Warning! This publish comprises SPOILERS for What If…? Season 3, episode 8Marvel reveals nineteen new MCU characters from alternate universes in What If…? season 3 episode 8. All through three seasons, What If…? supplied a fairly transient glimpse at a number of the numerous timelines within the Marvel multiverse. From Infinity Ultron in What If…? season 1 to Kahhori in What If…? season 2 to Howard the Duck’s child Byrdie and the Celestial-powered Agatha Harkness in What If…? season 3, a number of the MCU’s strongest characters made their debut in Marvel Studios’ first anthology collection.
What If…? season 3 episode 8 sees the Watchers’ try to punish Uatu intercepted by Captain Carter, Storm, Kahhori, and Byrdie. Because of the heroes’ oath to turn into Watchers themselves, Uatu is saved, and the opposite Watches comply with let his intervention go unpunished. As Uatu displays on the infinite prospects within the Marvel multiverse, the What If…? season 3 finale’s closing montage reveals a number of characters who inhabit a number of the alternate timelines the MCU nonetheless hasn’t explored but.
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Six-Armed Spider-Man
A mutated Spider-Man with eight limbs. Within the comics, Peter Parker ingests a particular serum in an try to take away his powers, nevertheless it backfires and causes the other impact, giving him 4 further arms. Curiously, a 1992 difficulty of What If…? follows a Spider-Man variant who could not do away with his further limbs by any means. On the brilliant aspect, this unfortunate variant is ready to save Gwen Stacy from the Inexperienced Goblin.
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Samurai Ghost Rider / Ghost Ronin
The Samurai Of Vengeance May Be Amongst The Most Highly effective Ghost Riders
An Edo-period samurai possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance. In What If…? season 3 episode 8’s ending, the Ghost Ronin wears a basic samurai armor, wields a flaming katana, and rides a black horse. Within the comics, Ghost Ronin is the moniker adopted by Marvel’s adaptation of the real-life warrior Miyamoto Musashi, famend for his swordsmanship. Carrying Zarathos within him, Ghost Ronin helps the time-traveling Avengers struggle Mephisto in Edo Japan.
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Punisher Ironheart
Riri Williams Wields Excessive-Tech Weapons As An Alternate-Universe Punisher
A Riri Williams variant who makes use of her tech data to turn into the Punisher as an alternative of Ironheart. The primary totally unique character in What If…? season 3 episode 8’s ending montage, Riri Williams wields a number of weapons and sports activities Frank Fort’s iconic skull-shaped Punisher emblem on her shirt. Whereas Frank Fort normally carries a number of common weapons like handguns and machine weapons, Punisher Riri wields laser-based gatting weapons, cannons, and a machine akin to a grappling hook.
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Witch Gamora
Gamora Resembles Frankenstein’s Monster And Rides A Broom
An undead Gamora variant with conventional witch parts. This model of Gamora sports activities shiny black eyes and a tattered white costume whereas driving a brush. Agatha All Alongside confirmed that broom-riding is an precise observe within the MCU, although witches like Agatha think about it to be an annoying and stereotypical custom. Gamora’s witch look hints at her data of sorcery, which is perhaps doable in area given the existence of Krugarr — a magic-wielding member of Stakar Ogord’s Ravager team, launched in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
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Moon Knight Blade
Moon Knight Blade Makes His Debut In What If…? Earlier than Marvel Zombies
A Blade variant who will get chosen by Khonshu to be his avatar. What If…?‘s Moon Knight Blade wears a white costume and a black half-mask, and he sports activities glowing white eyes. Moon Knight Blade will make his official MCU debut within the 2025 Disney+ present Marvel Zombies, the place he’ll hunt zombified Marvel characters as an alternative of vampires. This Blade’s cameo on the finish of What If…? season 3 implies that three completely different Blade variants have been launched earlier than Mahershala Ali’s live-action character seems in the MCU’s long-delayed Blade movie.
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The Thanosverine
Thanos Will get Wolverine’s Adamantium Claws In An Alternate Universe
A mash-up of Josh Brolin’s Mad Titan with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. The existence of a Wolverine Thanos suggests {that a} model of Weapon X passed off on Titan, presumably earlier than the planet collapsed. It’s additionally doable that this Thanos wasn’t solely born with a mutation that made him purple, but additionally with an additional mutation that gave him bone claws, which presumably have been later coated in Adamantium from a Celestial.
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Kingo Iron Man
Kingo Turns into The Invincible Iron Man As an alternative Of Tony Stark
Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo wears an Iron Man go well with in an alternate universe. What If…? season 3 episode 2 features a Kingo variant who works as an actor, equally to his Earth-616 counterpart. Nevertheless, this Kingo stars in a basic Hollywood film made by Howard Stark. If What If…?‘s Hollywood Howard Stark variant all of a sudden chooses to undertake his principal variant’s occupation, he might create an Iron Man armor for Kingo. Thus, Kingo might turn into Iron Man earlier than Tony Stark is even born.
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Wasp Ms. Marvel
Kamala Khan And Janet Van Dyne’s Quantum Powers Mix
Both Wasp enhanced with Kamala Khan’s power powers or Kamala Khan carrying the size-shifting Wasp go well with. Wasp and Ms. Marvel’s powers could also be extra carefully intertwined than they appear, as Kamala Khan’s bangles appear to have ties to the multiverse, and Janet van Dyne acquired quantum powers throughout her time within the Quantum Realm. Janet additionally befriended Kang the Conqueror, who might have wished to acquire Ms. Marvel’s bangles and Shang-Chi’s Ten Rings earlier than his dying.
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Sorcerer Maestro Hulk
Hulk’s Evil Alter Ego Maestro Turns into Sorcerer Supreme Earlier than Benedict Cumberbatch’s Physician Unusual
Hulk’s older self performs magical spells and wears the Cloak of Levitation. Maestro is Hulk’s older, evil, and very highly effective persona from a future timeline. What If…? season 3 episode 8’s ending montage takes Maestro one step additional and makes him a sorcerer. Figuring out What If…?’s wild takes on Marvel characters, the sorcerer Maestro variant may not solely be a magic-wielding Hulk, however a full-fledged Sorcerer Supreme.
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Scarlet Wizard Howard The Duck
Howard The Duck Wields Chaos Magic As A Scarlet Witch Variant
A mash-up of Hank Inexperienced’s Howard the Duck and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch. Whereas Howard the Duck fathered one of the vital highly effective beings in his universe in What If…? season 3 episode 4, the Howard the Duck variant seen on the finish of What If…? season 3 episode 8 someway obtained a strong supply of energy all by himself. One way or the other, this Howard wields Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos magic and wears an outfit much like the Scarlet Witch’s, which could earn him the identify of “Scarlet Wizard”.
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Demon Hawkeye
What If…? Casually Drops A Demon Dinosaur Clint Barton
A Dino-Hawkeye carrying his basic purple costume. To not be confused with Moon Lady’s finest buddy Satan Dinosaur, a demonic dinosaur-like Hawkeye prepares to shoot an arrow from his bow in What If…? season 3 episode 8’s closing montage. Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton has by no means worn his basic comic-accurate costume within the MCU, however the go well with made a cameo in Hawkeye episode 3.
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Dazzler Silver Surfer
The MCU Drops A Nod To A Traditional What If…? Challenge
Dazzler as Galactus’ Herald, geared up with the Silver Surfer’s surfboard and the Energy Cosmic. Herald Dazzler would possibly look like an odd mash-up at first, however Alison Blaire a.ok.a. Dazzler truly turned Galactus’ Herald within the comics. In 1982’s What If…? #33, Galactus offers Dazzler with the Energy Cosmic, and Dazzler convinces Galactus to devour planets devoid of sentient beings. Dazzler is without doubt one of the few Marvel characters who managed to mellow down the Devourer of Worlds.
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Skrull Captain America
What If…? Season 3 References Marvel Comics’ Authentic Secret Invasion Storyline
Comedian-accurate Skrull posing as Captain America. Marvel Comics’ Secret Invasion storyline noticed the rise of the shapeshifting Skrulls on Earth, who posed as many well-known heroes, together with Captain America himself, earlier than revealing their true appearances. The MCU’s Secret Invasion adaptation skipped the Skrulls’ infiltration of the Avengers, however What If…? season 3 episode 9 drops a reference to the Skrull Avengers within the type of Skrull Captain America.
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Outdated-Timey Dane Whitman & Sersi
Black Knight And Sersi Are Already A Couple In A What If…? Timeline
Dane Whitman and Sersi dance in Twenties or Thirties apparel. Package Harington’s Dane Whitman and Gemma Chan’s Sersi developed a deep bond earlier than Arishem arrived to seize Sersi in Eternals. In the meantime, What If…? season 3 episode 2 launched a strong Agatha Harkness who someway stole the powers of a number of Eternals. Maybe the Sersi variant seen on the finish of What If? season 3 episode 8 escaped from Agatha Harkness in What If…?‘s season 3’s Thirties timeline and fell in love with Dane Whitman.
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Armed-To-The-Tooth Deadpool
Deadpool Might Have Killed The Marvel Universe In An Alternate MCU Timeline
A Deadpool variant who wields an entire arsenal of weapons. This Deadpool variant seems to be fairly much like each Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and the principle Wade Wilson from the comics. Nevertheless, the weapons on this Deadpool’s again recommend that he is deadlier than traditional. It is doable that the Deadpool on the finish of What If…? season 3 episode 8’s ending is the one who stars within the Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe storyline, which takes place in an alternate timeline within the comics.
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Younger Hela
A Baby Hela Variant Appears to be like Simply As Villainous In What If…? Season 3
Baby Hela carrying her MCU Goddess of Demise costume. Thor: Ragnarok revealed that Odin had conquered the 9 Realms alongside Hela lengthy earlier than Thor and Loki have been born. Nevertheless, the MCU by no means confirmed a younger Hela on display screen. In What If…? season 3 episode 8, Hela seems to be virtually precisely like Cate Blanchett’s Goddess of Demise, solely round 12 years outdated — an identical age to Loki season 1’s Child Loki.
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Shang-Chi Star-Lord / Star-Lord Wielding The Ten Rings
What If…? Season 3 Introduces But One other Star-Lord Variant With A Twist
Both Shang-Chi merging the Ten Rings with Star-Lord’s gear and masks or Peter Quill wielding the Ten Rings. What If…? season 3 episode 1’s Mecha-Avengers line-up features a Shang-Chi who adapts a big model of the Ten Rings into his mecha go well with. Equally, this Shang-Chi variant may need used the Ten Rings’ power to energy his Star-Lord expertise. In any other case, this may very well be a model of Peter Quill who discovered the Ten Rings in area earlier than they reached Wenwu.
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Traditional Woman Loki
Comedian-Correct Woman Loki Makes A Blink-And-You-Miss-It Cameo In What If…? Season 3
A black-haired feminine Loki variant carrying her comic-accurate inexperienced costume. Loki season 1 launched a feminine Loki variant who left her Loki id behind and adopted the identify “Sylvie”. Sophia DiMartino’s Sylvie is a mix of Marvel’s second Enchantress and Loki’s feminine kind. In each the comics and Norse mythology, Loki typically shapeshifts forwards and backwards between man and girl. What If…? season 3’s Woman Loki may very well be a variant of the unique Loki who shapeshifted into his feminine kind.
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White Witch / Amalgam Comics’ Zatanna & Scarlet Witch Mash-Up
Wanda Maximoff’s White Scarlet Witch Costume May Be A Nod To DC Comics
A Wanda Maximoff variant carrying a white-and-red Scarlet Witch costume. Like each different Marvel character, Scarlet Witch has gone via many costumes within the comics. However in addition to Wanda’s white costume from the Marvel Rivals online game, her solely notable white costume is the White Witch go well with. The White Witch’s actual identify is Wanda Zatara — a mashup of Marvel Comics’ Wanda Maximoff and DC Comics’ Zatanna Zatara, launched in Marvel and DC’s short-lived joint comedian e book line Amalgam Comics.
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Ashley Bradley
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Ashley Bradley
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Bryan Andrews
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August 11, 2021
- Finale Yr
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November 30, 2023
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3
Upcoming MCU Films
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February 14, 2025
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July 25, 2025
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