Marvel has dropped the trailer for the third and closing season of its animated anthology sequence “What If…?” (December 22 on Disney+, with a brand new episode debuting day by day for eight days), spotlighting extra humor and spectacle. The alternate multiverse, led by a bunch of recent characters will get pushed to wacky extremes via the exploration of various genres.
One of many standouts is X-Males’s Storm because the self-proclaimed Goddess of Thunder who’s voiced by Alison Sealy-Smith, who additionally performed Storm in Disney+ sequence “X-Males ’97” (and on the unique Nineties “X-Males” cartoon sequence). She’s a little bit of a change of tempo from Howard the Duck (voiced by Seth Inexperienced), who’s again for a closing flight.
Different characters mutating their manner into Season 3 embrace Captain America/Sam Wilson, The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes, Hulk/Bruce Banner, The Purple Guardian, Captain Peggy Carter, Agatha Harkness, and Shang-Chi. Plus, Jeffrey Wright’s omniscient Watcher returns as narrator. There are hints of Purple Guardians and mechs, a Western and musical comedy.
Marvel Animation continues within the illustrative model borrowed from J.C. Leyendecker (“The Saturday Night Publish”), solely it’s bolder and extra colourful because it embraces the brand new genres and wider vary of tones.
The episodes are directed by Bryan Andrews and Stephan Franck and are written by Matthew Chauncey, Ryan Little, and A.C. Bradley. Government producers are Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, and Bryan Andrews, with co-executive producer Matthew Chauncey, and producers Danielle Costa, Carrie Wassenaar, and Alex Scharf.
The premise behind “What If…?” was to flip the multiverse on its head and go weirder and wilder than within the live-action movies. On the identical time, they have been experimenting with new methods of understanding these iconic Marvel characters. Right here it reaches new heights of trippy enjoyable and pleasure.
Among the highlights of Season 1 included Peggy Carter turning into the primary Captain America to battle the Nazis and Hydra, Black Panther turning into Star Lord and combating The Collector. Season 2 gave us The Avengers in 1602, Tony Stark operating into the Grandmaster, and Comfortable Hogan saving Christmas.
Watch the Season 3 trailer right here: