MCU What If...? - 9 Biggest Takeaways From Episode 2

9. A Whole New Story

As said before, there were several big problems that kept episode one from truly reaching the high expectations of MCU fans. Possibly the biggest was that, with the exception of Peggy taking the serum, the HYDRA Stomper, and Red Skull’s journey with the Tesseract, much of it had been seen before.

This couldn’t be further from the case with episode two. Yondu sending Kraglin and Taserface to accidentally pick up T’Challa instead of Peter Quill sent a ripple effect throughout the cosmos, affecting the entire universe. This is what a ‘what if’ story should be.

The Wakandan prince transformed the Ravagers from no good outlaws into intergalactic Robin Hoods. He was able to convince the greatest threat the MCU has ever seen to stop his genocidal quest with a conversation, which opened up a power vacuum, and led to a new kingpin operating beyond the stars.

After being able to guess the majority of what would happen in episode one, episode two offered a story that no one could have seen coming, that was a whole lot of fun, and different to anything seen before in the franchise.