First ‘What If…?’ Season 3 Trailer Teases The Wacky Concepts Ahead

What If…? returns for its third and final season in December, introducing to us the long awaited appearance of Phase 4 characters. Learn everything about the new What If…? Season 3 trailer below.

What If…? first began development in 2018 with the premise being an anthology series that explores branched timelines caused by different events occurring in the MCU films we already know. Marvel officially announced the project in April 2019. In August 2019, A.C. Bradley was announced as the head writer for the series with Bryan Andrews serving as the storyboard artist and director.

The first season premiered on Disney+ from August 11th 2021 to October 6th 2021. The second season would try a different approach, with a Christmas theme, the episodes dropped daily from December 22nd to December 30th in an event known as “The Nine Days Of What If…?”. A promotional website also went live that gave teases to future episodes and eventually a clip from the third season which featured the Winter Soldier, Red Guardian, and Giant Man.

In January 2024, we received new stills from the upcoming season which now included a Mech episode where Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Monica Rambeau, and Bucky Barnes would all seemingly use themed mechs against an unknown enemy. At the end of October, we also got new snippets from the final season which included another scene from the mech episode alongside a Cowboy Shang-Chi and an invasion from the Nine Realms.

Fans previously saw some footage from these episodes at D23 in August. Fans saw the first logo at D23 Brazil which teased variants old and new such as Kahhori, Frost Giant Loki, Agatha Harkness, Moon Knight, Kingo, Arishem, White Vision, Storm, and more. Today we received the first trailer for the upcoming project. You can view it below:

We also received a poster for the final season which is the English version of the one shown at D23 Brasil featuring the same variants of  Kahhori, Frost Giant Loki, Agatha Harkness, Moon Knight, Kingo, Arishem, White Vision, Storm, and more. You can view the poster below:

What Happens In The ‘What If…?‘ Season 3 Trailer?

The trailer opens with a shot of Sam Wilson and Monica Rambeau. We then cut to a shot of White Vision followed by Nebula alongside Korg and Groot from Season 2. We get another shot of Riri Williams escaping corrupted Iron Man suits followed by Red Guardian and The Winter Soldier jumping from a window. We then see a shot of Agatha Harkness in a bright white gown and finally a shot of Uatu where he says “Let’s begin”.

We now see Shang Chi and Kate Bishop in a Wild West setting, Shang asks “Up for an adventure?”. Kate replies “Always” and they ride off into the sunset. The Marvel Animation logo appears and we immediately see a shot of a broken ship followed by a shot of Wong, Okoye, Valkyrie and an unknown character. We then see Riri in a new white and gold suit facing off against what seems to be clones made by White Vision or potentially Ultron. Okoye attempts to stab White Vision with a spear. 

We see Nick Fury, Agent Coulson and others appear from the Bifrost portal, Uatu then says “You must learn to see” as we get a shot of Riri followed by Kate Bishop and an unknown third character. We see a shot of Valkyrie alongside the unknown character followed by Agatha Harkness saying “It’s showtime” with Kingo in the background. We see Howard The Duck, he says “Here we go” before starting up his ship Darcy is also present. She asks “Are you sure you can fly this?” and Howard replies “Are you kidding, I’m a duck, I was born to fly, strap in”.

We see a shot of Dormammu followed by another shot of Zeus, We then see Wong and crew powering up by wearing enchanted armor made from a spell. We hear Moon Knight say “If we all go down, the world will be left defenseless”, we then see a shot of him in a high-tech area which is later revealed to be his own mech. We see another shot of Riri before a planet explodes, we get a look at the mechs which seem to include The Red Guardian, Moon Knight, Photon / Spectrum, Captain America, Moon Knight and Winter Soldier. Sam narrates saying “This is the shot we have, we may not get another one”. We see a shot of seven mechs while Sam says “Let’s finish it”. The mechs then combine before Sam says “Avenger, Assemble.”

We see more characters from the Wild West episode fighting, followed by Red Guardian being attacked by soldiers, and then Bucky protecting Alexei from a person in a red robe. We see Riri flying alongside the ship found in Moon Knight with Okoye handling a cannon. We see blue markings on another planet and cut to a scene of a giant Agatha Harkness hovering above Earth. We then see shots of Kaecelius, Yondu and Hulk before the screen cuts to black and we see Uatu, Captain Carter and Byrdie face three watchers. The one in the middle says “This is where your story ends”. We see a brief shot of Mysterio with his head connected to wires, then Sam by a shoreline with his mech and finally White Vision emerging from the ground with an army of corrupted Iron Man mechs waiting.

We see a closeup of Shang Chi followed by Kingo and then Arishem with two persons in front of him. We see a shot of Kahhori, Captain Carter and Byrdie flying. Byrdie is seen attacking tentacles from the monster seen in Captain Carter’s first episode and later Strange Supreme’s first episode. We see Uatu powering up followed by flashes of different characters including Kaecilius, Bruce Banner, White Vision, Captain Carter, Wong, Kingo, Kate Bishop, an unknown character, Sam and Uatu again before the What If…? Logo appears again with a release date of December 22nd. The trailer ends with Kahhori telling Captain Carter “Maybe it’s time we call in some help?”, we then see a shot of Storm wielding Mjolnir. She says “I am Storm, Goddess of Thunder” Before attacking the tentacle monster.

What If…? Season 3 stars Jeffrey Wright as Uatu the Watcher, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson, and more. The season premieres on Disney+ on December 22nd.

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