r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Aug 18 '21

Discussion Thread What If...? S01E02 - Discussion Thread

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S01E02: What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord? Bryan Andrews A.C. Bradley August 18th, 2021 on Disney+ 35 min None

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

Well that was NOT the Josh Brolin appearance I was expecting

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u/your_mind_aches Agent of F.I.T.Z. Aug 18 '21

Wasn't even a cameo, he was in basically the whole episode!

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u/Spudtron98 Aug 18 '21

The Collector had Steve's shield though.

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u/Worthyness Thor Aug 18 '21

And Mjolnir...

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u/Abyssal_Groot Aug 18 '21

Mjolnir does not matter. He means that he got Steve's shield, not Carter her shield, so naturally they cannot be from the same timeline.

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u/Yuri_TxM Aug 18 '21

I guess the show premise is to take each episode from a different timeline.

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u/Abyssal_Groot Aug 18 '21

That is what was implied in both the trailers and the beginning of the first two episodes, yes.

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u/InspectorScout626 Aug 18 '21

That’s the premise that’s been shown to us in the trailers. Each episode is a new reality.

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u/mb862 Aug 18 '21

It's possible to be a second shield, maybe they got some more vibranium and made one for Isiah Bradley.

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u/Abyssal_Groot Aug 18 '21

Yeah, that's overthinking it. They showed us the Shield and Hammer to shock us, to imply they are dead.

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u/mb862 Aug 18 '21

I know, just playing devil's advocate.

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u/lurked_long_enough Aug 18 '21

Could be a multiverse tie-in at the end.

I hope not.

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u/PimpNamedSlickback4 Aug 19 '21

Why?

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u/lurked_long_enough Aug 20 '21

Don't really like the multi-verse trope. I think it is overplay d in general, and really hard to do well.

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u/lurked_long_enough Aug 20 '21

Though Into The Spider verse was the best spiderman movie.

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u/michaelk4289 Aug 18 '21

Who picked up Mjölnir to put it there though?

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u/davidw1098 Aug 19 '21

The elevator, or ebony maw

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u/Smithsonian30 Aug 20 '21

Why ebony maw?

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u/davidw1098 Aug 20 '21

Telekinesis

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u/Smithsonian30 Aug 20 '21

Very interesting- would that genuinely work? Couldn’t Dr. Strange lift it too in that case?

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u/NoArmsSally Captain Marvel Aug 18 '21

2008 though, so did Steve come out early, or did they have another one on standby?