Though it’s going to be a while before X-Men ‘97 returns to Disney Plus, the third and final season of What If…? is about to bring one of Marvel’s mutants to the MCU in the flashiest way possible.
Ahead of What If…?’s season 3 premiere on December 22nd, Disney Plus has dropped a trailer spotlighting some of the new alternate universe stories featuring slightly different versions of previously-introduced MCU characters. The season will see Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) reimagined as a cowboy, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) in a cosmic flapper guise, and the Avengers become a super sentai team with interconnecting mechs. That all feels like the exact kind of madness that has already made the show a fun, whiz-bang watch, but what’s really surprising to see is Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith) showing up as a hammer-wielding Thor.
In Marvel’s Secret Wars comics event, Storm spent some time as a member of the Thor Corps — a group of people recruited from different universes by Doctor Doom to serve as the police in his Battleworld reality. When What If…? first debuted, the show seemed like a collection of out-there stories that might not have all that much to do with what’s going on in Marvel’s films. But with Doctor Doom on the way and a Secret Wars feature in the works, it’s looking more and more like What If…? might end up being a pretty important piece of the franchise’s ongoing story.
(Originally posted by Charles Pulliam-Moore)