What If…?
Summary
Marvel’sWhat If … ?season 2 is Marvel ’s final release in 2023 , and one fleeting scene that features in the drone seems to aggravate one of the cruelest lie fromAvengers : EndgameandAvengers : Infinity War . The ripple effects ofMCUPhase 3 ’s climactic Avengersmovies have remain throughout Phases 4 and 5 , with the effects of Thanos ' catch being first of all among them . While the Avengers emerged victorious as a result of their efforts , there were casualties among the team that , harmonize to Doctor Strange , could not have been avoided inthe MCU timeline . Except it appears that they could , after all .
After peer into 14,000,605 unlike timeline , Strange assured Stark that there was only one future in which Thanos would be defeated by the Avengers . Specifically , the one in which Natasha Romanoff and Tony Stark lost their lives after one-half of the universe lost theirs ( before being Blipped back).Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , however , proved that this was a falsity , as Earth-838 ’s Doctor Strange follow in get the better of Thanos through using the Darkhold . While this led to an Incursion that would justify Earth-616 ’s Doctor Strange omitting that possibility , What If … ?season 2revealed that there may have been yet another , less destructive , path to success .
Captain America’s Fight With Thanos Makes Doctor Strange’s Endgame Lie Bigger
Doctor Strange - who was revealed to have never give away inside information about the meg of possible future in which the Avengers succeed in Ant - Man ’s book , Look Out for the Little Guy!- can be forgive for skipping over future tense in which an entire universe would have been destroyed as a upshot . A scenery inWhat If … ?season 2 , however , seems to show Captain America successfully remove the Time Stone from Thanos ' Infinity Gauntletin the Battle of Wakanda . Assuming this is not keep an eye on by Thanos simply reinserting the Infinity Stone , it can be assume that Cap ’s success would have forbid the Snap entirely .
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What If Season 2’s Thanos Fight Tease Puts The MCU In A Difficult Position
The outcome of this nictitation - and - you’ll - miss - it trailer moment now position the MCU in an awkward position . If , as it appears , the Avengers go forth victorious thanks to Cap ’s sly moves in this universe , then it completely undermines the wager of the same fight inAvengers : Infinity War , as well as Doctor Strange ’s grim assurance on Titan . To forfend downplaying how hopeless the combat was , and make Doctor Strange ’s lie look even worse , the MCU will presumptively have to control that another rehash of the Battle of Wakanda still ends with Thanos ' grab . If that occurs , thenWhat If … ?Season 2 expect decidedly less interesting .
How The MCU Has Already Downplayed Avengers: Endgame
Neither outcome is enticing for the MCU , but this also is n’t the first metre that it has appear to minimise the climax of the Infinity Saga and the powerfulness of the Infinity Stones . In its attack to bring in boastful interest , Lokisaw the Infinity Stones reduced to paperweights . New Asgard , meanwhile , made illumination of the Infinity Stones with its shabu cream workshop " Infinity Conez,“featured inThor : Love and Thunder . contribute to that the fact thatDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessdepicted an impaled Thanos on Titan , and it looks like the MCU is pitch towards making Thanos look emphatically more small tyke .
This makes sense collapse that Marvel must be bet to up the stakes in the Multiverse Saga . denigrate the threat levels of the once terrorize arch - villain is an sluttish way of doing this , if somewhat thwarting for those invested in his villainy . It does , however , vaporize in the face of the fact that the MCU can not turn back reference the shock of the Infinity Saga while halfway through an totally unexampled narrative arc . The right instance scenario is that things are n’t just what they seem in theWhat If … ?trailer , and that Cap ’s succeeder run to a bighearted personnel casualty in the long rill .
