New Details on Hela's Story in Marvel's WHAT IF...? Season 2
Some new details have surfaced regarding the second season of Marvel’s animated series What If…? regarding the story that will focus on Hela.
Cate Blanchett is set to reprise her role as Hela for the series and it involves the villain acquiring a powerful new weapon. The episode she appears in is titled “What If… Hela Found The Ten Rings?,” which is obviously the Ten Rings from Marvel’s Shang-Chi martial arts movie.
As for how the story for Hela will play out, insider CWGST offered some insight on that, saying Hela will be "kicked out of Asgard like in Thor: Ragnarök. But instead of being imprisoned in Hel, she finds herself accepted by Ta-Lo and their inhabitants, learning their martial arts. Odin will invade and war between Asgard and Ta-Lo will break out. Hela’s armor will be all white instead of black and green."
That actually sounds like it will be a cool story and I’m curious to see how it will play out. It’s just a really interesting mashup of worlds and characters, which is why I’ve always enjoyed these Marvel What If…? stories, and it’s looking like Season 2 of the animated series is going to give us some good ones!
The list of titles of the episodes offer a tease of what the season will entail:
Episode 201: What If... Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?
Episode 202: What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?
Episode 203: What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?
Episode 204: What If... Hela found the Ten Rings?
Episode 205: What If... lron Man Crashed into the Grandmaster?
Episode 206: What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?
Episode 208: What If... Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?
Episode 209: What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?
Episode 210 : What If... Strange Supreme Intervened?
The synopsis was also previously released for What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World? and it reads: “What If…? asks what would happen if the Tesseract fell to Earth and landed in the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America. The Tesseract takes on a new life and a new mythology, transforming a lake into a gateway to the stars and leading Kahhori, a young Mohawk woman, on a quest to discover her power."
I’ve already seen some footage from the upcoming season of What If…? and I’m excited about what’s coming!