What If…Disney+ Does Daily Releases For Season 2? It’s Happening

Watch the new trailer for Marvel Studios’s multiversal animated series as it returns this December

Marvel Studios’s year isn’t over yet. Following the finishing of Loki’s second season and the release of The Marvels in theaters, there’s one more present under the World Tree: the long-awaited return of the animated series What If…? Disney+ and Marvel released the trailer for season 2 on Wednesday.

Season 2 will premiere on December 22 on the streamer, but instead of overlapping with 2024’s first Marvel Cinematic Universe series Echo, which debuts on January 10, it’s almost as if a second, slightly longer Chanukah has been arranged, as new episodes will “unwrap” daily until December 30. And yes, there is a Christmas episode that very well may be Die Hard in Avengers Tower starring Happy Hogan and Darcy Lewis, while Tony’s stuck as a mall Santa?

You thought the story was over, but it’s only just the beginning. The Watcher, voiced by Jeffrey Wright, doesn’t normally do sequels, but things have gotten a little twisted in the multiverse. Most certainly this is in reference to the one episode whose title is already confirmed, “What If... Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?" brings back Captain Carter voiced by Hayley Atwell, Black Widow voiced by Lake Bell, and Steve Rogers voiced by Josh Keaton when he’s Captain America or in this case not. This specific group together will be continuing from the note left off on at the end of season 1.

Other episodes this season feature an episode set in medieval times, an episode where “Shang-Chi characters” (presumably meaning the people of Ta Lo) are pitted against Odin and his Asgardian forces, and the holdover from season 1, where Valkyrie and Iron Man race through the streets of the planet Sakaar, which gives more influence to his Hulkbuster armor. And yes there’s more of Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster. This is the universe where he meets up with the Gamora that would soon be plucked by The Watcher to become a Guardian of the Multiverse. So there’s a prequel in the mix with the sequel. There’s also the introduction of Kahhori, who becomes powered in a story where the Tesseract fell to Earth and landed in the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America. There’s Wanda Maximoff as an embraced Scarlet Witch summoning a massive beam of red light from the ground. Both Odin and the Watcher are nearby as well someone on horseback holding Loki's scepter. There’s also at least two stories that will feature Thanos, one against Captain Carter and one more true to the Sacred Timeline against bearded Steve.

In addition to seeing Ultron win and nearly destroy the multiverse by attaining immeasurable power, and Peggy Carter become the First Avenger, season 1 featured universes where Yondu accidentally kidnapped T’Challa, where the intended Avengers were killed off by a mysterious force, a new take on Marvel Zombies, a Tony-Kilmonger team up, and Doctor Strange lost Christine instead of his hands and grew powers mad to prevent it. It originally released weekly from August to October 2021, meaning it’s been over two years to wait for this new season. Bryan Andrews continues as director along with head writer A.C. Bradley, and both are credited as executive producers. A third season, which features season 2’s own punted episode, has already been announced.

Sources: Variety, The Direct (1, 2)