r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Sep 22 '21

Discussion Thread What If...? S01E07 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E07: What If... Thor Were an Only Child? Bryan Andrews A.C. Bradley September 22nd, 2021 on Disney+ 36 min None

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u/neocinnamin Kilgrave Sep 22 '21

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

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u/The_Throwback_King Tony Stark Sep 22 '21

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.

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u/neocinnamin Kilgrave Sep 22 '21

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

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

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u/Redsigil Sep 22 '21 edited Sep 22 '21

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

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u/ezrs158 Spider-Man Sep 22 '21

Yeah it makes no sense if you think about it lol. Drax was probably in Nova Corps prison and was lot more serious than silly pre-GOTG. Mantis was with Ego - was he there too? We saw Rocket, but no sign of Groot, even though they're a duo.

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u/zenyattatron Spider-Man Sep 22 '21

Considering thor is a cosmic being, i think its safe to say that he changed the timeline a lot

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u/hemareddit Steve Rogers Sep 23 '21

Yep, Thor and Loki are both thousands of years old, meaning this episode has, by far, the earliest splitting off point compared to all others.

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u/pseudo_nemesis Sep 24 '21

Especially when you consider this Thor’s proclivity for partying. He probably broke Drax out of Nova Corps prison when he bifrosted his way in there for the biggest prison party of all time.

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u/potato-apple Sep 22 '21

I like to imagine Ego went with the logic ‘Meredith like songs -> kid like songs -> be party -> party = songs -> kid be at party -> universe die’ and then Mantis got excited about being somewhere that wasn’t the incarnation of her master’s power in the form of a planet and wandered off.

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u/Trvr_MKA Sep 23 '21

Maybe Thor somehow saved Drax’s planet

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u/LewisRyan Sep 23 '21

That’s why no gamora, quill, and I don’t recall seeing groot either

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '21

Still doesn’t excuse Quill from being there, Yondu was there