

With time running out to perform the super soldier process, Peggy jumped into the machine and went on to become Captain Carter, having all the physical powers of Captain America along with a different costume and an altered shield with a Union Jack at its center. She then had a chance to intervene in the Hydra bombing, but Steve got caught up in the action and was subsequently shot. Peggy’s “what if…?” was deciding to stand her ground and stay in the room while the serum was administered during the iconic transformation sequence featured in Captain America: The First Avenger. This episode explored what would have happened if Steve Rogers was unable to take the super soldier serum during World War II and Peggy Carter volunteered to become Dr.
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If you’re on a full Peggy Carter binge, why not add both seasons of ABC’s live-action Agent Carter series to your watchlist, too? What’s different? In terms of understanding the central characters and how things changed inside the branch timeline featured in this first episode, we would recommend revisiting Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, and the opening act of The Avengers. With that in mind, let’s take a look at “What If… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?” Required viewing More of a “breakdown” that we hope will still satisfy regular readers but also help younger viewers and those less familiar with the MCU keep up. Our What If…? reviews are going to adopt a different format.

But if you’re here for a good time and not a long time, What If…? should make for a neat weekly diversion. As far as we know, none of the fantastical concepts here will bleed into the live-action MCU. The main downside, I suspect, to any of these installments, is that they’re inherently redundant. It’s a fun episode! Your mileage may vary depending on how much you love Peggy Carter, but since I love her a whole lot I had a good time watching this. What If…? episode 1, “What If… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?,” focuses on a (mainly) WWII-era version of Peggy Carter who made a key alternate choice that affected the creation of Captain America in a major way. In order to fully grasp the basic premise of What If…? as a whole it helps to have watched Marvel’s Loki, which recently introduced the multiverse to the MCU. Bradley and Marvel storyboard vet Bryan Andrews, aims to explore alternate timelines in the MCU multiverse. The animated anthology show, created by Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia writer A.C. What If…? is the latest Marvel Studios small screen project to arrive on Disney+ after much fanfare. This review contains spoilers for What If…? episode 1.
