Marvel’s What If…? which recently dropped its second season on Disney+ is a fun animated series that reimagines elements from the MCU in creative new ways. We get to see Nebula become a member of the Nova Corps and Happy Hogan transform into the Hulk to see how stories like that could play out. But while the show gets to be creative with what stories it tells, it turns off some material is off limits, at least right now.
Season 2 sees a return episode that imagines Peggy Carter taking the super soldier serum and becoming her universe’s version of a very English Captain America. However, the current MCU’s Captain America, Sam Wilson, is nowhere to be found. What If…? writer A.C. Bradley recently told the Phase Zero podcast that Sam Wilson as Captain America was off limits because one rule the show has is that it isn’t allowed to introduce new characters itself, and must wait for upcoming Marvel TV series or movies to do that work first. She explained…
