Warning! This submit 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…? provided a slightly temporary glimpse at among 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, among 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 change into Watchers themselves, Uatu is saved, and the opposite Watches comply with let his intervention go unpunished. As Uatu displays on the infinite potentialities within the Marvel multiverse, the What If…? season 3 finale’s closing montage reveals just a few characters who inhabit among 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, however it backfires and causes the alternative impact, giving him 4 further arms. Curiously, a 1992 situation of What If…? follows a Spider-Man variant who could not eliminate his further limbs by any means. On the intense 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 traditional 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 inside him, Ghost Ronin helps the time-traveling Avengers battle 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 change into the Punisher as a substitute of Ironheart. The primary absolutely 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 just a few 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 follow within the MCU, although witches like Agatha contemplate it to be an annoying and stereotypical custom. Gamora’s witch look hints at her data of sorcery, which is likely to be attainable in area given the existence of Krugarr — a magic-wielding member of Stakar Ogord’s Ravager group, 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 a substitute of vampires. This Blade’s cameo on the finish of What If…? season 3 implies that three totally different Blade variants have been launched earlier than Mahershala Ali’s live-action character seems in the MCU’s long-delayed Blade film.
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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 happened on Titan, probably earlier than the planet collapsed. It’s additionally attainable that this Thanos wasn’t solely born with a mutation that made him purple, but in addition 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 a substitute Of Tony Stark
Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo wears an Iron Man go well with in an alternate universe. What If…? season 3 episode 2 includes a Kingo variant who works as an actor, equally to his Earth-616 counterpart. Nevertheless, this Kingo stars in a traditional Hollywood film made by Howard Stark. If What If…?‘s Hollywood Howard Stark variant abruptly chooses to undertake his foremost variant’s career, he may create an Iron Man armor for Kingo. Thus, Kingo may change 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 vitality powers or Kamala Khan sporting the size-shifting Wasp go well with. Wasp and Ms. Marvel’s powers could also be extra intently 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 loss of life.
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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 by some means obtained a strong supply of energy all by himself. By some means, this Howard wields Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos magic and wears an outfit just like the Scarlet Witch’s, which could earn him the title of “Scarlet Wizard”.
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Demon Hawkeye
What If…? Casually Drops A Demon Dinosaur Clint Barton
A Dino-Hawkeye sporting his traditional purple costume. To not be confused with Moon Lady’s greatest 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 traditional 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 Basic 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.okay.a. Dazzler really grew to become Galactus’ Herald within the comics. In 1982’s What If…? #33, Galactus supplies Dazzler with the Energy Cosmic, and Dazzler convinces Galactus to eat planets devoid of sentient beings. Dazzler is likely 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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Previous-Timey Dane Whitman & Sersi
Black Knight And Sersi Are Already A Couple In A What If…? Timeline
Dane Whitman and Sersi dance in Nineteen Twenties or Thirties apparel. Equipment 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 by some means 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 appears fairly just like each Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and the primary Wade Wilson from the comics. Nevertheless, the weapons on this Deadpool’s again counsel that he is deadlier than typical. It is attainable 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 Youngster Hela Variant Seems to be Simply As Villainous In What If…? Season 3
Youngster Hela sporting her MCU Goddess of Dying 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 appears virtually precisely like Cate Blanchett’s Goddess of Dying, solely round 12 years previous — an analogous 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 tools 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 might need used the Ten Rings’ vitality to energy his Star-Lord expertise. In any other case, this might be a model of Peter Quill who discovered the Ten Rings in area earlier than they reached Wenwu.
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Basic 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 sporting her comic-accurate inexperienced costume. Loki season 1 launched a feminine Loki variant who left her Loki id behind and adopted the title “Sylvie”. Sophia DiMartino’s Sylvie is a mixture of Marvel’s second Enchantress and Loki’s feminine type. In each the comics and Norse mythology, Loki usually shapeshifts backwards and forwards between man and girl. What If…? season 3’s Woman Loki might be a variant of the unique Loki who shapeshifted into his feminine type.
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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 sporting a white-and-red Scarlet Witch costume. Like each different Marvel character, Scarlet Witch has gone by 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 title 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
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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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