Oh this wednesday the secrets of the multiverse will be revealed oh i'm counting on it
ponder the question
follow me enter the multiverse of infinite possibilities
where the stories you thought you knew are nothing like you remember
it is our only chance
the red skull wants to destroy our world i say we return the favor what if
captain carter was the first avenger
reality is not a straight line every passing moment is a chance for a new
offshoot a new variation in fact there are more realities than you can possibly fathom
an infinite number of what ifs i'm jeffrey wright and as the voice of the watcher and marvel's what
if i can see what few others can the totality of the multiverse across all time and space
the stories you thought you knew are nothing like you remember and foes who became friends
uh wow i did not see that coming
Welcome back everyone happy what if week there's a whole bunch of new trailer footage we'll
break down a bunch of easter eggs also explain what's going on with thanos because obviously
things are radically different in all these alternate universes that we're going to see
is part of this big multiverse plot also what's going on with thor doctor strange some of the
other big characters so if you're brand new to the channel i'm doing videos for all the episodes my
full episode one video is going to post tomorrow that's right we're finally getting episodes also
do a giveaway for disney plus memberships all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber
and just leave all your predictions for the series on the video just to explain what the vibe is and
how things connect at least at the beginning of the series and then how they changed that
later in the series the series is meant to be canon to the mcu and some of these characters
from the alternate universes will eventually show up in live action like they've been talking about
captain carter being one of the biggest ones to show up in live action eventually but there'll be
more characters beyond her if the producer says that any of the twists that you see in episodes
any of the alternate versions of characters can eventually get their own live-action spin-off
series like it's all up for grabs there are no limits but if you've never read the what if comic
book series each of the episodes at least at the beginning of this series deals with a different
alternate universe so like for instance the universe the timeline where peggy carter winds
up becoming captain carter a version of captain britain is a different universe from the universe
where black panther becomes a version of star-lord which is also going to be a different universe
that they visit during episode 3 for instance and it's the watcher that connects everything
as if he's watching all these alternate timelines and alternate realities play out
it's really not till later in the series that the different universe characters start to cross over
and they start to hype up the idea of the guardians of the multiverse they're sort of
multiverse avengers team or the exiles if you're a big comic book fan like in the later trailer
footage you see a version of dark doctor strange like dormammu strange however you want to call him
working with a version of party thor you see the mirror the avengers assemble moment but it's
the guardians of the multiverse and it's all the different versions of the characters like you have
the version of killmonger that becomes black panther with a version of black panther that
became star-lord a version of gamora in thanos armor with his weapons so actually just to explain
what's going on with thanos because he doesn't show up during a lot of this trailer footage but
he is a big part of the episodes in the series because he's such a huge mcu character and this
is all about showing you what would happen if a few things changed and maybe it shouldn't come
as a surprise but episode two is the black panther becoming star-lord episode what if black panther
was taken by yondu instead of peter quill and that winds up radically altering the history of
the universe in ways you couldn't possibly imagine the whole thing with the version of thanos that's
showing up during the series at least at first the first version of thanos is is what if thanos had
actually turned good what if he abandoned his plan to erase half of all life in the universe
so when i say that black panther becoming star-lord has huge consequences for the universe
that's one of them and they did clarify why yondu winds up picking him up in wakanda instead of
picking peter quill up as a child in 1988 it's all because of a mix-up so it's not because
black panther's mother slept with ego the living planet so ego the living planet in the black
panther episode is not his father they didn't want to get that spicy but the whole idea is
that t'challa is a child looks up at the stars and just wants to see the world beyond wakanda
like he just wants to go explore the galaxy yondu and the ravagers have a big mix-up so instead of
picking peter quill up like they were supposed to they go to wakanda and they pick up t'challa
thinking mistakenly that he is ego the living planet's child for the most part he gets peter
quill's backstory growing up with the ravagers yondu still becomes his surrogate father names
him star-lord and you see them follow a slightly different version of the plot of the guardians of
the galaxy movie in present day with a slightly different version of the ravagers because of what
happened in the alternate timeline where black panther was star-lord so this is where we get
back to the thanos of it all so in this timeline thanos turns good abandons his plan to erase half
of all life becomes a ravager and winds up getting teased a lot about it by all of his new comrades
like a racing half of all life that would make you a psychopath that's genocide like mass genocide
killing all those people in that timeline gamora still winds up being his adopted daughter they
still have their very contentious father-daughter relationship but the way they explain is that
because his life played out the exact same up to the events just before the guardians of the galaxy
movies he still had been going around one planet at a time trying to erase half of all life so the
way she became his adopted daughter is still the same it's not really till the late 80s when yondu
winds up picking t'challa up by mistake and he becomes star-lord in the mid-90s as he starts
to grow up with the ravagers and they go around the galaxy that the timeline really starts to
diverge up to the present day of the guardians of the galaxy movies where you see thanos and gamora
and all these different versions of the characters and the whole idea that black panther star-lord's
version of the ravagers is still a group of people that goes around stealing from the rich and giving
to the poor robin hood style like a slightly less dirtbag version of the ravagers than you see in
guardians of the galaxy one and two also because they're doing the whole what if thanos became
good you have the idea that basically ultron winds up replacing thanos as sort of avengers infinity
war level boss assembling the infinity gauntlet or becoming himself a living infinity gauntlet
because all the infinity stones are embedded in him he doesn't need to wear a gauntlet the other
joke about peter quill during that black panther episode is that you see him working in the dairy
queen which has a whole lot of ant-man energy baskin-robbins always finds out but the joke is
is that in the midwest at least during this time in history dairy queen was the biggest ice cream
chain like there wasn't a lot of baskin robbins in the midwest at that time and peter quill is from
missouri all the captain carter peggy carter stuff we're going to see tomorrow during episode one
the whole idea what if she became a version of captain america but because she's british
she's part of the british army she becomes the version of captain britain so to speak that's
why she has all the union jack flair they actually changed the captain america official twitter from
falcon's version of captain america to represent captain carter for the duration of her episode and
some of the series they will change the twitter account back to the falcon captain america for
the live-action movies eventually this is just a gimmick that they're doing for the what-if series
right now but we do finally get some footage of red skull with the tesseract and we see peggy
carter talking about how he wants to destroy the world which sort of ties in with the idea of this
tentacle creature that looks like it came from a doctor strange movie coming through a tesseract
portal red skull's whole plan in the original captain america movie was that he just wanted
to conquer the planet not destroy the planet it sounds like this version of red skull that we
see during the series as things go down a little bit differently the timeline changes because what
happens with peggy carter just gets a little more high on himself in the power of the infinity stone
the space stone and the tesseract so things really start to go off the rails with the way he uses it
but in the way that you see captain carter here meeting the dark version of doctor strange in some
of the trailer footage that doesn't happen until way later episodes so during the first episode
you don't really get the full sense for how everything's meant to be connected other than
jeffrey wright's version of the watcher sort of narrating everything and serving as the backbone
for the continuity at least at the beginning of the series the whole thing with episode three is
it also incorporates a lot of the events from the marvel phase one movies like you see the avengers
forming but there's a very big twist on that it also gets into some of what you see here with the
dead version of iron man from the events of iron man 2 inside the donut shop it's kind of a murder
mystery episode that deals with the conceit what if the avengers were murdered before they could
form and become the avengers like you see iron man collapsed there with his coffee spilled as if he's
been murdered and you see nick fury in some of the hydra agents like crossbones and the other hydra
agents from winter soldier carting black widow off as if they're arresting her thinking that maybe
she's a suspect also during that episode there's a really cool twist on the hulk so mark ruffalo
is back as his version of bruce banner hulk for the entire series and it'll be a couple different
versions of the hulk because we're visiting a bunch of different universes but at least this
first version of the hulk that we wind up seeing because when this is happening this big murder
mystery about the avengers is during the events of marvel phase one when we're still introducing
the characters it's actually mark ruffalo doing some of the plot from the incredible hulk movie
so it's mark ruffalo doing a version of edward norton's incredible hulk if you think about it
even though they're meant to be the same character it already has a lot of multiverse alternate
timeline meta energy getting to the whole loki of it all with kang in the multiverse war the sacred
timeline changing timelines like the joke that we should blame he who remains kang for messing with
the sacred timeline and that's the reason edward norton's hulk turned into mark ruffalo's hulk
like the changing timelines is the reason for the recasting each of the episodes is meant to feel
like a big marvel movie but as the episodes go on the same way that they paced out the loki episodes
the wand division episodes the falcon winter soldier episodes things get crazier and crazier
with each new episode like crazier twists bigger conceits that's why the marvel zombies of it all
which is probably one of the craziest things they do during the series doesn't happen until the way
later episodes when you get up to the events of avengers infinity war in the whole ultron of it
all ultron assembling all six infinity stones and taking vision's body but if you spotted any
new easter eggs in the footage that i didn't talk about in the video or you have big questions about
what's happening with the different versions of the characters or how everything's going to work
and the continuity just write it below in the comments and i'll add it to my episode 1 video
when i post that tomorrow everyone click here to learn what's going on with spiderman during the
marvel what if episodes and click here for more marvel what if episode 1 footage and easter eggs
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you in the next video!