#Marvel Was Planning A What If…? Spin-Off For Star-Lord T’Challa

The season 1 finale of “What If…?” retroactively tied each episode of the anthology back in together, as the Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) broke his oath of non-interference and played cosmic Nick Fury, recruiting heroes from across various alternate realities into a Guardians of the Multiverse team. The finale picked up where the at-times perplexing cliffhangers of previous episodes left off and managed to retroactively give the whole season some cohesion beyond the concept of the Watcher watching different timelines.

T’Challa Star-Lord was one of the heroes who assembled to save the multiverse from an Infinity Stone-powered Ultron. Another was a version of Gamora (voiced by Cynthia McWilliams instead of Zoe Saldana), who he plucked from a parallel universe where Tony Stark (voiced by Mick Wingert instead of Robert Downey, Jr.) could be seen melting down the Infinity Gauntlet while talking about putting a suit of armor around the galaxy.

Gamora and Space Iron Man didn’t actually get their own episode this season, but there’s a very good reason for that, and they will definitely be back next season. Bradley explained:

“Basically what happened was we originally had an episode planned for earlier in the season that was a fun, light-hearted, living, breathing Tony Stark-centric episode with Gamora. However, due to the COVID pandemic, one of our animation houses was hit incredibly hard, and the episode needed to be pushed into Season 2, because it would not be finished in time. Given everything that we’ve all went through over the past two years, pushing an episode of television is absolutely nothing in comparison. And we understood. We hope fans enjoy the ride next year.”

The season 1 finale of “What If…?” is streaming now on Disney+.