‘Marvel, quit letting your milennial writers drink coffee and overload on sugar while reading AO3!’

General thoughts on Marvel’s What If…? episode 7 — What If… Thor Were An Only Child?

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BEWARE SPOILERS!!!!

Warning: brief discussion of racism and colonial practices, brief references to nuclear weapons and general violence

I have an on-going theory that the writers of this series are the most serious of fanfiction devotees — especially crack fics.

This episode went a long way to proving me right.

(Fandom notes:

Crack fics are fics which contain the surreal/batpoop bizarre — think peak Internet humour, Charlie-the-Unicorn-style randomness.)

I present a brief dossier of batsh**tery:

• Howard the Duck and The Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) are somehow both at this Vegas party
• Fandral has a goat named Gary. (I love it!)
• En Dwi’s DJ’ing, apparently.
• DID DARCY JUST F**KING MARRY HOWARD THE DUCK?!
• They called Thor’s mother when sh** got real.

And in case you missed that: DARCY MARRIED HOWARD THE EFFING DUCK!

The writers have officially read too many crack fics — I see you, Marvel writers, I know what’s going on here.

I swear to God, Marvel, quit letting your milennial writers drink coffee and overload on sugar while reading AO3! (Also: where is my recruitment letter? #Rude)

(Fandom notes:

AO3 = An Archive Of Our Own — the largest and most… varied… of dedicated fanfiction websites.)

Also, is… is Rocket Raccoon sleeping in the sink in the morning-after scene?

That’s kind of adorable.

And OMG THOR STILL THINKS HE’S A RABBIT AND MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!! 😂😅

So Loki is prince of Jotunheim? Good for him!