When I heard the trailer for the third season of Marvel’s What If? dropped, I thought I was ready for anything it might throw at me. That notion vanished after the Avengers embraced their inner Super Sentai and came together to form what I can only describe as the “Avengezoid.”
A reality where the Avengers battle their foes from the driver’s seats of giant robots is just one of the many exciting universes What if? Season 3 will explore when it arrives on Disney+ on December 22, 2024.
What If? Season 3 will bring us to the craziest corners of Marvel’s multiverse
What If? Season 3’s trailer wastes no time confirming that this will be the last installment of Marvel’s animated multiversal anthology and that it’s been saving its best-cracked mirror scenarios for last. The first two seasons of What If? gave us plenty of exciting character-situation combos, but Season 3 proves its batting for the trees beyond the fences in a two-minute and twenty-second montage.
Some highlights from the trailer include the aforementioned Gundam-inspired Avengers standing together to defend Wakanda, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeu suiting up in some Captain America-inspired armor to fight Ultron Sentinels, and Simu Liu’s Shang Li kicking butt in an Old West saloon. However, as is often the case, the trailer saved its biggest surprise for last.
What If’s Goddess of Thunder brings the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Right before everything cuts to black for the last time, What If Season 3’s trailer introduces a Mljonir-wielding variant of the X-Men’s Storm, who proudly declares herself the Goddess of the Storm as she reels back to inflict divine wrath on some poor tentacled shmuck. Alison Sealy-Smith, who voiced the tempest-taming X-Men in X-Men ’97, will also be lending her voice to What If?’s Storm
Marvel fans have been waiting for the X-Men to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Disney gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox in 2019. Having one of the X-Men’s most iconic members debut in What If? is an unusual choice, but it could help ease them into the mix before their inevitable, more formal introduction in a live-action film or television series.
Introducing a character as powerful and franchise-changing as Storm also reinforces that What If? Season 3 will be the end of the series. By introducing one of Marvel’s most iconic teams, What If? will finally leave its mark on the greater MCU.
Published: Nov 12, 2024 04:18 am