#The watcher cracked#

We don't know where or when the events of Eternals line up with Loki's cataclysmic finale, or if they will at all. If the Avengers were Earth's managers, the Eternals are the next level of leadership, followed by the Celestials in cahoots with the Watchers. The superhuman Eternals are stepping in while the Avengers lack leadership. Now that the universe is not, in fact, uni, mortal superheroes from every timeline are going to need all the help they can get in keeping some semblance of order.

In fact, timing the What If.? trailer to the week before Loki's finale only stoke the flames of the Watcher-theory fire, and they might not be behind the TVA but they're still top of mind. Loki also brought the Watchers to the forefront of fan speculation when the omniscient Time Keepers turned out to be a ruse.

#The watcher cracked#

The Watchers didn't really have a place in the MCU until recently, when a certain God of Mischief cracked open the multiverse. but given What If.?'s standalone nature, probably not. Our Watcher might be him as a very convoluted way of bringing the Fantastic Four into the MCU. There are dozens of Watchers, but the most prominent is Uatu-Tu, who broke the cardinal rule of interfering with events in the universe by helping out the Fantastic Four. There are also the Earth-1117 Watchers who worked directly with Celestials, and the Earth-1610 Watchers, who are supercomputers (a clever wink from Loki). At the time this was more of an Easter egg than anything, because Marvel fans don't miss a trick. Three mysterious figures are seen listening to Stan Lee's cameo character as he talks about his days as a Federal Express man (which we actually saw him as in Captain America: Civil War). The Earth-199999 Watchers were only seen once in the MCU, when Yondu, Kraglin, and Rocket speed past them in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. In early episodes The Watcher references how things happened and how they could have, using what we've already seen as a reference. The Watchers appear in multiple existing Marvel universes, but What If.? is at least positioned in relation to Earth-199999, the world of the established MCU. Marvel Comics readers might be familiar with the Watchers, plural, a race of old and powerful beings that observe but do not interrupt the universe - not to be confused with the Celestials from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (who, if you recall, interfered quite a bit). Over the course of the series, our mysterious narrator will introduce us to a world where Peggy Carter took the super soldier serum, T'Challa becomes Star Lord, and numerous other Avengers cross and join paths in ways we never imagined. 'I observe all that transpires here, but I do not, cannot, will not interfere,' The Watcher declares.

In the show's trailer, this unseen character (voiced by Jeffrey Wright) introduces us to the multiverse, to the idea that our universe is not unique and exists parallel to infinite other realities. Marvel's What If.? introduces a gargantuan new figure to the MCU: The Watcher.