The start of the top has arrived for Marvel Studios’ What If…? The animated collection that launched for Disney+ subscribers in 2021 has begun rolling out its remaining run, with a brand new episode premiering day by day between now and the launch of the large finale on Sunday, December 29. It is has frequently been a delight, giving Marvel Cinematic Universe followers a tour across the multiverse and providing a glimpse at what might need been had circumstances within the franchise been completely different – however simply because the collection is ending does not essentially imply that its presence within the canon is simply going to fade away.
Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios’ head of Streaming, Tv and Animation, lately sat down with Leisure Weekly to debate the ultimate season of What If…?, and proper off the bat he means that the present is concluding in direct correlation with the trajectory of the bigger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Earlier than too lengthy, audiences can be making ready to sit down down in theaters for the Multiverse Saga’s capstone movies Avengers: Doomsday (arriving in Could 2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (arriving in Could 2027), and the place the MCU’s first animated collection concludes evidently feeds into what’s being deliberate. Mentioned Winderbaum,
There are larger universe causes to culminate it now. Should you’re a fan of the general MCU, you may discover that the primary season premiered after Loki season 1, when the Sacred Timeline blossomed right into a multiverse and swiftly all these new tales emerged. That was once we began telling these tales in What If…?
There was a curiosity pertaining to the potential of What If…? crossing over into the live-action realm for the reason that debut of the animated present, and we nonetheless do not know if that is going to occur. That being stated, whereas it has lengthy appeared that the collection exists at an arm’s size from the remainder of the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline (given the completely different medium and tales set outdoors of the primary canon), it is intriguing to know that there’s a large image plan that includes it as a puzzle piece identical to the TVA-set collection Loki.
The place What If…? Season 3 ends is outwardly a pure conclusion for the streaming collection given the place issues at present stand within the MCU, and simply as the top of Loki Season 2 supplied conclusion for Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief, Brad Winderbaum means that it supplies some closure for the story of The Watcher (voiced by Jeffrey Wright). That being stated, he does not completely dismiss the thought of the animated present making a comeback sooner or later within the franchise’s future. He continued,
And on the finish of season 2, when the Watcher takes Peggy to look out on the multiverse, it is taken the type of the tree of tales that Loki sits in the midst of on the finish of Loki season 2. So the fruits of season 3 and of the collection itself does match into the general MCU tapestry in that approach. That being stated, there’s infinite tales to inform with What If…?, and time will inform whether or not we make extra. However for now it’s, I feel, a gorgeous solution to finish this period and to culminate the story of the Watcher.
On the time of this text’s publication, the primary three episodes of What If…? can be found to look at on Disney+ – the most recent journey titled “What If… The Pink Guardian Stopped the Winter Soldier?” As for what the longer term holds for the superhero franchise, you’ll be able to examine all the tasks at present within the works with our Upcoming Marvel Motion pictures and Upcoming Marvel TV guides.