We're back with the second episode of Season 2 What If Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes? As a brand new team is formed in 1988 to defend Earth from a highly powered Peter Quill.

Marvel's What If? 202 What if Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Synopsis

Executive Produced by: Bryan Andrews, A.C. Bradley, Brad Winderbaum with Kevin Feige

Head Writer: A.C. Bradley

Episode Written by: Matthew Chauncey

Episode Directed By: Bryan Andrews

One small change can affect the every realm!

In 1988, Yondu takes Peter Quill to Ego, who urges him to help his expansion across the universe. 

Six months later, after ravaging several worlds, Quill returns to Earth. In response, Peggy Carter and Howard Stark assemble a team composed of Bill Foster, King T'Chaka of Wakanda, Bucky Barnes, Dr. Wendy Lawson, and a reluctant Hank Pym, who brings his daughter Hope van Dyne along. 

After a scuffle on Coney Island, the team detains Quill with help from Thor. As the team discusses their next move, Van Dyne connects with Quill over music and realises that he returned to earth to come home. Hope frees Quill, who travels to Missouri. Meanwhile T'Chaka, Foster and Thor aid Carter's forces holding back Ego, who has travelled to earth to continue his Expansion. Meanwhile, Pym and Lawson encounter Quill visiting his mother's grave, and a sympathetic Pym convinces him to stand against his father. 

The Winter Soldier —under the influence of his Russian handler —prepares to assassinate Quill until Stark reminds him of his best friend, Steve Rogers. Just as Ego overwhelms the heroes and attempts to obtain his seed, Pym and Quill arrive in time to stop him, with Quill using the cosmic energy of the Celestial seedling to destroy Ego's avatar form. 

The team, minus Bucky Barnes, celebrates their victory before setting out to confront Ego's planetary form.

Marvel's What If? 202 Cast

The Watcher played by Jeffrey Wright

Michael Douglas as Hank Pym / Ant-Man

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter

John Slattery as Howard Stark

Kurt Russell as Ego

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster / Goliath

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier

Atandwa Kani as King T'Chaka / Black Panther

Madeleine McGraw as Hope van Dyne

Mace Montgomery Miskel as Peter Quill

Keri Tombazian as Mar-Vell / Wendy Lawson

Gene Farber as Karpov

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What have we seen before, What's the change, what does this mean for this episodes universe - Whether we each Defend the episode or not - Notes, Quotes and comic references

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Thanks for joining us for our What If? season 2 episode 2 podcast. We'll be back next time with our chat about What If? Season 2 Episode 3 "What If Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?"

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