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I genuinely believe that what if is one of the most creative series that marvel comics
has ever printed it allows fans of old and new to see unique versions of the marvel universe
that they're just never going to see in the real continuity such as what if jane foster became thor
and out there concepts like what if spider-man joined the fantastic four and my personal favorite
that i haven't just dreamed about for the last couple of years what if aunt may had to create
an only fans after uncle ben died so to celebrate the upcoming tv show i thought i'd sit down and
reminisce about the 15 weirdest what-if titles that i've read your list is probably gonna be
different and that's cool but admittedly it's not going to change mine number 15 from volume
2 issue 9 i've got what if the x-men died on the first mission this is one of those titles
that when you hear it you think it's going to be pretty straightforward and it's like well
the x-men won't exist and this isn't really too weird or insane it's one of the more interesting
concepts that i think they've done a lot of what if tends to take an event from regular
marvel continuity and just flip it around a little bit to give you a different perspective
but the reason why i really like this what if story and that i thought it was weird is because
it allowed me to get a bit more insight into the regular x-men continuity and just how important
the x-men is to charles xavier i can't lie he does a lot of moping about and crying in this issue and
i can't really blame him because you know he pretty much sent a bunch of mutant kids to the
death but more than highlighting them as just a superhero team it focused on the point that this
is actually a family yeah yeah i know another bold fictional character talking about family because
we need another one of those but from being brutally honest i think this is one that i
prefer the concept of more than the execution and i think it could have leaned into the style of
other titles and been a bit zanier a bit crazier and done something a bit more out of the box
we've got italian number 14 because it's what if spider-man were bitten by a radioactive sheep and
what if wolverine were a wimp these both featured an issue 100 of volume 2 but unfortunately there
isn't really a story to go with this if there had been it probably would have been much higher up on
this list and it's two concepts that i really wish we could have seen these were pretty much just one
shot covers there was nothing to go with it there isn't even a writer that's credited with the idea
but sometimes what if it's just about doing the daftest idea that you can think about so i'm
really surprised that they didn't take the bait with this one for example if wolverine was a wimp
it'd be interesting to see how he would go for the weapon x project and he also still might not end
up with jean grey number 13 i've got what if hulk landed on the planet that the illuminati intended
for him this is from the what if special for planet hulk and i also really like the original
story that's in this it basically became what if hulk but with the lady that was introduced whose
name just eludes me at the moment but the second story where hulk lands on this peaceful planet
is just really interesting and it's pretty much written like a silent issue he makes friends with
some kind of weird space hippo and he ends up just having quite a good time and becoming some kind of
like folk icon he also realizes as well that it's better off to stay in his hulk form and manages
to find that balance between hulk and bruce banner so it's weird just thinking that if the story had
gone the way that the illuminati had intended hulk probably would have been better off but
we wouldn't have been better off because planning talk is such a great event they even made it quite
high into my top 10 list of the marvel one and don omnibuses number 12 i've got what if spider-man
kept his six arms i think this is one of the first what-if issues that i looked for when i was slowly
getting into the series because i just think spider-man with six arms is such a great concept
and i know that it's based on amazing spider-man issue 100 and the thing with what if is that i
like the stories that tend to go towards more hypothetical where something from the inception
of a team or a character is completely changed or reversed because i think that's where you get the
wider ramifications but at the same time i really enjoyed this story peter slowly starts to realize
that there's actually some benefits to him having all these extra arms like he's got even greater
strength and he can punch more people at once but this is also one of those spider-man stories
where he just keeps doing stuff wrong and things just keep going waste for him like all the greats
that have come before it so first it goes to look for doctor connors which just ends up making him
transform into the lizard and they have a pretty decent fight then he goes to see mr fantastic and
in one of the most bizarre sequences that i've read in a good long time the thing comes in and
says hey spidey i've got something to tell you spider-man then has a go at him for saying that
he doesn't want to know the lecture about how it's okay to be a monster then they get into a fight
just for pretty much nothing and then they break it up shake hands and the thing then goes no what
i was actually going to tell you is that doc ock was holding people hostage like who with any kind
of urgent message would just stroll in and be like hey spidey i've got a message for you just seems
like a situation that didn't need to happen but i'm really glad they did because this was
a really enjoyable story number 11 i've got what if thor battled conan the barbarian from volume 1
issue 39 as well i find this weird is because the title of the book is only a couple of pages long
after the first introduced to each other thor and conan actually become friends together and then
conan talks to him about krom thor then decides to ascend the mountain so that he can encounter him
and he gets into more of a fight with this other god than he did with conan which was the title
of the book in all honesty i would have still been as excited for this book if it was just
called what if thought and conan the barbarian became best friends because that's pretty much
the book that we got and now that conan is back and i know he's got some dealings with the savage
avengers i do really hope these characters can come face to face once again there's been other
what-if titles that sounded completely crazy that have now come into the mainstream of the universe
so why not this one as well even though this is one of the older titles i think the actual fight
between thor and conan is really enjoyable now yeah i love the barbarian but i can't lie this
does not seem like a fair fight actually with how old four is i'm not sure if this is part of the
continuity now but it'd be very easy to retcon that in as well like i said this is part of the
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and you can use that code as many times as you like number 10 from volume 2 issue 83 it's what
if daredevil was a disciple of doctor strange this one is the combination of a great concept and also
a pretty decent execution because it really went in a direction that i didn't expect doctor strange
doesn't act as the same source for supreme that we all know and love and he's more of a martial
arts sensei elektra's also got a massive part in this but the reason why i really loved this story
was for that really cool dead evil costume it's so 90s that i'm expecting it to be called the
rad edition but if a marvel legends figure of this came out i would jump on that day one but
there's also just a really interesting story in here and you get to see daredevil operating as
his own agent there's a betrayal there's a triple agent any and i just think that this is a really
fascinating story and this is actually one of those what if concepts that i would have liked
to have spent a bit more time with number nine again from volume 2 because it's issue 18 which is
what if the fantastic four battle doctor doom before they had the powers again you think this
would be another situation similar to what if the x-men died on the first mission and you'd be like
well nothing had happened but it's actually quite a fascinating thing that goes on in this
book that it shows you why the fantastic four are great even without the powers even if it wasn't
mr fantastic reed richards is still one of the smartest people that's ever lived and ben grimm
is still a loyal friend that's got quite a bit of strength behind him johnny's also a bit younger
than usual which isn't something that i really cared for and i can't really remember too much
that sue storm did in this title but still this is one of those titles that i thought
was gonna be really short-lived and they were just all gonna die pretty much as soon as the
issue started but the fantastic four still find a way to overcome doctor doom and save the day
and it also ends with doctor doom acknowledging that reid richards is his intellectual superior
which i can't lie i wish somebody would say that to me but i think this one is great because we've
seen so many different stories where superhero gets their power taken away from them and then
they have to figure out a way to overcome that but this is different because he never had the
powers in the first place but this just shows at the core these were good people from the beginning
number eight from issue 51 of volume 2 we've got what if the punisher became captain america now
this sounds like a great concept and because of the fact that a lot of people have been captain
america it really wouldn't surprise me frank castle would end up wielding the shield it is a
little disappointing to say this but you don't get to see a lot of him operating as captain america
but it's still an interesting story to read but the funniest thing about this what if issue is
that frank castle can't help ending up becoming the punisher it's just something he needs to do
i think we only really see him in the stars and stripes for about one page and it's great how
they show you the reaction of the other avengers and how they just don't accept him but like i said
this was a what if concept that pretty much ended up being the exact same story that happens in the
real universe because of the fact that we just end up with the punisher number seven we've got
what if professor xavier became the juggernaut from volume 2 issue 13. now this is one of those
great what if issues because it's just got a batshit crazy concept and it does it in the most
batshit crazy execution that's possible so having been buried alive charles xavier goes a bit crazy
and emerges as a juggernaut and pretty much takes out every single other marvel team that exists
because he's still got his telepathy but now he's got the benefit of being unstoppable
it does raise the question that was the wheelchair the best thing that happened to xavier that's when
those questions that sounded reasonable in my head but now that i've said it out loud i kind
of feel like a monster but it's true because we know that the kane version of juggernaut is often
quite insane and to see charles fall victim to the same thing is just really fascinating he also ends
up trying to take over the world and he says that he's not going to become a dictator which
can't lie most dictators end up saying but you see the rise of mutants and how the original x-men end
up turning against xavier and working with magneto and i think it just shows a lot about the dynamics
of this team that we often take for granted when we're reading the main continuity number six from
volume three i've got what if doctor doom became the thing again this sounds like one of those
titles where you're just like that makes no sense there wouldn't really be a story behind it but
because victor von doom and reed richards became friends earlier on reed realized that he didn't
need ben grim going on the ship when he was going into space as a result of this read johnny and sue
still get the powers but at the same time doctor doom turns into the thing he becomes resentful of
reid and pretty much still becomes a doctor doom that we all know already but just looking like
the thing in his revenge he then sets off a gamma bomb which ben grimm ends up falling victim to and
becomes the hulk so it knew enough becomes like the nicolas cage film face off because you've got
a whole first thing battle but the other way round and after that the fantastic four move
forward but with the hulk as the fourth member i just thought this was really fun and it was one
of those what if issues that really balances being completely stupid but still tells you a coherent
and enjoyable story coming in at number five from volume one we've got issue 26 which is what if
captain america was elected president this is one of those stories that goes from naught to 100 at
pretty much the turn of a page the concept itself already sounds quite interesting and i think it's
probably more interesting now that we live in the world that we do because of the fact that
celebrities can run for president and i'm not trying to get political or anything like that
it's just that i can see parallels between this and the world that we live in today but doesn't
so much explore the political side of it but how captain america ends up letting his guard
down there's a great plot with the red skull and it has quite a somber ending but the reason why
i really love this one is because it still allows you to see a bit of the wider world there's just a
couple of panels where spider-man goes and pretty much harasses jay jonah jameson and says that he
needs to start being nice to him just in case he becomes vice president and these are the what if
stories that i really like where they understand how other characters would react to this situation
so just having those couple of pages really tickled me and i think that's what solidified
this as a great what if story number four from volume 2 issue 71 i've got what if the gamma bomb
spawned a thousand hulks when i first heard this title i thought it'd be similar to that time when
someone spawned a thousand death claws in fallout 4. and in this list i've tried to not include
titles that have pretty much happened in the main universe kind of like when jane foster became thor
but you can sort of argue that a similar situation to this did happen in old man logan but in a weird
way bruce banner gets the respect of the planet because of the fact that he isn't the only monster
that exists he's still got his intelligence so he is able to understand exactly how they can
overcome the hulks and in all honesty it's just fun seeing all of these take over the planet like
this could technically be called planet hulk but i like that they really managed to exploit
one of the biggest problems in the marvel universe and that's the fact that new enough
everybody exists in new york so all the hulks do is go straight away to new york and they manage to
take on the majority of the superheroes that exist i like that it still manages to poke fun at some
of the plot holes of the universe and that's why i really enjoyed this title number three
we've got what if wolverine became the lord of the vampires from volume 2 issue 24. yeah that title
alone's a bit of a mad one and it delivers in its execution as well so you have the majority of the
x-men team being bitten and turned into vampires but wolverine being the madman that he is still
takes on dracula he beheads him and then takes over all the vampires and has the ability to turn
into an actual wolverine but it's from there where the story really goes crazy because i believe this
was based on an actual issue with the x-men that i haven't really read just yet and doctor strange
has quite a big part in this but as wolverine's army is rising doctor strange is taken out of
the picture so his spirit then locates the one person that they feel is fit enough to take on an
army of vampires and it's the punisher not blade the actual vampire hunter but frank castle i'm
not gonna lie it's still cool seeing the punisher with dr strange's cape and just shooting a load of
vampires but i do feel like they did a complete left tomb where they could have just included
blade i really love frank's attitude as well when the spirit of doctor strange is talking to him
and he just takes it in his stride and without a moment's hesitation he just decides to start
shooting everything this was just one of those really fun quirky titles that i think just shows
you that wolverine will pretty much be the same character no matter what happens to you number
two when i'm cheating a bit on this one because i've got pretty much every what if this character
killed this character this what if it's been going on for decades there's so many different ones of
these and i can't really separate a lot of them you've got what if punisher killed dead evil what
if punisher killed spider-man what if daredevil killed kingpin and there's quite a vast number
of these that have shown up throughout the years and they're all really interesting as well i'm
gonna include punisher kills the marvel universe and deadpool kills the marvel universe because
they pretty much are what if titles and as well i have to give a shout out to my friend hunger club
clothing because he sent me this amazing deadpool t-shirt but yeah because of the fact that a
death of a major character in the marvel universe doesn't really seem to happen or really last that
long if it does having what if explore some of those situations allows us to really see what it
would be like if death was a permanent consequence number one and just the weirdest concept to me and
also the weirdest execution that i've seen in a lot of titles from the ones that i've read is
going to be volume 1 issue 11 and what if the original marvel bullpen became the fantastic
four just seeing stan lee as mr fantastic and jack kirby is the thing is enough to put this at number
one what if has always been about crazy concepts but to bring people from the outside world to
overtake one of the biggest teams within the marvel universe just weird i also really just like
the explanation for how they got the powers and that something was just delivered to the office it
almost felt like they were just trying to do the silliest thing that they could do with this issue
and it really works and i think this also works as a counterpoint to what i just said about what
if the fantastic four two conductor do before they had the powers and that this brings into
question can anybody pretty much be heroic if it is that they've got powers i had such a good time
reading this one it was so meta but enjoyable at the same time and i think this highlights why what
if is such a great series i'm really hoping that the disney plus show does the same but
like i said this is my list i haven't read every single what if title that's ever been released so
we do want to know in the comments section below what are some of the most bizarre what if stories
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