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Marvel's "What If...?" series has come to a close. An interesting look at what could have happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had things been slightly different, the series inspired a lot of fans with its invovative retellings of certain shows and films. It was a sleeper hit for Marvel, who saw it go three seasons before they pulled the plug. Due to its success, as limited as it was, some fans in other franchises want to see their own version.

Including, but not limited to Star Trek. There are fans who want to see Star Trek launch their own version of the show, tackling different scenarios in the multi-verse. The idea may have been Marvel's first, but the surge for this new concept to happen came after Star Trek: Lower Decks' 9th episode of season five. In the episode, 'Fissure Quest', various versions of Star Trek characters from across...

What If? executive producer Brad Winderbaum teased what Marvel fans can expect from the highly-anticipated next installment to Disney+s hit animated anthology series. It is based on the Marvel Comics classic comic book series about alternate timelines within the franchises multiverse, which was first published in 1977.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Winderbaum shared that What If? Season 3 will probably be the next one in line to receive a release date from Marvel Animations official slate, following the successful Season 1 finale of X-Men '97. He confirmed that production on the upcoming installment is nearing its completion, revealing that Season 3 will serve as a "culmination" of The Watchers story which began in Season 1. "What If...? Season 3 is that might be the one that comes out next, in terms of animation," Winderbaum said. "That is the culmination of a trilogy. We're actually close to completing that one, and it really feels like you've gone...

Captain Carter is portrayed as a powerful and positive hero in a world full of chaos and destruction in new explosive cosplay image. Featuring Brittany Noel (@brittanynoelcos) as Captain Carter, Pat Loika (@patloikaphotoworks) edits in the setting of World War III and showcases the character's dedication to saving lives. Captain Carter's popularity, especially in the What If...? series, is evident through this cosplay/digital art hybrid image, sparking inspiration for more cosplayers and artists to one-up these talented creators.

The alternate universe character named Captain Carter is a variant of Peggy Carter, who acts as her worlds version of Captain America, making Peggy one of the strongest, most influential, and most wholesome heroes in the sprawling multiverse that makes up Marvel Comics. Unfortunately for Peggy, World War III has broken out in her reality, with a new cosplay image showing Captain Carter fighting the good fight as the shining beacon...

This X-Men ’97 article contains spoilers.

The fifth episode of X-Men ’97 presents a major change in the status quo for mutankind, climaxing with an attack on the nation of Genosha and the deaths of several major characters. But the most consequential event may be what happens just before the attack begins.

The first half of “Remember It” plays like a reprieve for the X-Men, as they visit a radically different Genosha from the one they previously saw on X-Men: The Animated Series. Once an apartheid nation built on mutant oppression, Genosha has become a haven for mutants, allowing them to celebrate their culture. The climax of the celebration occurs in the Hellfire Gala, a ball designed to inaugurate Magneto and Rogue as the new leaders.

The party ends on a horrible note when the Master Mold arrives to wreak havoc. But just before his arrival, obscured by the fireworks in the sky,...

The following episode contains major spoilers for the final episode of What If...? season 2. In the final episode of What If...? season 2, Peggy Carter wields the Infinity Stones without suffering the same fate as Tony Stark. The explanation given is that the stones were surrounded by Kahhori's space stone power, which shielded Carter from "ultimate death." However, there are still inconsistencies in the use of Infinity Stones in the episode, raising questions about how the rules of the multiverse and the stones operate.

What If...? season 2 director Bryan Andrews explains how the Marvel Cinematic Universe broke its rules regarding Infinity Stones. In Avengers: Endgame, when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) uses the Infinity Stones to snap Thanos (Josh Brolin) out of existence, the radiation is so high that it ultimately kills him. However, in the finale of What If...? season 2, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) wields the Infinity Stones against Doctor...

An MCU fan suggests that Gorr the God Butcher should return in What If...? season 3 to go after Moon Knight and Khonshu, which would allow Gorr to finally kill gods onscreen. This scenario is a great fit for What If...? because it offers an alternate storyline and addresses previous MCU criticisms. Gorr's potential appearances in What If...? season 3 could include battles with characters like Hela, Loki, Dormammu, and Ego, offering a range of exciting possibilities.

Gorr the God Butcher has his perfect return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in What If...? pitched by a fan. Christian Bale's performance as Gorr the God Butcher was easily the best part of the tonal nightmare that was Thor: Love and Thunder, which was a major disappointment after the previous Thor film was easily one of the McU's best movies. Gorr died in the latest Thor movie after most of his "God Butchering" had been done off-screen,...

The second season of What If? has been dropped by Marvel Studios in a year that has seen both the rise and fall of the MCU. The final Guardians of the Galaxy and the second season of Loki were absolute triumphs, while the rest was pretty much a let down. I’m not even going to go into the Jonathan Major fiasco, but that must have hurt the MCU, and the future of this thing doesn’t look too bright. Considering all these, it was essential for Marvel to wrap up this year strong, and the good news is that What If? has been quite successful in doing that. With the anthology format, it was a given that some of the episodes would not be that good, while others might just be extraordinary. And that’s exactly how it went. We’re going to rank the new batch of episodes...

Marvel's What If...? is getting a creative shakeup ahead of its upcoming third season.

First premiering on Disney+ in 2021, What If...? was developed for the streaming platform by A.C. Bradley. After serving as head writer for the first two seasons, Bradley announced on X that she would not be a part of Season 3. She shared the sneak peek clip of Season 3 to comment that this was the last-ever script for the series that she had worked on. Bradley also said it was her decision to depart the series, feeling eager to pursue other opportunities outside of the Marvel umbrella.

Related What If...? Star Jeffrey Wright Addreses the Watcher's Evolution and 'Epic' Season 2 Finale Actor Jeffrey Wright says the Season 2 finale of Marvels What If? culminates all the alternate stories of the MCUs reimagined heroes and heroines. Last #WhatIf tweet! This ep is my absolute Favorite and marks my final What If script.

The ways in which the MCU wasted some prime opportunities are showcased via the way Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania portrayed the villain M.O.D.O.K., turning him into a comical caricature instead of a compelling supervillain. Quantumania also failed to establish Kang as a real threat, undermining his reputation and future role as the main villain. Secret Invasion and The Marvels also missed opportunities to expand characters' arcs and connect the overall franchise more cohesively and consistently.

2023 has been a pivotal year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there have been some missed opportunities. The MCU released three movies in 2023, along with the Secret Invasion television series, Loki season 2, and What If? season 2 in December. The year truly padded out the complete MCU timeline, proffering a series of critical events.

The MCU has seen some important developments in 2023. The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy concluded, retiring several...

Kahhori's hero's journey within the Marvel multiverse begins in a new What If...? season 2 clip.

Released by Collider, the clip sees the McU's newest superhero Kahhori (voiced by Reservation Dogs' Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs) greeted by a man named Atahraks (Jeremy White), who shows her his village and its Tesseract-powered inhabitants. This power, he explains, is intertwined with the land and can be channeled by those who consume parts of it, additionally revealing that Kahhori entered their world through a portal connected to a location she calls the "Forbidden Lake." Most notably, the entire conversation is spoken exclusively in Mohawk, a linguistic feat that, according to writer Ryan Little, was achieved through four years of close collaboration with the Mohawk Nation.

Related Marvel's What If...? Season 2 Sets Rotten Tomatoes Record for the MCU Marvel's What If...? Season 2 has set a record at Rotten Tomatoes following its debut on Disney+. Kahhori finds...

The Watcher doesn’t usually revisit a story from the multiverse because of the vastness of these alternative realities. But in Episode 5 of What If? season 2, the Watcher narrated the story of Peggy Carter, who became the super soldier Captain America, instead of Steve Rogers. In this parallel universe, Captain Peggy Carter once again crossed paths with her lover, Steve, whom she knew to have died in 1953. However, Steve turned out to be living inside the armor of a Hydra Stomper, under the control of someone more sinister and powerful. Let’s find out who was mind-controlling Steve to eliminate the Avengers.

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How Did Captain Carter Meet Hydra Stomper?

Episode 5 opened with the fight between the Avengers and Loki that we’ve previously seen in 2012’s movie, The Avengers. But instead of Captain Steve, there was Agent Carter, who was the Captain America of this universe. Captain Carter...

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The following contains spoilers for What If...? Season 2, Episode 1, "What If... Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?" now streaming on Disney+.

While the slew of Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Disney+ have left fans split down the middle, one property that was universally loved was the What If...? TV series. Loyalists loved seeing different takes on iconic characters, with T'Challa off with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Peggy Carter becoming Captain Carter in a different reality. These stories, along with the remix of Marvel Zombies, truly brought the energy of the alternate realities seen in Marvel Comics to life.

Now that What If...? Season 2 has debuted,...

Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine in live-action has made him synonymous with the character, even in other roles. In the film Van Helsing, Hugh Jackman's character kills Dracula in a brutal fight the exact same way Wolverine killed Dracula in an issue of What If?. The similarity between Wolverine and Van Helsing's fight scenes is accidental but notable, showcasing Hugh Jackman's influence on both characters.

Hugh Jackman is the only actor who has ever portrayed Wolverine in live-action, meaning - to many fans - he’s always ‘Wolverine’, no matter what other character he’s portraying at the time. Interestingly enough, sometimes the storyline of any given film Jackson stars in agrees with that fan-sentiment, whether it means to or not, as one scene in Van Helsing seemed to have accidentally adapted Wolverine’s most brutal fight.

Hugh Jackman played Gabriel Van Helsing in the 2004 film Van Helsing. In it,...

Marvel’s What If? Is back for a second series on Disney+ this December – and here’s the trailer to prove it…

What If? was a surprising, fun addition to the Marvel canon when it first landed on Disney+, perhaps because the sheer scale of storytelling possibilities is so huge.

Series one featured scenarios as wide ranging as Peggy Carter becoming the First Avenger and T’Challa becoming a Star Lord, to examining what might have happened if artificially-intelligent supervillain Ultron hadn’t been defeated by those pesky Avengers. It doesn’t look like the next run of the show will be pulling its punches either.

Promotion is underway for it now, and we now have a synopsis for the second series. It doesn’t tell us much, but nevertheless reads as follows:

Season 2 of Marvel Studios’ imaginative and captivating “What If…?” series continues the journey as The Watcher guides viewers again through the vast multiverse,...

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Loki has been on a journey. From would-be royal assassin and usurper, to attempted Earth conqueror, to redemption, to death, to that death turning out to be fake, to a second redemptive arc, to actual death, all the way back to attempted Earth conqueror again, and then, finally, along one last redemptive arc in season one of the Disney+ series, Loki.

But there is always a challenge when a character shifts from villain to antihero to straight-up hero. Part of Loki’s appeal has always been that he is a loveable bastard. So now that Loki has gone full hero, where is there for him to go next?

“Loki has clearly changed over the course of that first season, and he knows he’s changed,” says Kevin Wright, co-executive producer on Loki seasons one and two.

After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, many rival studios are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros-dc’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and Disney+/Marvel Studios’ avant-garde series What If?). Leave it to the guys who bedazzled many with the near half-billion grossing The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to revolutionize the family animated genre once again.

On today’s episode of Crew Call, we talk with the writers and producers of Across the Spider-Verse on one-upping the animated style from their first movie, the Oscar winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; juggling a slew of projects via their production shingle Lord Miller; their next live-action feature directorial; and their thoughts on what AMPTP needs to do to end this WGA strike.

Says Lord, “The thing to keep in mind which is simple to understand is that writers pay is down 25% and budgets are up and executive compensation is up. It’s not sustainable that way. I think a fair deal is absolutely within reach.”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse nabbed the best opening of summer to date at $120.6M stateside, the third-best-ever domestic opening for a Spider-Man film, with an overall global start of $209M.

You can listen to our chat below.

Throughout his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki has been portrayed as a diabolical villain, a reluctant hero, and everything in between. However, one side of Loki that has yet to be fully explored is his Frost Giant heritage. Like his comic counterpart, the McU's Loki was born to the Frost Giants as the son of King Laufey, adopted by Odin and raised in Asgard.

As an on-screen character, Loki has developed from a villain looking to take down his brother Thor to a time-jumping variant trying to capture another version of himself. Being the god of mischief has allowed him to display not only his high intellect but a whole host of magical powers including astral projection, energy blasts, and even teleportation. However, one thing MCU fans have yet to see is Loki's Frost Giant Powers.

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Disney’s presentation Thursday to its investors wasn’t just a rundown of how great things are for the company, now that its acquisition of Fox has been completed. It was the most illuminating glimpse yet into what it will mean to watch television in the not-too-distant future — a future ruled over by dedicated brand platforms, as opposed to that antiquated notion of “channels.”

Enter Disney+, which will be available in the Us November 12 for $6.99/mo ($69.99 a year). Confirmed to be an ad-free subscription model, the streaming service is poised to be the first major dedicated studio platform, bringing together the major Disney brands, including Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel, under one family-friendly umbrella. As Disney exec Kevin Mayer said, the plan is to draw upon the “deep emotional connection” that fans have with these properties.

A family-friendly approach is rumored to be the case for Apple+ original series as well.

The details of Avengers: Endgame have been kept extremely secret, but Marvel boss Kevin Feige gave Disney Investor Day a glimpse of the April 26-opening movie today.

“Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me,” says the Karen Gillian played Nebula to the members of the team that survived the snap from last year’s Infinity War that killed off half the Universe.

As Chris Evans’ Captain America, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Don Cheadle’s War Machine, and Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner plus the Bradley Cooper voiced Rocket Raccoon and newbie Captain Marvel, portrayed by Brie Larson listen, the clip goes on to see the adopted daughter of the Josh Brolin supervillian detail how they might be able to track down and snare Thanos in deceptively named “the garden.”

“That’s cute, Thanos has a retirement plan,” mocks Cheadle’s character, dismissing Nebula...

Cannes — Playing Official Competition at Canneseries, “Studio Tarara’ protagonist Ricki Boelsens, late 40s but with a hugely lived-in face, looks at himself in the mirror. There’s a poster of him as a young man starring in King Lear. Now he’s just checked out of hospital after a drink and cocaine bender at a party on studio comedy sketch show “Studio Tarara.” He can hardly remember his lines.

So is he the dead person who jumped or was pushed off the studio roof prompting the grainy bluish-noir nighttime scenes of shocked studio employees which begins every episode of the show?

Details of the victim’s identity are teased to the audience in Flemish series “Studio Tatara,” along with Ricki’s descent into hell as he’s replaced on the show by another actor, part of a more general spiral of self-destruction. Ricky’s addicted to alcohol and drugs – – fellow-comedian Sandra to sex.