The Watcher quotes from What If...?

The Watcher

We have watched how one moment, one choice, can ripple across space and time, giving birth to new stories. Heroes. Whole universes. But what if it's the wrong choice? What if the best of intentions has very strange consequences?

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[ending narration] Heroes are never really gone. They live forever. As do the ones they inspire to carry on the fight.

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That's it, isn't it? All creatures searching for a place to belong. To call home. As for me, I am the Watcher. The Multiverse, every single world, every story is my home. And I will protect it to the end.

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All quests for redemption begin in darkness. And Nebula's was no different. In this universe, Ronan the Accuser betrayed Thanos. The Mad Titan's thirst for power had met its match. And in his fall, he took Nebula's sister along with him.

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Six months earlier, the Ravagers were dispatched to abduct Peter Quill from his home world. But young Quill's captor couldn't bring himself to turn him over and chose to raise him as his own. At least, that's how the story often goes. But in this universe, Yondu never had his change of heart. So he turned Peter over to his father, the Celestial being known as Ego.

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Ah. Isn't this nice? No better time of year... You know, let me tell you one of my favorite Yuletide stories... 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the tower, the Avengers were fighting a brand-new superpower. The stockings were hung by the chimney--

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Well, not anymore.

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The Guardians of the Multiverse. Heroes plucked from across different realities to protect the fate of all of them. But you don't know her story. From the daughter of a mad Titan to the champion of a multiversal war, Gamora's path to becoming the hero of her story began in someone else's.

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With his home on the verge of destruction, Tony Stark, self made Iron Man, made the ultimate hero's play. But in this universe, Tony never made it home.

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I don't do sequels, normally. What's the point of revisiting the story when there are infinite stories to be told? But then, not every universe is home to a Captain Peggy Carter. The super-soldier, the hero of World War II, a woman quite literally ahead of her time. But there is only one Peggy Carter that I would call my friend. She and the Guardians of the Multiverse saved all of existence. I returned the heroes to their own worlds, the exact moments they left. Peggy, though, she thought her story was over, but it was only just beginning.

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So many stories spawn from a choice. But Kahhori's victory wasn't because she merely chose the right path. No, it was her conviction, because she remained true to her course, unwavering in the face of both devastation and miracles alike. Such resolve is often what burns brightest. What elevates an individual to something more. And perhaps it's why heroes very seldom stop after their first victory.

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In the campaign of fire and blood, King Odin sought to unite the Nine Realms under the throne of Asgard. His chief weapon in the conquest that built his empire is executioner and first-born daughter Hela, the goddess of death. One by one, the branches of the World's Tree fell under their control. But Hela hungers for more...

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Unable to quench his daughter's thirst for blood, the All Father opted to contain it and imprisoned her in Hel. But, in this universe, Hela's insolence inspired another idea.

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Like the Ten Rings that fueled his power, Xu Wenwu knew all too well the most powerful forces on Earth often come from beyond.

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Rain. The miracle of nature that brings the sky down to Earth. But Wenwu was about to discover that someone far more intriguing had fallen from the heavens...

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There, on an ancient battlefield, a man and a woman, a mortal and a goddess, the Ten Rings and the armies of Asgard forged an alliance and built an empire. An empire that would span the cosmos. An empire not of conquerors, but of liberators. Liberators whose campaign across the universe would forever prove even the darkest of hearts can come to know peace.