I loved this episode a lot. what a beautiful origin story.
[7.8/10[ I have to admit, I spent much of the first part of this one going “Who the hell is Kahhori?” I wracked my brain trying to figure out what the connection to the MCU was, until I looked it up and was delighted to discover that she’s a wholly original character!
I like What If and its reimaginative premise, but after a season and a half, you can detect certain formulas in its remixes. With that, something totally fresh and only lightly related to the rest of the known MCU is a welcome departure.
And I particularly appreciate the original story What If chose to tell here. Telling a story that is distinctively of and about the indigenous Mohawk tribes gives this tale a unique flavor that elevates it. There is a certain Tarantino-style “alternate history where the oppressed get to be the victors over their oppressors” vibe here, but in a more spiritual and culturally authentic sort of way that comes through.
Granted, maybe it’s just the stopping bullets motif, but Kahhori has a certain amount of Neo from The Matrix in her. That's a pretty familiar spin on the hero’s journey to begin with, but the whole sense of finding yourself in another plane of existence, with cool powers, that you can intuitively use better than experienced wielders, and come back to the world you know to make your stand, is familiar. But it’s good stuff, and even if the beats of Kahhori excelling instinctively come off a touch pat, the visuals are striking, and the ideas are strong.
I appreciate the themes here too, of that aspirational stand against colonialism, of the freighted idea that a place you’ve been forced to can be a paradise or a prison, of the resolve to help your people even when it requires great boldness and great risk. Those bigger ideas infuse this outing with a sense of epicness and a grander meaning. That makes it rousing when Kahhori uses her abilities to force the portal down to her rather than reaching toward it, and when her Sky World brethren break through to her rescue in blinding streaks of light, and when Conquistador and Monarch alike are brought to a level playing field by indigenous peoples able to match their firepower.
Some of this is simple, but the spirit of it bears out and wins you over. Particularly as What If has more wiggle room than mainline MCU projects to get experimental and depart from the standard routines without disrupting canon, I’d love to see it take more big and original swings like this, particularly given how well this one connected.
This season has been great, but this episode in particular is incredible
"what if... you had to read?" fucking americans. us non americans have had to rely on subtitles for most of our lives but here you are complaining about a singular episode
What if…the writers had no new ideas? Tada! Kahhori.
What in the... it must be one of the best What if? episodes I've watched.
It's a shame we don't get marvel movies of this quality of a story. Superb.
I'm kind of blown away by the "What if... Kahhori Reshaped the World?" episode of Marvel's "What If...!?" that just debuted. A richly-realized indigenous-centered, anti-colonialist, spoken-Mohawk vision of an alternative past. Really powerful! More on the collaboration that spawned this:
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/how-marvel-studios-what-if-created-kahhori-a-new-mohawk-super-hero/
A new Marvel character! And she is great, not a Mary Sue. She does have power, but it's her circumstance and people's suffering that gives her the will to use it.
Damn, that was a superbly beautiful episode.
Hope Marvel keeps making TV like this (and also hope that Kahhori's story can be expanded enough for her to become one of the greatest Marvel superheroes ever).
Powerful!! This was probably the best episode, and I wish it was a movie instead of a 30 minute episode
Wow! More of this please
Worst episode ever….I can’t stand constant subtitles..plus idgaf about some new character
Just a mediocre episode. So far my least favorite episode of both seasons.
This episode might be the first genuinely bold innovative and inspired storytelling in the what if show. Don't get me wrong I've really liked all the episodes that came before this but Kahhori's story is easily above and beyond what they were even aiming to do with other episodes of the series.
Honestly I have no idea what compelled the team to tell such a beautiful story about indigenous resistance but i genuinely hope this isn't the end of the line for not only Kahhori as a character but the spirit stories like this represent.
What If... Pocahontas met Avatar?
More of this. It's easily the best What If so far.
I liked Kahhori, I liked the native-American inclusion... but I'm not sure I needed the n-th rendition of an unoriginal origin story... because it wasn't new, it was just in a new setting.
would of been an amazing episode BUT it was done purely in subtitles. Hopefully they give a "dub ed" option in the future so it can be sat back and enjoyed without having to read as well
Before I forget the dialect they present in this chapter sounds incredible, for me this is very inclusive without being so forced, it understands certain characteristics of the character as something cliché, but I didn't feel it so forced.
The Queen of Spain (the one in the chapter) menuda gilipollas parece jajajaj, como dirían esos weyes...
Ostias tío que me ah flipado el capitulo....
The animation looks spectacular to me, the character I liked and the background is something already seen, it seems cliché in some aspects, but it's not bad.
But well, what I came to, Los españoles siendo españoles, How they like what they love a esos weyes jajaja.
Let's see if they don't cry with this chapter.
while I didn't like the fact that I had to read through subs, this episode so far is the best thing in the season story-wise. I hope Marvel Studios will care to explain in next 2 episodes why all these season 2 episodes seemed so non-coherent
"What If..." is always a treat, but this was absolutely beautiful. I really hope to see more of Kahorri... not just in the What If universe, but in our live action films and television shows... and woven into the comics themselves to cement her place among Marvel's legends. Her powers are growing so fast. If this had been timed a little differently, she could have been a major character in The Marvels for sure.
what if...? marvel did panderverse
This is the only truly worthwhile episode of this entire series in my opinion (at least of the 2 seasons we have so far). There are 3 others I would consider enjoyable. But this is the only one that actually brings anything interesting to the table. A lovely highlight in a landscape of boredom.
This dethroned the marvels as the worst thing marvel studios ever produced.
F...k you Marvel...spreading lies. The worst episode.
Hispanophobic revenge fantasy based on black legend. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha would be ashamed.
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That right there was absolutely sensational!