WHAT IF...? Head Writer A.C. Bradley Announces Exit From MCU Animated Series Following Season 2

WHAT IF...? Head Writer A.C. Bradley Announces Exit From MCU Animated Series Following Season 2

What If...? just wrapped up on Disney+, and despite it being Marvel Studios' best-reviewed title of 2023, Head Writer A.C. Bradley has today confirmed her exit from the animated Multiversal TV series.

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By JoshWilding - Dec 31, 2023 10:12 AM EST
Filed Under: What If
Source: Toonado.com

What If...? season 2 ended yesterday and Head Writer A.C. Bradley has taken to X today to announce her departure from the animated MCU TV series. 

Confirming the season 3 episode revolving around Red Guardian and The Winter Soldier - an extended clip from that recently found its way online - will be her last script for the show, Bradley explained, "After season two, I made the decision to move on from Marvel. It's been a fun ride, but it's time for new adventures and mediums."

This news comes as a surprise, particularly as we previously heard that the plan is for What If...? to only last three seasons. All these episodes were developed in relatively quick succession, though, so it's unlikely the show will feel too different when it returns to Disney+ next year. It's also worth pointing out that "What If... Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?" was another season 2 episode which ended up being pushed back due to time constraints. 

Back in July, Bradley made headlines when she took aim at Marvel Studios after they underpaid her for work on Ms. Marvel. You can read more about that here.

Bradley wrote the What If...? episodes "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?," "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?," "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?," "What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath?," "What If... Iron Man Crashed into the Grandmaster?" and "What If... Captain Carter Fought The HYDRA Stomper?" 

She also co-wrote "What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?" and "What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?" with Matthew Chauncey, and "What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?" with Ryan Little.

It's unclear what Bradley's next project will be and who is going to take over as What If...? season 3's Head Writer/showrunner. Take a look at her comments, including why season 2 didn't get too dark, in the X posts below (via Toonado.com). 

We recapped every episode of What If...? season 2 and you can check those out by following the links below. 

• What If...? Season 2 Premiere "What If...Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?" Has A Surprise MCU Return
• What If...? Assembles '80s Avengers In "What If...Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?"
• What If...? Unleashes "The Freak" And Brings Back A Familiar Foe In "What If...Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?"
• What If...? Asks "What If...Iron Man Crashed Into The Grandmaster?" And Answers A Huge Season 1 Mystery
• What If...? Delivers A Huge Reunion And Shock Twist In "What If... Captain Carter Fought The HYDRA Stomper?"
• What If...? Puts A Crazy New Spin On The MCU's History By Asking "What If...Hela Found The Ten Rings?"
• What If...? Introduces An Awesome, Powerful New Superhero In "What If...Kahhori Reshaped The World?"
• What If...? Finally Asks "What If... The Avengers Assembled In 1602?" And Deepens Multiverse Saga's Mysteries
• What If...? Season 2 Finale Unleashes A Major Multiversal Threat In "What If...Strange Supreme Intervened?"

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HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 12/31/2023, 10:10 AM
S3E2, What If A Man Did Something Heroic?
Origame
Origame - 12/31/2023, 10:13 AM
@HAILHYDRA - nah. That's too far fetched for modern Disney 🤣
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:28 AM
@HAILHYDRA - You mean like save Christmas?
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 12/31/2023, 11:15 AM
@HAILHYDRA - See every MCU movie from 1-20.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 12/31/2023, 10:10 AM
That's a lot of what ifs.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 12/31/2023, 10:36 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - Yeah, her statement is B.S.
Happens with every profession. She made the big-head look terrible by complaining about her pay on a previous project. Whether she is justified or not, not a great idea to put that out there on the web and the media. She had issues? Go to HR privately with a union rep.

I'm sure she wasn't let go then because she had a contract for the What If.... project. Funny how she bows out the exact day after the last episode premiered. Please media. We aren't always the wisest as fans, but we definitely ain't stupid.
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 12/31/2023, 10:15 AM
S3E3, What If The Villain Was Someone Other Than a Condescending Man of European Descent?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:19 AM
@HAILHYDRA - You have the power to make that What If happen. Why don't you?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:20 AM
@HAILHYDRA - What If The Condescending Man of European Descent Was Something Other Than a Villain ?
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 12/31/2023, 10:23 AM
@ObserverIO - oh, were you taught that “progressive” version of history that teaches that Europeans were the only people to commit atrocities?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:25 AM
@HAILHYDRA - That was one heck of a leap in logic you just made.
Rmcbride7349
Rmcbride7349 - 12/31/2023, 10:31 AM
@HAILHYDRA - dude are you actually a nazi?
DarthAlgar
DarthAlgar - 12/31/2023, 10:37 AM
@Rmcbride7349 - The only thing you know about nazis is what you've read on a phone screen.
DarthAlgar
DarthAlgar - 12/31/2023, 10:38 AM
@ObserverIO - Not really, given the ignorant behavior of most progressives on here.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:47 AM
@DarthAlgar - You about to tell me the Nazis were the good guys now, I suppose.
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 12/31/2023, 10:52 AM
@ObserverIO - The tactics Nazis used to control what information was distributed is more in line with the American Left than it is the Right. Just sayin.
mountainman
mountainman - 12/31/2023, 10:52 AM
@Rmcbride7349 - The most famous publicly acknowledged modern Nazi group in the world today is the Azov Battalion in the Ukraine. Certainly not a person identifying the problems with activist writers in modern Hollywood.
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 12/31/2023, 10:54 AM
@ObserverIO - and since we’re talking about Nazis, the president of Harvard was entirely unable condemn the call for genocide of Jews.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/31/2023, 11:08 AM
@HAILHYDRA -


That was bad and everyone on that panel should've been fired. You know what's worse?


In 2017 nazis marched in charlottesville and chanted "Jews will not replace us"!



In response the president of the United States said:

"there were fine people on both sides*🤡🤡🤡



He should've resigned right then and there. He is an embarrassment to this country and a traitor to our great nation.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 11:32 AM
@HAILHYDRA - So you're against Nazis or not, I'm confused.

Also, those tactics of controlling information are used by a lot more than just the "American Left". Just sayn.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/31/2023, 11:35 AM
@ObserverIO -


Elon literally bans people and bans phrases but he is a free speech warrior?


These people are not principled. They just want "there guys" controlling everything.


These are not serious people
GeneralChaos
GeneralChaos - 12/31/2023, 4:50 PM
@HAILHYDRA - and the bigotry, racism and homophobia is more in line with the Right. Just sayin.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2023, 8:05 PM
@AmazingFILMporg - Ya Trump definitely says some idiotic shit at times. That was probably the worst yet.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2023, 8:08 PM
@GeneralChaos - remember when feminism was a staple of the left? Crazy how an intense ideology can shift something that once felt so fundamental. When feminists go right because of such basic principles as biology or protecting the rights of women....you know youve really lost it.
GeneralChaos
GeneralChaos - 1/1/2024, 11:18 AM
@McMurdo - I don't know what you're blathering about.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/1/2024, 8:02 PM
@GeneralChaos - that much was obvious
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/31/2023, 10:16 AM
Glad she is moving on. Nothing worse than creatives just staying for a check💪.



I wish her well🖖
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 12/31/2023, 10:38 AM
@AmazingFILMporg - read between the lines. with all the shaky data in that b.s. of a story, she was silently forced out and probably had her career threatened to be blackballed.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 12/31/2023, 11:01 AM
@lazlodaytona -


What? How did you come away with that?



Are you making up facts again?


You never answered the question from yesterday. You said Zack Snyder made Netflix a lot of money with his rebel moon film based on its views.


Have an answer yet?🤡
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 12/31/2023, 11:35 AM
@AmazingFILMporg - due to the fact she previously made the big-wigs look terrible because a FEMALE director who was directing a female-dominated show, complained publicly about her pay. That makes Marvel, esp Disney look terrible with how they allegedly treat their female directors (they already have a poor track record with VFX companies).
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2023, 8:09 PM
@lazlodaytona - 100 percent. Feige wanted her out.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 10:18 AM
They should do an Untold Tales show, because the Happy Hogan Saves Christmas episode was basically that.

I can't think of any reason why that episode couldn't have taken place just before Age of Ultron (except for the uploading of the Werner AI, maybe, but that's easily bypassed).
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 12/31/2023, 10:21 AM
@ObserverIO - exactly. Quite a lot episodes have a set-up like that. It's because they shoehorn a What If in there that it becomes one, but they easily could just have happened in the MCU with a slightly different premise.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 12/31/2023, 12:24 PM
@ObserverIO - Erm, how would they go about explaining away Happy being a Hulk? I get the point that stuff could have gone on that wwasn't covered by the film and one of those could have been an attack on Stark Tower for tech. The whole Hulk serum bit however, no way that fits easily into being an untold story as kinda goes against Tony doing the whole there was a reason why they ended the super soldier talk in the End credit of TIH and he was never shown to be big on biochemistry, more a physics and computer science guy.

On the untold story stuff however would love an animated Ronin series set during the blip or an animated spy series following Nat leading upto Budapest and then becoming a SHIELD agent with Clint.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2023, 1:46 PM
@Apophis71 - Everyone's always craving that Budapest story.

As for Happy being a Hulk, the same thing happened in the comics too and it didn't interfere with any future stories.

Of course then people would have been asking why didn't he Hulk out (or Freak out) during the Endgame finale. In the comics he was cured of being The Freak at the end of every story (it happened a few times) so they could have easily had the same explanation.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 12/31/2023, 4:21 PM
@ObserverIO - Oh yeh get they did stuff like that in the comics but start doing that with live action cinematic universes that they cure The Freak after a one off story then you start loosing any credibilty on continuity they have left, lol.

Feel the time has probably passed for doin Budapest, kinda killed off a lot of that with the failed assasination attempt they refered back to in the Black Widow movie. It's more I would still love an animated probably alternate timeline story (to avoid the Taskmaster/canon issues of the live action Nat) of her time of being a Russian spy then defecting and time as a SHIELD spy with Barton.

Way more interested hoever if they did an actual canon to the MCU animation of Ronin and intro other street level heros and villains during Clints revenge tour. Like for instance including an episode featuring the original white Tiger if rumors are true and he will only be in the trial storyline at the end of his time with the mantle prior to an intro on one of the female version.
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