Fans of Marvel’s What If…? animated series got a surprise update on the show, as it seems the acclaimed animated story will end after Season 3.
What If…? has been a quiet fan-favorite series atMarvel. Inspired by the long-running comics of the same name, the show follows Uatu the Watcher as he reveals the bizarre worlds throughout the Marvel Multiverse.
Fans have been quietly waiting for news onWhat If…? Season 3, and finally got it when Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Streaming, Television, and Animation, appeared on the latest episode of the Official Marvel Podcast.
Winderbaum offered a few brief updates on shows likeEyes of Wakandaand Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Then, he dropped something of a bombshell about What If…?: the upcoming third season will be its last.
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“It feels like the completion of a trilogy,” WInderbaum explained. “It takes us to places that you’d never expect. It goes beyond the first two seasons and its exploration of the multiverse, and it pulls in characters that are very unexpected. It has, what I think, is an extremely moving and fulfilling culmination for Uatu the Watcher.”
What If…? Season 2closed with a climactic showdown between Captain Carter and Strange Supreme, where Strange ultimately sacrificed himself to save the multiverse. The last moments of the season showed Captain Carter asking Uatu to show her the other worlds of the restored multiverse.
Whatever fate may come for What If…?, it seems unlikely that the MCU is done with Uatu. It already laid the groundwork for his appearance being a shorthand for an impending tragedy – usingThe Watcher’s silhouetteto let fans know something big was coming beforeX-Men ’97’s Genosha massacre.
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Marvel has also expanded its What If…? branding in recent years. This includes the recently released VR game What If…? An Immersive Story, which stars Uatu, Wong, and anew MCU Nova.
Christopher Baggett was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team and a comics expert, across DC Comics and Marvel. He also has bylines at ComicsBeat, Comic Book Resources, and The HomeWorld.
