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thingsasbarcodes · 5 months

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What If...? 1x02 - What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

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xgoddessoffandomsx · 1 year

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Korath: I've only had T'Challa for a day and a half but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself!!!

T'Challa:...chill

#what if?#marvel #what if t'challa became star lord?#korath #t'challa #incorrect quotes

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lifewithaview · 12 days

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What If…? (2021) What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

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The Ravagers abducted T'Challa by accident instead of Peter Quill, so that T'Challa becomes Star Lord and gains a well-deserved reputation as a galactic hero as he and the Ravagers--including Thanos--try to pull a heist against the Collector.

*T'Challa named his ship the Mandela after Nelson Mandela instead of the Milano which Peter Quill named after Alyssa Milano.

#What If…?#2021 #tv series #animation #fantasy #adventure #scifi #Marvel #Nebula #What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?#S1E2 #Ravagers #T'Challa #Star Lord #Collector #just watched

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hydravns · 1 month

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MARVEL WHAT IF (2021- 2023): 1x02 What If T'challa Became A Star-Lord ?

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cerromoreno · 2 months

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Ok so I’m absolutely head over heels for canon Starbula, of course. BUT. I was rewatching What If? season one’s “What If T’Challa Became a Star-Lord?” episode and got INSPIRED.

What if THIS Nebula...

...still connected (and eventually got together) with THIS Peter Quill?

Rewatching this episode, it was so fun to see what Nebula with less cybernetic replacements and trauma would be like. But until now, I’d just recalled that this episode's universe ended in a tragedy, with Ego harnessing Dairy Queen!Peter to destroy the galaxy. (I totally forgot that later in the season, we actually do see T'challa save Peter - oops 😅)

Anyway, after my recent rewatch - and before I remembered that T'challa does save the day in canon - I was like…wait a second. This is the MCU we’re talking about, and these characters have faced certain-apocalypses like this a million times before. And season 2 of What If? just showed Peter breaking free of Ego’s control as a kid, so it could definitely happen here.

So anyway, I started imagining what might happen in this universe to bring Peter and Nebula together, post-episode, and thought the ensuing headcanon was cute enough to share!

Basically, once Ego starts wreaking havoc on earth with a newly-mind-controlled Peter, our heroes Nebula, T’Challa, etc. are quickly alerted to the disaster and fly over to Missouri from Wakanda. In the ensuing fight, Nebula, T'Challa, and Co. realize that Peter is the key to Ego’s power and current destruction, so they try to get Peter away from him. At some point in the fight, Nebula and Peter are somehow separated from the rest of the Ravagers. Maybe when it’s clear they won’t be able to defeat Ego right now, everyone decides to get in their ships to escape and regroup. Peter's next to Nebula, so she grabs him and runs into her ship with him in tow. T’Challa and the others say they'll distract Ego long enough for Nebula and Peter to escape via a jump point.

This basically happens, but maybe Nebula's ship is damaged by Ego in the space fight/escape. So once Nebula and Peter have gotten safely away from Ego, she realizes she's unable to contact the rest of the Ravagers for some reason. Maybe Ego's attack broke her comm, or the ship is damaged enough that she has to crash land on a nearby planet after leaving the jump point. Basically, she and Peter are stuck together on their own for a while, unable to reconnect with the Ravagers.

Initially, Nebula is pissed at Peter for forcing her to separate from her friends and being the cause of this galaxy-level threat (even though, as she learns later, it’s not actually his fault). Poor Peter is totally overwhelmed and freaked out. He’s just had his world turned upside down, is now in space, and this (beautiful) blue alien is yelling at him about how the galaxy is in danger thanks to him.

Over time, however, as Nebula realizes the only way to stop Ego is to help Peter hone his newly-awakened abilities, she starts to warm up to this strange Terran. Peter is his usual charming, funny, and clever self, so as he learns from Nebula about how to survive and fight in space, tries to help her fix the ship, and practices using his powers, he slowly begins to win her over. Lots of cute bonding ensues, and the two eventually become something like the strong and trusting partnership we see in GOTG3.

At some point, Ego finally finds and captures T’Challa and uses him to lure Nebula and Peter back, so he can re-kidnap Peter. (Maybe Nebula finally fixes her comm, and when she does, she learns that T’Challa has been captured by Ego.) Of course, Ego ends up getting defeated by our dynamic duo, totally caught off guard by how powerful Peter has become with his powers. Hooray the galaxy is saved lol

Once they rescue T’Challa from Ego's captivity, Peter watches Nebula run into his arms, the two of them tightly embracing each other in relief. Peter gets self-conscious, realizing that he doesn’t actually belong here in space with them. He belongs back in Missouri, back at the stupid Dairy Queen, not here. There’s no way that Nebula, who he’d been slowly developing feelings for, would ever want to be with him over perfect actual-prince and Star-Lord, T'Challa.

But surprise! Even though Nebula definitely had *~vibes~* in that What If? episode with T’Challa (side note: I think it’s funny that no matter the universe, Nebula is always deeply connected with that universe’s Star-Lord!), during her solo adventures with Peter, she’s realized that she’s actually falling for this goofy Terran.

So Nebula basically tells Peter that his true home is in space (with her 🥲), and invites him to joins the Ravagers. Maybe they confess their feelings at this point, or maybe the slow burn continues slow-burning longer. Probably the latter lol. But either way, this universe’s Nebula and Peter continue to be badasses across the galaxy together, just in a different way from the MCU canon!

I just think the idea of this version of Peter, who’s never been to space and generally has no idea what’s going on, still managing to charm this version of Nebula…is the absolute cutest. And the fact that no matter the universe, these two will somehow always find each other 🥹

PS As I said before, I totally forgot that later in What If? season one (episode 9), it actually shows T'Challa saving Peter from Ego lol. But after rewatching that episode too, I was happy to see all of those scenes still fit here, so my headcanon is technically still canon-compliant 😆

#starbula #peter x nebula #peter quill #nebula #what if?#mcu #gotg #headcanon #nebula and peter as her scared little duckling following her around is so precious HELP

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the-boy-king-rp-multi · 4 months

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What If...? 2x02 AU:

During the year 1988, the winter soldier was sent on a mission to take out the celestial child Peter Quill before he could take out Earth, another planet him and his father Ego would've destroyed. While waiting for the command to take the shot by his handler, his comms were intercepted by his old friend back from the 1940s, Howard Stark. He got through to him that day, and managed to bring Bucky back to the surface just enough to break free while hydra couldn't contact him. He spent about ten years on the run from hydra, trying to find himself again after suddenly regaining control of his body and mind after 46 years of torture and brainwashing by hydra. Eventually, he reached out to Peggy and Howard again.

After that, he was brought in by SHIELD, which slowly over time brought bucky back to the surface entirely. He worked as a double agent for SHIELD- While hydra thought they still had control of the winter soldier, he was acting as an undercover spy under shields command. It was risky, knowing if he stepped out of line and they used the code words, they'd have lost him to hydra all over again. With that in mind, Bucky did not assassinate Maria and Howard Statk in this universe. While he was free, to speak and do as he wanted- It was still under shields watch, being risky and unstable since they didn't yet have the technology to undo hydra command code words stuck in his head. For the next thirty years he practically worked on auto pilot, while he was there, could hold conversations and do things of his own free will- He didn't feel like him.

Not until Steve Rogers was found in the ice.

He sat by his side, waiting for him to wake up once he was unfrozen, in normal clothes as opposed to his gear. Told Fury the original plan wouldn't work on him, and he'd be more at ease seeing a familiar face- And he was. Around 2012 Bucky fell back into hydra hands and was once again hydras winter soldier, and Steve had to bring him back and find him, which resulted in him nearly beating him to death (mostly the regular events of the winter soldier). As such, he is eventually sent off to Wakanda, who said they could help him. It is several years before Steve sees him again, after their methods undid all of hydras brainwashing.

It is also the same universe T'challa became star lord instead of Peter Quill, and his father took up the black panther mantle instesd- And also one where a ten year old Peter Quill was later adopted by Hank Pym, who has custody of Hope after their mother died/disappeared on a S.H.I.E.L.D mission.

#what if season 2 spoilers #my headcanons #personal headcanon #bucky barnes headcanons #do not reblog #sh: what if #ch: bucky barnes #verse; the winter soldier #otp; til the end of the line #what if au #what if 2.02 #what if 2.02 spoilers

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soba-riri · 10 months

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Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), What If...? (TV 2021)

Relationship: Ego the Living Planet & Peter Quill

Characters: Peter Quill, Ego the Living Planet, Mantis (Marvel) (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Episode: s01e02 What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Peter deserves better but life continues to fuck him over, Unreliable Narrator, sobbing who is Peter without his family, Celestial Peter Quill, Partial Mind Control

Summary: Peter Quill is a strange one. He’s a wonderful man with a charming smile, a winning personality, and dancing hips. Peter will throw hands in assholes’ faces picking on the weak, and offer a kind hand for those needing a little pick-me-up. But there are blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments where Peter Quill seems off.

Inhumane.

Dangerous.

That makes people uneasy.

#gotg #what if #peter quill #ego the living planet #sobariri fics #woke up at 2am and started typing

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palettesofrenaissance · 2 years

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Chadwick Bosemen won an Emmy for Character Voice Over Performance for What If... T'Challa Became a Star Lord

His wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepts the award on his behalf

#chadwick boseman #Taylor Simone Ledward #what if...?#star lord t'challa #2022 emmys #2022 creative arts emmy awards

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makaientjluvdaprince · 10 months

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I just watched What If...? 1x02 "What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"

#WhatIf #trakt

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bussterj · 1 year

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I'm watching What If...? 1x02 "What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"

#WhatIf #trakt

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mvalana · 2 years

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What If...? 1x02 What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

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mario94606 · 2 years

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I'm watching What If...? 1x02 "What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"

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hydravns · 1 month

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CORVUS GLAIVE

MARVEL WHAT IF (2021 - 2023):

01x02 What if T'challa became a Star-Lord ?

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ozzy0354 · 2 years

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I'm watching What If...? 1x02 "What If… T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"

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violetfaust · 3 years

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Maybe this is a Me problem

...but I kind of feel like "You lied to me for twenty years that my entire family had been massacred and my country obliterated, because you thought I was having more fun with you" is the sort of conflict that should take more than five minutes to resolve.

Also a bit hard to buy that no one in the MCU prime ever tried to sit Thanos down and explain to him why killing half the universe was a Bad Idea, considering that he was apparently easy to persuade. (Although I think the What If timeline branched earlier here, because Gamora isn't around and if I'm remembering correctly, he "adopted" her when he massacred her planet, which would have had to be more than twenty years ago, aka before baby T'Challa was literally kidnapped into space.)

ALSO: I know what the deal with the Watcher is (I even read some of the What If comics lo these many years gone), but I can't believe they would hire Jeffrey Wright to do nothing more than speak two sentences per episode...

However I did love the central conceit that T'Challa's superpower was basically being so charming people did whatever he wanted, and it was nice to hear Chadwick Boseman again.

(Also Howard the Duck and Korath the Fanboy were delightful.)

(And also alt!Nebula and T'Challa were very shippable and this is the kind of thing that people in the "prime" MCU should find out about and have it break their brains.)

#what if spoilers #episode 2 #what if t'challa became a star-lord #op #mcu

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rollerskate2theface · 3 years

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How could Kang the Conqueror think that was the sacred timeline when it didn’t even have Star-Lord T’Challa smh

#mcu #marvel #loki #loki series #kang the conqueror #loki spoilers #what if #marvel what if #what if… t’challa became a star lord?#marvel what if spoilers #what if spoilers #tchalla #star lord #star lord t'challa #sacred timeline #star lord t’challa supremacy

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