Over the holidays, you probably saw Marvel Studios hype the hell out of the second season of animated hit, “What If…?” The series doesn’t necessarily qualify as “required viewing” for the MCU, but for those who just can’t get enough of the characters, it serves as an outlet to take these beloved icons and put a new spin on them. (More about that in our review.) But apparently, the real world shitshow that was going on in 2020 led to the showrunner of “What If…?” to change course a little and focus on having more fun, which meant ditching what would have been a very dark episode featuring none other than Spider-Man.

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Let’s face it: from ‘Quantumania,’ to the Victoria Alonso and Jonathan Majors dramas, and “The Marvels,” Marvel Studios had a really bad 2023 (we went over their stressful year in much detail here). At the very least, they’ve ended 2023 on a very good note with “What If…?” season two, a series we gave some really top marks for for its mythical and archetypal writing.

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After a particularly brutal year for the brand, Marvel manages to end 2023 on a last-minute positive note with the animated series “What If…?” The series continues to surprise and even disarm the viewer with the unexpected. Just when you think it’s content to provide simply entertaining fan-service-y alternative multiverse stories of your favorite with a twist— and it surely can do that too— it turns and deepens leveraging the freedom of the inventive, imagined what-if presentation to tell darker, richer versions of Marvel Cinematic Universe tales, often with a meaningfully tragic bent that really compel.

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The new season of Marvel Studios’ animated hit, “What If…?” debuts right around the holidays, so why not include a bit of Christmas spirit in the marketing? 

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And as seen in the newest trailer for “What If…?” Season 2, which is a little more than a week away, Marvel Studios is tying the new batch of episodes in directly with the approaching holiday.

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Though 2023 has been a rough year for Marvel Studios, it’s not like the studio is giving up and shutting down shop. There are still an absolute ton of new projects on the horizon for the biggest franchise in cinema history, and one, relatively small, branch of this massive cinematic universe is the animated series that are being produced. So far, we’ve only seen one season of “What If…?” but we are on the verge of Season 2 dropping.

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The old saying goes, “Timing is everything.” Well, if that’s the case, this probably isn’t the best timing for Marvel Studios to release a new season of the multiverse-iest multiverse show to ever multiverse, “What If…?” After nearly a full year of people complaining about the Multiverse Saga leading to superhero fatigue and the first signs of weakness in the giant that is Marvel Studios, it appears 2023 is going out with a bang. 

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Those awaiting several trailers from Marvel’s animation panel at Comic-Con were disappointed this afternoon; of all the various shows in development, the only trailer that arrived was the just-released “I Am Groot,” starring Vin Diesel’s “Guardians of The Galaxy” character.

Still, fans looking for details about their favorite upcoming animated Marvel series did receive some new information. Let’s start with what’s coming soonest (aside from “I Am Groot” in August, which we already covered here).

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