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Hypothetical set-up for “What If...?” season 2:

Episode 1: What if…Gamora killed Thanos?

This was the episode meant for season 1 but had to be moved to season 2 due to production problems. This episode is not meant to be followed-up on, so think of this as a filler. 

Episode 2: Return of Captain Carter

Follow-up to Captain Carter and Black Widow finding the HYDRA Stomper, which has Steve Rogers inside.

Post-credits: The Watcher is brought in to the High Council for breaking his non-intervention oath. 

Episode 3: What if…the Watcher was put on trial?

Uatu is put on trial by the High Council for breaking his oath. Despite acknowledging the threat to the multiverse, Uatu is found guilty on all counts and is subsequently imprisoned.

Aron the Rogue Watcher (voiced by John Boyega), Uatu’s estranged nephew, takes over as narrator. The main difference with Aron is that he’s rooting for the traditional bad guys to win in the story. 

Episode 4: What if…Odin sent Mjolnir to China instead of New Mexico?

Thor comes across Xu Wenwu, who kills him with the ten rings since he was trespassing on the Ten Rings’ territory. With Thor gone, Loki launches an invasion of Earth. Nick Fury then recruits Wenwu to the Avengers, arguing that since Wenwu started the war with the Asgardians, he has to help SHIELD finish it. The 2012 Avengers movie then happens, but with Wenwu in Thor’s place. 

The ending: In the present day, an adult Shang-Chi ends up proving that he’s worthy, but uses the power of Mjolnir to take the Ten Rings down.

Episode 5: What if…Ultron sided with the Avengers?

Instead of becoming a genocidal mass murderer, Ultron turns out exactly the way Tony intended for him; a robotic shield around Earth. This time, when Thanos launches his invasion of Earth, Ultron is able to repel his forces, thus ending Infinity War before the Snap could occur. 

The ending: Ultron develops Jocasta in secret, indicating that it could still turn evil even in this timeline. 

Episode 6: What if…Wanda Maximoff was a Widow?

Instead of joining HYDRA, Wanda Maximoff is recruited by the Red Room and becomes the Scarlet Widow. Pietro Maximoff is also recruited, but becomes a Winter Soldier. Unfortunately, under General Dreykov’s control, Wanda and Pietro manage to take out Natasha and Yelena before they are able to free all the Widows from Dreykov’s control.

The ending: Wanda’s power keeps on growing, implying that she’ll eventually break free from Dreykov’s control, meaning not all hope is lost. 

Episode 7: What if…Sam Wilson pursued a career in music instead of the Avengers?

As an obvious parody of “8 Mile”, Sam Wilson decides to enter the world of underground hip hop instead of becoming a soldier/superhero. Sam is known as “A-Falcon” and has to go up against all the members of the rap group known as the Trap-Smashers. 

So this time, Anthony Mackie is Eminem. Karli Morgenthau is the Papa Doc of the episode. 

The ending: Aron the Rogue Watcher is caught off-guard when this timeline is invaded by HYDRA, led by HYDRA Steve Rogers. 

Episode 8: What if…HYDRA won?

In this timeline, Steve Rogers grew up in Nazi Germany and was indoctrinated in Nazi ideals early on. He ends up volunteering for the super-soldier program and becomes known as “Captain Axis”. Thanks to him, the Axis Powers win WWII. 

But here’s the plot twist; it’s revealed that Aron was the one who gave multiverse-level technology to HYDRA. He wanted HYDRA Cap to be able to explore the multiverse in order to create a fake threat. Aron engineered this whole scheme so that he could swoop in and stop them without recruiting other heroes, thus becoming famous among the Watchers and making Uatu look like an idiot for breaking his oath.

The ending: Uatu is let out of prison, having completed his sentence. He immediately sets out to find his nephew, worried that he may have done something wrong.

Episode 9: What if…the Watcher fought the Watcher?

Aron the Rogue Watcher wipes out HYDRA Cap and his army early on without having to reassemble the Guardians of the Multiverse, thus making him a hero in the Watcher community. However, Uatu sees otherwise. Uatu confronts him about fabricating the whole situation by pointing out that HYDRA somehow created multiverse-level portals during WWII. Aron pushes back on the accusations, leading to Uatu versus Aron as the season’s final battle.

As a plot twist, Uatu loses to Aron. Aron ends up trapping Uatu in some fucked up alternate timeline and is even praised for taking out the “intervenor” (this is to emphasize just how devoted Watcher society is to their oath of non-intervention). Season 2 ends with the cliffhanger of Aron being praised by the Watcher society and Uatu not sure what timeline/universe he’s been imprisoned in.

I’ve been wanting to redraw this scene from Doomsday Clock but with Party Thor and Jotun Loki for the longest time.

What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath?

Hell yeah!

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“What If… the Watcher Broke His Oath?”

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