‘How the f**k are Clint and Nat still faffing around Russia?’

General thoughts on Marvel’s What If…? episode 8 — What If… Ultron Won?

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BEWARE SPOILERS!!!

This may be highly surprising to you, dearest nerdlets, but I actually make notes while I’m watching What If…? so that I remember what I wanted to say when I come to write these posts.

Most of my notes for this episode are variations on ‘oh, sh**!’ — which, while an accurate and understandable response to a lot of this ep., isn’t that handy when it comes to talking about it to you fine people.

(Dammit past Cee! Make better notes!)

This episode was… a lot.

It was a lot.

There was a lot of stuff going on, and, to put it bluntly, sh** went down.

Suddenly we’ve got callbacks to previous episodes and a through-arc and the fate of the multiverse at risk.

So yeah, it’s a lot.

One thing I did not understand — and this may very well be me missing something — is that if Ultron has destroyed everything and is…