What If...?

[Ryujin]

Am I the only one who due to the Watcher's deep voice half expects him to announce that he's Batman at the end of the intro?

I keep thinking that his voice isn't deep enough for a guy with a head that's 20 feet across. They needed Clancy Brown. Needs to be a Lou Rawls level voice.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

you are the ant who get picked up

You know what the ant does if it survives the experience? It caries on with it's life exactly as it did before. It doesn't care what happened, it barely even noticed.

 

[Janx]

Am I the only one who due to the Watcher's deep voice half expects him to announce that he's Batman at the end of the intro?

I have a side-hypothesis that The Watcher could be a Variant of Kang. That's not Marvel canon, of course, but it COULD be MCU. It's another vague name like He Who Remains. The role is related to what HWR was doing.

Or not. But there's a lot of Kang out there, all different. When the multi-verse was unleased, suddenly there's this guy who does nothing but watch them in an odd fascination and awareness of these variations.

 

[Janx]

Wow. Super judgey.

And, maybe rather missing the point of the Black Panther film, in which T'Challa learns that being too focused only on Wakanda is, in fact, a flaw.

This T'Challa's indoctrination in "Wakanda Before All Else" stopped when he was a boy. He then chooses to take on other responsibilities, and makes good on them. His blood kin are not somehow more deserving of his aid than anyone else in the galaxy. His home country and planet are not somehow more deserving than any other worlds. What does it matter which people in need he helps, so long as he's helping people?

in fact, his blood kin are doing just fine as we see when T'Challa returns to earth.

The galaxy is doing better, because they picked up the wrong kid.

 

[Maxperson]

I have a side-hypothesis that The Watcher could be a Variant of Kang. That's not Marvel canon, of course, but it COULD be MCU. It's another vague name like He Who Remains. The role is related to what HWR was doing.

Or not. But there's a lot of Kang out there, all different. When the multi-verse was unleased, suddenly there's this guy who does nothing but watch them in an odd fascination and awareness of these variations.

In the comics there are a race of those beings assigned to watch the various planets and such. Uatu is the Watcher of Earth, which is why he's watching events that deal with people from Earth. I doubt they'd turn him into a Kang variant.

 

[Rune]

in fact, his blood kin are doing just fine as we see when T'Challa returns to earth.

The galaxy is doing better, because they picked up the wrong kid.

At least until Ego shows up.

 

[Janx]

In the comics there are a race of those beings assigned to watch the various planets and such. Uatu is the Watcher of Earth, which is why he's watching events that deal with people from Earth. I doubt they'd turn him into a Kang variant.

I know that. But it doesn't have to be that way in the MCU.

 

[Rune]

I know that. But it doesn't have to be that way in the MCU.

I was actually kinda hoping (before his reveal happened) that Kang would turn out to be a Loki variant.

 

[Ryujin]

You know what the ant does if it survives the experience? It caries on with it's life exactly as it did before. It doesn't care what happened, it barely even noticed.

I can't say for sure, but I don't think that ants suffer from Existential Dread.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I can't say for sure, but I don't think that ants suffer from Existential Dread.

Neither do many humans.