The season 1 finale of Marvel Studios' first MCU-set animated series will hit Disney+ tomorrow, and we now have an official title: What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath?
We figured Jeffrey Wright's all-seeing narrator would play a big part in the conclusion to this story following the events of last week's episode, and sure enough, The Watcher will be forced to go back on his promise to never get involved in an attempt to stop "Infinity Ultron" (Ross Marquand) from using the Infinity Stones to wreak havoc across the Multiverse
"It goes places you don't expect," director Bryan Andrews tells EW. "I know people are starting to get a sensation that things are building to something — and they are. And craziness ensues."
"There's a degree of resolution where it feels like all the stuff that's been percolating across the episodes, the adventure that we bring you into for the ending, ends, to a certain degree," he continues. "All these universes, when we're done with our episode, those universes continue. It's an ongoing cinematic universe; there is stuff that happens yet to come that maybe we will see and maybe we will not see. But we don't necessarily want to have it all tied up in a perfect bow. There is a level of buttoning up with a certain degree of things that we get into with a certain storyline."
Check out a rather vague new promo for the finale below.
Fans have been speculating that this season might culminate with the formation of the "Guardians of the Multiverse," and whether that winds up being their official name or not, it certainly sounds like The Watcher will be putting a team together!
"We will pop into and re-meet some of our heroes from the previous episodes, including the lovely Captain Carter [Hayley Atwell], Strange Supreme, Party Thor [Chris Hemsworth], and even Killmonger [Michael B. Jordan]," head writer AC Bradley reveals. "Early on in the first season, like day one talking about it, there was this notion of we're creating all these great heroes, but we only get to sit with them for 20 or 30 minutes. Wouldn't it be great to see them again in the finale? And then once that decision was made, it liberated me to make the endings a little bit darker and bigger, knowing that we can give some sort of resolution in the finale."
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