WHAT IF...? Season 3 Adds Natasha Lyonne In Superhero Role - Is This Who She'll Play In THE FANTASTIC FOUR?

WHAT IF...? Season 3 Adds Natasha Lyonne In Superhero Role - Is This Who She'll Play In THE FANTASTIC FOUR?

What If...? season 3 has made an unexpected casting addition with Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face) playing a newly created superhero. However, is that who she'll suit up as in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?

By JoshWilding - Nov 12, 2024 10:11 AM EST
Filed Under: What If

Marvel Studios has assembled one of its best ensembles yet for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Led by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, the supporting cast includes names like Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, and Natasha Lyonne.

We don't know who the latter is playing, though fans have speculated that the Russian Doll star could be everyone from Alicia Masters to the voice of H.E.R.B.I.E.

What we didn't expect was for Lyonne to join the cast of What If...? season 3 as a newly created superhero. Disney's press site has confirmed she's playing Byrdie, an original character who is shown flying into action alongside Captain Carter and Kahhori in the officially released still below.

The only character from the comics we can find with a similar name is Birdy, a mutant ally of Sabretooth who doesn't have wings and isn't likely tied to the MCU's Byrdie in any way. 

It looks like the redhead pictured below has real wings - similar to the comic book version of Joaquin Torres - so she may be an alternate reality "Falcon." As you might expect, speculation is already running rampant about whether this is the same character Lyonne will play in The Fantastic Four: First Steps

While we'd say it's possible, chances are that isn't the case. Don't forget, filmmaker Matt Shakman has said Marvel's First Family are the only superheroes in their reality, so it's doubtful Byrdie will fly into action alongside them.

Still, we can't help but wonder whether Lyonne might get the opportunity to suit up as this hero in the upcoming Avengers movies...

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Watch as classic characters make unexpected choices that will mutate their worlds into spectacular alternate versions of the MCU. The Watcher (voice of Jeffrey Wright) will guide viewers as the series traverses new genres, bigger spectacles, and incredible new characters.

The series features an incredible voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their iconic roles. Season 3 features fan-favourite characters like Captain America/Sam Wilson, The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes, Hulk/Bruce Banner, The Red Guardian, Captain Peggy Carter, Agatha Harkness, Shang-Chi, Storm the Goddess of Thunder, and numerous others.

Episodes of What If...? season 3 are directed by Bryan Andrews and Stephan Franck and are written by Matthew Chauncey, Ryan Little, and A.C. Bradley.

Executive producers are Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, and Bryan Andrews, with co-executive producer Matthew Chauncey, and producers Danielle Costa, Carrie Wassenaar, and Alex Scharf.

What If...? season 3 premieres on Disney+ on December 22 with a new episode daily for 8 days. You can watch the trailer here.

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TheyDont
TheyDont - 11/12/2024, 10:07 AM
What if... Captain Carter wasn't in every episode?
Batmangina
Batmangina - 11/12/2024, 10:13 AM
Are they not allowed to use the regular Marvel Universe?

IDGAF about What If the MCU's version of these six characters did six DIFFERENT things?

They've wrung the tit of the MCU to the point of powdered milk...

0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 11/12/2024, 10:17 AM
I couldn't make it past the first season
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 11/12/2024, 10:20 AM
Bird-Brain confirmed.

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DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/12/2024, 10:36 AM

Cartoon stuff. Meh.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 11/12/2024, 10:39 AM
That’s actually really funny. This show has spawned 2 original female heroes. Maybe 3 with America ferreras ranger character.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 11/12/2024, 10:41 AM
People hating on this show can get bent.

Wish they were making more than three seasons.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 11/12/2024, 10:44 AM
This show isnt what I expected it to be and idk why keep pushing the same characters nobody asked for. Cap Cartee and Kahhori are lame im sorrrry
BeNice123
BeNice123 - 11/12/2024, 5:03 PM
@Matchesz - also ill add in Iron Heart and cap Marvel. Sorry.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/12/2024, 10:59 AM
Like many I agree it doesn't really feel like What If (anymore). Again it's introducing a new or non-MCU characters in this show. Should've called it the Captain Carter or Exiles show.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 11/12/2024, 11:00 AM
With so many characters yet to be adapted they feel the need to create random new ones. Now it's apparently Hawkgirl... I mean Birdie. In that picture there are literally 3 completely new characters they made for the show.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/12/2024, 11:45 AM
@Urubrodi - With all the characters she could have been, Medusa, Frankie Raye (or HERBIE or Alicia Masters or whatever) and she's some rando we probably won't care about ever. They make her an obscure footnote in cbm history.

Original characters are almost always disappointing. With notable exceptions of course, but you can't just sit down and create a character that will stand toe to toe with classic tried and tested characters.
People have been trying to do that for ages in the comics and it rarely works. That's why you take the good stuff that does work when you're adapting things and don't just throw a bunch of rando characters in there that look like forgotten Image characters that appeared on one or two splash pages in the '90s and were promptly forgotten and never seen again.

It's like when they remake a musical and decide they're gonna write new songs for it and just expect them to be as classic as the rest of the songs in the musical. You can't just do that. Things don't just become classic because you want them to.

Ugh! You got me ranting, lol. Basically I'm saying that I hear you brother, I hear you.
mountainman
mountainman - 11/12/2024, 11:09 AM
This show is 80% boring / complete waste of episode and 20% actually interesting stories and set ups.

If this show wouldn’t have been such a slave to the MCU and if they would have just created wild alternative stories instead of this lackluster crossover / build up, it could have been far better.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 11/12/2024, 11:25 AM
@mountainman - You nailed my main gripe with it. I watched the first season out of curiosity, but by the second season it was clearly not worth my time to watch. This was literally their opportunity to do wild and creative stuff that they could never get away with in the MCU or anywhere else and they went too conservative.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 11/12/2024, 11:14 AM
I hope this is not who Natasha Lyonne is playing in F4. F4 is literally one of the teams with most lore in comics, there is no need to shove some random new character in there.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 11/12/2024, 11:52 AM
Since F4 is taking place in an alternate universe this could make sense. She'll probably just be another hero that could exist there.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/12/2024, 12:00 PM
The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull?
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WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/12/2024, 12:06 PM
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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 11/12/2024, 12:57 PM
Can't wait, the Storm appearance at the end definitely got me hyped.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 11/12/2024, 2:59 PM
Passing on WI Season 3. That animation is insufferable. It’s like trying to sit through an AI trailer. I made it through 2 seasons and I just can’t keep going. More power to the rest of ya.
Pigdango
Pigdango - 11/12/2024, 3:23 PM
Her costume looks a lot like Songbird's to me.
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 11/12/2024, 3:31 PM
@Pigdango - could byrdie be the falcon to peggy carter's captain britain?
Pigdango
Pigdango - 11/12/2024, 3:35 PM
@CaptainFlapjaks - Yeah that too.

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