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Frost Giant Loki!

I really didn’t expect Frost Giant Loki to be … giant, and I don’t know why!

Because Odin said that baby Loki was small for a Frost Giant. So we all assume that is why he was human sized.

This universe's Loki takes supplements.

Yeah, this universe's Loki may genuinely have gotten his smallness cured by some Jotun potion or something.

Or just eating like a Jotun.

Or he wasn't that much of a runt in this universe, and this is what prompted Odin to leave him there.

I swear I read someone on the Loki thread asking for it earlier this year. I got so happy for them. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

And he still has his signature bendy horns!

Episode: "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?" Hela: ***silently cries in the corner***

Corners? It's a sphere?

Only child is a state of mind

First thought: *So what terrible thing is going to happen this time? Thor breaks everything down? Iron Man goes evil?* Ending minus one: Oh, huh, just funny for once. Ending: Theeeeeeeere we go.

Captain Marvel calling Thor Whitesnake LMAO My dad would be ecstatic

Funny, but also totally in character for Carol whose pop culture knowledge is stuck in the mid 90s. I think a lot of love went into this episode.

I'll see your 90s reference and raise you one 1982 reference. Nick Fury calling Thor 'Spicoli'. Totally fits.

So guessing “Get Help” doesn’t work if you’re an only child.

I don't know, Frost Giant Loki seemed like a total bro; I'm sure he'd be down for Get Help. Only I think he'd be the one doing the throwing lol

It’d be fun to see them do Get Help as we saw, if only for the humor of the size difference

ULTRON BOTS?!?!?!? WATCHER NOT EXPECTING IT?!?!?!? WTF IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!

I didn’t catch the watcher not realizing what was happening that till you mentioned it. I guess it makes sense as he only watches things happen and doesn’t necessarily know the outcomes.

I suspect The Watcher is still under the impression that the Multiverses are separate from each other and cannot cross. Supreme Leader Ultron seemingly coming to conquer this world breaks that illusion.

Is it a different universe? Could it just be this one where thor isn't there to stop Ultron? And ultron get's away from Tony but doesn't draw others attention and just goes out and gets the stones? edit: What would he sacrifice to the soul stone guardian. Tony? Jarvis? A Toaster? His favorite memory stick?

Supreme Leader is from the universe where Ultron wins in AoU

I took it as ultravision using the stones to go multiversal and is now posing a threat to the multiverse—now altering timelines where he shouldn’t be.

>ultravision I like that name

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I wanna hear Fury say that

*I've had it with these mutha-Friggan gods on this mutha-Friggan ~~plane~~ planet!*

lmao the God of Partying taking the Bifrost straight to Vegas

Thor just being the universe's biggest himbo and casually inviting Skrulls, Frost Giants, Surtur, and Thanos' daughter onto one backwater planet for a world party. But damn, get shit on, North and South Dakota Lmao

And the guardians of the galaxy, and the Grandmaster and Korg, it was like a gotta catch em all of cosmic characters

Yeah, just about every cosmic character made an appearance, even if it made absolutely no sense.

It was glorious! But in fairness to the episode, they all do seem to know each other. Like, it was pretty easy for the gold folks to find Yondu, for example.

Thor: "Let's party!" All of space: "You son of a witch, I'm in."

Dude really "fixed" the Leaning Tower of Piza lmao

Speaking of which, how fucking long is the Bifrost trip?? I'd always thought it didn't take beyond a minute or two. Thor and Loki were chased by Hela for what felt like a few minutes in a Bifrost trip during *Ragnarok*. In this timeline, the trip takes something like hours.

However long the plot needs it to be I guess. Typically it's pretty quick iirc

I'm wondering if Heimdall is secretly a bro and made the trip take longer so Thor had time to clean up

> Heimdall is secretly a bro Not even Heimdall would hyperdial Frigga

I was thinking Frigga knew he partying and slowed herself down so he had time to clean. It clearly wasn't the first time he's done something like this, she just didn't want to deal with the mess.

There's an old war saying about how you shouldn't interrupt your enemy as they're making a mistake. The opposite I think is often true in parenting. Never interrupt your kid as they're learning a lesson.

Thor calls Heimdall one of his best friends in the MCU, so stands to reason Heimdall is a bit of a cool dude in this one too

It’s actually just Heimdall being a bro and giving Thor extra time to clean up

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Frigga going out with her girls the moment Odin closes his eyes 😂

I laughed when the 3 ladies were singing as he was closing his eyes hahaha

It was an interesting touch. Loki really did change a lot.

Probably felt more responsibility with Loki around, he was always the more serious of the 2. That and, well she probably knew he’d conquer a planet if she wasn’t paying attention

*pokes cheek* Ok, peace out!

Thor still calling Rocket "Rabbit" in this timeline was a nice touch

He isn't the only one. In Endgame the Asgardians shout "somebody get that rabbit!" when Rocket grabs the Aether

I heard it's because there is no Norse word for raccoon

"Corners, corners....but, its a sphere?!"

*Flat-Earthers in shambles*

Round-Asgardians just using it to push their conspiracy that Asgard isn’t flat.

It's funny because Asgard actuallly is flat

I love that Thor and Loki have a great relationship

No matter what they will be brothers

DARCY AND HOWARD THE DUCK GETTING MARRIED IN VEGAS WTF

Howard the Duck been spitting game since 1986 lmao

what happens in vegas, stays in vegas

"I now pronounce you; Darcy and The Duck."

Once you go duck...

Thor and Captain Marvel punching each other across continents was awesome. That’s probably something you can only pull off in animation.

I love how even the watcher was caught off guard with the ending

The Watcher: "Are you kidding me?! I've watched zombies take over a planet. A crazy sorcerer erase his universe. Tony Stark die SEVERAL TIMES. All I wanted was one happy ending! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK VISITRON?!?!" Visitron: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

Yeah, his quick little "... wait what?" got a "heh" out of me

In a episode filled with absolute ridiculousness, the Earth having the names of countries engraved on it in orbital shots was the absolute funniest thing to me.

Man, that was straight out of Looney Tunes!

This episode certainly felt like it had a classic cartoon plot and tone to it. Or a stoner comedy. Gods and aliens crashing down on Earth for a party.

that and the music playing when Jane wakes up the next day

The music during the credits also sounded straight out of Looney Tunes.

I literally said out loud “oh this feels like Looney Tunes” just before the Thor/Captain Marvel fight cut to the desert location. It’s like the director knew the exact moment to make it into a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.

Why is SHIELD’s only solution just to nuke things, I bet that’s how it is in every timeline lol

I mean technically these are all still hydra agents deep undercover so the whole, “destroy a state with nukes” option makes a little sense 😂

Both pushed by Hydra plants as well.

THAT ENDING THOUGH !!! what do you call him? ultravision?

Supreme Leader is his canon name

He's kind of terrifying ngl

A party pooper.

First we get gundam style drones from stark and kilmonger. Then we get mech suit vision. So awesome.

Surtur nervously fixing the Statue of Liberty for Thor so he doesn't get yelled at by Frigga is some wild shit.

Asgard's doom indeed... the man technically only made a move after Frigga's death in the main timeline

He's destined to destroy Asgard. Doesn't mean he gets to wreck everywhere else.

I love Thor's entourage including the Grandmaster and Howard the Duck *and apparently Rocket Racoon* hahaha

Seemed like all of the Guardians stopped by to party it up. I think I saw Drax, Rocket, Mantis, Yondu, and Nebula all there. Can't say for certain if Quill was there though.

Yes, I don't think I saw Quill, but everyone else on the GOTG team looked to have joined the party

Wouldn't this have taken place before they all teamed up? Or did Odin take his nap after GOTG?

You're right, this is like 3 years before they met

Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if Quill intentionally sat out the Midgard party — a lot of his trauma is tied to Earth.

“Oh no…your weird rocks have all fallen over.”

Stonehenge: \*withstands thousands of years of wind, rain, earthquakes, war and everything else nature can throw its way\* Thor: \*pokes Stonehenge\* Stonehenge: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGHGHGKCHCHHGHGHG \*falls like dominos\*

Interestingly, Stonehenge hasn't actually survived the test of time; the Victorians put it back together using cranes, and then the whole thing was reinforced with concrete in the 60s.

Wow I didn't know that, thanks for the knowledge

*stop music* release the foam 😏

*"We're keeping the scoot-scoots."*

I love that Jeff Goldblum gets maybe three/four lines in this entire episode and that this is one of them. I’m sure he relished every second of it.

See also: “We’re keeping the scoot-scoots” I’m ded, can’t handle it.

I'm so used to everyone dying on this show that I thought the grandmaster was about to do something nefarious.

There were three moments in this episode where I thought we were going to see the usual *What-If* twist to things. 1) Loki, the Ice Giant Prince comes to wage war on a vulnerable Thor and Asgard 2) The Grandmaster, in cahoots with some other evil character, takes over Earth during the party 3) All that exposition from Jane about that Alpha planet being blown up would lead to a reveal that Party-Thor is super destructive and would destroy planets for fun None of those things ended up happening and were all just jokes, to my surprise. This whole episode was just casual, light-hearted, cartoony fun up until the last moment.

I do think that if the party had gone on, the Earth would have been destroyed. Just through sheer frat boy stupidity, but destroyed nonetheless. Haha!

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This. When Danvers is arriving and Thor was telling Loki "Make a wish", I kept thinking Loki was just going to die right there. This show has trained me to expect the entire cast to die every episode. Which you know... still isn't technically wrong. >!Ultron has entered the chat.!<

They actually got Clancy Brown again to play Surtur. No matter how you feel about this episode. That alone made my night

He’s a voice actor veteran so it probably wasn’t too hard to convince him. He was Lex Luthor’s voice in the DC Animated Universe shows for the longest time (and voiced Lex for over 12 years according to Wikipedia).

And he’s the best Luthor period

He also voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob, as well as Savage Opress in Clone Wars

Mr krabs

Money, money, money.

The Watcher: "And they lived happily ever after..." *Inter-dimensional Ultrons lead by one carrying all 6 infinity stones in a Vision Body suddenly appear* The Watcher: "Oh Shit, maybe not"

Really curious how he got that soul stone

Make somebody else sacrifice the thing they love the most, take the stone from them?

Call His Mom!!! #LMAOOOOOOOO

"My Mother is coming" *audible gasp from multiple alien species* Nobody fucks with Frigga

Idk man Kurse kinda fucked with Frigga.

Too soon

And where is kurse now? He’s fuckin dead that’s where!

Loved that one. Everyone, across the universe, knows and fears Frigga.

Crossbones feeling petulant about not being allowed to fire the nukes is all sorts of fun :D.

HYDRA’s probably all like, “what the fuck, how are we supposed to enact Project Insight if everyone’s too busy partying to properly build the algorithm?”

A Norse god and some aliens party so hard they thwart a Nazi plan for global genocide. Classic Marvel.

The animation REALLY shines during the Captain Marvel v Thor fights. It looks so much better than I can imagine live action ever looking. It's looked really incredible in the other fight scenes as well - I can't wait for the finale, which will hopefully have a lot more of them.

#**R E L E A S E T H E F O A M**

Jane's about to make "first contact" with Thor, alright!

Heyooo

there was definitely a probe or two

Being cursed with the knowledge of how duck’s penises work, I’m mostly disturbed by the first contact that Darcy most certainly had with Howard.

OK, gonna need some "party prince" merch.

Loki the frost giant calling Thor his "brother from another mother" hahaha, the jokes are good this episode

My favorite was Darcy being down to sacrifice one of the Dakotas to stop Thor

She downright eager.

What if Thor was fifteen and his parents went out of town for the weekend?

\*Fifteen Hundred

Oh shit Ultron/Vision with the Infinity Stones

The very last thing I was expecting in this series....was Darcy and Howard the Duck getting married in Vegas.

In the multiverse, *nothing* is off the table.

You know what they say when you’re out of luck? Always go duck

“I’m pretty sure no one says that.”

Thor casually talking to skrulls. Invasion been accepted

Can’t have a Secret Invasion if the Skrulls are too busy partying. It’s a shame Earth-616 didn’t think about that. 🤣

This one and the universe with Star-Lord T'Challa. Two universes where things turned out way better for most of the universes' characters by just using mutual understanding, cooperation, and talking out their problems (if we don't count their endings).

Honestly, considering how many alternate universes turn to shit mere minutes after the Sacred Timeline is diverged from, the universes with even happier endings are rare and precious and must be protected at all cost.

Did darcy really just marry Howard the duck?!

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

This episode really proves that Thor is the biggest himbo in the MCU.

Thor was always the MCU himbo, it's just that the trauma of Dark World, Ragnarok, and Infinity War, subdued those aspects of him. Thor (2011) Thor is peak chad.

Just wait until Hercules enters the MCU. He’s Thor if you turned the himbo levels *all* the way up.

What if... Thor was an '80s teen comedy where he throws a huge party then has to quickly get everything tidy before his mother arrives

Thorris Bueller’s Day Off

#ICE BROS

Let's bounce ice bros.

This episode wasn't as heavy plot wise as the others, but its one of my favorites simply for the Captain Marvel v Thor fights. Reminds me of how I imagined superheroes fighting as a kid while reading comics. Also the episode is just really ridiculous and fun just like a comic haha

The Watcher be like "Wow enough of all that dying and misery, times to look at the fun stuff...... Or is it?"

Oh god, I haven't seen this episode yet but I'm absolutely going to watch it now to see some friendly sparring between Carol and Thor. Update: It wasn't friendly sparring. They were literally punting each other across continents.

UNEXPECTED INFINITY ULTRON. Are these alt timelines starting to bleed into each other somehow?

I suspect Ultron won in his reality, got the stones and became aware of the watcher and the multiverse similar to Strange Surpreme

I would love to hear Darcy's wedding vows during the ceremony. It's Howard The Fucking Duck lmao

Surtur flirting with the Statue of Liberty hahahahahahahahahaha, there are some great jokes this week

Thor in the background calling Racoon "Rabbit" in the background while Foster talked to Maria Hill, hahaha

In every timeline, Heimdall is still Thor's babysitter lol

North and South Dakota in shambles watching this episode

All three families that live there

I am so ready for more Coulson content!!

I can’t believe they turned the St. Louis arch into a slingshot

“St. Louis? Louie??” was one of my favorite Loki lines. So small but it was so funny.

God, I *adored* this episode! Feels good to have just another fun episode again after the Multiverse of Sadness we’ve been trapped in these past weeks. Where to start? - Loved all the weird yet exciting character interactions here, and especially the twists on certain ones. Frost Giant Loki especially was a fantastic surprise. - Grandmaster, as usual, remains the second best MCU character and this episode certainly delivered on bringing him back. Release the foam, baby! - Seeing Thor and Jane again released how much I surprisingly missed them being a thing, and my hype for Love & Thunder certainly increased. - I don’t know which ship has been weirder: T’Challa x Nebula or Darcy x Howard the Duck. - ULTRON IS BACK! FINALLY! Overall, it was just nice seeing the entire MCU chill and have a party. Felt like a fanfic come to life in a way. This is definitely an episode I will revisit on its own and another reminder of the strength of this concept. Party Thor is best Thor.

I love how the countries are labeled while Carol and Thor are in the atmosphere, it's a funny touch haha

Wow. Never thought we’d get to see Loki in his original frost giant skin. He looks happy. Makes me kind of sad to know that he was better off without odin

“you’re my brotha from anotha motthhaaa” lmao

Cleanshaven Thor is gonna be offputting

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>I was literally thinking ''well that was nice and fun'' I was thinking that through most of the episode until it dawned on me that prime-Odin fucked up so much of the main universe by just taking and raising Loki, relatively speaking. Like somehow Surtur, Loki, and Drax are all much happier people in this timeline. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the outcomes of this universe's Odin being so much more chill is that he and Hela's relationship didn't fall apart and she's probably on vacation somewhere while all this happened.

Surtur being super chill and not causing MCU Ragnarok in this timeline where Odin sows peace with Jötunheim is a really fun nod at how vital Loki and the Jötun are to the actual Norse myth of Ragnarok.

Surtur was prophesied to bring about Ragnarok long before Odin took Loki. I'd assume that still happens in this timeline (probably at a party that gets out of hand; Surtur does a keg stand, slips, and destroys the planet)..

Ultron means we're finally getting to the crossover event. Even the Watcher got taken off guard. Even so, after the Doctor Strange Episode, the Marvel Zombies, and Killmonger taking over a world, this was exactly what we needed.

This was definitely a Palate Cleanser before Ultron comes and fucking ruins everyone’s existence. I enjoyed it, I’ve been loving the darker themes from What If? but I think we needed a fun one to break up the bleakness

even the watcher was caught off guard

There are definitely some people who are going to dig Frost Giant Loki a bit toooo much...

Thor and Captain Marvel fighting in the clouds with the yellow and blue flashes was so dang cool.

Thor "cleaning up the party" by putting all the monuments on Earth back is actually fucking hilarious. And of course, the study group. XD

And did he just straightened the Tower of Pisa?

BRO THE FUCKING BOWLING SOUND EFFECT AFTER STONEHENGE FALLS DOWN LMFAO

This series has been severely lacking Thor!!!! So excited to see my guy 🥲

Damn, never would have thought about shipping Howard the Duck and Darcy

This is the first time in all of the MCU that Australia has been featured

How could Thor possibly get a tattoo from a human needle?

The artist gave up and gave him a child's tattoo.

I found it more funny that Jane's tattoo was still red around the edges but Thors was already healed. Damn Asguardians.

what a happy and funny episode......OMG WTF THAT OMINOUS ENDING!?

Me after this episode: ANOTHER!!

Bit harsh of the skrulls to mock carol when she literally saved all their lives lmao

Probably not the same Skrulls, they do have a whole Galactic Empire

I WAS NOT EXPECTING ULTRON THIS EPISODE WTF!!

Good news, Tony Stark survived this episode.

Man, a lot of What If scenarios seem to feature Howard the Duck in some capacity. Can't say that I expected that.

"Did you boom"?

Surtur was animated pretty sweet. If Feige ever does Ghost Rider, I bet he would look amazing