Marvel’s What If…? animated anthology series has stayed compelling because it lets the best MCU movies bend in directions the movies never explored, creating space for ideas the franchise rarely slows down to consider. It’s one of the strongest projects to come out of the Multiverse Saga, and one episode still stands above most of the recent films.

The 2021 story "What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" delivers some of the MCU’s most affecting character work, reaching emotional territory that several of the studio’s best and worst Multiverse Saga releases failed to convey. After rewatching the episode, it made me wonder whether Avengers: Doomsday will hold onto that same dedication to character.

The MCU's Multiverse Peaked With "What If… Doctor Strange

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