killed his mother in this timeline then Peter's reaction would still be the same "You shouldn't have killed my mom and squished my walkman!"

 

I've watched the first two episodes and while mostly plausible what ifs, I take issue with two things:

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1. The Army wouldn't have kept Rogers on if he didn't get the serum.
2. Thanos being a Ravager?

 

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Regarding the first one, didn't Stark fit Rogers up with the Hydra Stomper not long after they recovered the Tesseract? I guess it was some time after Peggy got the serum; but maybe the army kept Rogers on for his goodness? I'm not sure.

I can't speak for Thanos as a Ravager. Guess he saw the err of his ways and maybe though it would be....fun?

 

Thanos

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was convinced by T’Challa’s Robin Hood style concepts of the distribution of wealth and necessities not to go through with his plan. It emphasizes the immense goodness T’Challa embodies, and how he can influence almost anyone into doing things for the greater good. It’s a lovely What If...? that subverts T’Chaka’s grim outlook.

 

From comicbook.com via Screenrant, Kevin Feige says What If...? Season 2 will include

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Phase 4 movies. He also addresses the state of the Avengers right now.

 

Slightly altered CC Funko available at Gamestop (as an "exclusive). I'm thinking of getting it there as I already have a $5 off coupon.

 

Ok not quite as good as the first two but really what is, honestly now. This was a bit of classic What If style story and a good mystery.

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Murder mystery that is. Sometimes What If issues are basically "What If ____ Died" and this is like basically the entire Avenger roster. Starting with Nat killing Stark when he was injected. Also a whole lot of good lines and references to Phase 1 movies and we finally get Mark Ruffalo Incredible Hulk! And he exploded! Also super mega double spoilers

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Freaking Hank Pym Yellowjacket behind it! Goes to show yes the Ant-Man technology could be the most deadly weapon ever. Honestly I thought it was going to be Ghost but Pym killer Yellowknife yikes! And Loki/Fury taking him down was incredible. And then Loki took over Earth anyway!

 

Meh. Great to hear

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Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Renner, but this episode was not my cup of mead.

 

Yeah. I thought today's episode was a big, old ... "ok". SO, three episodes, and I'd call them "good", "great", and "fine". I do appreciate how

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the episodes have all been different in how they've handled the point of divergence. Captain Carter was a single point of change that then basically mirrored an entire movie, which worked for that story. Star-Lord T'Challa was an entirely new story born out of that point of divergence. And now the "who dun it to the Avengers" episode basically erases ... Phase 1.

I did think the episode had some high marks, though. For instance

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how they killed Hulk. Almost felt like a mini-nod to the "Ant-Man up the butt of Thanos" theory". And I like how Loki used the death of his brother as his lie to come to the planet and conquer it.

 

Not as interesting as the first two, IMO. The animation seemed a lot more stiff, not so dynamic in the action sequences. Still had some good lines, mostly repeats of old lines taken in a new context.