🚨Warning: There are MASSIVE spoilers ahead for What If...? Episode 9 on Disney+!🚨
Hi, hello. I hope you recovered from What If...? Episode 8 and are ready to dive into the next episode. So here are all the details I noticed in Episode 9, aka "What If...The Watcher Broke His Oath?"
If you're new to these posts, welcome, and I apologize for all of my nerdy yelling! If you're returning after my weekly WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, AND Loki Easter eggs/details posts, thanks so much for coming back!
1. First, Peggy mentions Batroc, who we met in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and he returned in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
2. Just in case you missed him, Brock Rumlow makes a quick appearance when Captain Carter and Natasha get ready to take down Batroc.
3. Natasha asks what Peggy's plans are on Saturday, which is a small nod to Peggy and Steve's date from Captain America: The First Avengers.
4. Then, Natasha tries to set Peggy up with Bernard from accounting, and in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Natasha tried to set Steve up with Lillian from accounting.
5. This might be a SUPER deep cut, but Bernard was also the name of Howard Stark's flamingo in Agent Carter, and I just really hope this is a reference to that too.
6. When Captain Carter puts down her shield to fight Batroc, it mirrors Steve's fight with him in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
7. Also, in this episode, Captain Carter's suit has been updated from her original, which is the same thing that happened with Steve's Captain America suit in Captain America: The Winter Solder.
8. When The Watcher goes to get T'Challa, you can see that Ego's blue cloud has enveloped the Dairy Queen, which also happens in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
9. When The Watcher retrieves Gamora, you can see that she and Tony are with Eitri, who we first met in Avengers: Infinity War, and they are destroying the Infinity Gauntlet mold, which Eitri also had in Infinity War.
10. Tony Stark mentions wanting to put a "suit of armor around the world," which is something he also said in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
11. You can see that Gamora is wearing the same battle armor that Thanos wore in Avengers: Endgame.
12. The Watcher proclaims this new team the "Guardians of the Multiverse," which is similar to a Marvel comics group that was called "Council of the Guardians of all Galaxies."
13. Doctor Strange giving Thor a beer at the pub is similar to when he gave Thor the never-ending beer in Thor: Ragnarok.
14. When Doctor Strange places a protection spell on everyone, you can see that Thor's takes the outline of Asgardian armor.
15. It happens super fast, but when Doctor Strange unleashes the zombies on Ultron using a portal, you can see that Zombie Captain America, Zombie Falcon, and Zombie Hawkeye are the first to attack.
16. Just because I am Wanda Maximoff trash™, I have to point out that Zombie Wanda wasn't able to stop this version of Ultron because she was likely distracted by him looking like Vision. It's fine.
17. Literally not a hidden detail in the slightest, but the fact that Natasha canonically refers to Alexei as her "da" is something I will be crying over for the foreseeable future.
18. Also, Peggy mentions that she is one of only "three people" Natasha trusts, and I'm assuming it would be Clint, Peggy, and probably Yelena.
19. When everyone takes turns fighting Ultron, it's similar to when the Avengers fought Ultron's minions in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
20. When Ultron unleashes his power on the team, you'll notice that Captain Carter's shield withstands the blast but Natasha's Red Guardian shield doesn't. This just showcases that Cap's shield is vibranium, while Red Guardian's is just metal.
21. When Zola overtakes Ultron/Vision's body, it's a nod to Zola's comic book look, where Zola's face is on the stomach of his robotic body.
22. When The Watcher drops Natasha in a new universe, you'll notice Captain America and Captain Marvel are the only two Avengers fighting, meaning it's the universe from Episode 3 when the rest of the Avengers died.
23. And finally, in our first mid-credits scene in What If...? Season 1, the HYDRA Stomper makes an appearance, and now I'm wondering if Steve will be this universe's Winter Soldier?
