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

Cee R.
3 min readOct 2, 2021

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

Thor action figure with hammer and cape
Photo by Ravi Palwe on Unsplash

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.

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Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr