Funny / What If…? (2021)

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A Ravager never likes photo ops.

In What If…?, we get to see new scenarios, new sides to events, and fresh perspectives of characters we already know and love. And of course, in true Marvel Cinematic Universe fashion, there is plenty of funny dialogue and situations that inevitably will occur.

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Episodes

General

• It's pretty amusing to see a gigantic silhouette of Uatu just standing in the sky at random points in the series. He doesn't say anything, do anything, or even blink when we see him. He's just there, looking at what's happening. It's especially funny to see him in the wide establishing shot of Coulson driving back to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base following Barton's death. It's become so noteworthy that fans have legitimately started to consider the prospect of Uatu making recurring cameos in future MCU films much like Stan Lee used to.
• A day before What If…Zombies?! came out, Mark Ruffalo once again leaked out a scene from the beginning of the episode.
• On the day of release for What If…Zombies?!, David Dastmalchian had to ask people on Twitter if there was an alternate way to watch the episode he was in, due to being in another country that didn't have access to Disney+.
• Bit of a darker one, but almost every episode that Tony Stark has featured in, he has not lived to see the end of it. Typically dying in the first couple of minutes! At this point, it's a running gag, which even showrunner A.C Bradley had to admit to.
  A.C. Bradley: I noticed on Twitter we're getting a lot of crap for killing Tony a lot. He has become the Kenny of the What If? universe by accident.

Season One

Episode 1: What If… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?

• Uatu, a powerful cosmic being referring to Steve as a skinny kid from Brooklyn in an almost reverential way is chuckle worthy.
• While Peggy is fuming about Colonel Flynn being a sexist jerkass, Steve notes that it could be worse— he could send her on a USO tour. Peggy is mortified by the notion. As we know, this is exactly what happened to Steve in the main timeline before he was able to prove his mettle by liberating the POW camp.
  Steve: It could be worse. Flynn could stick you on one of those USO tours. Wear a crazy costume, being told to smile ten times a day.
  Peggy: He wouldn't. He couldn't. Could he?!
• We really see where Tony gets a lot of his personality from, as Howard Stark is a riot in this episode.
  • The first big moment is when he shows up to talk to Peggy in a bar.
    Howard: (Slides up to Peggy out of nowhere with a grin, while Peggy rolls her eyes) Drowning your troubles? I thought you Brits were supposed to be resilient.
    Peggy: Just the men, apparently.
    Howard: Can I give you a word of advice?
    Peggy: I'd rather you didn't.
    Howard: Flynn's a moron. Lucky for you, I'm a genius. (Puts the box containing Peggy's costume on the table)
    Peggy: What's this?
    Howard: This was supposed to be your USO "let's go sell some war bonds" costume, but I made a few upgrades.
    Peggy: Your covert skills need work…
    Howard: Then this is gonna be awkward. (Slams the shield onto the table)
  • Later, when Peggy and Steve were about to have their big kiss? Howard and Bucky ru(i)n the moment over with a jeep by showing up right outside their window. When Howard realizes what was going to happen?
    Howard: Whoa, hey, what's going on? Oh, no, no, no. No, you continue. Just pretend I'm not here. (Peggy and Steve just look away awkwardly)
  • The final mission involves Peggy bringing poor Howard along to do science stuff. When he inevitably needs to do so under pressure, the controls to the Red Skull's portal device are all in German, much to Howard's frustration.
    Howard: Red, green, blue… Who paints a button blue?!
    Peggy: Don't tell me the American playboy needs help pushing buttons!
    Howard: Hedy Lamarr and I spent a weekend together, but she wasn't teaching me German!
  • Speaking of buttons, the running gag of Howard being "the buttons guy."
    [Captain Carter, The Howling Commandos, and Howard are discussing stealing back the Tesseract]
    Howard: I'm not really a… [makes a weak punching motion] you know.
    Peggy: Come on Howard, we might need someone to push a button.
• How Peggy brings down the giant HYDRA mook is outright hilarious. Not so much his reaction to his left knee being broken as the look on his face when he gets hit in the groin.
• It's a subtle moment, but in the scene where Peggy rescues Bucky and the Invaders, and Peggy runs up alongside a Hydra stooge riding a motorcycle? She's on his left.
• Dum Dum Dugan's reaction to being rescued is absolutely priceless, Neal McDonough's delivery sells it:
  Dugan: [watching a Hydra mook slide across the floor, disbelieving] Since when did dames fight like that?
  [Peggy beats up four more with the last one faceplanting into the cell bars]
  Dugan: [sheepish grin] Since... today. Understood.
• The montage sequence where Colonel Flynn is taking all the credit for Peggy, Steve, and Howard's achievements, complete with Captain Carter fighting battles set to forties music.
• After Steve seemingly dies from the train mission going awry, Peggy goes straight to Dr. Arnim Zola to interrogate him.
  Zola: Ah, Fraulein Carter. I was wondering when you would visit me. You're wasting your time. I will tell you nothing.
  Gilligan Cut
  Peggy: He told me everything.
• In a case of Bilingual Bonus, the book about the Tesseract is written in Italian, and while most of it is just filler, it says among other things: "Totally ordinary cube.", "Don't let the angry purple guy touch this.", and "The hypercube is the true shape of the space stone.".
• During the final battle, Steve climbs into the de-powered HYDRA Stomper and has the Howling Commandos power it up using contemporary energy sources rather than the Tesseract. After charging it up in a dramatic sequence… it simply falls over with a comedic thud.
  Bucky: You okay in there?
  Steve: Yep!
• Another during the final battle: Schmidt successfully opens the Tesseract portal and summons forth… something - something tentacly - and kicks off a dramatic, sweeping speech about HYDRA's supremacy, assured victory, the power of their beast, etc etc. And suddenly the Red Skull is grabbed by one of the tentacles and smooshed to death instantly in the most anticlimactic way possible.

Episode 2: What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

• The fact that T'Challa is such an All-Loving Hero that he managed to convince Thanos of all people to join him and the Ravagers is equal parts awesome and hilarious. And he did so simply by giving him a compelling argument.
• There is also something inherently funny in seeing T'Challa, dignified King of Wakanda and the one MCU hero who never quipped in the Sacred Timeline, saying things like "Screw this." or "Dude!"
• Speaking of which, the Running Gag of everyone rightfully pointing out Thanos' rather flawed plan as outright genocide. Though Thanos no longer believes in his plan, he still tries to argue it has merits. The other Ravagers just answer with good-natured groans, as if it's a political argument that a family is tired of having. Even Korath gets his licks in by calling Thanos "Captain Genocide"!
  Kraglin: That still sounds like genocide, big guy!
  Thanos: I like to think of it as efficient.
  • During the feast in Wakanda at the end of the episode, Thanos is talking with Okoye and a mortified Nebula about it. He again insists that it shouldn't be called 'genocide' because who was going to be erased was going to be random. ^note According to the Geneva conventions, genocide is the deliberate attempt to "destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, religious, or racial group". Though his targeting being random does not fit the usual standards of genocide, some have argued that by excluding himself from the culling Thanos would still be committing deliberate destruction of a distinct group and therefore genocide.
    Okoye: My friend, that sounds an awful lot like genocide.
    Thanos: No, no, because it's random! And might I add, efficient!
    Nebula: DAD!
  • Later on, when Korath, Thanos and the rest of the Ravagers are supposed to fake a fight to draw the attention of the Black Order, Thanos decides to not fake the fight for Korath calling him Captain Genocide. When he threatens Korath to call him Captain Genocide again, Korath immediately smiles and begins to say it again, not out of malice but as if he's saying an amusing joke and somehow doesn't realize he's being threatened. This gets Korath thrown by Thanos and a girly scream from Korath.
• T'Challa steals the Orb only to find an army of heavily armed Sakaaran soldiers outside, the leader of whom points out that T'Challa is heavily outnumbered. T'Challa tries a Bond One-Liner but doesn't quite stick it.
  T'Challa: It would seem so. But a Ravager never flies solo.
  (Long awkward silence)
  T'Challa: I said, A Ravager never flies solo.
  (Another long silence.)
  Soldier Leader: Uh… Is that some kind of catchphrase…?
  (Yondu finally turns up and a Curb-Stomp Battle ensues.)
• This timeline exists because Yondu decided to outsource the abduction of Peter to Taserface and Kraglin instead of doing it himself. Let's leave it at that.
  • The fact that Yondu is apparently the only person on the Ravager crew who can tell the difference between Peter and T'Challa. Even when he brings up a hologram to compare it with, the rest of them don't get it and insist that "humans all look the same".
    • Not sure what Yondu expected when he outsourced the job to a guy who intentionally named himself "Taserface". And Kraglin.
    • Not just that, but Kraglin looks extremely similar to a human himself and even Taserface is relatively human-like.
• The fact that Young T'Challa is completely nonchalant about the fact he has just been abducted by aliens and is actually excited about getting to experience a new environment outside of Wakanda. Yondu is confused that T'Challa is not freaking out like a normal person would.
• Just before the scene cuts to Nebula explaining the Embers of Genesis mission you can briefly hear the heist bongos from Ant-Man.
• The fact that T'Challa's version of Star Lord is praised and respected by everyone, while Quill's Star Lord is treated as a nobody and no one respected him, not even his own friends sometimes.
• Korath the Pursuer fanboying over T'Challa. Where to begin?
  • The fact that T'Challa is so humble that he tells Korath not to bow in his presence. Even in this timeline, he doesn't seem to do that here. And this despite the fact that, while technically Wakandan royalty, T'Challa isn't a king…yet, anyway.
  • Korath is such a big fan of T'Challa that, during their brief scuffle, he lands a punch on him…and apologizes just as quick.
  • During the Ravager's feast with the Wakandans, Korath can be seen chatting Shuri up and tell her how "he and her brother are basically best friends."
  • This is more hilarious when you consider the fact that in the Sacred Timeline, Korath had no idea who Star Lord (Peter Quill) was. However, in this episode's universe, he can't stop praising him!
• T'Challa runs into Drax (who's a bartender in this universe), who recognizes him and insists on getting a selfie. And despite being a massive fanboy of T'Challa, he proves to be just as Literal-Minded (T'Challa saying it was "all in a day's work", and Drax countering that the battle lasted six days) and brutally honest as ever when he asks for another picture because T'Challa looks terrible in it.
• When Proxima Midnight interrupts the Ravagers' staged fight by electrocuting them with her shockwave jump, it is amusing to watch Thanos gets just as cartoonishly electrocuted as the rest of the Ravagers.
• T’Challa frees Howard The Duck to show him where the Embers of Genesis are, just because T’Challa doesn’t get Howard’s use of slang when giving directions to find them.
  • The surprise appearance of Howard the Duck in general, even considering that he was in The Stinger for the original story.
    T'Challa: The collection is much bigger than I anticipated. All this suffering, and for what?
    Howard: My guess: he's compensating for something big. Or small, if you catch my drift, eh?
    T'Challa: You are quite articulate for a duck.
    Howard: That, sir, is very close-minded.
  • Howard is nursing a drink when introduced in his display case, somehow.
    • Something to note is, Howard has not only a bigger display case than the other subjects but also his Sacred Timeline counterpart's too. He even has some furniture in there. He must have somehow convinced the Collector that he either needs these things to survive or he somehow convinced the Collector to give him those things.
  • When Howard thinks T'Challa is going to shoot him when T'Challa is actually aiming for his display case's lock, Howard lets out a cute duck quack.
• Hearing the serious Proxima Midnight let out a long, cartoonish scream when she gets launched by the greenery grown by the Embers of Genesis.
• In the new timeline, Peter Quill is… a janitor at Dairy Queen. And then Ego shows up…
  The Watcher: Too bad that this might spell the end of the world.

Episode 3: What If… The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?

• Everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. just can not stop obsessing over how handsome and attractive Thor is.
  Coulson: Suspect is caucasian male, mid-twenties, with…
  Thor: (Poses dramatically, lightning flashes behind him.)
  Coulson: … Really great hair.
  Nick Fury: Excuse me…?
  Coulson: It's an accurate description. Sir, he’s gorgeous.
  • Hawkeye shares the same sentiment about Thor's hair when aiming his arrows at him.
    Hawkeye: Whoa. Coulson wasn't lying about the hair.
  • When examining Thor and Barton's dead bodies, Coulson says that even dead, Thor still smells like lavender, which Fury ends up agreeing on.
  • Hank also refers to him as "goldilocks" during his Motive Rant. Apparently even Thor's killer couldn't deny his good looks.
  • Before that, Clint reports how no one is able to lift the Mjölnir.
    Hawkeye: No one can lift it. Not even Jackson. And he does crossfit.
• Natasha being locked up in a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport almost calls to mind the elevator scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, only this time it's Natasha in Steve's place. Rumlow's reaction to her escape is but icing on the cake.
  • The very fact that Nat goes apeshit on a S.H.I.E.L.D. mook with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs is hilariously awesome on its own.
  • She starts with casually handing her handcuffs to one of her guards.
• A very Pitch-Black Comedy example, but the way in which Hank dispatches the Hulk calls to mind the infamous Thanus theories of Ant-Man shrinking down and going up Thanos' ass, and well… you know the rest.
• What password does Coulson give Natasha to access the S.H.I.E.L.D. Database? #SteveSteveSteveIHeartSteve0704. It's almost as embarrassing as WARMACHINEROX. Maybe Rhodey could learn a thing or two.
• Hank Pym on getting thrashed by "Nick Fury":
  Pym: What the…? You're still, uh, pretty spry for a guy with a corner office.
• Loki getting interrupted by Fury's phone ringing when he first lands on Earth.
  Loki: Are you gonna take that? I'm in the middle of something here.
• The very casual way Loki greets Hank Pym after defeating him:
  Loki: Hello! Trickster God, hi.
  • Also Hank refers to him as a Goth kid.
• During the episode's Darkest Hour, Coulson tries to talk to Fury.
  Coulson: Sir, I understand this Prince Loki situation is the very reason you proposed the Avengers Initiative, for a group of remarkable individuals to fight battles we can't.
  Fury: (irritated) I wrote the speech!
• "Nick Fury"'s dickishness before Hank Pym.
  Pym: You never cared about Hope!
  "Fury:" I don't give a damn about any of them! (chuckles)
• The reaction when a Shout-Out to Shakespeare is given to an alien unfamiliar with his work. To humans, the phrase "pound of flesh" has become such an ingrained vernacular that Fury uses it totally casually, only for Loki to be a bit weirded out and intrigued at the concept.
  • Funny on a meta level as Tom Hiddleston, Loki's actor, has a vast Shakespearean background.
• While Fury and his S.H.I.E.L.D. forces are in a standoff with Loki's army, he gets a phone call from Natasha.
  Fury: I'm a little busy here, Widow.
  Natasha: Oh, good. We'll start a support group. I've got General Ross, a dozen snipers and a few tanks. What are you dealing with?
  Fury: Space Vikings.
  Natasha: Show-off.

Episode 4: What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

• Strange's first meeting with O'Bengh contains a few moments of hilarity.
  • When Stephen first falls, quite literally, onto O'Bengh's doorstep, O'Bengh uses the moment to call him "the strangest dressed sorcerer [he's] ever seen". Strange responds that the suit is Armani, which then leads into this bit which also serves as a Call-Back to the "Mister Doctor" scene from Doctor Strange:
    O'Bengh: Come this way, Sorcerer Armani.
    Strange: No, it's- It's "Strange".
    O'Bengh: Not any stranger than any other name in this world.
  • In addition, Strange's response to O'Bengh's vague information on where Cagliostro is.
    Strange: Where can I find Cagliostro?
    O'Bengh: Well, maybe here, maybe there. Maybe nowhere.
    Strange: Wonderful. You're cryptic. Please tell me you're not Cagliostro.
• In a rather twisted way, apparently the events of the Doctor Strange film happen exactly the same way without Christine, in basically an implicit acknowledgement of the fans' criticism about how she was a Satellite Love Interest.
• A severely dark example, but it’s sort of comical to see Christine die no matter what Strange does to try and save her, with her dying in the most tragic and outlandish ways. The universe can’t cut this poor woman a break.
• In his first attempt in gaining powers from extradimensional beings, Doctor Strange gets attacked by HYDRA’s Champion from the first episode for his trouble.
  Strange: Whoa! Uh… (clears throat) My name is Dr. Stephen Strange. I brought you here because I need to borrow your powers. Do you mind sharing a tentacle or two? (one of the tentacles grabs his leg) Please?
• Dr. Strange's Start of Darkness in absorbing the power of mystical creatures involves consuming… a tiny being that looks like a gnome. Yes, this is the episode where Dr. Strange eats a garden gnome so that he can reverse time.
  • Also, look at the gnome's expression as Dr. Strange consumes it. It first angrily lunges towards him, then it starts panicking as it realizes what is going on.
• The second creature that Doctor Strange summons is a giant cape-wearing beetle. He steals its cape and returns it to where it came from, saying that he draws the line at bugs.
• Wong remaining a perfectly calm Consummate Professional even as his face is literally melting away into strands of darkness.
  • Strange and Wong’s rather casual exchange when Strange Supreme summons Strange:
    Wong: Oh, that’s not great.
    Strange: Nope, it’s not.
• The Cloak of Levitation tries to distract Strange Supreme only to be blocked by Supreme's own cloak. Thus we get the first cloak vs cloak fight in the MCU.

Episode 5: What If… Zombies?!

• The simplistic nature of the title is worth a chuckle. It coming with an exclamation point at the end also makes it seem as though the series itself is utterly baffled at the story concept. One could easily imagine Uatu performing a bewildered Double Take.
• We get to see Ebony Maw reenacting his gospel of Thanos speech towards a lowly Bruce, looking just as scary as he did before… only to be shot in the head by Iron Man's thruster. We then get to see Bruce cheering on his friend, Doctor Strange, and Wong fighting off Maw and Cull Obsidian all by themselves, acting just like an excitable fan.
  Bruce: Ye-heah, Iron Man!
  • For bonus points, Maw was basically putting up his show for an empty city, seemingly completely oblivious to New York being a Ghost Town. Makes one wonder if he memorized the whole thing beforehand and just started prattling once he arrived, not even bothering to check if anyone was listening.
  • When Bruce first sees Iron Man and Strange (who he doesn't yet know are zombies) start eating Cull Obsidian and Ebony Maw, he's audibly freaked out, descending into mumbling and calling it "overkill."
  • In addition, Bruce's general reaction to the state of the world— disgusted, bewildered, and more than a little comically frightened at how much he's missed out on.
    Hope: Go! You'll be safe with them!
    Bruce: With the giant ants?!
  • Bruce attempts to get the zombies not to eat him by claiming that he’s vegan.
  • In spite of his fear, Bruce also has a pretty good comeback to Spidey's introduction quip.
    Spider-Man: Hey, relax! I'm just your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!
    Bruce: Oh, yeah? Then what the hell happened to the neighborhood?!
• In the episode itself, we find out what caused the Zombie Apocalypse: Janet Van Dyne had contracted a quantum virus that corrupted her brain. When Hank was attacked, the Watcher was… rather nonchalant about this turn of events. Perhaps he's not the biggest fan of Hank after witnessing the events of Episode 3.
  Uatu: Oof. That happened.
• Steve is the first to go when he and the Avengers arrive to stop the zombies, by being unceremoniously bitten by a miniaturized Hank only a few seconds in. The serious Steve saying "ow" after getting bitten and having his rousing speech to the Avengers interrupted is also chuckle-worthy.
  • Remember in episode 3 where Cap was the only OG Avenger that Hank didn't kill? This episode rectified that.
• "So You Wanna Survive the Zombie Apocalypse". To iterate:
  • The title screen is a bunch of colorful letters arranged by hand over a piece of cloth. A hand then moves a paper zombie (shouting "BRAINS!!") on a popsicle stick across the title.
  • Happy's Fun T-Shirt that says, "I'm not single, I'm saving myself for Thor". Not only is his lack of enthusiasm for Peter's skit hilarious, but despite his shirt supposedly being long-sleeved, it doesn't even cover his forearms!
  • Kurt's Bad "Bad Acting" as he walks into the above scene, with a deadpan, "Here I come. Bad zombie." Aside from Peter, he's the only survivor who's happy to be in the video.
  • The "hygiene" segment where Peter and Kurt catch Bucky by surprise in the shower as we're treated to an… unexpected side of him. Bucky is anything but amused.
    Bucky: (casually lifting Kurt off the ground with his Vibranium arm) You know all I have to do is squeeze, right?
  • The caption describing Bucky says: Bucky (silent but deadly) Barnes. Skills: Murder, big arm, heavy sleeper.
  • Peter emphasizing to always aim for the head by shooting Sharon in the face with a dart gun. She too isn't pleased by this.
  • For added icing on the cake, the Suicide Squad (2016)-esque subtitles that Peter gives to the other survivors, pointing out that Happy is "not actually happy", saying that Kurt's the "Resident Weirdo", and calling Bucky "Silent but Deadly" and Sharon "The Blond Bond".
  • Considering Sebastian Stan's sitcom-style rivalry with Tom Holland behind the scenes, one can't help but imagine (and laugh hysterically at the thought of Emily Vancamp also being involved) what this would be like if it were done in live-action. Or that we almost got a (half-)naked Sebastian Stan, for that matter.
• Happy's reaction on finding out that they have to go to Camp Lehigh:
  Happy: Well, just when you thought things couldn't get any worse… we gotta go to Jersey.
• Okoye calls Happy an Uber driver. He indignantly corrects her, saying that he's a personal chauffeur.
• When they reach Grand Central Station, Okoye suggests dividing the party:
  Peter: Splitting up? Do you guys just not have horror movies in Wakanda?
  Okoye: We don't need them. We have American reality shows.
  Kurt: Boom goes the dynamite! That was solid burn on all of us.
• Happy actually shouts "Blam!" while firing Tony's repulsors, apparently totally unaware of it. And then he still does it as a zombie.
  • Bear in mind that he does this after being shot with an arrow by zombie Hawkeye and amidst being dragged towards him to be eaten, which only furthers the sense of Major Injury Underreaction stemming from him just proclaiming 'Ow' after being shot.
• Bucky's reaction to Okoye killing Zombie Falcon.
  Bucky: …I should be sad, but I'm not.
• When a zombified Sharon tries to attack Bucky during his standoff with zombie Cap, he just casually shoves her away.
• Hope takes out the zombified Sharon by shrinking down to fly into her mouth, then growing back to normal size. When she comes out covered in gunk, Okoye offers to help, but given that they're on a moving train during an apocalypse, there isn't much to work with:
  Hope: Uh, guys? I'm covered in… Sharon!
  Okoye: (quietly) The kid has hand sanitizer…
• It's in the midst of some major Nightmare Fuel, but right before Zombie Wanda attacks, Kurt refers to her as "Baba Yaga".
• Scott can’t help but crack jokes despite the current predicament:
  Scott: (after Zombie Wanda kills Kurt) Look out, she’s a man eater! …Ahh, there I go again.
• Vision explaining his motives has two interjections by Scott which do wonders to lighten the mood:
  Bucky: He's keeping [T'Challa] alive to feed his zombie bride.
  Scott: That goth chick! I knew it! I was picking up vibes.
  —
  Scott: Well, in Vision's defense… I've got nothing.
  • Made funnier by Hank Pym calling Loki “the goth kid” two episodes ago. Seems like being called goth is a common insult for magic users in the MCU.
• Scott Lang's head being flown out of the base by The Cloak of Levitation:
  Scott: Wingardium Leviosa!
• Bucky's last words to a zombified Steve.
  Bucky: Sorry, pal. I guess this is the end of the line.
• Zombie Wasp throwing a zombie at the escape Quadjet. The zombie goes, "Aaaaaaaaaaaa— …Ow" while sailing through the air and then hitting the wing of the jet. Given that it harmlessly bounces off, it almost seems like Hope did it out of frustration more than anything else.
• Peter wearing the Cloak of Levitation becomes this to fans of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which has that film's Peter call the cape on Miles's store-bought Spider-Man costume disrespectful, only for a costume with a cape to be shown later. Not to mention that Peter also wore the cloak briefly back in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) and called himself the "Spider-Supreme".
• After barely escaping Camp Leigh, Scott calls for high-fives.
  Scott: It's okay, I won't feel left out.

Episode 6: What If… Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?

• This episode confirms the fan theory that Killmonger is an anime fan^note As if Erik wearing Vegeta's armor wasn't enough., with his design for a combat robot being inspired by a Gundam mecha.
  Tony: Wow, uh, bold design choice.
  Killmonger: What? I like anime.
  Tony: Oh, worst case scenario, we have the world's most expensive Gundam model.
• The Ten Rings' attack comes a couple minutes early, clearly because the show's crew figured that the reference to MySpace from the 2008 film would have been way too jarring.
• Happy Hogan saying that he never liked Obadiah Stane after punching him, once it's revealed by Killmonger that Stane was involved in the Ten Rings' failed capture of Tony. It becomes doubly hilarious once one realizes that Jon Favreau was the director of the first Iron Man movie way back in 2008 - thus he's technically engaging in some Self-Deprecation in regards to complaining about the first villain he brought to the MCU!
• While trying to come up with a power source for Erik's Project Liberator drone prototype, Tony suggests that maybe they could miniaturize the arc reactor to be used as a power source (aka the thing that saved his life and allowed him to become Iron Man in the Sacred Timeline)… before promptly dismissing it as a dumb idea.
• When showing off his black market Dora Milaje spear, Klaue says that it went for $10 million, joking that it's a high price. Rhodey retorts that Tony Stark regularly spends that much on a "slow Tuesday in Vegas".

Episode 7: What If… Thor Were an Only Child?

• A scene of Thor and Loki’s childhood in the Sacred Timeline shows Loki using the Casket of Ancient Winters to freeze Thor solid.
• Before Frigga goes off to celebrate the solstice with her sisters and Thor sneaks off to party, Frigga pokes Odin’s face to check to see if he’s really asleep. Thor can be seen waiting for Odin to fall asleep.
• Thor's initial Vegas party is filled with hilarious moments. Particularly, seeing Nebula gambling to try and win a new eye, the Skrulls each transforming their face into Thor's for his amusement, and the main attraction: the Grandmaster as a DJ!
  Grandmaster: (as the music is paused) Release the foam. [beat drops]
• Jane waking up in the aftermath of the party, with Mjölnir covered in graffiti, beads and boxer shorts, Fandral covered in baby animals, and a Raccoon (yes, that one) passed out in the sink.
  • Thor still calls Rocket a "rabbit."
• Every time someone is in orbit, you can see the name of each country written on it, as if the world were really a giant map of itself ala Looney Tunes.
• When Carol is flying towards Earth and Thor and Loki confuse her for a shooting star, Loki asks if Thor boomed and Thor replies that he only booms in private.
• From Carol's first confrontation with Thor:
  • Thor introduces himself to Carol:
  Thor: Name's Thor, with a T, and an R, an O and an H, but not necessarily in that order. ^note If you pronounce TROH, it sounds like the word "bro", which accurately describes this Thor variant.
  • Thor tells Carol "there's a Midgardian word for women like you", Carol glares at him with glowing eyes, the moment is played as if it's leading up to a really nasty insult… and Thor calls Carol a "party pooper".
  • After their fight, Thor gets the other party-goers to call her a pooper. Including the Skrulls. If those were the same Skrulls Carol saved in her own movie, the party must have been a bigger priority to them than the fact that their savior came. The look on Carol's face as they all point at her is nothing short of amazing. You can almost hear her thinking "I got called across the universe for this."
  • Thor summons Mjölnir from behind her the way he did with Stormbreaker in Avengers: Endgame. This time, instead of it flying past her, his weapon deliberately clocks her in the back of the head. Good thing she's has Super-Toughness.
  • When Carol and Thor knock each other across the globe like two warring gods, the reasons are hilariously petty. Carol is knocked over the oceans for being a buzzkill and trying break up an intergalactic keg party. Thor is knocked over the oceans for knocking down Stonehenge as a joke, despite being warned not to. While Carol admits to not knowing exactly what Stonehenge does, or why it's considered important, she decides to punch him anyway on general principle.
• Carol Danvers tries repeatedly to stop Thor from continuing his party rampage, but fails. What finally puts a stop to it? Jane calling his mother.
• When Frigga astrally projects herself to check up on Thor, he insists that he's studying, in a class… As a polar bear wanders past in the background. Even Carol seems to be amused.
  • Up until the moment Frigga appears, Agent Hill was willing and eager to drop every weapon they had on Thor to stop his partying, including nukes. But the second Hill sees Thor's mother is threatening to visit Midgard to keep Thor in line, she calls off the attack knowing full well nothing can stop a galactic party like an annoyed mother.
• Carol suggests that Thor get to cleaning by starting in the corners and working his way out. Thor points out that there are no corners; it's a sphere.
• Thor's Oh, Crap! when Frigga announces that she's going to return. It escalates to Mass "Oh, Crap!" when he warns the rest of the party (which includes the likes of the Collector and Surtur) of this. To say that literally everyone (Surtur included) quickly fix everything the second they hear that Frigga is going to show up, is a hell of an Understatement. All that's missing is to have March of the Swivel Heads playing over it.
• Surtur flirting with the Statue of Liberty… until he accidentally melts the torch-bearing arm off, which he later hastily welds back on.
  • He later causes a mass power cut by attempting (and failing) to limbo under pylons.
  • Just hearing Clancy Brown - THE menacing voice guy for the last 40 years - sound like a total goof is worth it (that is unless you’re familiar with Mr. Krabs).
• Darcy fangirling (Kamala Khan-style) over Carol Danvers, asking to be her intern and suggesting that she blow up one of the Dakotas as part of fighting Thor at full strength because she can't tell them apart.
  Carol: You're running at an eight. I need you to be at a four.
• Fury getting straight-up tackled by Korg in a flashback. It has to be seen to be believed. As icing on the cake, you can hear Fury scream out "Motherfu-" as he takes flight.
  • Fury calling Thor "Spicoli" when he busts into the party.
• By way of a Vegas wedding, Darcy Lewis ends up married to Howard the Duck, of all people. It's like the writers are aware of her fandom status as a Launcher of a Thousand Ships. She also gets to be the very first character in the MCU to call Howard by name.
  • Even better, the wedding is officiated by an Elvis Impersonator.
• The circumstances lead to Coulson saying in dead seriousness, "The party atmosphere is spreading".
• Rumlow pouts like a five-year-old over not being able to launch a nuclear missile at Thor.
  Rumlow: *Groan* We never get to fire the nukes.
• Jane points out that Thor's partying caused a planet to be destroyed. Thor denies it… because it wasn't a planet, it was a meteor that was breaking apart anyway. But that's fine, he saved everyone and a goat! He also mentions that they lost Fandral for three days and eventually found him in a barn with said goat.
  Fandral: I named him Gary!
  • The next morning, Fandral has a small pile of possums sleeping on him, making it seem like him waking up among animals is a recurring thing.
• Maria Hill describing Carol as a cat-loving woman with a cat (Goose) that eats people.
  • This gets a Brick Joke moment later where she orders a nuke to be launched in case Carol got distracted by a cat.
  • The fact that Fury apparently included everything about Goose when he reported to Hill about his mission with Carol.
• Carol orders Thor not to touch Stonehenge… Then has to admit she doesn't actually know what it is/does. But it's very important.
• Loki and his frost giant bros using the Casket of Ancient Winters to give horns to the statues of Mount Rushmore, and attempting to make the galaxy's biggest slingshot with the Gateway Arch. Actually, every time he shows up on screen is comedy gold.
  • There's also him flirting with Jane Foster over the phone and asking if she has a friend he could date.^note Possibly a nod to the popularity of the Darcy/Loki pairing. When he drops Thor's phone, because he's so tall it falls long enough for the distinct cartoony whistle to sound.
• Against all odds, Thor and the partygoers manage to clean up the Earth and set up Thor’s “cultural exchange class” before Frigga arrives, almost managing to fool her… then it transpires that Thor somehow forgot to take the party decorations off Mjolnir.
  • When Thor ends the party, the Grandmaster and Topaz go by on scooters, the Grandmaster stating that they're keeping them right before being teleported away.
    • Topaz drops a vicious "Loser" on Thor before scooting away.
  • Thor's friends are utterly shameless about bailing on him when he initially tries to get them to help clean up.
  • And just before Frigga finds out that Thor did party via Mjolnir, Carol comes in to give Thor some additional education aids to help with his lie.
  • Thor straightens the Leaning Tower of Pisa, apparently assuming that its tilt was part of the mess he was trying to get cleaned up before Frigga arrived. Considering this is an alternate universe, the Tower of Pisa's tilt was probably part of the mess.
• The episode ends with Uatu declaring that Thor and Jane lived Happily Ever After before he does a Double Take when Ultron appears through a portal, in the body of Vision with the Infinity Stones on it, causing the Watcher to state that he may have spoken too soon.
  The Watcher: Wait, what?
• Really, the fact that this episode's plot plays out like that of your typical Wild Teen Party - parents leave the house, teenager starts setting up the party with their friends, party starts and slowly spins out of control, and teenager must figure out how to shut down the party and remove all evidence of it ever having occurred before parent comes back - on a planetary scale. Thor is the teenager, the parent is Frigga, queen of Asgard, the partygoers are nearly all of humanity's urban and suburban population as well as Loki, Surtur, and members of other supernatural MCU races, and iconic landmarks like the Gateway Arch and Rushmore are stand ins for precious family artifacts like vases or picture frames. How Thor and his friends treat planet Earth as if it were a typical suburban house in regards to the party is nothing short of hilarious.

Episode 8: What If… Ultron Won?

• The incredibly anticlimactic "battle" between Ultron and Thanos. After destroying the world, Ultron breathes a sigh of contentment… only for Thanos to emerge from a portal wielding five Infinity Stones. The Mad Titan has only a second to stare at Ultron in confusion.
  Ultron: Fascinating. (Vertically bisects Thanos with his Mind Stone beam.)
  • Thanos being killed by a vertical cut is awfully fitting when you consider his obsession with balance. With machine accuracy, Ultron effectively left his two halves "perfectly balanced".
• "Listen, Skynet. I've seen the killer robot movie, and I don't think it needs a sequel." It gets another layer of comedy once you realize that Carol left Earth before Terminator 2: Judgment Day was made.
• There is something oddly hilarious that the craters on Ego resemble an Oh, Crap! expression as a victim of The Worf Effect caused by Ultron.
• The Watcher's first reaction to Infinity Ultron: utter bafflement.
  The Watcher: I have seen everything that has ever happened. Ever will happen. Ever could happen. And yet… what the hell is this?
• As dark and tearjerking as his silent pleas for Clint to find Arnim Zola's file are, it's pretty funny to watch Uatu hanging on the edge of his seat in that moment, much like fans often do with characters in their own favorite pop culture mediums. The Watcher really is the Audience Surrogate of this world.
  Uatu: The answer is right there!
  • And he practically yelps when Clint gives up right when he touches the right box.
  • Black Widow teases Clint for giving up.
    Clint: You found it?!? That was my box.
• Natasha finds the Red Guardian's shield and immediately goes to bother Clint about it.
  Natasha: Clint. Clint. Is this my color?
• The Watcher saying "There's still hope." Only for Ultron to bust in through the wall of reality.
• There is some Laser-Guided Karma humour in watching Zola's AI consciousness having a brief but pronounced moment of Oh, Crap! at the prospect of Hawkeye pouring a drink into the desktop computer housing him, and successfully arm-twisting him into an Enemy Mine situation to take on Ultron.
• The plan to defeat Ultron requires the heroes to attract the Sentries' attention, which Widow does… by phoning Avengers Tower and ordering a pizza. Yes, Black Widow prank called the genocidal robot that had already wiped out the entire universe.
  Natasha: Dialing Avengers Tower.
  Ultron: Uh…hello?
  Natasha: Hi, I'd like to order a pizza.
  Ultron: What? Who is this?
  Natasha: Tell me, do you guys offer a gluten-free crust?
  Ultron: Identifying your geo-positional coordinates.
  Clint: You having some fun?
  Natasha: You know, simple pleasures. I give us two minutes.
• Natasha shoots the legs off the drone that Zola has downloaded into, just in case he was thinking of betraying them.
  Zola: Your team-building instincts need work.
  Clint: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, tell it to HR.
• Ultron notes in the middle of an otherwise fairly normal villain speech that Uatu watching everybody is kinda creepy.
• During the otherwise intense battle between Uatu and Ultron, the two end up in a version of Times Square where one of the screens shows Steve being inaugurated as president.
• Dr. Strange Supreme is clearly enjoying the Watcher having to ask him for help.
  Strange Supreme: Ooooh yeah, I want to hear you say it.

Episode 9: What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath?

• The Natasha of Captain Carter's world trying to set Carter up on a date. The more things change…
  Natasha: You know, Bernard in Accounting was asking about you.
  Peggy: Nothing good has ever followed the phrase "Bernard in Accounting."
  Natasha: (clearly being mischievous) What if his name was Steve?
  Peggy: Ouch! Just when we were becoming pals, Widow!
• For the first time in a long while, we finally see a world where Tony Stark doesn't die (and even did become Iron Man)… and Uatu quickly shuts him down in favor of his partner Gamora. Seems like even he's tired of watching Tony die so many times.
  • The shutting down itself is hilarious. Uatu is talking to Gamora, Tony speaks up, and Uatu quickly says "not you, Stark" before turning his attention back to Gamora. It's almost like a Not Now, Kiddo. In fact, it calls to mind that Tony technically was turned down from being an Avenger too. Fury called him a "consultant".
  • Just before Uatu shows up, Tony is talking about his "suit of armor around the planet" idea. Not only is Gamora not at all interested, but that idea is why Uatu is showing up.
• T'Challa taking out Ego (his human body, at least) so quickly that it doesn't even qualify as a Curb-Stomp Battle. It's just the latest example of T'Challa hilariously, painfully overshadowing Peter Quill in just about everything when it comes to being Star-Lord.
• The Peter Quill of Star-Lord T'Challa's reality calling the Watcher a "giant baby-man cape dude."
• The Watcher finds Party Thor fighting Sentries in Vegas. He tries to talk to him, but Thor is too distracted destroying them all and gets a bit too over-excited. So the Watcher proceeds to pick Thor up in his hand to get his attention, and when Thor finally notices the towering Watcher bringing him closer to him, the scream that he lets out is priceless! Also a hilarious Call-Back to Sacred Timeline Thor's similar reaction upon being introduced to Sakaar's indoctrination video.
  • Thor gets teleported into the pub right next to the other Guardians while still screaming, causing all of them to flinch and wince.
• When T'Challa mentions that he could easily steal one of Ultron's Stones since he's done it before, Erik comments that he really is from another universe.
• When Peggy explains the plan to the team, Thor claims that some people in the room, and definitely not himself, don't understand and need it to be explained to again. This gets him a confused head tilt from T'Challa.
• When told how Steve Rogers received the serum in other universes, Carter has a very intrigued tone of voice when she says that that would be a sight to see. It’s clear that even though she’s in love with Steve as he was - skinny, weak and all - she’d very much like to see him after being given the serum. The multiverse is in danger, and she still can’t help but thirst after her love!
• Strange Supreme's incoherent mess of a toast for the Guardians of the Multiverse, which does nothing but confuse all of them as they all stare at him and awkwardly sift their drinks. Clearly, Stephen's time spent in his pocket dimension has severely hampered his public speaking skills.
  Strange Supreme: A wise sorcerer once told me that to face death is part of the plan. To face death is to conquer one’s… greatest fear of the… unknown. Of… nothingness space of… the end of… all ends! The… senseless nothing and the vast opening of infinity to your—
  T'Challa: Umm… let me. You’ve done enough, Doctor.
• Thor's battlecry of "Viva Las Vegas!" The urgency of Ultron’s arrival suddenly pauses for a moment. The Guardians, and even Ultron himself, are more than baffled by it.
  Ultron: Can’t say I’ve… heard that battle cry before.
  • Thor yells this for a good 10 seconds while blasting Ultron with lightning, which the robot casually blocks with his hand.
• Thor assures the team that he excels at drawing unwanted attention. When the team is preparing to fight Ultron in the morning, he lets out a blast of lightning and immediately attracts Ultron, then reminds them of his own description.
• During the fight, Thor throws his hammer at Ultron, with Strange Supreme using a spell to create multiples. Strange ultimately pulls the hammers together to pin Ultron… with one last hammer zipping in at the end with a "ding!"
• Strange Supreme eating Ultron's galaxy-destroying explosion (coupled with a smug grin) makes the robot stutter. Since Ultron himself had already eaten a galaxy while fighting Uatu, perhaps it's a sense of feeling overshadowed!
  Ultron: Wait, what?
• When Strange Supreme summons a huge horde of zombies right on top of Ultron, Thor briefly geeks out at the sight of them, saying that he loves zombies.
• Infinity Ultron vs. Zombie Scarlet Witch sounds like Cool vs. Awesome, but ends up being such a stomp in the former's favor, it's hilarious. Not only does he No-Sell her attack, Scarlet Witch only has a split-second to go Oh, Crap! before he nukes the whole damn planet she's standing on!
• When Thor asks about multiversal Chinese food delivery, Strange Supreme snarks at Uatu, "You picked them." Later, when Gamora shows off the Infinity Crusher, Uatu responds "Yep, I picked them."
  • Either Uatu or Strange did in fact pick up/conjure Chinese food for Thor.
• As a Call-Back to "Crikey, O'Reilly!" from Agent Carter, Captain Carter gives a series of very stereotypical British swears as she takes a rough trip between universes.
  "Blimey… bloody… bollocks!"
  • It's also good to see that, much like the other Captain, Peggy doesn't always watch her language.
• Thor decides that the situation is one of Loki's jokes, walks out the door (ignoring Strange Supreme's warning that it's a bad idea), almost gets sucked into a vortex, and frantically pulls himself back into the pub.
• During the fight against Ultron, T'Challa ends up literally hanging on with both arms around Ultron's neck. Hearing a cosmically powerful villain reduced to saying "Get off!" in an incredibly peeved voice is hilarious.
  • Even funnier in that this actually worked and T'Challa successfully stole the Soul Stone without him even realizing it.
• Similar to the above moment, once the Guardians manage to snatch the Soul Stone away from Ultron, he reacts by saying "You stole my Soul Stone?!". Hearing one of the most powerful villains in the multiverse sound like a whining child is something else.
• Peggy's surprised reaction when she sees Zola in Ultron's body, leading Nat to snark that "HYDRA never died, it just mutated." Thor takes this Literal-Minded, and points out the "stomach face."
• When Natasha at the end of the episode refuses to return to her post-apocalyptic lifeless universe through the door the Watcher opened, Uatu comments that "the door was more of a metaphor anyway" before sending her to the Dead Avengers universe.

Season 2

Episode 1: What If… Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?

• When Nebula first arrives at the casino, a small, pug-like bouncer opens the door’s eyehole and asks if she has a warrant. Nebula just forces the door open and sends the little guy flying.
• When Howard sees Nebula, he asks a waitress to either give her small bites or megabytes.
• According to Korg, the data core contains sanitation department metadata, unpaid parking tickets, rush hour statistics, the source code for the shield generator keeping Ronan and his forces from invading Xandar, even an actual kitchen sink!
  Howard: Wait, go back one!
  Korg: Unpaid parking tickets?
  Howard: Not that one!
  Korg: Rush hour statistics?
  Howard: The OTHER back one!
  Korg: Source code for the shield generator?
  Howard: Bingo.
  • Prior to that, Howard states that no one knows what the data core contains just seconds before Korg cheerfully gives exposition on what it is. Howard even lampshades how the hell Korg would know what it is!
• Groot, Miek, and Korg playing Rock–Paper–Scissors. But Korg tries to cheat by stating he's indestructible paper. Because he's a rock person.
• Nebula is just barely able to make it back to Howard’s casino before collapsing, accidentally triggering a slot machine, causing it to dump all its coins on top of her.
  Howard: This is terrible! …Those things aren’t supposed to pay out!
• Nebula convincing Howard to help her:
  Nebula: Now about those guns-
  Howard: Guns? Nebula, even if I had, say, heavy weaponry, you know, military grade, sure to kill, which I’m NOT saying I do, breaking them out would be bad for business!
  Nebula: Nova Prime’s helping Ronan launch an invasion. How’s that going to help business?
  Howard: Business takes care of itself.
  Nebula: The people of Xandar are going to suffer.
  Howard: They’ll drink more!
  Nebula: Nova Prime will take your liquor license.
  (Beat)
  Howard: ...No! Rock, Paper, Scissors, [Korg, Groot, Miek] strap up! It’s happy hour!
  (Cue heavy weapons popping up from under every casino table)
• After a Lock-and-Load Montage, Korg ruins it by stating that the five of them — him, Nebula, Howard, Groot, and Miek — are looking badass. Which is then followed by Nebula instantly mowing down guards with the Yakka arrow.
  Howard: Huh. Show-off.
  Nebula: It's called style. Get some.
  Howard: Get some? I'm wearing a bandana!
• Korg beats up two soldiers before he feels a crack in his backside, muttering how he should've stretched first.

Episode 2: What If... Peter Quill Fought the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes?

• Pym's first scene is to try and convince Hope that potato chips are considered vegetables.
• Howard Stark calls up Hank Pym and tells him not to hang up. Guess what Hank does immediately.
• Stark jokingly compares Quill’s rampage to his own difficult child.
  • Speaking of which, when Hope explains that it's Ego making Peter act the way he is, Stark sarcastically notes that of course it's the fault of the absentee dad.
• When Peter and Hope are introduced to Goose, Peter comments that he's a dog person, which Hope playfully scolds him about.
• When Bill (standing at 21 feet) sees Ego turn into a massive stone version of himself, he mutters how he needs to get bigger.
• The end of the episode has Thor being excited over light beer.

Episode 3: What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?

• The entire episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Die Hard and everyone lampshades the references.
• The Watcher begins the episode with his own version of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas before it somehow segues to a purple Hulk fighting off the Avengers in Christmas costumes. He then goes back to how it all started, two hours prior, "when nothing was on fire".
• Darcy gives poor Happy the code name “Puffin-Two”. Apparently Puffin-One went to Bernard from Accounting.
• Happy sends Darcy to get some maraschino cherries, saying they're all out... while staring right at a full jar of them.
• What's Maria Hill's idea of being festive? A snowman pin on her SHIELD jumpsuit.
• Happy tries calling Natasha for assistance, but she's preoccupied with a mission to take out a HYDRA assassin. For reasons never revealed, the mission results in her and the assassin confronting each other in a life-or-death faceoff while wearing classical ballerina outfits. And Natasha is still wearing it when she later arrives at Avengers Tower.
• Hogan accidentally gets injected with Hulk blood. It turns him into a Hulk... eventually. He spends a decent proportion of the time with one massive hulked-out leg, and only that one leg.
• Happy closing his eyes and pretending he's invisible in the dark... only for Hammer's men to just turn on the lights.
• Hawkeye still doesn't get any respect. After being treated as an afterthought in Rogers: the Musical, a frame of this episode's closing credits show that his action figure is on sale at a steep discount but can't be moved off shelves. He is also told that he has to get an Iron Man toy for Laura or he doesn't come back home at all.
• Justin Hammer being the Big Bad of the episode inevitably makes this one of the funniest episodes. His dialogue is just as funny and childishly giddy as ever before!
  Hammer: I'm sick of this lady [Maria Hill] roasting my chestnuts!
  • How did he enter Avengers Tower? Darcy passed by him while she was busy looking up holiday songs on her phone.
• Justin Hammer seemingly starts explaining how he wanted a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas only for the hostages to call him out for describing the movie's plot. Even the Russian goons he brought with him know the movie well enough to remember the infamous lamp. One hostage even offers "You'll shoot your eye out?" as the reason why Hammer never got the present.
• Hammer is so petty that he wants to sit on Stark's personal throne. And he's not flushing.
• Maria is in utter disbelief of Hammer calling himself Stark's biggest rival and sarcastically asks if he's Wealth Tax.
• When Happy calls him, Tony Stark is playing a mall Santa for charity while Steve is stuck in an elf costume and getting lots of attention from the soccer moms.
  Tony: Happy, can you tell Timmy here that a replica Cap shield is nothing but a patriotic frisbee?
  • Continuing this, Tony's gift to Steve is a pair of socks. Iron Man socks.
• When Happy fully Hulks Out, the background music plays a thrilling, suspenseful, Scare Chord of Jingle Bells.
• When Hammer summons the Hulkbuster, Darcy squees that it's Santa. When Hammer gets equipped with the Hulkbuster, he proclaims he's Santa Claus.
  • Not to mention referring to Happy's transformed self as "Hulk Hogan".
• During the big Avengers fight against Happy, Bruce just sits back while eating a sugar cookie and wearing a sweater that says "Chemistree".
• Thor arrives at the end of the episode to deliver the final line but gets sidetracked when he realizes he missed the party.
  • Meanwhile, most of the building is on fire... though that might be a normal aftermath for Asgardian parties.
• The backup AI that Maria and Darcy choose is named WERNER and it is a deadpan German nihilist. Moreover, how does Darcy eventually override them? With Ctrl + Alt + Delete!
• After "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" plays during the credits, we are treated to a song sung by Darcy that lasts for the rest of the credits.

Episode 4: What If... Iron Man Crashed Into the Grandmaster?

• The episode starts with the Watcher Leaning on the Fourth Wall by recapping the Guardians of the Multiverse from the previous season and explains to the audience that they don't know Gamora's story, which was going to be in Season 1 before it was delayed to this season.
• Tony wonders if he died and went to heaven when he crashes on Sakaar. One moment getting sprayed with foam later:
  Tony: (Incredibly unamused) Uh no, this is Hell, I've gone to Hell.
• The Grandmaster takes the centre stage once again and is just as Laughably Evil as ever. Everything from his Insistent Terminology (the people are not "starving" because of a famine he caused, they're just "peckish"), his casual fun-loving side, his utter disregard for the people Sakaar, and his childish narcissism— they're all on full display, and it's hilarious to watch.
  Grandmaster: (watches a racer's car explode) Yeah! Fitting end for... who was that guy?
• The people used to throw rotten food at crashed racers, but due to recent famines, they switched to… small animals. Chinchillas, to be precise.
  • After a humiliating crash, Valkyrie trades a chinchilla to an audience member for his beer.
• Tony’s analysis of Valkyrie:
  Tony: My guess, and I’m in no way speaking from personal experience, you want the thrill. To feel alive, if only for a moment, you know? So you can forget whatever mistake has you chasing that demon in a bottle.
  Valkyrie: (Putting down her bottle) First, Demon in a Bottle is sewer water. This is Demon Rum. Top-shelf. Gold label.
  • Tony later tries some Demon Rum, much to his chagrin.
• Korg has a chinchilla with him for almost the entire episode, including the race.
• Korg mentions that the Grandmaster once used him as a paperweight, which he cites as the ultimate insult as "paper is [his] natural enemy".
• The Power Walk that Tony, Korg, and Valkyrie perform? Turns out they were actually walking slowly. Korg even thanks Valkyrie and Tony for fulling that wish of his.
• Also during the race, when everyone gets to the big drop, almost everybody freaks out except for Topaz who just gives a flat "Weeeee".
• When the Grandmaster is ahead in the race, he drives past a gigantic golden statue of himself. Not only does he check it out with some serious interest, but he winks at it. What makes it even funnier? The statue winks back. (Whether Grandmaster is imagining this or he actually designed his statues to be able to wink at him is unclear)
• The Running Gag of everyone dubbing Tony as "Mr. Metal Mojo Man", much to Tony's chagrin. When Thanos calls him "Iron Man", Gamora snarks that someone finally said his alias right.
  • Between this and Thor being dubbed "Lord of Thunder" on the Sacred Timeline, one must wonder if the Grandmaster is physically incapable of referring to an Avenger with the correct name.
• The Grandmaster's demise by melting may seem horrible at first glance... but he still keeps his wisecracking attitude.
  Grandmaster: (sings in falsetto) Woah, I'm melting... (in normal voice, unfazed) Hey, I like it. What is this? Woah, that feels good. Ooooh... viscous.
  Korg: He smells like bad life choices.
  • Even when Thanos begins to melt after Topaz's staff touches him, his facial expression looks mildly annoyed rather than horrified.
  • Sure enough, a melted puddle of what used to be Grandmaster returns for the brief scene after the initial credits roll. Jeff Goldblum's unfazed speaking tone really sells the moment.
  Grandmaster: Oh, Topaz! I'm glad you're still here. Hey, uh, can you bring me a bucket? I need a bucket and a mop at this point. Sponge me! Sponge me up. I need to be absorbed by something... eugh.

Episode 5: What If... Captain Carter Fought the HYDRA Stomper?

• Uatu begins the episode by stating how much he's not into sequels, which is even funnier when you realize the previous episode is a prequel.
• When the Hydra Stomper suddenly opens fire on her and Black Widow, it's shown that, just like Steve Rogers in main canon, Peggy is still trying to catch up on pop culture after arriving in the future.
  Black Widow: More like RoboCop
  Peggy: Robo-what?
  Black Widow: You haven't seen that? We'll rent it. Solid movie.
  • Though she has apparently gotten to some of the bigger ones when she later mentions worrying that Steve will end up in prison somewhere, frozen in carbonite.
  Black Widow: "Frozen in carbonite?" Wow. So that's how you spend your Saturday nights.
• The fake suburban town that the Red Room created for training is an Uncanny Valley Eagleland caricature.
• The Watcher is blindsided yet again, this time by Peggy’s abduction into another universe:
  Uatu: I am the Watcher. I see all, I observe all, I know— (magic warbling of a portal) What the hell is this?
• And without missing a beat, the minute Peggy sees medieval-themed variants of Nick Fury and Wanda Maximoff...
  Peggy: So much for taking a night off. Watcher! WATCHER!?

Episode 6: What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?

• Kahhori's brother assumes that the ducks on the "decoy lake" are also decoys.
• Kahhori losing control of her newfound Super-Speed.
  Kahhori: How do you stop?
  Ahtaraks: You just stop!
• Kahhori trying and failing to reach the portal while Ahtaraks snarks at her.
  Ahtaraks: The record is fourteen steps.
• Queen Isabella desperately trying to keep her undergarments from being exposed when Kahhori levitates her in front of her whole court.

Episode 7: What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?

• Also like Sacred Timeline Thor, Hela tries to pick up her helmet, but fails due to not being worthy amidst a backdrop of rain, thunder and lightning. And this happens in front of Wenwu's soldiers, who watch unimpressed as Hela laughs nervously like a bombing comedian.
• While waiting for Hela to change clothes, Wenwu fiddles with one of his rings out of boredom.
• After Hela dresses in said new outfit, Wenwu tells her that the color of the dress stands for good fortune and the dress itself is one that can be worn for a wedding. The second part causes Hela to do a Spit Take before commenting that she didn't think Wenwu would try to make her stay with him that permanent (he quickly tells her that he was joking).
• Wenwu, ever the hopeless romantic no matter the universe, eventually falls hard for Hela and predictably overplays his hand as he attempts to plant a kiss on her lips, only to get a face-full of table. After she beats up his men and escapes, he sheepishly demands they bring her back alive! It's as adorable as it is funny.
• Hela follows Hundun after mixing up its face with its rear end.
  Hela: Well, you won't be the first arse I've followed into battle.
• Hela's first appearance in Ta Lo.
  • She halfheartedly tries to recruit their warriors to her cause before asking if the "threats from the underworld" they mention are looking for work.
  • Jiayi says they have ways of ensuring Hela does not betray them. At that moment, the Great Protector flies overhead.
    Hela: Message received.
• Hela attempting to learn the magic of Ta Lo. When she sees their wind powers, she suggests combining it with fire. Or knives. Or knives on fire.
  • She later ACTUALLY uses that combination during her fight with Odin

Episode 8: What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?

• Uatu starts off his normal narration, which is quickly interrupted by Peggy stating that she can clearly hear him.
  Uatu: Wait, you can?
• When Rogers Hood tells Captain Carter that his own Peggy died years ago, she accidentally blurts out "Good!"
• When Tony presents the device to locate the Forerunner, a random screw pops off of it. He quickly comments that it was decorative.
• When the group prepares to steal the Time Stone from the scepter to power the device, Steve wonders what the signal to start the heist is going to be, cue Hulk smashing through a wall shouting SIGNAL.
  Peggy: I guess that's the signal.
• Hogan's apparent calling is to be someone's head of security (or in this case, captain of the guard) in every universe, apparently.
  • His hurricane of Flowery Elizabethan English insults, particularly during the fight scene(s). It's clear Jon Favreau was having way too much fun recording his lines.

Episode 9: What If... Strange Supreme Intervened?

• Peggy asks Uatu if he's there to help or just to narrate things. When Uatu starts doing the latter, Peggy snarks that of course he's narrating.
  Uatu: It's my job.
• Peggy and Kahhori are confronted by Thanos, who gets promptly Snapped by Killmonger. Peggy tells Kahhori that they'll need the Infinity Armor to fight Strange, but they'll need to get Killmonger out of it. So Kahhori does just that. She teleports Killmonger right out of the armor and drops him into the melee upstairs.
• Peggy tries to warn Kahoori about the zombies, to which Kahhori immediately gets the reference to because zombies are universal.
• When Strange begins dropping his captured villains and heroes into his Forge, and Kahhori then saving them by levitating them back up, it then has this repeating back and forth with them all going up and down like yo-yos or bungee jumpers.

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