What if moments

Episode 5, being a full-blown zompocalypse story, had some fun with zombie movie cliches. The first was the tried and true trope of finding shelter, or an ally, that's not what it seems.

The moment when the heroes think they're safe but there's a dark secret happening behind-the-scenes, be it cannibalism or awful experiments or what have you.

Here, the grim twist involved -- well -- a different type of WandaVision love story, in which Vision, unable to cure Wanda's undead status, resorted to feeding her people - including entire chunks of T'Challa!

Episode 5 also ended like many zombie flicks, with our survivors headed to a place they assumed was safe and clear of undead hordes. Well, as usual, the "safe haven" they had in mind was just as overrun with ghouls as the rest of the world, meaning they were unknowingly headed into a death trap.

This time Episode 6, "What If Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark? But this turn of events also led to the untimely demise of Stark not soon after -- at Killmonger's hands. And not just that, but Killmonger also murdered his cousin, T'Challa, which was indeed a shocking moment. It's a What If? Universe-destroying pivot points in history we can believe, but this seemed to go a step too far!

Thor Was an Only Child? Right at the end though, in what seemed to be a fun throwaway doomsday scenario one that seemed to also surprise The Watcher, Uatu , Ultron showed up with an army of bots. But this was no ordinary Ultron. This was an Ultron who had both somehow successfully taken over the body he'd created that we normally associate with Vision AND also had all six Infinity Stones.

It had nothing to do with the story that proceeded it and In What If? Ultron Won? Black Widow and Hawkeye kept up the good fight in the aftermath, doing their best to battle back Ultron's forces with a last-ditch effort to corrupt his system using an A. Arnim Zola, but by that point it was too late. The arrival of Thanos allowed Ultron to take control of the Infinity Stones. Thanos was dead, killed effortlessly by Ultron, giving the maniacal Cyberlord the power to travel across the universe and destroy world after world.

After killing Captain Marvel and most of its entire universe, Ultron had grown so powerful that it was able to sense The Watcher and the entire multiverse - an ability we hadn't seen since Doctor Strange, while gaining ungodly power, sensed Uatu back in "What If Though "What If This time it was Clint who told his best friend to let him fall.

As Clint plummeted he took out the approaching swarm of Ultron-bots with a massive explosion. The Watcher officially got in the game in Season 1's penultimate episode after Infinity Ultron broke through the multiversal barrier and attacked.

Forced out of his passive state, Uatu decided to fight back, encasing himself in cosmic armor and giving Ultron a run for its money as they crashed through universe after universe - with the fate of all existence everywhere on the line! Diana Kwon is a freelance journalist who covers health and the life sciences.

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