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What If...?

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Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments. From TMDB

55 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works

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According to market research company Parrot Analytics, which looks at consumer engagement in consumer research, streaming, downloads, and on social media, What If...? was the most in-demand new series that debuted in the U.S. from July 1 to September 30, 2021, achieving 17.5 times more demand than the average show during that period. Internationally, it secured the eighth position in the ranking for the most-demanded digital series in Ecuador, achieving 2.11 times more demand than the average series, for the week of October 24–30, 2021. According to the file-sharing news website TorrentFreak, What If...? was the sixth most-watched pirated television series of 2021, ranking behind Hawkeye.…

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Jan 8, 2025

    we have a trailer for What If A Man Was Large, Season 3 in this it appears we will explore the question of "what if a large man encountered another, even larger man" I hope this show runs for decades

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

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  • Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    Basically, I’m saying that I want to write a Mundane What If? series where the heroes are seen in normal situations. WHAT IF…Man Thing went to Target for jambalaya mix? WHAT IF…Moon Knight accidentally put a red sock in the wash? WHAT IF…Green Goblin went to CVS to buy Imodium for his IBS?

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    WHAT IF A MAN WAS LARGE: THE SHOW RETURNS seriously please watch this show it’s so fun

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    t-minus two days until What If A Man Was Large, The TV Show returns if you have not yet watched Reacher now is a great time to start

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    every time someone discovers the joys of What If A Man Was Large: The Show it brings me great pleasure

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  • Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.comBluesky · Jun 4, 2025

    💙What-If Critical Role: Full Series💙 (2021 - 2025) What if the cast of @criticalrole.bsky.social had chosen different classes for their PCs & NPCs across 3 campaigns? And what if an artist in love with the stories told by a bunch of nerdy voice actors, dedicated countless hours to illustrate them?⬇️

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  • Ed Zitron @edzitron.comBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Premium newsletter: The second part of my "What If...We're In An AI Bubble?" Series, covering what would happen if VC stops funding AI, what if inference isn't profitable, and how overvalued AI startups may kill multiple VC funds. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what-if-were-in-an-ai-bubble-part-2/

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  • Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    Today we kick off our first in the “What If? “ series @thenewsagents.com . Your qs begin with… “what if Scotland had voted YES… / what if Murdoch hadn’t bought The Sun / .. What if Gordon Brown hadn’t lost it with Gillian Duffy .. - at 5pm - as we dabble with the counterfactual..(Merry Xmas!)

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  • Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    It turned into a joke but What If Phones But Too Much was a pretty spot on premise for a dystopian series.

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  • Malmor @malmorart.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Part 1 of maybe 3 or 4 of this little mini series (is this a series?) of Dragon Ball : What If. Bulma got her boyfriend wish and Vegeta appeared 🩷 #Vegebul

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  • SPOOKYDEAD💀SKELETON @mluckas.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    What If they made a "What if" show with better What-Ifs.

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  • 𝐷𝑎𝑖𝑧𝑦🪢🔜Howloween @daizydogg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    What If I started a comic series in this style about car cruising culture while yapping about funny little stories and observations?

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  • Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    I still think Randal Munroe's What If series is the GOAT for kids' nonfiction, but Ed Young's young reader edition of An Immense World is up there now.

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  • themeatbridge @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 8, 2024

    The short answer is DC, but it's a complex question. Golden Age comics all had their own siloed enviroments, and it wasn't until the 1940 All Star Comics #3 introduced the Justice Society that they even shared a universe. All Star would later merge with two other publishers to form DC. Wonder Woman was the first character to visit an parallel Earth in 1953, where different versions of everyone lived alternate lives. DC rebooted all of their characters, starting the Silver Age of comics.…

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 8, 2024

    I'll give you the drop in quality, I think the quick churn has resulted in lower quality films and TV shows. However the multiverse? Alternate universes? Time travel? Despite the name this phase has barely touched on it. Let's start with the films, - Black Widow? No multiverse, just a story that took place in the past. - Shang-Chi? No multiverse. Maybe a cliffhanger for one, but could just be space stuff. - Eternals? No multiverse. Just space stuff. - Spider-Man No Way Home? Full…

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  • Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    The ‘What If…?’ Series Finale Ends Confusingly, At Best www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 11, 2024

    What If...? - Season 3 - Official Trailer.

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  • 🍂C e n t e l l a D r a w s🍉🍂 @centellamilk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    I JUST HAD A THOUGHT WHAT IF I know Vaggi was already symbolically captain of the Hazbin crew in show, but what if General Pentious before battle annointed her General or Captain should anything happen to him 😭😭😭😭😭😭 (She’d be like “i’m already..in charge..but..” and then tear up and accept😭)

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  • UKFilmNerd @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 10, 2024

    Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, X-Men '97, What If... Season 3, and more swing into D23's Marvel Animation panel. > After stunning the [D23](https://d23.com/) crowd with announcements for [upcoming animated features](https://www.joblo.com/d23-keep-up-with-all-the-announcements-here/) like *Incredibles 3*, *Toy Story 5*, *Frozen 3*, *Zootopia 2*, an *Inside Out* TV series, and more, Marvel Animation takes the stage this Saturday afternoon to tease upcoming projects coming our way. Marvel…

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  • AnomanderRake @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 19, 2024

    X-Men '97's Surprising Rating Confirmed (TV-14). "X-Men '97's home page on Disney+ reveals that the series is rated TV-14 while the original show was TV-Y7. This suggests the reboot will be a bit more mature than the series that came before. TV-14 suggests the following: "This program contains material that most parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age." This is basically the television equivalent of PG-13, which is the rating of most Marvel Cinematic Universe films. For…

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Unfortunately the What If Carrie Get iPad Show is great

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  • Microw @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 22, 2024

    Breakout Character From Disney+ 'What If...?' Show Makes Her Comics Debut in 'Kahhori: Reshaper Of Worlds' #1.

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  • Dr. Rhodes 🐥💎🔱 @doctorrhodes.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    The “What If…” series is wild. #NowWatching #halloween #cosplay #svengoolie #WaynesWorld

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  • themeatbridge @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 20, 2025

    Howard the Duck has been in several MCU movies and had a legit role in a What If...? episode.

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  • themeatbridge @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 6, 2025

    He's featured in an episode of What If...? and he makes a cameo in the GotG3. It could make for a great holiday special.

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  • Sylver W. Poulsen 🏳️‍⚧️ @poulsens.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    It really is wild that Japan, which on paper should have fewer LGBTQIA+ rights than the US (at least pre-Trump), but anime/manga has a whole section that is just "What If The Girls Kissed?" And in many of them, no guys ever show up, even as background characters.

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  • jordanlund @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 5, 2025

    Taking a breather would have been fine if it felt like they were building up to something, but instead it felt like they lost all direction. 😟 The first batch of movies built to the Avengers, the next batch built to Thanos. Even if you assume post Endgame was "The Multiverse" the number of properties that touched on it were minimal. Phase 4 movies: Black Widow - No Multiverse Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - No Multiverse Eternals - No Multiverse Spider-Man: No Way Home…

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 5, 2025

    Yes, but [Elizabeth Olsen mentioned that she recorded her lines years ago, maybe back in 2020 or 2021](https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/elizabeth-olsen-cant-remember-scarlet-witch-marvel-zombies-1236534475/). And there are other reports that the show was completed alongside What If...? Season 3. So it's possible Hailee hasn't filmed anything in a while.

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 7, 2026

    The whole Multiverse saga has been bungled. This scene was great at setting the stakes, the most powerful thing from the last saga are now paperweights. That was a great scene. Loki knew how powerful these stones were, he used one of them,m but now they are nothing. If I recall correctly this was after he tried to use his own magic. So it was confirmation that whatever this realm was, it didn't just work on him, it worked on the most powerful thing he could have imagined. And then of course…

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · May 27, 2025

    >They let me go hog wild That's what animation is best at. I've really enjoyed the Star Wars "Tales of the X" series as fun little lore dumps. I think "What If...?" gave us fun peeks at characters behind the scenes, even if in different contexts. I'm excited to see what this gives us.

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · May 14, 2025

    I'm not confident they do, it's just sort of an open question. We had a light reference to a "new" Iron Fist in an episode of What If...? But not one that would interfere with the current one. I think Finn Jones can still do it, but I would in if we got a new one.

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 29, 2024

    I think the Eminence had watched for so long he forgot his purpose, which is to ask the question, What If...? (Or obverse the unknown.) When the episode opens we get Uatu's backstory and even he asks the question of why do they watch. The Eminence explains that only after watching will he understand. In many ways the Eminence had the same problem as Infinity Ultron. Infinity Ultron destroyed everything, because with everything destroyed nothing would be in conflict and nothing would change.…

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  • worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    I did not know that name existed outside David Weber's What If I Did Age Of Sail But Scifi book series, today I learned

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 13, 2025

    I wonder if there is going to be room for much story or if it's just a 2 hour battle where we jump from scene to scene. The What If...? episode set up the idea of a possible solution, but I'm getting the sense that everyone dies in this. Honestly just chaos could be fun.

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 12, 2025

    First off, excellent. I'm curious to see what strategy DC uses to help differentiate which projects are shared DCU and which are solo, or other universe projects. The MCU has films only for years, even the TV series like Agents of Shield or the Netflix series touched only a little on the events of the MCU. (Except when Agents of Shield aired right after Winter Soldier, that was amazing.) They added TV starting with WandaVision, but even with that they've struggled to fit things into the…

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  • KurtRexCooper @kurtrexcooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    Three that come to mind: Monarch of the Glen Battlestar Galactica The Man From UNCLE Movies: The James Bond series Star Trek, the Kirk Picard era. Concepts. The whole Marvel What-If Expanded Universe is tiresome. Just let us speculate on our own.

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  • Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    We'll deal more with the What If...? series next week, but #5 in particular revisits Avengers #4 and Captain America #110, which we've seen before, turning Steven into a mid-1970s spy, styled as Redford in Three Days of the Condor, which we watch a clip of ("paranoia" being a theme of the 70s).

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  • Albert Sims @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 16, 2026

    Watching "What If: You are alive to see the rarest space events in history" on YouTube . https://youtu.be/JLRZo-nVXKg?si=Dw7cHu560VbjOQB7 #WhatIf

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  • eflowlive.bsky.social @eflowlive.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    I’d like to see a What If series designed around trade paperback. Instead of compressing some really interesting ideas into a single issue I’d like to see them made with 6 or so issues in mind and really give the alternate take room to breath. See more of this new reality.

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  • Spider-Man Culture Daily @cultureofspider.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Lego Marvel Cmf Series 1 What If Zombie Hunter Spiderman Minifigure- #ad 🕸️

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  • Mythiiks @realmythiiks.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    I have an idea. Hear me out on this. What if... What IF... I made a list and called it AI GEN, and upload it to this website, to show which games have AI in them? Would that work? Because Steam refuses to do it. So we have to step up. #Thoughts #Input

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  • 🌿Abel🌿 @abelisbliss.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    HELLOOOOOOOO WHAT IF I CRIED. I think it’s time to reread the series. I love you CS Lewis

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  • bluegrey64.bsky.social @bluegrey64.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    ON THE PODCAST 🎙️ 📅 Wed, Oct 14 — Medicare Open Enrollment: What If Your Plan Is No Longer Right for You? 📅 Mon, Oct 19 — Belly Fat After 50: Why It Won't Go Away — And What Actually Works New episodes drop 7:00 AM Central. open.spotify.com/show/04vWwSF... — also on Apple Podcasts.

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  • Albert Sims @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 9, 2026

    Watching "What If: If Earth's gravity increased 1% per second, how long until the Universe Collapses?" on YouTube . https://youtu.be/yoZ-jfFdYnI?si=B-X9tIT3rAMcyZ3B #WhatIf

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  • Megaperv217 @taboobreeder95.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    should check out the What If series 😉

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  • Spider-Awsm_Prsn 🇨🇦 @vsk0627.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    I so hope that the Winter Soldier one is just movie but with Zombies. I know it won't be especially if these are in continuity with the show and What If, but man that would be cool.

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  • 🎃𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏⋆✨ @spacesheepcaptain.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    another one tried to buy the vest while i didn't have it on coworker was like - it's not for sale - show it to me anyway pls i have pants like that - they have pants too it's not for sale - BUT WHAT IF THEY DON'T NEED IT ACTUALLY im was standing there like bruh please stop stealing my shit DHDHDKS

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  • chrishjellum.bsky.social @chrishjellum.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    And thats a wrap on What If…Zombies?!? And on Day IX. Best: Carrie(1976) Worst: Backrooms(Web Series)

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  • UncannyGirl @uncannygirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    @jimdavismtg.bsky.social, over all the decades, I have rarely seen high level competitors show the What If. Would love to see the hypothetical played out for this pool both decks playing out Best of 3's against the top 4~8 pools of the event.

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  • Spider-8 @spider8-22.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    The product I have the least amount of enthusiasm for is What If because I know that show is mid as hell. But I'll watch it anyway. Why? Fuck you, that's why

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  • Albert Sims @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 2, 2026

    Watching "What If: What If all Glaciers Melted, INSTANTLY (Hour by Hour)" on YouTube . https://youtu.be/fNokPiGfviM?si=Zd-SU_24XvRJmFR- #WhatIf

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  • Albert Sims @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 25, 2026

    Watching "What If: What If Pangea Still Existed Today?" on YouTube . https://youtu.be/Y6RFeC87XRM?si=euC5xmWwk96pmaFz #WhatIf

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  • GeorgeK. @GeorgeK.TMDB reviews · Jan 23, 2024

    Awesome season. I loved it.

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  • BornKnight @BornKnightTMDB reviews · Dec 30, 2023

    The premise of taking heroes and changing completely their settings or the route of their lives is something amazing as an ideas, although not so original my the concept of Multiverse present not only on Marvel but DC too to be able to justify and manipulate their own order of comics (and later movies as a separate universe) that had too many events not in synchronic order or not in order with the rest of the comics at all. How he series manages this is by a mixture of CG animations that blends…

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