WHAT IF...? (SPOILER TALK)

[odessasteps]

19 minutes ago, Casey said:

Captain America's shield is on the very far left when his weapons box thing opens up

And Mjolnir was in there too.

[Fighting a man with a perm]

I now want a Jason Mantzoukas Howard the Duck Disney+ series thank you very much

[The Natural]

[Brandon Bones]

A better pace this week.  So while the episode was swift it never seemed too fast.  Loved the cool twists on familiar characters.  
 

What could have been for poor Nebula.

[The Natural]

[Ace]

On 8/11/2021 at 6:53 AM, Matt D said:

There’s money in Carter if they find a way to continue to use her.

Do an Exiles show. I absolutely wanted more of Captain Peggy and the Iron Steve.

 

[Eivion]

This was a tremendous episode. Loved all the changes and getting to see more of Howard and Cosmo. Korath was a wonderful goof, and it was awesome seeing Thanos so differently than any version of himself in comics and elsewhere. I can't see them managing a better one though I'm still curious to see what they have in store for us.

Edited August 20, 2021 by Eivion

[odessasteps]

Nebula as Veronica Lake was pretty great. 

[TheVileOne]

On 8/18/2021 at 1:07 AM, odessasteps said:

True, and I'd rather see Nebula than Gamorra if I had to pick between the two. And we could have had Rocket instead of Howard, but again, I'm fine with the choices they made. 

Well, Peter Quill and Ego still appeared. 

Edited August 20, 2021 by TheVileOne

[JonnyLaw]

The AV Club compared the What If? Thanos to Jerry Gergich, which is perfect.

[Eoae]

On 8/18/2021 at 1:54 PM, The Natural said:

I had no idea I wanted stories about Thanos' wacky college hijinks until just now.

[Casey]

I thought for sure going into this episode that it'd be a HYDRA takeover with Coulson leading the charge, and then towards the end of the episode I thought it was the Wasp doing everything. But, Hank Pym aka Yellowjacket as a serial killer is certainly WTF material, but it oddly works. Especially with his appearance here.

Oh, and I like that all it took to kill Thor was a fucking arrow, though. I wish they would have showed what a potential Avengers team would have looked like in Phase 1 without Black Widow, Hulk, Iron Man, Hawkeye and Hulk around. Got a glimpse of it at the end with Fury at Steve Rogers' crash site, and Captain Marvel showing up.

[Eoae]

3 hours ago, Casey said:

Hank Pym aka Yellowjacket as a serial killer is certainly WTF material, but it oddly works. Especially with his appearance here.

It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me, given that every characterization of Hank since the 1980's has played up Hank's mental problems.  I'm a little surprised the Ultimates version of Henry Pym didn't go harder in that direction.

[odessasteps]

At some point, i thought it might be Wanda and Pietro. 
 

at the end, i thought they might revisit the Captain Carter ending and this would be the same world, just now from Furys POV. 
 

it was in the spirit of What If with a high body count. 

[odessasteps]

As one of the Silver Age Hank Pym fans here, this heel turn at least made sense, so won’t be as aggravating as some of the things done to his character. At least he didn’t hit his wife.

[Bustronaut]

That final fight was right out of a Venture Bros. episode.  Great stuff.

[JonnyLaw]

13 hours ago, odessasteps said:

at the end, i thought they might revisit the Captain Carter ending and this would be the same world, just now from Furys POV. 

Same here. I still wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

[odessasteps]

15 minutes ago, JonnyLaw said:

Same here. I still wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

The only problem is Hawkeye is with Fury when Carter comes out of the portal. I went back to check, since i had thought it was Coulson. 

Edited August 26, 2021 by odessasteps

[Eivion]

This felt like the most What If? of any of the episode so far with the high body count and "bad" ending. I thought maybe it was an early Hydra takeover, but I dug it turning out to be Pym. I dug it though T'Challa as Starlord still is no. 1.

[Bustronaut]

It was nice to hear Clark Gregg again.  Such a big part of Phase 1, then nothing until Captain Marvel.

[Matt D]

2 hours ago, Bustronaut said:

It was nice to hear Clark Gregg again.  Such a big part of Phase 1, then nothing until Captain Marvel.

[JonnyLaw]

18 hours ago, odessasteps said:

The only problem is Hawkeye is with Fury when Carter comes out of the portal. I went back to check, since i had thought it was Coulson. 

Damn, I also thought it was Coulson.

[odessasteps]

7 hours ago, Matt D said:

Him and Dutch van der Linde 

[Ace]

Lake Bell does a really good Scarlett Johansson.

[Technico Support]

Is there any reasoning to which actors did VO work vs which stuff was done by impersonators?  Just general contact weirdness, I suppose?  Because on one hand, I'm thinking "well of course they wouldn't pay Dave Batista for a one minute cameo."  But then, in the same episode, Kurt Russell comes in for just one line.