What If...?
tv·TV-14·Aug 11, 2021·
What If...? lands at a moderate 5/10 woke score due to targeted gender swaps, female-led arcs, and representation pushes in Seasons 1-2, offset by Season 3's return to straightforward canon stories without added messaging.
"What If...?" is an animated multiverse anthology series exploring alternate-timeline MCU scenarios through episodic reimaginings of established characters and events.
Its content incorporates progressive elements most noticeably in Seasons 1 and 2 via deliberate gender and race swaps (such as Peggy Carter as the super-soldier Captain America figure and T'Challa in the Star-Lord role), recurring emphasis on female-driven arcs with feminist reframings, and spotlighting original diverse characters like Kahhori, all tied to explicit production intent for greater representation. Season 3 largely avoids these approaches by sticking to canon-derived stories without identity-focused alterations or messaging. This mix of standard anthology entertainment with varying levels of diversity-driven changes across the reviewed seasons underpins the show's overall woke score of 5/10.
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