Marvel Studios illuminates this festive season with What If...? Season 3. Beginning on 22nd December 2024, Marvel will be releasing new episodes of this season every day till 29th December 2024. The first episode of What If...? season 3 begins on a nostalgic note for millennials as it features mech robots fighting giant lizards. Now that this prologue is over, let's go ahead with What If Season 3 Episode 1 recap:
What If Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: What happens in this What If...? episode
What If... the Hulk Fought the Mech Avengers? begins on a note different from the other What If...? episodes released until now. Instead of the usual What If...? animation, the opening episode of season 3 is evocative 1960s cartoons. The in-universe cartoon is about mech-suited Avengers fighting the monsters unleashed by none other than a raged-out Hulk.
The scene suddenly pauses, revealing that someone is watching the cartoon on a tablet during breakfast. Suddenly, the roof of the apartment starts to fall, but they manage to escape. They see the back of a giant Godzilla-type monster walking across the city, which leads to the opening titles of What If...? with the usual narration by The Watcher (probably Uatu).
After the opening credits, The Watcher narrates the story of this Earth where Bruce Banner to expel the Hulk, ended up making things worse. He tries to exorcise the Hulk but radiates himself with Gamma rays, only to create a giant Hulk. This new monstrous Hulk, dubbed "The Apex" spreads a reign of carnage on this earth.
To end this reign of terror, Tony Stark of this Earth with The Avengers builds a mech suit. However, they are beaten and killed by The Apex, who is strong and replicates himself. So, a new team of Avengers decides to honor the fallen heroes and deal a crushing blow to The Apex and his hoard of monsters. This new team is led by Sam Wilson the new Captain America.
After a decade, The Apex and his hoard return to wreak havoc and destruction. This universe's Monica Rambeau tries convincing Sam to speak with Bruce (who was friends with Sam a decade ago) to save the world, but Sam refuses. She convinces Bucky to look at Bruce's current whereabouts in case Sam changes his mind. This happens as Monica and Sam fail to stop The Apex and his hoard in the Arctic and they learn that the Hulking monsters are invading.
While repairing the robots, Monica convinces Sam to visit Banner and provides the former coordinates of the latter's location. The coordinates take Sam to a jungle, where Bruce is living on a nuclear combat bomber. Sam tries convincing Banner to return to and save the world, but the latter refuses. Banner instead provides Sam with a USB drive containing a plug-in designed to stop any monster.
Sam informs Monica about his failure to convince Bruce, and he is informed about the monsters in New York. Sam also tells her and the team about the plug-in, to which the team is initially skeptical. But they go ahead with the plan to save New York from the monsters. As they combine, they form one giant robot similar to the Megazord from Power Rangers.
However, even the giant robot is defeated by the monsters. When all seems lost, Bruce returns and transforms himself into a monster as strong as The Apex and his hoard but with a conscience. Bruce's Hulk monster defeats The Apex, and for a while, it feels like he will go ahead with The Apex's plan to attack New York. But, after Sam convinces him, Bruce leads the monsters to the island where he currently lives.
What's next for What If...? Season 3?
There are seven episodes left in this final season. Marvel is following the same strategy they used for What If...? season 2, i.e., releasing episodes daily. The next episode is titled "What If... Agatha Went to Hollywood?"
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What If...? Season 3 will stream its final episode on Sunday,, December 29th, 2024. You can stream all the episodes of the show on Disney+.
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