History Recap / WhatIfS2E8WhatIfTheAvengersAssembledIn1602

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!!! '''Alternate take on:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' / ''ComicBook/Marvel1602''

* WhamLine: "I can hear you." Peggy reveals that she can hear Uatu narrate about her, despite him not specifically making himself audible to her. This level of perception has previously only been achieved by three known characters: Strange Supreme, Infinity Ultron, and [[WesternAnimation/IAmGroot Baby Groot]], two of whom are extremely powerful cosmic entities. What this implies about this version of Peggy, if anything, remains to be seen.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: A common one in fiction: Depicting {{Theatre/Hamlet}}'s "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Act 3, Scene 1 with Hamlet holding Yorick's skull, which actually appears much later in the play, specifically in Act V, Scene 1 in a different monologue.

* WhamLine: "I can hear you." Peggy reveals that she can hear Uatu narrate about her, despite him not specifically making himself audible to her. This level of perception has previously only been achieved by three known characters: Strange Supreme, Infinity Ultron, and [[Series/IAmGroot Baby Groot]], two of whom are extremely powerful cosmic entities. What this implies about this version of Peggy, if anything, remains to be seen.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In-universe. Loki's become a major Iago fanboy, and considers him the ''true'' main character of ''Theater/Othello''. This doubles as GeniusBonus, as Iago is the character that drives the plot of the play.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In-universe. Loki's become a major Iago fanboy, and considers him the ''true'' main character of ''Theatre/Othello''. This doubles as GeniusBonus, as Iago is the character that drives the plot of the play.

* WhamLine: "I can hear you." Peggy reveals that she can hear Uatu narrate about her, despite him not specifically making himself audible to her. This level of perception has previously only been achieved by three known characters: Strange Supreme, Infinity Ultron, [[Series/IAmGroot Baby Groot]], two of whom are extremely powerful cosmic entities. What this implies about this version of Peggy, if anything, remains to be seen.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Wanda is a court magician rather than a nun. Rogers is an outlaw rather than a bodyguard.

** The first shown grew up in the Time Stone-adjusted reality, becoming an outlaw.
** The second shown came from original reality, which seemed similar to the Sacred Timeline.

** When Steve asks Peggy to tell him about her world's Steve, she responds, "No, I don't think I will." This is the same response old Steve gives Sam in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' when Sam asks about Steve's wedding ring.

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite being a completely different universe even before the time periods collapsed onto each other, Hogan can transform into the Freak like one of his alternate selves.

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: The Watcher cannot see what will happen in worlds that are about to die. This mirrors [[Series/Loki2021 the Time Variant Authority's]] inability to detect time variations in dying worlds.

* SitcomArchnemesis: Thanks to their [[TheStoic extremely]] [[FunPersonified different]] personalities, Bucky finds Scott Lang incredibly annoying, though Scott seems totally oblivious as to why.

Picking up where the fifth episode of Season 2 left off, Captain Peggy Carter is summoned to a universe in 1602 to help save their world. When the king faces a devastating loss, Peggy is forced to go on the run, meeting familiar faces along the way. One of those faces which resembles Tony Stark reveals a way the world can be saved, but King Thor and his armies are not going to make her mission easy.

* LighterAndSofter: Despite being (loosely) based on ''1602'', the tone is still very light-hearted.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In-universe. Loki's become a major Iago fanboy, and considers him the ''true'' main character of ''Othello''.

!!! '''Alternate take on:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

* InteractiveNarrator: Once again, someone notices Uatu monologuing and starts talking to him. This time, it's Peggy.

* SchizoTech: The 1602 heroes have no access to things like computers or arc reactors, but Pym particles, Bucky's vibranium arm, and gamma-irradiated monsters like the Hulk and the Freak, are treated as perfectly normal.

* TimeCrash: Peggy quickly realizes that 1602 and the modern age are being stuck together due to some unknown issue, ultimately revealed to be a misfire of the Time Stone caused while Captain America fought Thanos. All of the modern heroes are actually native to 2018, and they all disappear once the issue is resolved.

* AdaptedOut: In addition to characters who haven't been established to exist in the MCU, like the Fantastick Four and most of the Witchbreed (mutants), the ''Comicbook/Marvel1602'' counterparts of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Black Widow, Quicksilver and Dr Strange are all absent. More notably, so are Queen Elizabeth and her successor King James, replaced by Hela and Thor.

** Thor, Loki and Hela all have a much better relationship in this universe. Thor and Hela are even coronated as King and Queen of England in this universe, and the former is devastated when the latter is sucked into one of the vortexes plaguing the world.

** Wanda and Thor never really met each other in the Sacred Timeline, outside of sharing the same battlefield while battling [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Ultron]] in one occasion, and Thanos on [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar two]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame separate]] occasions. Here, Wanda is Thor's court magician.

** This version of Loki is an actor rather than a fighter, totally helpless when Rogers Hood and his band rob his carriage and staying out of the melee completely, even when Thor asks him to join in.

* AlternateSelf: There's 2 Steve Rogers in the episode, both of them native to the universe featured in the episode, but are of separate timelines.

* AnachronismStew: Several though justified by two time periods collapsing into each other.

* BattleCouple: Peggy and Steve happily fight together against the Yellowjackets

* FriendOnTheForce: Both Nick and Wanda secretly help Carter in her mission after Thor orders her arrest. They both side with her against Thor when another portal opens, and Thor tries to stop Carter from using Stark's forerunner finder.

* HonorBeforeReason: Despite Uatu's pleas for her to let him send her back to her home universe, Peggy is determined to stop the 1602 universe from the tears in its reality.
* HopeSpot: The Merry Men seem to have defeated the Yellowjackets...until Hogan brings out the Destroyer.

* ProducePelting: Thor is introduced planning to do as such to Loki's performance of ''Hamlet'', gleefully noting he's made sure the cabbages are extra rotten for that added effect.

* SequelHook: Strange Supreme approaches Peggy while the latter has a drink, stating he has a story to tell her.
* ShoutOut: One of the {{technobabble}} terms Peggy throws at Tony (who loves hearing them even if he doesn't understand them) is "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]".

* WaxingLyrical: Hogan quotes the lyrics, "The pipes are calling" from the Irish song, "Danny Boy", after throwing a harpsicord at the Hulk.

* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Mainly played straight, as Oatu refuses to do anything to save the 1602-Avengers world. Subverted, though, in that Oatu does offer to help Peggy return to her own world.

* WowingCthulhu: Oatu is quite impressed that Captain Carter understands the multiversal entanglement problem she is in. At this point, such issues have become old hat to her.

** Rogers' band of outlaws are from TheHighMiddleAges rather than [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI the later ElizabethanEra]].

* StarCrossedLovers: Peggy has yet to find a world where she and Steve get to be together.

* AdaptationalWimp: This version of Loki is an actor rather than a fighter, totally helpless when Rogers Hood and his band rob his carriage and staying out of the melee completely.

** Upon being found, Bruce / Hulk responds with "[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Leave me alone.]]"
* AnachronismStew: Justified by two time periods collapsing into each other. In addition to most characters still talking in modern American accents (and Rogers' band of outlaws being more medieval than Early Modern) there's a reference to Victoria sponge, named after a queen who won't exist for two centuries.

** Loki being portrayed as a Shakespearean actor harks back to him being played by [[Creator/TomHiddleston an actual Shakespearean actor]].

** Wanda and Thor never really met each other in the Sacred Timeline, outside of sharing the same battlefield while battling Thanos on [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar two]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame separate]] occasions. Here, Wanda is Thor's court magician.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: This isn't [[Series/WandaVision the first time]] that several people are forced into playing roles in a different time period that Wanda Maximoff is involved in (although in this case, Wanda herself is not the cause of what's going on).

** Wanda and Thor never really met each other in the Sacred Timeline, outside of sharing the same battlefield while battling Thanos on [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar two]] [[Film/Avengers separate]] occasions. Here, Wanda is Thor's court magician.

* * The first shown grew up in the Time Stone-adjusted reality, becoming an outlaw.