What If…?
Warning ! This post contain spoiler for Marvel ’s What If … ? time of year 2 , Episode 8
Summary
Marvel ’s What If … ?season 2 , sequence 8 ends with a hollow victory forCaptain Carterin the year 1602 . Having been clip - displaced once again in theMCUmultiverse , Peggy Carter was brought to a realness in which several MCU characters exist at the dawn of the seventeenth 100 rather than in the 21st . To that end , the episode ’s close watch Peggy refusing to give up until the realness was saved ( while also setting up the season ’s coming finale ) .
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How Captain Carter Saved The MCU’s New 1602 Reality
Using The Time Stone To Find The “Forerunner”
After failing to forestall the falling out from queer this new reality , Captain Carter becomes an outlaw as decreed by the new King Thor Odinson following the death of Queen Hela , his sis . Having been bring to this reality thanks to the magic of1602 ’s Scarlet Witch , Peggy refuses to give up despite the Watcher offering her a way back to her own reality in the multiverse . As such , Peggy teams up with a dance orchestra of thief extend by this world ’s Steve Rogers as well as Tony Stark whose eccentric genius has mark him as a lunatic .
Using Thor ’s sceptre and the Time Stone view as within , Peggy uses the Edward Durell Stone ’s power through a gauntlet fashioned by Stark to mend this reality after its seventeenth and twenty-first - one C timelines were intermingled . This was get by a being known only to the Scarlet Witch as " The Forerunner " . Thanks to the Time Stone , Peggy was able to set thing right , though it did require a personal passing along the path .
Captain Carter Loses Another Steve Rogers
“We Never Get Our Happy Ending”
key out as " The Forerunner " , the Time Stone was able to identify the first being who instigated this intermingling of reality . By the episode ’s end , this is revealed to be Steve Rogers ( know as 1602 ’s Rogers Hood ) who cracked the Time Stone while fightingThanos in Wakandain the nowadays , a drastically unlike confrontation compared to the one seen in the main MCU’sAvengers : Infinity War .
Cracking theTime Stoneapparently institutionalize Rogers to 1602 without his retentiveness , integrating the hero into this period while also cause destructive time falling out until Peggy was summons by Wanda Maximoff to help set things right . Tragically , this also have in mind that Peggy had to sacrifice and say bye to yet another interlingual rendition of Steve Rogers , having already turn a loss her own variant of Steve from her own reality . Although she lay claim that she and Rogers never seem to get their felicitous ending , Rogers Hood believed that some versions of them do ( referencing the independent MCU ’s Rogers and Carter who do get their felicitous conclusion at the remainder ofAvengers : Endgame ) .
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Why All The 1602 Marvel Heroes Disappeared
It’s A Little Confusing
Once Steve used the gantlet to send himself back to his original clock time , it seemed as thoughall the other MCU heroesdisappeared as well . While Rogers was definitely " The Forerunner " from the 21st Century , the status of all the other hump Cuban sandwich is very unclear . Because they all disappeared in a moving ridge of greenish light just like Rogers , it ’s potentially implied that they too were from the present and brought to the 17th century , hence why they remained unfrozen along with Rogers and Carter once the gauntlet was activated .
Likewise , the reason Carter was leave alone in the throne room was probable because she was from another reality entirely rather than just another time . As such , she was will in the class 1602 despite ravel the two timelines . However , there is n’t really a concrete account for what in full happen at the episode ’s ending , and it ’s admittedly somewhat perplexing all around despite the very fun concept of the sequence itself .
The Watcher Reveals A Critical Multiverse Weakness
Universal Extinction Events Are Clouded For Uatu
It ’s also worth noting thatUatu the Watchercontinues to ask Captain Carter in this instalment if she ’s quick to go forth this damaged reality behind . This is because The Watcher admits he ’s unable to see everything when a reality is near extinction , a critical weakness for the cosmic observer despite his claim to be all - seeing and all - knowing . As such , it ’s a very good rationality why Uatu might not be as helpful as one might assume should he have a role inAvengers : Secret Warsand the multiversal topsy-turvyness that ’s expected with the major crossover film .
Despite The Watcher ’s headache and fear over the potential " what ifs " of the situation , Carter defy to give up on this 1602 realness . It ’s a quality Uatu finds to be quite admirably human in the face of all the unnamed outcomes . To that close , it ’s interesting to see that even The Watcher has his limits when it come to his cosmic observance and noesis of the MCU multiverse .
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What Does Strange Supreme Have Planned For What If…? Season 2’s Finale?
Strange Supreme May Be Assembling New Guardians of the Multiverse
Marvel ’s What If … ?ends much like the previous installment with a final injection have Strange Supreme . Having late enrol thebrand - young MCU hero Kahhori , it seems this darker Strange variant now has his sights congeal on Captain Carter , his former friend with the Guardians of the Multiverse fromWhat If … ?season 1 ’s close . As such , perhaps Strange is look to form a new squad to face a new threat to the multiverse , though it ’s potential he could have darker motives that have yet to be revealed inMarvel ’s What If … ?season 2 .
Marvel ’s What If … ?season 2 , episode 8 is streaming now on Disney+
