What If...? Episode 2 Review - T'Challa / Black Panther is Star-Lord

This episode begins on Morag, the planet that MCU aficionados will recognize as the one that introduced Star-Lord, AKA Peter Quill, to us.

Chadwick Boseman, RIP, is the Star-Lord in this part of the multiverse.

Djimon Hounsou reprises his Korath the Pursuer character - quite a bit differently, though, than in the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Cue the clip from the trailer: "A Ravager never flies solo." Enter Yondu!

Star-Lord's ship is named Mandela, after the venerable Nelson Mandela.

(Back) story time - Wakanda, 1988, and a young and idealistic Prince T'Challa gets antsy about exploring the world. Fate intervenes and it's him, not Peter Quill, son of Ego, who's picked up by Yondu's cronies.

Cut back to twenty years later, and the big - literally - surprise shows up. Thanos, voiced by Josh Brolin, admits to being wrong about wanting the Blip or Snap half the universe away, and Kraglin calls out the genocide.

Drax the Destroyer (NOT voiced by Dave Buatista, though) shows up as a bartender, thanking Star-Lord AKA T'Challa for saving his home planet.

Karen Gillan returns as a glammed-up Nebula, and from their ensuing conversation, we get to know that Wakanda had been destroyed in a war.

Moving on! Benicio del Toro's Collector character has been upgraded to Thanos level of badassery, and the heist plan begins from Knowhere. Not nowhere, you know where, the place in the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The Black Order, AKA the Children of Thanos from Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, are recycled as the Collector's private security team.

Howard the Duck pops up in the Collector's collection, bantering with Star-Lord about the Collector overcompensating for something small.

Seth Green's voice is unrecognizable probably because he's not OTT.

Lo and behold! T'Challa activates a Wakandan space craft in the hu-u-ge collection and comes to know that his Baba, voiced by John Kani, is well.

Nebula crosses-double-crosses & triple-crosses to make the heist legit.

The girl who is referred to as a slave shoots Ebony Maw in the back, helping T'Challa break free and run rampant with the Wakandan ship.

Woah! It seems like Taika Waititi's lovable NZ, Korg, has become the Collector's victim, because only he can be described as "terribly chatty."

Oye! Easter egg bonanza! In the Collector's collection are Captain America's shield, Thor's hammer Mjonlir (or Myu-Myu, as Darcy Lewis called it adorably), Loki's dark elf slash dark matter daggers, and Hela's horned headgear from Thor Ragnarok. He pins Star-Lord with a sword.

Meanwhile, Thanos becomes the Mad Titan and helps the rest of the Ravagers escape. Yondu, though, answers the call back to Ravagers never flying alone, and his whistle-arrow knocks off Benicio del Toro.

Together they lock him up, like Trump the Huge Dump should be locked up for throwing tantrums about his opponents needing locking up. Ugh!

Carina lets loose his prisoners & in an awesomax spiral, instant karma.

T'Challa returns home to Wakanda & all is well, like they sang in 3 Idiots.

We switch to Peter Quill (no Chris Pratt, though) mopping the floors of a Dairy Queen and Kurt Russell's Ego shows up to re-connect with his son.

The episode is dedicated to Chadwick Boseman and he truly deserves it.

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