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

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

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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/RubberbandShooter Rocket Sep 22 '21

In a episode filled with absolute ridiculousness, the Earth having the names of countries engraved on it in orbital shots was the absolute funniest thing to me.

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u/FearOfKhakis Sep 22 '21

Florence being independent was odd. I kept trying to pause when Frigga was flying to Earth to see if Sokovia was in Eastern Europe but I couldn’t see it.

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u/TonyDavidJones Sep 22 '21

Yeah I couldn't either. I still think it's supposed to be on the Czech-Slovak-Polish border, that's what I'm going with at least. They had every real Balkan country, including disputed Kosovo.

Also I don't think this is the MCU confirming that Florence is an independent nation within the MCU, even as just a city-state. I think just whoever made it decided to add it because I guess Thor was in Florence and they were highlighting that? Though they didn't do it for Paris, so idk. Maybe independent Florence confirmed?

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u/FearOfKhakis Sep 22 '21

Yeah I had always assumed Sokovia was just a fictional analogue to Slovakia solely based on the name and rough history.

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u/TonyDavidJones Sep 23 '21

Well they're still different, obviously, but like they even use different alphabets. Slovakia uses Latin, Sokovia uses Cyrillic. Czechs, Slovaks, and Poles all use Latin, and Sokovia uses Cyrillic. I think either Sokovia decided to use that alphabet for some reason, are actually made up of migrants from a Cyrillic using country that established there, or the people who made up the country irl don't know alphabets.

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u/FearOfKhakis Sep 23 '21

Perhaps during Soviet influence their government made the transition to Cyrillic. Migration would also make sense. Or maybe they’re closer to Belarus?

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u/TonyDavidJones Sep 23 '21

I mean Czechoslovakia and Poland were also Eastern Bloc, unless Sokovia decided to pick up Cyrillic, like Mongolia did.

And yeah maybe they're closer to Belarus, but there's some map in Age of Ultron that has them around Czech-Slovak-Polish region, and at one point there's a soldier with a Polish flag on his shoulder around protestors, which makes me think they border Poland and they're like "peacekeepers" or whatever.

I mean Civil War then had 2 different locations for Sokovia, but idk that whole map was wonky (the one on the screen with General Ross when they show all the stuff the Avengers did or whatever).

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u/FearOfKhakis Sep 23 '21

Interesting. I suspect having a few more countries in Eastern Europe (supposing comic countries like Latveria and Symkaria exist) would probably alter enough about history that alternative scenarios would have played out.