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- What If...? Season 1, Episode 6 - Review
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By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: Sep 15, 2021 2:08 pm
Posted: Sep 15, 2021 2:04 pm
Spoilers follow for Episode 6 of Marvel’s What If…? For more, see our review of the previous episode of What If.
As we cross the halfway point of What If’s first season, the show’s strengths and weaknesses are coming into clearer focus. Inventive action choreographed in ways that would be tough for live-action to pull off? Easy. Reliably strong voice acting? Absolutely not. Worthwhile reinterpretations of established canon? Well, as is the nature of an anthology show, that we take on a week-by-week basis. Episode 6 sees Michael B. Jordan return to his excellent Killmonger role, giving him the chance to further his cause in a totally new way. While the episode leaves intact Killmonger’s motivations and so doesn’t deepen our understanding of him, it does broaden what we know about him in ways that make him an even more impressive foe, even in the context of 2018’s Black Panther.
Episode 6 starts at the very beginning of the MCU: Tony Stark’s (Mick Wingert) kidnapping at the hands of the Ten Rings. Well, near kidnapping. Killmonger’s (Michael B. Jordan) rescue of Stark was a solid starting point for the episode, rooted in MCU history, as we know the mercenary was in Afghanistan around the same time Stark was there showing off the Jericho missile. Especially after last week’s nonsensical quantum zombies, watching Killmonger’s tactical expertise be employed out of combat and in the more nuanced world of corporate espionage - where he’s no less effective - felt like a great use of the character. His exploitation of a Tony Stark who hasn’t benefited from lessons learned in captivity feels especially insidious, not only because Stark’s tech is the perfect resource for Killmonger to mine, but because we can feel Killmonger pushing Stark away from his heroic destiny.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and Killmonger’s adaptability as a tactician is on full display in Episode 6 of What If. Even though we don’t gain much more meaningful insight into what drives him, we do get an expanded understanding of Killmonger’s skillset, and Michael B. Jordan’s strong vocal performance adds dimension to an already-great v...
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Michael B. Jordan’s return to the MCU as Killmonger succeeds thanks to a story that makes good use of the character’s strengths and skillset.
Tom Jorgensen
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