Uatu the Watcher makes his 5th MCU appearance in Marvel’s Eyes of Wakanda.

Warning! This submit incorporates SPOILERS for Eyes of Wakanda

Marvel’s Uatu the Watcher simply made his fifth MCU look. In Marvel’s new Eyes of Wakanda miniseries, The Watcher could be seen within the present’s closing episode. Nevertheless, this extremely transient cameo with no dialogue just isn’t the primary time Uatu has been seen within the MCU’s varied animated tasks.

In Eyes of Wakanda, the tales of Wakanda’s secret brokers often known as the Conflict Canine are revealed all through historical past. This consists of an extremely pivotal mission, one with nice ramifications for Wakanda’s future. Positive sufficient, Uatu could be seen observing this key occasion, although I am unable to assist however marvel if The Watcher’s latest MCU look may be resulting in one thing larger.

The Watcher Makes His fifth MCU Look In Eyes of Wakanda

Eyes of Wakanda episode 4 takes place in each 1896 and 2396 A.D. After a well-recognized vibranium axe is recovered by the Conflict Canine Kuda and Wakanda’s Prince Tafari in 1996, the final Black Panther confronts them, touring again in time from 500 years into the long run.

This future Black Panther claims that the axe have to be returned in order that it may well find yourself in Erik Killmonger’s possession, because it kick-starts the chain of occasions that ends in King T’Challa opening Wakanda to the world, sharing its expertise and assets for the primary time, as seen in 2018’s Black Panther.

The rationale that is so essential is that the MCU’s “Final Black Panther” is from a darkish future timeline the place Wakanda stays remoted. This resulted in all the world falling to an invading alien horde, with Wakanda being the final nation to fall, when all the planet being united on the onset may have made a distinction.

As such, it is smart that such a pivotal timeline-shifting second could be worthy of The Watcher’s commentary, who’s briefly proven close to the start of Eyes of Wakanda episode 4, shortly after Kuda and Tafari first retrieve the axe.

Uatu’s Different MCU Appearances Defined

Spider-Man and Watcher in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

Together with his extra predominant function in Marvel’s What If…? voiced by actor Jeffrey Wright, Uatu has been featured in each animated MCU collection launched to this point.

Within the collection of animated shorts starring Child Groot, Uatu makes an appearance and narrates I Am Groot Season 2, Episode 5, detailing an historical prophecy involving the cute Guardian of the Galaxy.

Likewise, Uatu makes a brief non-dialogue cameo in X-Men ’97 episode 5, showing unseen within the evening sky above the Hellfire Gala. Tragically, Uatu’s commentary is defined because of the brutal mutant bloodbath that takes place by the Tri-Sentinel, an assault that ended with the dying of Gambit.

Uatu additionally makes a fast look in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s finale. On this alt-timeline set other than the principle MCU, Uatu observes the second when Peter Parker actually turns into Spider-Man, shortly after Physician Unusual tells Parker that he appears able to embrace his life as a hero (a pivotal second worthy of cosmic commentary if there ever was one).

Is This Marvel Animation’s Stan Lee Cameo Alternative (Or One thing Greater?)

Cyclops from X-Men 97 and The Watcher from Marvels What If — Customized picture from Sam MacLennan

It definitely looks as if sufficient of a sample has emerged the place we will safely assume Uatu will all the time have some type of look within the MCU’s animated tasks. Even when it is only a fast look sans dialogue, followers ought to most likely maintain their eyes open for The Watcher from right here on out at any time when a brand new animated present is launched on Disney+.

It definitely appears as if Uatu has change into this cosmic alternative for the MCU’s traditional ongoing cameo look from the late Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. Seeing as how Stan Lee met with a trio of Watchers in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, it is a fairly enjoyable thought total.

Nevertheless, I am now additionally questioning if maybe one thing larger is on the horizon for Uatu. In spite of everything, Marvel’s What If…? lately got here to an finish with its third season on the finish of 2024, the MCU collection the place Uatu served as narrator and a full main protagonist.

I am very curious as to how the tip of the Multiverse Saga may have an effect on Uatu as a cosmic observer who is not above breaking his vows and intervening, one thing that was definitely confirmed by What If…?’s collection finale. In fact, a live-action look from Uatu in Avengers: Secret Wars, naturally performed by Jeffrey Wright, could be unbelievable.

That mentioned, I do suppose it could be fascinating if Marvel Animation had some type of main crossover of its personal, one which ties all of its tasks collectively earlier than the Multiverse Saga’s finish. That manner, Uatu’s appearances in each MCU animated mission could possibly be extra vital than easy cameos, and will as an alternative construct into one thing actually epic.

At any price, I am excited to see the place Uatu the Watcher exhibits up on this 12 months’s Marvel Zombies, and probably within the subsequent seasons of X-Males ’97 and/or Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man.

All episodes of Marvel’s Eyes of Wakanda are actually streaming on Disney+.