What If...?

[Rune]

I had noticed how T'Challa was like the perfect Starlord, maybe a little too perfect. And of course Peter ends up being a janitor.

Fast food restaurants don’t have janitors. The same people who operate the registers, cook your food, and serve it to you also do all of the cleaning. Much of it after the store is closed.

Peter is certainly just crew.

 

[Umbran]

I'm not sure that I liked the message in that; rich good, poor bad.

I don't think that's the intended message. I think the message here is that developing your potential is significantly dependent on your background. Thus, we should work to improve the background.

 

[Janx]

I'm not sure that I liked the message in that; rich good, poor bad.

kinda why I've been itching at that aspect of how awesome T'Challa was made out to be. It seemed off.

 

[Ryujin]

kinda why I've been itching at that aspect of how awesome T'Challa was made out to be. It seemed off.

Maybe I'm just sensitive to it, having grown up as that poor kid?

 

[Rabulias]

I don't see anything in the What If...? Episode that completely invalidates the Eternals movie. Instead of asking why the Eternals didn't help out with Thanos, he'll ask why the Eternals didn't help with the Son of Ego, and so forth.

The Eternals trailer indicates that the return of half the universe provides the energy for something.

 

[Janx]

I don't see anything in the What If...? Episode that completely invalidates the Eternals movie. Instead of asking why the Eternals didn't help out with Thanos, he'll ask why the Eternals didn't help with the Son of Ego, and so forth.

actually, per the trailer, the instigating factor for the Eternals to do something now (and have the movie) was the 2nd Snap that brought folks back which in turn agitated the Deviants they were there for. No snapping, no trigger.

So yes, they could weasel that Ego did something instead. But I find it more interesting to find the movies these What Ifs directly negate without some kind of "then they'll make up something else instead so it happens anyway"

 

[Janx]

Maybe I'm just sensitive to it, having grown up as that poor kid?

Been there myself.

I'm sure the writers didn't intend that. But it is a side effect of the choices they made that mean something to somebody.

 

[billd91]

I'm not sure that I liked the message in that; rich good, poor bad.

I think it's less a question of good/bad as much as a question of which one has the power to make his surroundings adapt to him vs having to adapt to his surroundings. The privileges T'Challa has as a boy in Wakanda (compared to Peter's childhood and ongoing grief) breeds optimism and empowerment relative to Peter's experiences.

 

[Umbran]

The Eternals trailer indicates that the return of half the universe provides the energy for something.

"The remnant's of Ego's vast energies..." There's always a way.

 

[Rabulias]

"The remnant's of Ego's vast energies..." There's always a way.

Agreed, writers can always come up with something, but I doubt even all of Ego's energies compares to the power of deleting or returning half of all living things in the universe. Peter Quill, with a heritage of Ego's energy (probably much less than half, admittedly) could barely hold onto the Power Stone. Ego, powerful as he was, was finite; the Infinity Stones are (like it says on the tin) infinite.