And this isn’t to say that Episode 5, “What If the Emergence Destroyed the Earth?”
We’ll get through this one together.
Let’s dive in.
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Riri Williams Is the World’s Last Hope in ‘What If…?’
I told you this episode was bleak.
The two are there to make an exchange, with Sharon acquiring Riri an… EasyBake oven?
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An appliance you bake with, in any case, and more importantly, a completely analogue one.
With Riri actively destroying their convoys, there’s no love lost between the two.
They, Ying Nan tells her, are with the Alliance.
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What is this place, you may be wondering?
‘What If…’ this final season was the best?
Quentin Beck Uses Vision to Take Down the Alliance in ‘What If…?’
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Okoye heads down to explore and finds half their forces already dead.
The Vision isn’t on his way, he’s already here.
So, no pressure then.
All they’d have to do is destroy the nanites that are fueling the online grid.
That combined with heavy guard and those aforementioned illusions make this task tricky to the point of impossible.
But, he says, this is always how it ends for her.
Riri is confused, because, by all calculations, she should have accurately located the nanite web link.
This is what unlimited power gets you.
Worth it, he decides, if only to destroy the alliance.
He also reveals the major flaw in Riri’s plan.
The Watcher Breaks His Oath Again in ‘What If…?’
He turns his back, unwilling to watch her die this way another time.
What wins the day for Riri isn’t being “stronger” than Beck physically.
She does so by flying above the atmosphere and conjuring an image of the Avengers symbol.
The people may not know who did it, or what it means for them in the long run.
But in the immediate future?
Better things are on the horizon.
The first five episodes ofWhat If…?are streaming now on Disney+.
