Welcome back everyone this is my full marvel what if episode 6 video what if Killmonger
rescued Tony Stark there's a whole bunch of Easter eggs.
They finally started to tease the big multiverse crossover so I'll explain how that's going
to work too.
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Just turning the beginning and work our way through shot by shot talk about moments and
Easter eggs starting with the episode title.
So like I said what if Killmonger rescue Tony Stark the whole idea that Killmonger tries
a very different plan to take the throne of Wakanda than he did during the original Black Panther Movie
This time Killmonger gets a huge upgrade his plan is way bigger than it was in the Black
Panther movie, they start the episode with the same watcher explainer in all the episodes
about how the multiverse works and how different choices cause different nexus events leading
to further and further branching timelines more and more alternate realities is a big
difference in this opening scene is that instead the watcher silhouette showing up watching
the events of the original Iron Man movie play out.
You can actually see his face in a way that you couldn't in previous episodes is if he's
manifesting above the earth much more fully than he has before.
So when each of the episodes he's just shown himself a little bit more and a little bit
more it wasn't till episode for the doctor strange supreme episode that he actually appeared
in interacted with one of the characters was meant to be a pattern of increasing watcher
activity that will culminate in him helping bring together the guardians of the multiverse
team the multiverse avengers team made up of heroes from different universes that we
visited in each of the episodes.
Like I said this is basically the events of the first Iron Man film.
It all plays out.
Mostly the same with a couple big twists obviously but if you couldn't tell it's not Robert Downey
Jr playing Tony Stark some of the actors did come back some of them did not so I'll point
out which of the big ones came back when we see them pop up in the episode.
But just like in the first Iron Man movie.
He sees the stark tech bomb almost go off except this time the nexus event is that Killmonger
who came up to the US military right out of school saves them and takes him away from
the area before the 10 rings can capture him and hold in ransom in obviously.
We learn later that this is him manipulating events.
This whole time as part of his grand plan to take the throne of Wakanda the scope of
his plan in this episode is way bigger than it was in the Black Panther film the scene
is also important because we just saw the shang chi movie in they explain the true history
of the MCU version of the Mandarin and they revealed that he was behind the events of
the first Iron Man film.
So when the 10 rings hit his convoy originally it was Wenwu's orders.
It was him trying to get his hands on stark tech weaponry the Jericho missiles.
So in effect
Wenwu was responsible for Tony Stark becoming Iron Man in the MCU.
Because if it would've been for Wenwu attacking his convoy he would've never got into the
cave and that's the whole premise of the episode.
Because it is going to the cave.
He never becomes iron man this reality just a cool connection to the shang chi movie when
the watcher shows us the original Iron Man origin story from the infinity saga from the
sacred timeline version of events.
The main MCU universe.
You see that iconic scene of Iron Man banging the hammer making the Mark one he's's heroes
are forged in darkness, not born.
That's also meant to be a sly reference to Killmonger slowly becoming a hero of source
like an antihero forged in darkness because the plan that he's orchestrating here is a
very dark plan was sort of get his own redemption arc in later episodes when they had their
big guardians of the multiverse crossover episodes when the watcher is doing that montage
of iron man's life of the original marvel movies all the way through avengers endgame.
Like you see him snap the infinity gauntlet, even though they didn't use Robert Downey
Jr is the voice of the what if version of Tony Stark they did pull the audio from Avengers Endgame
So this is Robert Downey Jr's voice from Avengers endgame for this particular scene where he
says and I am Iron Man snapping the gauntlet sometimes in the what if series the reuse
clips and dialogue from the original marvel movies is a just copy and paste them from
the original movies we get a very different version of that press conference from the
original Iron Man movie when he gets rescued from the cave.
This time he's honoring Killmonger and naming him to his staff and Killmonger obviously
Alice obidiah stane revealing that he was working with the 10 rings on the DL to get
rid of Tony Stark, so he never winds up becoming iron monger in this timeline.
Even though Killmonger was lying about a lot of things.
He wasn't lying about infiltrating the 10 rings in order to get all this information
Jon Favreau did come back to do the voice of happy Hogan again.
Like he came back during the marvel zombies episode, but Pepper Potts is not being played
by Gwyneth Paltrow even though she is a dead ringer for Gwyneth Paltrow's voice you notice
Tony Stark speech during this is almost exact reverse is it was during the original movie.
He says he's doubling down building bigger batter weapons to fight back harder obviously
learning all the wrong lessons when happy Hogan jokes that was supposed to be his promotion.
That's a reference to the original Iron Man movies.
Because happy was eventually made head of security for Stark industries Leslie bid did
come back to do the voice of Christine Everhart for this cameo scene where they out obidiah
stane she kind of figures Killmonger's planned out the same way that shuri and a lot of other
people like Pepper Potts kind of figure out what Killmonger was doing the whole time her
questioning him about orchestrating events of that he would be there to save Iron Man
like did you set all this up yourself is meant to foreshadow a lot of the reveals later on
about him manipulating events, making it seem like he was the hero this whole time.
The big party that they have to celebrate after getting rid of obidiah stane is at his
original house before it was destroyed during the events of Iron Man three.
Remember, this is all happening during the year 2008 that's why a lot of people that
were dead later in the timeline are still alive liking T'Chaka is still alive you notice
to all these scenes, especially later in the episode to Iron Man is drinking constantly.
So he still a bit of an alcoholic in this reality when he makes the joke about Maxim
cover models being similar to corporators and terrorists.
That's also meant to be a sly reference to black widow in Iron Man two when they had
all the pictures of her modeling on the covers of those magazines as part of her deep cover,
but in this context though he's just joking about Maxim cover models trying to have sex
with kings and missing Tony Stark basically winds up giving Killmonger obidiah stane's
job is his new partner Pepper Potts obviously kind of figures things out and they foreshadow
things by him making the Butch Cassidy Sundance kid reference Pepper Potts like wait a minute,
they both died at the end of that movie foreshadowing Tony Stark's death at the hands of Killmonger
at the end of the episode and possibly the death of Killmonger eventually at the end
of the series.
Don Cheadle did come back to do the voice of Rhodey who gives Pepper Potts all the details
on Killmonger's back story.
The same way the Everett Ross sort of gave them all the details on his backstory during
the Black Panther movie.
But the funny thing here is that you remember because the where we are in the timeline is
Don Cheadle doing a version of Terrence Howard's Rhodey during the events of the first Iron Man film
It's the same effect that we got in what if episode three for Mark Ruffalo was playing
the whole but it was the Edward Norton's version of the whole during the events of the incredible hulk movie
Like the recast new actors playing the original versions as if they been playing the characters.
This whole time.
And because the whole nexus event didn't happen until he rescues Iron Man all of Killmonger's
backstory up to that point was the exact same as it was in all the marvel movies.
With the exception of him going deep cover inside the 10 rings.
I think so he creates all the same Iron Man technology from the original iron man movies.
He just using it is very twisted darker way.
Like he shows in the Jericho missile that he try to make a portable version of using
repulsors tech he still got that done the robot from the first Iron Man film Killmonger
quotes Howard Stark and he's correct.
I think that the quote is from the first captain America movie, they both bond over their dead
fathers and like is it because the MCU timeline is most of the same right up until the nexus
point Killmonger's father still died in the same way that he did during the Black Panther
movie killed by his brother, King T'Chaka for trying to arm all the gangs with vibranium weapons
If you didn't realize when the Black Panther movie originally came out Killmonger went
to MIT just like Iron Man Iron Man went to MIT just that Iron Man graduated from MIT
when he was way way younger because is a genius and I love the funny anime references Killmonger
reveals he's a giant weeb and he had plans to create a version of a gundam but just couldn't
get it to work so Iron Man finish the job with this is him manipulating Tony Stark into
creating all these gundam drones River this is all part of his long con that he been orchestrating
this whole time is very similar to the iron man two armor wars plot with the unmanned
stark tech drones the Justin Hammer created, which itself is based on the original armor
wars storyline from the comics, during that storyline Justin Hammer just get his hands
on stark tech using it to create a bunch of his own armor robots so they adapted some
of that for the plot of Iron Man two Marvel is currently making the live action armor
wars Disney plus series will see how they change that just based on what's already happened
in the MCU will mostly be about Rhodey stopping whoever gets their hands on all the stark
tech to create a bunch of their own armor suits.
Maybe the bring Justin Hammer back for that Tony Stark makes the gundam reference wealth
it doesn't work will have the world's most expensive gundam replica but the anime reference
is actually a reference to something that Michael be Jordan said in real life during
a Black Panther press conference when they were promoting the original movie.
He said that he's a huge Anime fan.
If you didn't realize they actually based Killmonger's costume on with the cheetahs
costume in the base his character on Vegeta a little bit to that's why he wears the armor
vest looks like Vegeta's armor from Dragon Ball Z in Dragon Ball super.
So now when you watch the Black Panther movie.
You'll never be able to un-see this is just a reference Michael be Jordan said that his
favorite anime series of all time are Dragon Ball Z, Attack on Titan, gundam wing, gundam
wing endless waltz and Naruto.
That version of the classic Iron Man montage of him creating the mark to and Mark 3
from the first Iron Man film except this time he's making Killmonger's gundam drones claiming
that they're going to use the Jarvis AI to pilot them.
It was Paul bettany coming back to do the voice of Jarvis during the episode.
He gets the same idea to create the classic arc reactor to power them like is that he's
crating all the same Iron Man tech from the movies.
He just using it much darker twisted ways.
But Killmonger plants the idea in his head use vibranium as the element to power them
instead of the element from the iron man movies was like a different version of him finishing
Howard Stark's idea for the new element that was based on the space stone.
So if you didn't realize is actually pretty cool Easter egg Iron Man has been powered
by infinity stone energy in the MCU.
This whole time because that new element that he created is based on the infinity stones
they reference Captain America's vibranium shield think it's too bad pops use the last
of it during the war, which was the story that the wakandans told to the US forces the
time to hide the fact that they had a giant meteorite of vibranium Killmonger whips out
his vibranium ring that his father passed to him marking him as part of the Royal family
of Wakanda planting the idea that they can go see Lucy's cloth who has a secret stash
of vibranium in obviously.
This gets into the plot for Avengers: Age of Ultron they use Rhodey pull off the deal.
But this is basically them doing the Ultron vibranium plot from age of Ultron in obviously
it's revealed the Killmonger manipulated events.
The whole time working with clause behind the scenes so that he could kill Black Panther
and take T'challa out of the equation early on Killmonger also encourages them to use
Rhodey is an intermediary from the US government to purchase all the vibranium on the DL so
that he can make it look like Rhodey kill Black Panther and because the war between
the US and Wakanda if he couldn't tell it was Andy serkis who came back to do Ulysses
clause voice for the episode.
Like is that right out of Avengers: Age of Ultron is the same scene of Ultron showing
up the bile the vibranium he does reference that a single Dora milaje vibranium spear
cost him $10 million.
Just to give you an idea of how valuable vibranium is around the world claw also references his
history with Tony Stark in the way they explain this Killmonger had a Ulysses clause leak
the information about the deal going down to the forces will conduct so that Black Panther
would show up so that he could kill Black Panther using the special sonic weapon.
So that was the reason why Black Panther shows up to stop the deal.
And it was Chadwick Boseman coming back to the voice of this version of Black Panther
so that's why the scene at the end was so powerful integrate scene between Chadwick
Boseman in Michael be Jordan after the events of the Black Panther movie.
Because were in obviously never going to get to see that happen again in real life, because
Chadwick Boseman passed away.
But Killmonger, winds up killing Rhodey using that same burn it down logic that he had during
the Black Panther movie, then pins Black Panther's death on him.
So that when the Dora milaje show up later they find it and declare war on the United
States if he couldn't tell John Connie also came back from the Black Panther movie to
do the voice of king to Chaka, he also came back to do to Chaka in episode to for the
T'challa starlord story Tony Stark who was Rhodey's closest friend figures out what Killmonger
did using Jarvis because this is a darker version of Tony Stark he basically says he's
going to revenge kill Killmonger saying that he used his royal vibranium ring to finish
this one drone but Killmonger is able to defeat it using the vibranium spear then using that
to kill Tony.
This is also meant to reinforce the point that T'challa makes at the end of the episode
when he saying the cure for suffering is not more suffering.
This will not end well for you Eddie the Tony Stark trying to kill Killmonger going super
dark did not end well for him as well.
So RIP Iron Man again.
This is the second time they killed a version of Iron Man during the what if series.
He makes a tribal scarring mark on his body to referencing it to represent Tony tribal
scarring is a thing in real life cultures do it for different reasons Killmonger in
the MCU did it to mark all of his kills and of course Pepper Potts figures out exactly
what he did.
Even though nobody believes her right away thunderbolt Ross comes in declares war on
Wakanda in scissor to use funds from the patriot act like billions and billions of dollars
to complete the drone Army.
So if you remember the first Iron Man movie sort of skewered Bush era politics the war
in Iraq the war in Afghanistan, but because this episode is like the reverse of that it
only reinforces all the bad things that they were trying to admonish with the original
Iron Man movie, so it's more weapons more war more killing darkest timeline Iron Man
movie, then Killmonger uses the same trick to use Ulysses cloth to get into Wakanda that
he did during the first Black Panther movie taking into the shield.
But then killing him and using his body to get into the throne room shuri figures and
out from the start sort of foreshadowing the big twist with her at the end of the episode,
but because came to Chaka still so much grief over killing his brother back during the 90s
he sort of taken in by Killmonger like oh you have your father's eyes.
So Killmonger displays is this whole situation this battle with the drones.
As if he's on their side wind help them defeat the American Army a coy a gets a couple lines
and it is denied career coming back to do her voice.
Just like she did during the marvel zombies episode last week in their whole plan here
for defeating the drone Army is meant to be almost exact same plan that they use during
avengers infinity war with the outriders letting them through the shield to make it easier
to pick them off the one big change though is that leaving the will Condon army is Black Panther's mother.
It was Angela Bassett who came back to do her voice.
She hasn't done any big action scenes in the live action marvel movies yet.
Maybe they'll change that in Black Panther to but you have to remember that she would've
also received exact same training that all the Dora milaje did when she was growing up,
even though she is a little bit older than someone like a coy a she just as bad as a
fighter is all the rest of them Killmonger manipulates events using the backup transmitter
to reactivate the drones after they disconnect them shuri also figures this out to like why
would Tony Stark create a backup transmitter that does make any sense is only meant to
be like a 30 minute episodes obviously that can a blows of this plot pretty quickly the
because this is meant to be a darker version of the original MCU timeline and they have
the infinity war battle instead of T'challa doing the big Wakanda forever line when they
charge and it winds up being Killmonger who charges in with the vibranium spear it is
to like it was too easy for them to take down the drones you have to remember the Killmonger
was responsible for programming all the drones.
So think he engineered their programming so they would be easy to take down just making
it easier for him to pull off his plan to come off as a hero said everyone was see him
taking the drone sound like oh you're such a hero to Wakanda that after the battle notice
here when is looking out over the landscape Wakanda the watcher appears in a kind of looks
like he's getting ready to cry like the watcher is super sad here.
He doesn't have any speaking lies he's kind of watching it in sadness and Killmonger manipulates
Kang T'Chaka into believing in his plan to arm the rest of the descendents of Wakanda
other Africans living all over the world.
Remember, this was the whole reason why came T'Chaka killed his brother back in the 90s
it even though his plan successful and now it sound like they're going to go around and
conquer the rest the world Wakanda will conquer the rest the world and shuri, winds up figuring
all this out T'Chaka winds up naming Killmonger the new Black Panther in the heir to the throne.
But this time when he goes into the ancestral plane instead of talking to his father.
Like he did during the Black Panther movie.
Because they had Chadwick Boseman for the episode.
The apathy wanted to have this Chadwick Boseman Michael B. Jordan scene bespeaks the T'challa
spirit who gives him the moral message of the episode.
Just letting them know that the cure for violence and suffering is not more violence and suffering
saying that this is all get to catch up with him, eventually.
And when he says on multiple planes of existence.
This is also kind of meant to foreshadow the big multiverse crossover with the guardians
of the multiverse is coming up in the future episode as well as shuri working with Pepper
Potts and Stark industries to try and stop the war like things will catch up with him
in this reality.
But also in another reality when all the different universe characters start crossing over, he
winds up wearing the same golden version of the new Black Panther costume that he wore
the Black Panther movie the back in the United States this poster of Tony Stark references
the avengers thunderbolt Ross also says the words escalating claiming that he wants the
blast Wakanda off the map and I can go down that way it like it's and shuri breaks into
Stark headquarters to team up with Pepper Potts.
Revealing how Killmonger manipulated the whole situation.
Claiming that they're going to team up to stop him and stop the war.
If you remember in the earlier what if trailers.
There's footage of Pepper Potts and shuri fighting together in the episode that we have
not seen yet.
Which I think the payoff when all the different universe characters start crossing over with each other.
I don't know exactly which episode that's going to be.
But we only have three episodes left now, so it's can be happening pretty soon and when
the watcher ends the episode with that speech about how heroes are never really gone they
live forever as to the ones they inspire to carry on the fight what he means when he says
that is that heroes live on forever as symbols but you could also think of it is a sly reference
to Black Panther's quote about death only being the beginning in the ancestral plane
is also a lot more impactful statement when you consider Chadwick Boseman passing away
in real life in trying to inspire people with his performances Black Panther but if you
spotted any other big Easter eggs in the episode that I didn't talk about during the video
just right them below in the comments.
Mostly a mishmash of all the iron man movies.
The plots of the avengers movies through age of Ultron and avengers infinity war as well
as a version of the Black Panther movie, we sought to meet party Thor in a couple the
other characters and they start crossing over, so I'm assuming party Thor might be episode
seven next week.
We just got that brand-new trailer for the Hawkeye series, which will be doing episode
videos for that will be the next big marvel Disney plus series after what if ends you
can click here for my full trailer breakdown of that and you can click here for all my
what if episode videos thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe
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