What If…?
Start date: August 11, 2021
What it’s about: An animated series telling alternate versions of stories we’ve seen in the MCU with mostly pre-established characters.
Major new characters introduced (but not killed): Literally too many to count, but mainly, the Watcher.
Major new concepts introduced: Jumping off from the ideas in Loki, this multiverse set show confirms that seemingly every character has multiple versions of themselves—and, all across the multiverse, major battles are happening at all times.
Analysis: If taken on a story-by-story basis, there are truly too many consequences to the events of What If on the MCU to count. Infinite even. But a second season is on the way so we’ll see if it continues to add upon previous stories, or only tell new stories.
Running Total: Again, there are infinite new characters, but since there is one big, overarching character in every episode, we’re going to just count him, bringing the total to 20.
