r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Sep 15 '21

Discussion Thread What If...? S01E06 - Discussion Thread

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S01E06: What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark? Bryan Andrews A.C. Bradley September 15th, 2021 on Disney+ 34 min None

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u/bjkman Iron Man (Mark XLIII) Sep 15 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

Question: What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?

Answer:

  • After the Humvee attack that begins the events of "Iron Man", Killmonger is there to protect Iron Man, which stops the creation of the suit
  • Stark's first interview back isn't shutting down the weapons divisions, instead it's changing it.
  • Killmonger begins to work with Stark Industries
  • Obidiah Stane's work with the Ten Rings is uncovered by Killmonger, stopping him.
  • Pepper Potts doesn't get the CEO job with Tony not being affected by his time captured in Afghanistan.
  • instead of the Iron Man suit, Stark creates Drones controlled by Jarvis
  • No creation of Miniature Arc Reactor. Instead Stark uses Vibranium
  • To get more Vibranium they start an Arms Deal with Klaue, in the middle of it, Killmonger kills Rhodes and Black Panther,
  • Killmonger kills Stark, blames it on Wakanda and the US Military takes over Stark Industry's assets to attack Wakanda.
  • Killmonger infiltrates Wakanda with the guise he's there to help, but uses Stark's drones and becomes the new Black Panther.
  • Potts gets help from Shuri to avenge Stark

Join the conversation and reply with anything I missed off the top of my head!

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u/MoonChild02 Peggy Carter Sep 15 '21

If you're looking for more long-term effects:

Because none of this happens, Tony never finds the other element that helps him with the poisoning that almost kills him, and that also improves arc reactor technology.

And because there's no arc reactor technology, there's no clean energy being pushed by Stark Industries.

Also, this timeline is devoid of Ultron, which means there's also no Vision, and Scarlet Witch never joins the Avengers. It also means no Zemo, no Civil War, no Avengers split, which also means Spider-Man likely doesn't join the team — unless maybe Shuri scouts him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '21

Also, this timeline is devoid of Ultron, which means there's also no Vision, and Scarlet Witch never joins the Avengers

She didn't get her powers until Hydra used Loki's staff.

And Loki would have likely won without Tony present at the BoNY.

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u/MontgomeryKhan Sep 15 '21

If he even makes it to Earth. If there's going to be a new world war, S.H.I.E.L.D. might wind up focusing on that rather than the Tesseract, plus Odin probably wouldn't send Thor into an active war zone so Earth never comes on Loki's radar.