10 What If? MCU Scenarios Marvel Should Explore
4. What If Captain America Had Been Elected president? (Volume 1, Issue #26)
Although the idea of Captain America becoming president sounds like one almost explicitly made so the comic artists could come up with an iconic cover, the premise manages to be one of the most surprisingly wonderful issues of the entire What If? series.
The impact of the event is shown through a frankly shocking amount of heroes; Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and Nick Fury being to name but a few. It would have been incredibly easy to make the issue just about Captain America's journey, but instead we get a full three-dimensional look into how a superhero president would affect the entirety of the Marvel universe.
Add to this the closing of the comic - where we see Captain America sacrifice himself for his country, by preventing Red Skull from wiping America out one monument at a time - and there's ample potential for a beautifully unusual episode of the What If? series.