What If...? season 3: Every episode ranked from worst to best

The third and final season of Marvel's What If...? entertained over the 2024 holidays, but which episodes made the most of the show's ambitious concepts?

(L-R) Byrdie (Natasha Lyonne), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Captain Carter / Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Kahhori (Devery Jacobs) in Marvel Animation's WHAT IF...? SEASON 3, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Animation. © 2024 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.
(L-R) Byrdie (Natasha Lyonne), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Captain Carter / Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Kahhori (Devery Jacobs) in Marvel Animation's WHAT IF...? SEASON 3, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Animation. © 2024 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.
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Back when Marvel Studios kicked off the Multiverse Saga with a host of Disney Plus TV shows, it also asked us to do something: To ponder the question of "What if...?", imagining various scenarios in which the Marvel Cinematic Universe could have panned out quite differently if some changes - small and large - were applied.

Marvel's What If...? was the first ever animated series that the studio produced and it feature some returnees from the MCU to voice their respective characters here as the show turned everything we thought we knew about the franchise on its head. With adventures led by Captain Peggy Carter, Star-Lord T'Challa, Doctor Strange Supreme, and even zombies, the show played fast and loose with its source material, switching things up for the purpose of our own entertainment.

It has been a joy to watch what the MCU could have looked like if it had panned out like these various animated adventures. And the truth is that there was still so much for it to do when it wrapped its third and final season. Marvel's Brad Winderbaum says that the show's importance to the Multiverse Saga requires them to end it here (for now, at least) but fans couldn't help but feel like it only got the chance to scratch the surface of its various "What If" adventures.

Speaking of those adventures, with all of the third and final season's episodes now out in the world, let's take a look through them and figure out which one was the very best - ranking them as we reflect on them.

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