welcome to the Spoiler Explained In this video we check What if, full series recap seasons
one Episode 1 through nine.
Episode 1.
Title "What If.
Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?"
During World War II, Steve Rogers is chosen to become the world's first super-soldier,
but is wounded by a Hydra spy before he can receive the super-soldier serum.
SSR agent Peggy Carter kills the spy and receives the serum instead.
She is enhanced but banned from combat by SSR leader John Flynn.
After she takes the Tesseract from Hydra with a vibranium shield created by inventor Howard
Stark, Flynn reluctantly promotes her to the combat role of "Captain Carter".
Stark uses the Tesseract to create a weaponized, armored suit for Rogers to pilot as the "Hydra
Stomper".
Carter and Rogers fight many battles until he goes missing while attacking a Hydra train.
Carter and her allies find Rogers when they infiltrate a Hydra base and see Red Skull
using the Tesseract to open a portal and summon an interdimensional creature, which kills
him.
Carter enters the closing portal to force the creature back.
Almost 70 years later, the Tesseract opens another portal from which Carter emerges,
meeting Nick Fury and Clint Barton.
Episode 2.
Title "What If.
T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"
In 1988, the Ravagers are sent to Earth by a Celestial called Ego to retrieve his son
Peter Quill, but mistakenly abduct a young T'Challa from Wakanda.
Twenty years later, T'Challa has become the famous intergalactic mercenary "Star-Lord"
and has been convinced by Ravager leader Yondu Udonta that Wakanda was destroyed.
Nebula approaches the Ravagers and proposes to steal the Embers of Genesis, a cosmic artifact
capable of eradicating galactic hunger, from galactic kingpin Taneleer Tivan.
At Tivan's headquarters on Knowhere, they offer him the Power Stone as a distraction.
Meanwhile, T'Challa looks for the Embers, but he finds a Wakandan spacecraft that was
searching for him.
Nebula seemingly betrays the Ravagers, who are captured, but this is another ruse to
obtain the Embers.
Tivan's slave Carina rescues T'Challa and helps the Ravagers defeat Tivan.
T'Challa forgives Udonta for lying about Wakanda, and they return there so T'Challa can reunite
with his family.
Elsewhere, Ego approaches Quill, a Dairy Queen janitor.
Episode 3.
Title "What If.
the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?"
Over the course of a week, Shield Director Nick Fury attempts to recruit heroes for the
Avengers Initiative, but they are each mysteriously killed: Natasha Romanoff gives Tony Stark
an unexpectedly fatal injection, Clint Barton accidentally shoots and kills Thor before
dying in Shield custody, Bruce Banner, Hulk explodes, and Romanoff is attacked and killed
while investigating the other murders.
Before she dies, Romanoff tells Fury that the murders are related to "hope".
The Asgardians, led by Loki, arrive on Earth to avenge Thor, but Fury proposes an alliance
to apprehend the killer.
Fury deduces that Hank Pym is the murderer and has been using his shrinking technology
to commit the murders as revenge for the death of his daughter, Hope van Dyne, who died in
the line of duty as a Shield.
agent.
Fury and Loki defeat Pym, who is taken into Asgardian custody.
Loki chooses to stay on Earth, becoming its ruler.
Fury begins assembling more heroes, finding Steve Rogers frozen in ice and summoning Carol
Danvers to Earth.
Episode 4.
Title "What If.
Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?"
After losing his girlfriend Dr. Christine Palmer in a car crash, Dr. Stephen Strange
travels to Kamar-Taj and learns the Mystic Arts.
He discovers the Eye of Agamotto, which can manipulate time, but is warned by the Ancient
One and Wong that doing so could destroy reality.
Two years later, Strange repeatedly attempts to use the Eye to save Palmer, but she still
dies in every scenario.
The Ancient One tells Strange that Palmer's death is an "absolute point" in the timeline
that cannot be undone, but Strange refuses to listen.
Using the power of the Dark Dimension, the Ancient One splits Strange into two alternate
versions: one Strange accepts Palmer's death while the other gains power by absorbing mystical
beings, becoming Strange Supreme.
This evil version overpowers the good Strange, absorbs him, and uses his power to resurrect
Palmer, tearing reality apart.
Strange Supreme begs the Watcher for help, but he refuses to intervene.
Palmer disintegrates and the universe collapses, leaving Strange Supreme to grieve alone.
Episode 5.
Title "What If.
Zombies"
In the Quantum Realm, Hank Pym finds Janet van Dyne, but she infects him with a quantum
virus.
They return to Earth and cause a zombie apocalypse.
Two weeks later, a group of survivors—Bruce Banner, Hope van Dyne, Peter Parker, Bucky
Barnes, Okoye, Sharon Carter, Happy Hogan, and Kurt—learn there is a potential cure
at Camp Lehigh.
They lose Hogan, Carter, and Hope to zombie attacks on the way there, where they meet
Vision.
His Mind Stone can reverse the virus, exemplified by a cured Scott Lang's head kept alive in
a jar, but an infected Wanda Maximoff is immune to the cure and Vision has been feeding pieces
of T'Challa to her.
Maximoff breaks free and kills Kurt, Okoye, and Barnes.
Vision commits suicide to give the Mind Stone to Parker.
Banner transforms into the Hulk and sacrifices himself to battle Maximoff, allowing the others
to escape.
To broadcast the Stone's energy across the world, Parker, Lang, and T'Challa go to Wakanda,
where a zombified Thanos wields a nearly-complete Infinity Gauntlet.
Episode 6.
Title "What If.
Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?"
In Afghanistan, Tony Stark is ambushed by the Ten Rings, but is saved by Erik "Killmonger"
Stevens.
They return to Stark Industries, where Killmonger exposes Obadiah Stane's involvement in the
ambush before helping Stark build a humanoid combat drone using vibranium.
Needing more vibranium to create a drone army, they arrange for James Rhodes to purchase
it from Ulysses Klaue.
At Killmonger's behest, Klaue leaks word of the transaction to Wakanda to lure in T'Challa.
Killmonger kills both T'Challa and Rhodes, staging it as if they killed each other.
Stark confronts Killmonger, but Killmonger kills him and makes it look like a Wakandan
attack.
Killmonger then kills Klaue and reunites with his relatives in Wakanda.
Thaddeus Ross sends the drone army to attack Wakanda, but Killmonger helps the Wakandans
defeat them, becoming the new Black Panther.
As the United States prepares another attack, T'Challa's sister Shuri visits Pepper Potts,
who was suspicious of Killmonger, and proposes an alliance to expose the truth.
Episode 7.
Title "What If.
Thor Were an Only Child?"
After defeating the Frost Giants, Odin discovers the abandoned infant Loki and returns him
to Laufey.
Centuries later, Odin's only son Thor has become a boisterous, party-loving prince.
While Odin sleeps and Frigga is away, Thor travels to Earth to host a large party with
aliens from across the universe.
His arrival attracts the attention of Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis, who join the party.
As Thor and Foster grow close, acting S.H.I.E.L.D.
director Maria Hill summons Carol Danvers to end the destruction caused by Thor's antics.
Danvers is unable to defeat Thor without exerting her full power, so Lewis and Hill suggest
she take the fight to a less populated area while Foster contacts Frigga with Heimdall's
help.
Hill readies a nuclear strike as Danvers and Thor begin to battle again, but Frigga contacts
them and says she is coming.
Thor and the party-goers clean up the mess before she arrives.
Later, Thor asks Foster out on a date but is interrupted by an army of drones led by
Ultron, who is in Vision's body and possesses all six Infinity Stones.
Episode 8.
Title "What If.
Ultron Won?"
Ultron, having taken the Mind Stone and Vision's vibranium body, has defeated the Avengers
and launched a global nuclear holocaust, killing most of humanity.
When Thanos appears on Earth to complete the Infinity Gauntlet, Ultron bisects him and
takes the rest of the Infinity Stones, using them to create a massive drone army with which
he wipes out almost all life in his universe.
Ultron then hears the Watcher, discovering the existence of the multiverse, and attacks
the Watcher in his multiversal observatory.
Meanwhile, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff survive Ultron's attacks and find a copy of
Arnim Zola's mind in Siberia.
They upload Zola into a drone body to try to destroy Ultron's hive mind, but it fails
because Ultron has left their universe.
Barton sacrifices himself to allow Romanoff and Zola to escape from the Ultron drones.
Ultron battles the Watcher across different universes and defeats him.
The Watcher flees to Strange Supreme's collapsed universe to ask him for help while Ultron
plans to conquer the multiverse.
Episode 9.
Title "What If.
the Watcher Broke His Oath?"
The Watcher recruits Strange Supreme, Captain Carter, Star-Lord T'Challa, "Party" Thor,
Black Panther Killmonger, and a Gamora variant who killed Thanos from their respective universes
to battle Ultron, dubbing them the "Guardians of the Multiverse".
They confront Ultron in a lifeless universe where Strange summons a horde of zombies,
which Ultron overpowers.
In Ultron's home universe, the Guardians encounter Natasha Romanoff.
With Carter's help, Romanoff shoots Ultron with an arrow containing Arnim Zola's mind.
Zola destroys Ultron from within and takes control of his body, while Killmonger betrays
the Guardians and tries to claim Ultron's Infinity Stones for himself.
As Zola and Killmonger struggle over the Stones, Strange and the Watcher seal them in a time-looped
pocket dimension, which Strange agrees to watch over.
The Watcher returns Strange, Carter, T'Challa, Gamora, and Thor to their respective universes.
Romanoff refuses to return to hers, so the Watcher brings her to one in which the Avengers
candidates were assassinated, where she helps defeat Loki.
In a mid-credits scene, Carter and her universe's Romanoff discover the Hydra Stomper armor
with someone inside.