What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?

This episode actually had a solid concept: instead of having a change of heart, Yondu delivers Peter Quill to Ego, leading to the formation of a proto-Avengers team in the 1980s.

Michael Douglas, Laurence Fishburne, Kurt Russell, and more return to voice their characters and what does Marvel do with this stellar cast? Absolutely nothing. Familiar characters are quickly thrown together with a very sloppy script. Unfortunately, Hemsworth's Thor is also wasted, receiving some horrendous dialogue. The episode is chock-full of misplaced MCU humor, tonal inconsistencies, and plot conveniences.

This is an absolute waste of a great cast and likely a very large budget. The script should be the most important aspect of film/television, something Marvel's What If has forgotten.

This story considers, what if Peter Quill was actually delivered to his father, the one who came to earth and sired him.

Ego manipulates Peter as a child, to help spread his seed and destroy other planets.

So Peter comes to Earth in 1988 and starts destroying midtown Manhattan. A resistance movement is swiftly assembled. The Earth's Mightiest Heroes soon joined by Thor, looking for vengeance as his planet and people have been annihilated.

They consist of Agent Carter, Howard Stark, Hank Pym as Ant-Man, King T'Chaka as Black Panther, The Winter Soldier and Wendy Lawson.

The young Peter is subdued but it is Hank's daughter Hope who gets them to see Peter's human side.

Food for thought of a prototype Avengers story. Ego is suitably callous, manipulative, evil and great hair. At its heart this is a little boy lost tale.

Wow..This whole concept is outdated. First season timed well with the movies that i still cared about these characters. But now, its just characters that I know, in completely random situations. What if the hulk was pink? What if Iron man was born in 1853? These scenarios are not even fun to watch or think about even.

Even in the context of the rules set in the movie, this episode makes absolutely no sense. Why would ego send Peter to destroy planets physically when they could do it from afar. Why does peter destroy half the city, then stops and waits for people to show up? How is Thor in here when in the movies he didnt come to earth til much later..

Its all so freaking random that i dont care!!!!

This was an interesting one. Its 1988 and a tween Peter Quill crashlands on Earth. One of the weird things to start, he like kills 20 people crashing in NYC. But the rest of the episode has no deaths, I just found that odd. I loved the idea that his father destroys his walkman thereby symbolically taking away his sons soul and making him spoiled. If you are a comics fan its enjoyable at least to see the new characters that haven't been in a movie before like Dr. Bill Foster and King T'chaka. I loved how they made Hope this very sexy vivacious woman. When a Giant Bill opens his hand and Hope was reclining with her leg up, that got my heart fluttering. The MCU needs a lot more cheesecake/pinup if you will, it would be very refreshing.

I guess I enjoyed this overall because it was fun to see Ego and Peter at the height of their powers and some of the performances such as Bucky's were so cool. When Peter said "this is why I am called STAR LORD" that was freaking awesome. Come on admit it.

I think too many of these shorts aren't even that What-Iffy like nobody ever thought wow what if Hogan became Purple Hulk or what if Nebula was in Blade Runner but actually getting to see what if Peter was raised by Ego is an actual interesting question.

I am not sure if I like the idea that Peter is now joining some kind of vengeance force to kill whatever is left of Ego though, I wish he had a chance to be a wholesome kid. Overall... I can't understand what people want with this show, you gotta be able to turn your brain off, pour yourself the most unhealthy sugar cereal you can find, and watch episodes like this with a silly grin on your face.

It was great having Michael Douglas, Hayley Atwell, Kurt Russell, John Slattery, Chris Hemsworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Sebastian Stan back in their regular MCU roles, it really was.

That's where the good ends, though. The characters themselves are actually weak, watered down versions of anything we've seen previously, the dialogue is weak - with Thor especially being ridiculous - and laughable, the story is weak and rushed, it comes across as little more than filler. Especially compared to the first episode! The story there was VERY well crafted, and told a COMPLETE story. This is a barely-strung-together series of vignettes that I honestly hope doesn't get a callback in later episodes or seasons.