Ma'am please put down the sword that's captain carter the war ended almost 70 years ago
Welcome back everyone this is going to be my marvel what if video for that avengers post credit scene the
ending teasing what's going on with captain carter nix there's a whole bunch of multiverse
stuff that they're setting up with this ending scene because she's gonna be crossing over with
a bunch of other multiverse characters soon so if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe to
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spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet because we'll be talking about everything so
at the end of what if episode 1 they combined the ending of the first captain america movie because
the whole episode was based on a different version of the captain america movie plot but they were
combining the ending for red skull captain america and the avengers post credit scene from that movie
in the movie steve rogers disappears from the public for 70 years because he winds up going into
the ice red skull got teleported to vormir by the tesseract the space stone and then captain america
is found by shield unfrozen and nick fury has to give him the business about what he missed the
last 70 years we won the war then he recruits him to join the avengers which he's putting together
for the first time so steve rogers captain america became the first avenger to be born to get his
origin story earlier in the timeline but he also became the first avenger to formally join the team
so the title of episode 1 was what if captain carter became the first avenger but the whole
idea is that the ending of episode 1 is a little bit bigger than what it seems like because there's
this multiverse element at play that they don't really tell you about right away on the show
jeffrey wright's watcher uwatu specifically mentions the multiverse when he's doing the
outro for the episode but they kind of bury the lead in this avengers post-credits scene here but
the whole idea of the end of the episode is that they combined the red skull captain america ending
and she disappears for 70 years but it's because the tesseract seemingly teleports her through time
and space to the events of the very beginning of the first avengers movie in 2012. whereas in
the avengers movie it was loki who showed up in this scene at the other end of that portal sir
please put down the spear as he was holding the scepter there were a lot of other things that were
different in that scene because in the original sacred timeline version of things calling the
infinity saga the sacred timeline the way the loki showbrunner was talking about it events played
out very differently so like you had eric selvig here who was messing with the tesseract although
he wasn't the one who opened the portal they were just experimenting on it and it just mysteriously
opened a portal so because events played out a little bit differently in captain carter's
universe that's why you're not seeing eric selvik here in present-day like there are other minor
differences obviously they don't get into because it's just meant to be this wtf scene like wait a
minute 70 years later what happened but then the watcher gives his outro speech about how captain
carter's one little choice at the beginning of the episode gave birth to a new hero for the
multiverse and he's very careful to say multiverse that gets into future episodes in the scenes
where you see her crossing over with the other multiverse versions of the avengers the guardians
of the multiverses they're calling them but at least right here in this avengers scene nick
fury then would recruit her to this universe's version of the avengers which pays off the whole
title of the episode what if captain carter became the first avenger now we know hawkeye
is there he's being played by jeremy renner on the show presumably there are versions of most of the
other original avengers in this universe when i said that they kind of buried the lead with this
avengers wtf scene here uwatu calls her a new hero of the multiverse because this version of captain
carter will be the version who joins the watchers guardians of the multiverse team and show up in
future seasons whereas not every single character that we see during what if season 1 is going to
come back during season 2. but this is also why in that previous trailer the watcher is narrating
about time and space not being a linear path he also says that at the beginning of the episode
when they do their version of the loki scene with the sacred timeline splitting off into alternate
timelines alternate realities it sounds like they're using captain carter's nexus event here
as the point of origin for the what if series and her actions leading to the creation of all
these other branch timelines alternate realities that we'll visit during the next several episodes
you have to imagine during the loki finale that when we're looking at the sacred timeline here
bursting with the branching timelines one of these major branches represents the what if episodes
starting with captain carter peggy carter in all the future episodes of what if are the smaller
branches coming off of that major branch so really the more accurate title for what if episode 1
would be what if captain carter were the first guardian of the multiverse although not literally
because the true guardian of the multiverse in the cosmic sense is the living tribunal
we'll see how cosmic they get with the marvel lore everyone was asking them are you gonna do x-men
are you gonna do fantastic four are you gonna do deadpool the only thing the showrunners said is
that they weren't allowed to do characters that marvel had not introduced yet in the movies which
includes the brand new x-men characters deadpool has not shown up in the mcu yet even though
deadpool just did that big korg crossover which is technically him inside the mcu ryan reynolds said
that disney had to approve that like they had to go through this big approvals process technically
it doesn't count for the purposes of what they're doing with the marvel disney plus stuff and they
haven't officially done the living tribunal in the mcu movies or the disney plus series yet you
may remember a couple years ago after avengers end game came out that the writers did say there was a
deleted scene of the living tribunal that almost made it into avengers infinity war if you don't
remember there was this cool comic-con panel that the writers of avengers infinity war and avengers
end game did after the movies came out where they explained this massive road map of stories ideas
things that they compiled while they were planning both of the movies in one of the biggest cosmic
scenes that didn't make the final cut was that during the battle on titan when doctor strange
the avengers the guardians of the galaxy were all fighting thanos one of dr strange's boss level
moves was to send thanos on a fantastic voyage of the multiverse the same way the ancient one did
for him in the doctor strange movie and at the end of that he was going to take thanos to be judged
by the living tribunal for crimes against the universe but that was just a little too extra for
the movie because it was already a huge movie it just required too much extra dialogue to explain
for people who were not comic book readers and who had no idea who the living tribunal was so like
okay you know we'll just cut this out we'll save this for some future movie to take care of the
funny thing about that is that that future movie wound up being the loki series during loki episode
5 you see the head of a statue that represents the living tribunal that doesn't mean that this was
actually the living tri-beetle it just means that it was a statue representing the living tribunal
the other really big question that i saw a lot of people asking after episode one in this avengers
scene was how captain carter wound up time traveling here to the events of the avengers movie
like how did she time travel if the space stone is only supposed to teleport you through space
not time i think there are three basic ways you could explain this one the showrunners could just
be playing it fast and loose with the powers of the space stone saying that it can open portals
through time and space not just space two they could be using the idea of time dilation in the
way the tesseract portals work like through the process of her traveling in this particular portal
moments might pass for her but in normal space time time passes much more quickly and she just
lost 70 years in transit but for her it only felt like a few seconds and three this is less
likely but they could be secretly saying that the tesseract portal opened a wormhole into another
universe and in that alternate universe that she traveled to it was just moving at a different pace
different part of the timeline but at least right now without the showrunners explaining
more my assumption is that it's a combination of one and three like the showrunners are just
playing it a little fast and loose with how things work because the episodes are only 30 minutes long
and they need to speedrun a lot of this plot they need things to spin up into the multiverse stories
really really fast there were a lot of comments about that after episode one as well like wow they
really blew over a lot of these big plot points the only reason why it seemed like it was so
easy for her to become a super soldier and do all those things is just because the episode
was so short and they needed to get to this avenger scene moment at the end of the episode
under normal circumstances like you would just do a show about captain carter and you would
spend the entire nine episodes dealing with her becoming a super soldier whereas here they did it
in 30 minutes but at least for the first couple of episodes the way the show treats things it's
as if these different main characters that you see in the trailer all come from alternate universes
in the way the multiverse loki style explainer works it all flows from captain carter's nexus
event like she takes a different path and it leads to all these other branch realities coming off of
it these other timelines where you see the other characters showing up i believe it's not till
around episode three that they really start to get into the bigger questions and crossover stuff
which is actually about how they paced out the one division episodes one division was a series that
also had nine episodes like what if and it really was until episodes three and four that they really
started explaining things and they started to go off the rails revealing what was really going on
inside the hex whereas the first couple of episodes were just more of a twilight zone
situation where you're like everything is weird what's going on we have no idea is this mephisto
so no mephisto is not the main villain of what if for the most part i believe they're just pitching
final boss form ultron with the infinity stones in vision's body is the bigger villain of season
one right now at least the biggest villain that we know about there is technically all the kang
the conqueror stuff and the kang variants that are happening right now they're really meant to
be the big marvel phase 4 thanos level threat but i don't think the kang is supposed to show
up anywhere during the what if series for those of you asking though the reason why kang is a
bigger threat than ultron with all six infinity stones and vision's body is because using eliath
kang can consume multiple timelines many alternate realities instantly in for example someone with
the infinity gauntlet can change anything they want in a single universe with the snap of their
fingers but the infinity gauntlet only works in the universe that those infinity stones came from
that's one of the reasons why on loki the infinity stones are sitting in a drawer because
most of them come from a bunch of alternate timelines alternate realities does anyone need
an extra paperweight so this version of ultron on what if could not wipe out a bunch of alternate
timelines over here on the other end of the sacred timeline he could only affect his own timeline a
version of kang could take goliath and just chow down this entire larger branch of the multiverse
this major branch and with it many many smaller alternate realities all at the same time so he's
a much much bigger threat he who controls eliath controls the multiverse that should also be one
of the big takeaways from the loki finale but if you have any other questions about what's going on
with what if just leave them in the comments below i'll do a what if episode 2 trailer video tomorrow
there's so much stuff that just happened so many videos that i'm working on right now so i'll try
to get those all out as quickly as possible it is going to be a real awesome summer congratulations
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