What If...? (2021) — AI Story Visualization

Season 1: Divergent Realities

The Watcher presents alternate timelines shaped by changed choices. The season ranges from transformed heroic journeys to failed initiatives, grief, and catastrophe.

Key Events

• T'Challa Becomes Star-Lord — A Ravager crew mistakenly takes T'Challa from Earth, and he embraces life in space as Star-Lord. Characters: T'Challa / Black Panther Location: Earth and space
• A New Ravager Purpose — T'Challa's courage, empathy, and negotiation change the Ravagers' approach from taking to helping. Characters: T'Challa / Black Panther Location: Space
• The Avengers Initiative Falls — Tony is found dead, and Thor is implicated in a separate death while trying to protect his hammer. Characters: Tony Stark / Iron Man, Thor Location: Earth
• Strange Rewrites the Past — Grief-stricken, Doctor Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto in an attempt to change the past. Characters: Doctor Strange Location: Unspecified
• A Zombie Plague Spreads — An infection turns Avengers into zombies, and surviving heroes search for a cure. Characters: Bruce Banner / Hulk Location: Earth
• Tony Reaches Sakaar — Tony does not return home after a crisis and instead awakens on Sakaar under the rule of the Grandmaster. Characters: Tony Stark / Iron Man Location: Sakaar
• Ultron Wins — Ultron wins in a cataclysmic reality, leaving Natasha and Clint to seek a way to destroy him. Characters: Infinity Ultron Location: Unspecified
• The Watcher Intervenes — The Watcher breaks his oath and recruits heroes from different realities to fight Ultron. Characters: The Watcher, Infinity Ultron, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Doctor Strange Location: Across the multiverse
• Guardians Face Ultron — The recruited heroes confront the threat posed by Ultron. Characters: The Watcher, Infinity Ultron, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Doctor Strange Location: Across the multiverse
• The First Season's Many Worlds — The Watcher frames the season's stories as alternate realities shaped by different choices. Characters: The Watcher, T'Challa / Black Panther, Tony Stark / Iron Man, Thor, Bruce Banner / Hulk Location: Multiple realities

Season 1: Ultron's Threat

Ultron's victory creates a crisis that reaches across realities. The Watcher breaks his oath and recruits heroes to oppose him.

Key Events

• Nebula Investigates Xandar — Corpsman Nebula investigates a criminal's death amid corruption and threats to Xandar. Characters: Nebula Location: Xandar
• Xandar Under Shield — Xandar is sealed behind a planetary shield after an invading warlord attacks. Characters: Nebula Location: Xandar
• Stark Tower Infiltrated — During preparations for Tony's holiday gala, security disruption allows a villain and accomplices to enter Stark Tower. Characters: Tony Stark / Iron Man Location: Stark Tower
• Tony Stranded on Sakaar — Tony awakens on Sakaar after failing to return home, where the Grandmaster rules. Characters: Tony Stark / Iron Man Location: Sakaar

Season 2: New Cosmic Paths

The season follows distinct alternate realities, including Nebula's investigation on Xandar and Tony's arrival on Sakaar. Other stories reshape the fate of the Tesseract and Hela.

Key Events

• Peggy Finds the Stomper — On a mission from Nick Fury, Peggy and Natasha investigate a vessel and discover the HYDRA Stomper, believed to contain Steve. Characters: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Steve Rogers / Captain America, Nick Fury Location: Unspecified
• The Sky World Opens — After Ragnarok destroys Asgard, the Tesseract falls into a lake in the New World; its energy eventually opens access to the Sky World. Location: New World and Sky World
• Hela Is Banished — Odin banishes Hela to Earth and leaves her crown with a warning about the mercy required to wield its power. Location: Earth
• Peggy Enters 1602 — A rift brings Peggy into a reality where different time periods have been compressed together and the universe is destabilizing. Characters: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, The Watcher Location: 1602 reality
• Strange Offers Help — Doctor Strange visits Peggy and offers to help her return home. Characters: Doctor Strange, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter Location: London, 1602

Season 2: Peggy in 1602

Peggy's investigation leads to the HYDRA Stomper, while another reality strands her in 1602. Doctor Strange offers help as a compressed timeline threatens that world.

Key Events

• Strange Offers Help — Doctor Strange visits Peggy and offers to help her return home. Characters: Doctor Strange, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter Location: London, 1602
• Worlds Compressed Together — The 1602 story centers on a threatened reality created by the compression of two different time periods. Characters: The Watcher, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Doctor Strange Location: 1602 reality
• Banner's Cure Goes Wrong — Bruce's attempt to cure himself of the Hulk goes wrong, setting him against the Mech Avengers. Characters: Bruce Banner / Hulk Location: Unspecified
• The Mech Avengers Assemble — Sam Wilson suits up in a colossal mech, with Bucky and others joining the team to battle Bruce. Characters: Bruce Banner / Hulk Location: Unspecified
• Agatha Joins Stark Pictures — A production at Stark Pictures features Agatha Harkness and Kingo, while the playboy auteur is enchanted by Agatha. Characters: Tony Stark / Iron Man Location: Stark Pictures set

Season 3: Strange Alliances

New realities pair characters in unexpected conflicts and partnerships, from the Mech Avengers to the Red Guardian and Winter Soldier. Other stories place Howard and Darcy in danger during a cosmic cruise.

Key Events

• Red Guardian Meets Winter Soldier — In 1991, Red Guardian's interference with the Winter Soldier's mission forces the two Soviet supersoldiers into an alliance to escape. Characters: Bucky Barnes Location: United States
• Howard and Darcy's Cruise — Howard the Duck and Darcy face dangerous factions during an intergalactic cruise and discover cosmic powers. Characters: Howard the Duck Location: Intergalactic pleasure cruise
• Earth Shatters — The Emergence proceeds unchecked, and the birth of an incubating Celestial shatters Earth. Location: Earth
• Resistance Targets Beck — On the remains of Earth, Quentin Beck leads an authoritarian regime, and freedom fighters recruit Riri Williams for a mission against him. Location: Earth's rocky remnants
• The Hood Terrorizes the West — The Hood raids construction sites, terrorizes frontier communities, and abducts Chinese immigrant workers building rail lines. Location: Old West

Season 3: Threats to Worlds

The Emergence destroys Earth, while resistance forms against an authoritarian regime. The season also moves through an Old West crisis and a team battle against an interdimensional creature.

Key Events

• The Hood Terrorizes the West — The Hood raids construction sites, terrorizes frontier communities, and abducts Chinese immigrant workers building rail lines. Location: Old West
• A Team Faces the Creature — After a creature destroys the Jump Point Network, a newly assembled team including Peggy and Howard confronts it. Characters: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Howard the Duck, The Watcher Location: An isolated planet
• Shards Reveal Watcher Danger — After the battle, shards from the Observational Plane reveal that the Watcher is in danger and cannot contact the team. Characters: The Watcher, Peggy Carter / Captain Carter Location: Observational Plane

Season 3: The Watcher at Risk

A team's victory is followed by shards from the Observational Plane. They reveal that the Watcher is in danger and unable to contact the team.