Marvel Studios’ animated series What If…? had its debut on Wednesday on Disney Plus. Each self-contained episode explores a different alternative storyline, like what if “Captain America’s” Peggy Carter took the super-soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers, or what if “Black Panther’s” T’Challa had been abducted from Earth as a child instead of “Guardians of the Galaxy’s” Peter Quill?
The show also marks the MCU’s first-ever foray into animation and looks like it won’t be the last. Variety has confirmed that Marvel is looking to expanding its animated world. Executive producer Brad Winderbaum explains to Variety, Marvel Studios already has “multiple” animated series “in various phases of development” for Disney Plus, on top of a second season for “What If…?” and a series of “photo-real” animated shorts centered on Baby Groot that are both already in production.
We realized that there’s a lot of cool avenues you can explore with animation,”
“Any project that we create is going to be something that needs to be animated in order for the story to be told. There’s very little desire to take a piece of IP that’s popular because we’re coming out with a movie and just make an animated show about it. We’re not going to do that.”
