The first season of Marvel’s What If…? came to an end this week and things didn’t go very well for Tony Stark throughout the nine-episode tun. The character, who was voiced by Mick Wingert instead of Robert Downey Jr., died multiple times during the multiverse story. Many fans were not pleased with having to watch Tony die again and again, especially after the character’s big sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame. In the show’s finale, “What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath,” The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) gathers multiple heroes from across the timelines that we’ve seen throughout the season. Among them was an alternate version of Tony and Gamora (Cynthia McWilliams, not Zoe Saldana), which somewhat confused and frustrated fans since their stories hadn’t been told before. Turns out, their episode wasn’t finished due to COVID complications, but head writer A.C. Bradley promises we’ll get to see the “prequel” episode next season. Bradley also revealed while talking to Entertainment Weekly that she’s received some hate mail over the treatment of Tony Stark.
