Season Two of Marvel's What If…? will arrive for Disney+ subscribers in early 2023, with a third season confirmed for sometime in the future.
Revealed during Marvel's animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, a behind-closed-doors preview showed off a handful of heroes and villains from the MCU's multiversal realities, including Captain Carter, Steve Rogers as Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor Ragnarok's Hela, Young Star-Lord and Ego, The Scarlet Witch, Mandarin, and more. The preview also showed Thanos fighting Captain America from Infinity War.
Just announced at #SDCC2022:
Marvel Studios’ What If…? Season 2, an Original series, streaming early 2023 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/zbqClqfrfJ
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022
The last part of the preview takes place in the year 1602, which is a year longtime Marvel Comics fans will remember. Marvel 1602 was a 2003 eight-issue miniseries penned by Neil Gaiman. The story follows Marvel superheroes that exist in the Elizabethan era, including Nick Fury, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, and more.
What If…? Director Bryan Andrews and Writer AC Bradley were on stage at Comic-Con to talk about the new season. They also pointed out that the Captain Carter seen in What If…? is not the Captain Carter that appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The What If…? segment of the panel ended with confirmation that a third season of the show is planned.
Based on the comics line of the same name, What If…? tells canon stories from across the MCU multiverse, imagining events that differ wildly from the MCU stories we know from the live action movies and series. We awarded the first season a 6/10 review, saying it "features a few standout remixes of MCU canon, but inconsistency across the board leaves it with plenty to improve on for next season."
The show eventually became more important to the wider MCU than we expected, and Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Emmy after his performance as a T'Challa take on Star-Lord in the show.
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