New Details on Marvel's WHAT IF...? Season 2 Including Characters and Stories
Marvel Studios has got a second season of the animated series What If…? coming and during a recent panel at Comic-Con we got a few bits of new details to share with you on what to expect. They also announced that we are getting a Season 3! For the most part, I enjoyed the first season of the anthology series, which tells the wild stories of Marvel characters from the MCU in alternate universes.
During the panel, we learned some new details on what we can expect from the series in terms of the characters that will be involved and the stories that will be told.
There will be an episode that revovles around Hela.
Captain Carter will meet The Winter Soldier.
We’ll see Odin face off with The Mandaron.
Tony Stark will be on Sakaar with Valkyrie and Hulk and it will include a race scene.
There was footage shown of Black Widow, Captain Carter, and Hydra Stomper Steve moving through a town that is filled with robots that look like humans from the ‘60s era.
Other characters involved include Gamora, Yondu, a young Peter Parker, Korg, Red Guardian, Ego, Shang-Chi, and The Grandmaster, who was shown winking at a statue of himself.
We’re also going to see Thanos and Captain America face off again, and then there’s Bucky who will be helping Red Guardian.
It also looks like there will be an episode that’s set in 1602.
It was also revelaed during the panel that the version of Captain Carter we see get murdered in Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse of Madness is not the same version from What If...?. Executive producer Bryan Andrews said, "I think it's important to point out, that's not our Captain Carter. Brad Winderbaum added, "That's some variant version. Our Captain Carter wouldn't have gone down like that."
What If...? writer A.C. Bradley also said that the missing Gamora episode from Season1 will appear as a prequel episode in Season 2. When asked if we would see Gamora in the series Bradley said, "We definitely will. What happened with the Gamora episode, there was originally supposed to be — early on in the season — a Tony and Gamora-centric episode. However, due to COVID and production delays, one of our amazing, amazing animation houses around the globe got hit pretty hard by the pandemic. And we were left with two choices: push the entire season to later this year, or push this one episode to Season 2. We made the choice to push that episode to Season 2, and hoped that seeing Gamora in the finale serves as a teaser for what is to come. In season two, it'll almost be like a little bit of a prequel, we'll see how Tony and Gamora became friends, because those two don't even interact in the main MCU universe."
What If...? Season 2 will premiere in early 2023. Excited!?