What If…? Season 2 Final Episode Explained: Captain Carter vs. Strange Supreme

Uatu The Watcher then appeared and told Strange that Palmer’s passing was an “absolute point”, and couldn’t be undone in any way, but the latter refused to listen. The Watcher then split Strange into two versions using the Dark Dimension’s powers. One of them is Strange Supreme, who gained powers by absorbing other mystical beings.

The corrupted Strange Supreme absorbed the other, and used his newfound power to resurrect Palmer. This resulted in the collapse of Strange Supreme’s universe, with the sorcerer being the lone survivor. He spends the rest of his time grieving his wrongdoings, before getting recruited by the Watcher to stop Infinite Ultron.

After her work is done saving the 1602 Avengers’ reality and meeting up with this world’s version of Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter wants to return to her reality immediately. However, Strange Supreme appears and recruits her for one final mission. 

This version of Strange tells Carter that he has been capturing and containing the Multiverse’s greatest villains, such as Killmonger and Zola, in a separate dimension as a way to atone for his sins. He then asks Carter to help him chase down a Multiverse variant who’s on the run.

However, as it turns out, Strange Supreme’s plan is far more devious and sinister than it looks. By capturing both superhero and villain variants from different dimensions, Strange uses their life forces to feed the Forge, a multiversal construction he created to resurrect his destroyed universe, and Christine Palmer alongside it.

The escaped variant Strange wants Peggy to capture is revealed to be Kahhori, our heroine from Episode 6. However, Captain Carter decides to side with the Mohican instead, releases the captured variants, and fights Strange Supreme together.

The corrupted Strange is too powerful for both Peggy and Kahhori to handle. However, as the captured variants return to their respective universes, they lend the duo their weapons: Hela’s helmet, the Ten Rings, Hulk-Thor cosmic sword, and a version of Mjolnir. Captain Carter is also enhanced with Killmonger’s Ultron armor and all the Infinity Stones, making her one of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse. 

However, as ridiculously strong as Peggy and Kahhori are right now, the two are still no match for Strange Supreme, The villain turns himself into a full-fledged monster and dominates the heroines.

At last, thanks to a full-power punch boosted by the Infinity Stones, Captain Carter manages to reach the Stephen Strange that resides inside, and convinces him to return to be the man he once was.

Strange and his counterpart sacrifice themselves by falling into the collapsing Forge, having finally regained his conscience. His universe and Palmer have been fully resurrected as well, at the cost of his own life.

The ending of Episode 9 is heavily criticized by Marvel fans around the world, as it once again reverts Supreme Strange back into a villain after giving him a redemption arc in What If…? Season 1. 

The ridiculous upgrades that Captain Carter and Kahhori receive at the end is also under scrutiny, as fans believe Marvel has made these two characters too powerful without any real development.

As Strange Supreme is finally defeated, Uatu the Watcher agrees to take Captain Carter back to her dimension, but the latter wants to take a look at the Multiverse first. The final scene sees the two standing behold at Loki’s multiversal tree Yggdrasil, a reference to the ending of Loki Season 2, and teases a potential Season 3 for What If…?

Additionally, Marvel also releases a sneak peek video for an upcoming episode, featuring Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier and Alexei/Red Guardian running away from the state agents, teasing the existence of What If…? Season 3. This is rumored to be the episode that got pushed back to the third season.

 There’s no official release for the third season just yet, but fans expect it to be premiered around two years later, like the time between the first and second seasons.

What do you think about What If…? Season 2’s final episode? Do you think it was badly written? Let us know in the comments.