Another change of pace here for "What If". Again, we're not exactly answering a specific "What If" change but exploring a whole different storyline with a new character, that continues the relationship between Marvel and Indigenous tribes that began with "Echo".
Kahhori (Devery Jacobs) is fleeing from the Conquistadors when she is shot and falls into an underground lake. The Lake is imbued with the power of the Tesseract, which was destroyed in an earlier than expected Ragnarök event on Asgard. Kahhori is reunited with other members of her tribe, long since deemed to have disappeared, who enjoy enhanced powers now but are unable to return home. She, though, is more determined than they to get back as she knows the peril that her village faces.
With the exception of a line of dialogue at the end, which again points towards the potential future of the series, and the narration from The Watcher - this episode is entirely subtitled. The story is more traditionally Marvel than many other have been and are essentially an origin story for this new character. It's never fully explained where they are transported to by the Tesseract power or why it seems to choose some people to receive its gifts but not others, nor exactly what the powers are beyond a series of enhancements.
This is fine, and again the animation looks good. It feels like the way of introducing this character that the wider series needs to reach a conclusion perhaps. I guess we'll see how it pans out over the rest of this run.
