Marvel’s What If…? Hints That Captain Carter Is Stronger Than Captain America

There was uproar among the many Marvel Cinematic Universe fanbase when the official Captain America Twitter account replaced Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson with Hayley Atwell’s animated Peggy Carter as a promotional tactic to drum up buzz for the premiere installment of Marvel’s What If…? on Disney Plus.

It turned out to be a storm in a teacup after fans roundly praised the first episode of the franchise’s first animated series within the instant aftermath, which has since led to fervent hope and greater than a contact of hypothesis that a live-action Captain Carter project may find yourself seeing the sunshine of day.

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The opening installment of What If…? successfully re-tells Captain America: The First Avenger with Peggy appearing as a straight swap for Steve Rogers, nevertheless it might have additionally positioned her as being extra highly effective than her star-spangled counterpart. Steve was the right candidate as a result of he was selfless and pure, however Agent Carter was already a badass with loads of expertise on the earth of espionage earlier than she was given the tremendous soldier serum, which might have probably heightened the powers she was given consequently.

In Marvel’s What If…?, we see Peggy dismantling Hydra goons and swatting automobiles apart with far more ease than Steve managed in The First Avenger, and whereas animation all the time permits for an added layer of exaggeration and far more suspension of disbelief, the fact Captain Carter has been dubbed the closest thing the show has to a main character means it might have been a deliberate transfer on the a part of the artistic crew to ascertain that she’s arguably a way more well-equipped and succesful tremendous solider than the person who was chosen for the job in the primary MCU timeline.