The final season of Marvel’s What If…? might be doing Secret Wars

Ahead of What If…?’s season 3 premiere on December 22nd, Disney Plus has dropped a trailer spotlighting some of the new alternate universe stories featuring slightly different versions of previously-introduced MCU characters. The season will see Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) reimagined as a cowboy, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) in a cosmic flapper guise, and the Avengers become a super sentai team with interconnecting mechs. That all feels like the exact kind of madness that has already made the show a fun, whiz-bang watch, but what’s really surprising to see is Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith) showing up as a hammer-wielding Thor.

In Marvel’s Secret Wars comics event, Storm spent some time as a member of the Thor Corps — a group of people recruited from different universes by Doctor Doom to serve as the police in his Battleworld reality. When What If…? first debuted, the show seemed like a collection of out-there stories that might not have all that much to do with what’s going on in Marvel’s films. But with Doctor Doom on the way and a Secret Wars feature in the works, it’s looking more and more like What If…? might end up being a pretty important piece of the franchise’s ongoing story.