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What If Season 3 - What If... The Hulk fought the Mech Avengers? Thoughts

"The rage isn't even the worst part when he takes over. It's the fear. The fear I see in everyone else's eyes." Bruce Banner

"And how does that make you feel?" Sam Wilson

"Lonely. Because if I'm being honest, I'm just as scared of myself as they are of me." Bruce Banner

"Well, look around you. Ain't no one's afraid of you here, Bruce." Sam Wilson

Really strong start to the final season. I didn't expect the emotions to be the episode's main focus. I really love what they did with Bruce and Sam while highlighting the tragedy of Bruce's character and Sam's greatest strength: empathy.

I love how we open with an anime Godzilla and Gundam homage with the in-universe show of the Mech Avengers taking on the Gamma Beasts.

The Sam and Bruce dynamic was something I was not expecting at all (and a nod to the Winter Soldier is always great). But man, it hits you really hard when Bruce lays down the tragedy of his character and situation: how he's just as scared of himself as the people who are scared of him. And you really feel Sam trying to help connect to Bruce. I love it when the MCU remembers Sam is a counselor.

It was pretty noice to see the What If series connect to the D+ shows with Sarah, the family boat, and Moon Knight. It's heartbreaking to see Bruce transform into the Hulk and become scared of how even if Sam understands, he still can't let go of the feeling he's the problem. The episode really highlights how you have to keep on trying to recover (in this case, keep on going to therapy) and not detach yourself from others, or else you'll do actions not that great in hindsight. It's what makes the tragedy of Banner's character in the MCU so compelling. He doesn't want to separate himself from others but he feels like he can't.

I love how the Mech Avenger suits are in-universe supposed to be giant Hulk-Busters. The Gamma War (the closest thing we'll get to a World War Hulk haha) took out the OG Avengers save for Bruce, and man I would love to see what the first war looks like. It really does set the tone of why Sam feels like being friends with Banner was a mistake given the destructive war it wrought.

I also love this new Avengers team. I can't believe we got an Avengers team before the discussion of one in the upcoming Brave New World movie lmao. I do find it sad how this is the first time since 2021 and 2022 that we saw some of these characters (Shang-Chi and Mark Spector to name some). I also like Monica's role in the episode, I always like seeing character interactions we don't see in the Sacred Timeline.

I find it sad how Sam, the person with empathy and understanding towards people, thinks being Banner's friend messed up everything.

It was pretty funny how Banner made his home at an abandoned government project (he even noted how it made him fit the most) at the Astra Islands.

"So that's it, huh? The rest of the world gets to fight your monsters while you just hide in fear?" Sam Wilson

"Fear? What do you know about fear, Sam? About being a threat. A living force of destruction." Bruce Banner

"I know you can't get past the things that scare you if you don't face them." Sam Wilson

"Why do you think I built this protocol?" Bruce Banner

"You built it to use against yourself?" Sam Wilson

"I built it to protect everyone from a monster no one can control." Bruce Banner

"Look, I've never seen a monster when I look at you, Bruce. I've only ever seen my friend. I guess I hoped if you faced this thing, then maybe you'd see what I see, too." Sam Wilson

That conversation between Sam and Bruce really set the emotional core of the episode. Despite how Sam felt about earlier, he still saw deep down that Bruce was still his friend and still tried to help Bruce face his fears, even if he didn't think that was possible. I admittedly felt a bit teary-eyed at the episode and the emotional core. I just love to see people tell others that they're not monsters.

"Avenger, assemble." Sam Wilson

The Avenger mech assemble goes so fucking hard. I only wished we got more action sequences with the mechs, but the emotional core of the story really carried the episode. That nuclear explosion shot is done really well. And I love scenes where the human character sees the Godzilla monster and realizes they're not a monster, but a friend. That's what the episode is all about: how people see themselves and how accepting them can save not only the world but themselves as well.

The music by Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum is amazing and very emotional in this episode. I can't wait to see their music in the rest of this season (Hopefully, their music album will contain a lot more tracks than just one per episode because Disney did a disservice to the duo by doing just that for S2). The music really captures the emotional and epic stakes of the Gundam and Godzilla-inspired episode.

This was a great start to the final season of What If (hopefully not the permanent end). Hopefully, the next three episodes will be a lot more light-hearted but we'll see.

"I know you've always been scared that everyone just sees you as a monster. But from where I'm standin', all I see now is a friend. And I'd bet my life that you still see one, too." Sam Wilson

"I'm sorry, Sam. I know he was your friend." Monica Rambeau

"He still is." Sam Wilson

"Big things have small beginnings. Even the way a person sees themselves can change their lives and the fate of the entire world. But in humanity's darkest hour, sometimes the greatest heroes are the friends who accept us for who we really are." Uatu

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Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia

Black Panther Wakanda Forever (2022)

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Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia – Black Panther (2018)

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MCU COSTUME APPRECIATION Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia | Black Panther (2018)

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#He didn't fail

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BLACK PANTHER ↪ 2018

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Watching Marvel Dude Bros get mad about newer marvel stuff is so funny. Oh no, most marvel heroes are WOMEN and they’re MINORS and LESBIANS so I can’t SEXUALISE them to cure my ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION, like calm down

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Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022), directed by Ryan Coogler

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Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Film, 2022).

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Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2023)

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Cast of Black Pather (2018) in Entertainment Weekly Magazine