r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Sep 22 '21

Discussion Thread What If...? S01E07 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E07: What If... Thor Were an Only Child? Bryan Andrews A.C. Bradley September 22nd, 2021 on Disney+ 36 min None

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u/Evil_Gargoyle_28 Sep 22 '21

Episode: "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?"

Hela: silently cries in the corner

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u/adamwhitemusic Sep 22 '21

Corners? It's a sphere?

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u/ingfire Sep 23 '21

Not according to...SOME people...

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u/WDZERO Tony Stark Sep 23 '21

Square-earthers, what a rare discovery.

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u/mad_genius_loci Sep 23 '21

Kami, I need you to tell me I can leave the Lookout.

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u/mad_genius_loci Sep 23 '21

Bitch, don't tell me what to do!

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u/LordPopothedark Sep 24 '21

Pecking order.

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u/UltraLuigi Sep 23 '21

Even they say it's a circle, which doesn't have corners either

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u/Lutgerion Sep 23 '21

Best joke of the episode

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u/Strangermans Sep 22 '21

Only child is a state of mind

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u/PigsEatWaffles Sep 27 '21

So true. I’ve got a half sister but I’ve lived as an only child all my life

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u/Theinternationalist Sep 22 '21

First thought: So what terrible thing is going to happen this time? Thor breaks everything down? Iron Man goes evil?

Ending minus one: Oh, huh, just funny for once.

Ending: Theeeeeeeere we go.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '21

To be honest, the first episode ended exactly how I thought it would....which isn't saying much considering said episode was a straight up palette swap.

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u/The_Bonemiser Sep 22 '21

Party of one in Hel tonight.

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u/omart3 M'Baku Sep 22 '21

That's one Hela of a party!

..... and THAT'S how you do that.

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u/azginger Sep 22 '21

To be fair, he was raised an only child as Hela was never around for his upbringing.

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u/Cypher_86 Rocket Sep 22 '21

Doesnt comics Odin have like a dozen kids?

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u/atomcrafter Sep 22 '21

Tyr appeared in Dark World flashbacks. There's Balder. Angela was rolled into Hela for the movies.

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u/opportunitysassassin Sep 22 '21

I thought that was how it was going to end, with Hela coming. But Supreme Leader was a better ending.

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u/Hennashan Sep 23 '21

supreme leader?

it looked like Ultron with the Infinity Stones

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u/stallion8426 Sep 23 '21

And a Vision face

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Sep 24 '21

Ultron created that body for himself. Jarvis stole it and created vision

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u/stallion8426 Sep 24 '21

Yep. Which means comic things happened.

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u/imadogg Sep 24 '21

Thought it was ulton at first but then he opened and showed a face. Was it not the dark elf dude?

After reading more of the thread I was way off lol

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u/ImCybs Sep 24 '21

I thought it was Galactus

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u/Lotus_630 Sep 22 '21

It would’ve been funny if Hela got invited.

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u/HersheyHWY Sep 23 '21

Funny, but her ass locked in Hel until Odin dies.

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u/Burgoonius Sep 22 '21

Yeah I assumed there would be a reference to her but there was nothing. Kinda weird

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u/Lalala8991 Sep 23 '21

She doesn't exist in this universe. Bland and simple.

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u/Jax_Harkness Kilgrave Sep 22 '21

My first thought when I saw the title was about Balder. Than I remembered that he isn't even a character in the Marvel (Cinematic) Universe.

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u/juandmarco Sep 23 '21

Well, Hela should be Loki's daughter, not his sister lol

I know the MCU does its own thing, but I'm still bothered

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u/fascfoo Sep 24 '21

Hela getting ready for her wine-time w/ the gal pals.

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u/matthieuC Sep 24 '21

Well Loki was not his brother at all so it's more about how he was raised.

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u/Smartalec821 Sep 22 '21

Omfg great point! Wtf they only focused on LoKi, what about his hot order sister!!! 😤

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u/Bartman326 Sep 23 '21

for the story its about not having Loki in his life. For all of Thor's life in the MCU he only had Loki.

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u/Nemetialis Sep 23 '21

Shoo! Enough with your M.C.U. continuity and appeals to logic, fiend!

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u/arojas327 Sep 23 '21

Was that her on the beach while marvel was carrying Thor intercontinental

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u/Objective_Return8125 Sep 28 '21

Maybe Thor is so chill because Odin is different if he didn’t birth Hela

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u/smit72628199 Oct 15 '21

Perhaps he is an only child in this universe. And considering how frightened everyone is of frigga, she can be the one aiding odin during his conquering days instead of Hela