What If...? is a new, animated Marvel Studios/Disney + series, based on the comic-book series of the same name. The show kicks off with "Captain Carter", Agent Peggy Carter, who became the First Avenger instead of Steve Rogers on some far-out, WWII parallel plane. (So that then means Captain Britain came first, since Carter is British. Wow!)
The nine-episode, anthology program will cover other Marvel variants, as well, including the Black Panther and Star-Lord (as one?); Yondu; Drax; Iron Man; Vision; Spider-man; the Hulk; Thor; Loki; Doctor Strange; Ant-Man (#1 & #2); the Wasp; Black Widow; Nick Fury; the Red Skull; Bucky Barnes; Thanos; the Collector; and the narrating Watcher (with others presently kept more-or-less concealed for the sake of Twilight Zone-ish surprise). A number of the characters will even be voiced by the actors who played them in the Avengers movies. For example, Hayley Atwell supplies Captain Carter's voice.
Marvel (along with DC) is playing up the alternate-universe angle to the live-action extreme. It's no surprise, then, that the gimmick would spill over into super-superior animation, even if Marvel has been slack in recent years with the medium. (DC has been kicking butt with it, of course.) All the same, What If...?'s success could hit high, leading to more feature-length, animated, Marvel/Disney+ movies.
The first What If...? installment can be viewed now, with another episode set for next week. Sure, one has to pay to view, but when the concept is this revolutionary, what's a few dollars more to get in on the speculative fun?
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