# Anyone else watching the Marvel "What If" series?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** disney-hulu, cartoons-animation\
**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watching-the-marvel-what-if-series/949338 "2021-08-23T02:07:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watching-the-marvel-what-if-series/949338/2 "2021-08-23T02:08:04Z")

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These folks are! 🙂

> [@What If...? (Disney+ Series) \[Open Spoilers After First Post\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-disney-series-open-spoilers-after-first-post/948478/81):
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> …in a world where Thanos didn’t turn out to be a genocidal dictator, he turns into the muscle for a team of wannabe Robin Hoods who can’t stop telling dad jokes. Nobody believes that Thanos is being serious here. And why would they? Its just a joke, and Thanos is playing along because its funny. He’s playing the straightman. This is all elementary chaos theory at play. A butterfly flapping its wings in Siberia eventually causes tornadoes in Alabama. And in a multi-verse with billions of versio…

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