MARVEL WHAT IF EPISODE 4 Reaction | 1x04 Spoiler Review & Breakdown | Doctor Strange 

"Say the word, Christine and I will give you the world." Ironically, Strange Supreme gave his entire universe just to get her back, only to lose her. Fuck man.

That "What did you do?" Line at the end broke my heart. What an episode.

MCU is getting darker. Best episode so far💯

The watcher is usually not visible or senses by anyone else. But since dr strange absorb immense power he almost became omnipotent. Thats probably how strange could hear the watchers voice and feel him.

Nah, the watcher interacting with strange wasn't dumb at all imo. dr Strange got so powerful he could actually sense and interact with him. Something no other character so far could actually do. And the watcher didn't just appear out of nowhere. Strange called him out at the end. Besides, him appearing wouldn't actually change anything. Strange knew he was there already, and the universe was already destroyed. And the destruction of a universe seems like a big enough thing to me that the watcher would care to interact. Also, the watcher isn't some unfeeling thing. He seems to want to prevent all this shit, but he knows it is too dangerous. I'm sure he had a few words ready for this dr Strange.

That montage of Christine dying was heartbreaking and Benedict's voice acting was so good

After snap, Thor to Thanos : What did you do ? While Destroying complete Universe Christine to Dr. Strange : What did you do ? Edit : In episode 3 Natasha to Betty : Move or you will be moved In Civil war movie Ayo ( Tchalla bodyguard) to Natasha : move or you will be moved Waited for someone to be noticed 😐

what if ep 3: im the darkest episode what if ep 4: hold my creme brulee

It seemed less like the Watcher decided to show himself to Strange than that Strange had the power to detect that he was there.

This is very emotional for me, I'm still learning to accept and move on which one of the hardest thing to do in life.

It's more like Strange got so powerful after absorbing those beings that he managed to sense the Watcher. At the end he could fully perceive him and even communicate with him. He grew that powerful. But at what cost? It wasn't worth it. And he couldn't even save the one person he wanted to save.

"Why is this keep happening to me? Aren't we allowed to be happy?" That line broke me.

Jabby the watcher didn't decide to show himself in the end... It was strange who detected him and called him out asking for help and Uatu simply said he can't interfere. It was well done IMO

Seconds after watching this episode...i realised this is definitely the best ep. of What if, yet.........but i'll miss this ep. so much, coz i am never going to watch it again, ever......that's how depressing it was......Acceptance is a hard thing to achieve, which i'm struggling to achieve myself

"The world?!" Ha! He lost the entire universe! His timeline is no more. It collapsed into a new infinity type of stone...the Grief stone?

"One life, one choice, one moment can destroy the entire universe." - The Watcher I don't think I will ever forget that line and That conversation between Strange and The Watcher at the end of that episode gave me chills man and to just see Strange crying "I'm sorry" when all the universe is destroyed because of him was heart rending and I was so sure things would work out but it didn't. What if...keeps getting better and better. I never expected an episode like this. It was genuinely scary to see Strange crack to the point where he sacrificed the universe and still never got the one he loved. But like The Watcher sticks to his job description man. He does not interfere. Somebody give the man a raise cause he is doing his job haha. (Me trying to joke because this episode really cracked my mind). And Strange was able to sense The Watcher because he was absorbing mystic beings powers for centuries - he was so powerful he was able to sense and see The Watcher. The Watcher never interferes, Strange called him out and because he was so powerful he was able to speak to him because The Watcher is usually undetectable. He didn't show himself to Strange, Strange just knew he was there now because his super jacked up powers made him able to see him. Also nexus events don't happen in apocalypses - Loki told us that so Strange talking to The Watcher would not count as interfering because nothing the Watcher said would change the apocalypse. I feel like Jaby always finds sumn to complain about that can be explained with a little more thought and a little less criticism haha. Great reaction overall though guys.

this episode was so dark that even dc was surprised as well as ashamed

Pretty sure this episode was prepared for the Horror that will be seen in the Multiverse of Madness.

Dunno why everybody's surprised Marvel stories can be this dark. A lot of WHAT IF? stories are darker than hell, people should check them out, they're classics for reasons!

Jaby, The Watchers have a code of non interference because they did help in the past to help people evolve through society many times and the people destroyed themselves so the watchers felt grief and made code of conduct.

"Cape fight! Cape fight!" The single light-hearted moment of this ep.

This masterpiece of a episode is doing the same effect around the internet...leaving us with deep dark sadness.

It’s so weird that Doctor strange can see the watcher guess he is just so strong

It wasn't The Watcher interecting. It was Dr. Strange calling out. I agree tho, it was to reveal The Watcher but I don't think it was dumb.

24:00 - The watcher said in that earlier scene that he should intervene, but Dr. Strange probably wouldn't listen. Dr. Strange definitely heard him, and as you see he did not listen.

The Watcher didn't show up, Doctor Strange's learnings of the mystic arts allowed him to sense and finally see The Watcher. Great reaction y'all.

After having watched MoM, which I really loved BTW, but the writer for this was next level. This episode is probably the best Marvel production I have seen in a while

This was definitely the best episode yet of all the 4. But I really dont think I can get myself to watch it again, its just so painful and sad and depressing to watch. So dark, man.

Bruh it's obvious that the watcher didn't show himself! Doctor Strange just got so incredibly powerful that he could sense him. He spent centuries absorbing powerful creatures, including an interdimentional one, the tentacles. And in the end his universe and timeline was already done for, the watcher only told him that he couldn't interfere since it would risk many more universes. That scene was incredibly well done in my opinion.

This episode by far is the best episode up until now. The storyline was epic, the voice-acting was dope (Especially Benedict Cumberbatch), angles, production design, visual effect and all other stuff was great. This show reminds us of the Uniqueness of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nowhere else you can find such a harmony in every single detail of a movie/TV Show. I enjoyed it as hell. 😍❤

And we blame Thanos to destroy half a universe even when he didn’t do it for a girl 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Well, in that scene where he interacts with The Watcher at the end, that is the universe collapsing in around him. Since The Watcher exists outside of our universe, he became visible. It's not like he chose to finally interact, he specifically avoids doing so; that's just when he became visible to Strange.

I wish that Dr Strange vs Dr Strange fight would be in live action😱😱

Maybe I got it wrong but I love that Strange being the only one powerful enough to survive after his universe have been destroyed only to regret about his decision for eternity, with great power comes nothing

This one is for all the people saying strange wouldn't help peter in no way home. If he's triggered in the right (wrong) way, he'll definitely bite off more than he can chew.

You didn’t catch on to it but when he said who’s there it showed how he was so strong that he can sense and hear the watcher and at the end talked to him in which he talked back because rly everyone’s dead and he can actually talk to the watcher caz he’s that powerful

Looks like a teaser for doctor strange multiverse of madness (Gross and scary)

I was devastated and nearly cried in this one. Marvel is doing gooood with these stories.

I did not think that this show would go so far as to have a tragic horror story, and goddamn did it end tragically. I was actually scared for Stephen’s mind and soul the entire time. And when he was pleading for Oatu to save his universe only to be shown how it was all his fault, chills. That final scene of Strange just whimpering “No, no, no, I’m sorry.” has to be one of the most heartbreaking scenes I have seen in years.

Best What IF so far. Made me even more excited for Multiverse of Madness. Could already see Evil Dr. Strange and The Watcher possibly making appearances in it.

Strange: "Save my universe! You're a god!" Watcher: "Heh! according to the episodes order, your universe only ranked number 4 out of 9"

I imagine if batman did this to bring back his parents😢

God damn Marvel, you are stealing my heart again with this

This episode was a complete masterpiece! It was really dark, yet I felt tons of emotions in this! Enjoyed the reaction as well! 🙏🏽💪

"One life, one choice, one moment can destroy the entire universe." gave me feelings like that if in our real life, one choice, one moment can destroy one's whole life

This episode just hints us how dark DS2 gonna be

the movie "The Time Machine" was based on the book, and in that, he tried so many times to save her before looking forward in time to find out why he couldn't. -but I always thought that, as long as you assumed a death happened and learned from that, then the death didn't have to happen. By maybe in the last moment, taking someone out of a car that blows up, everyone still thinks they blow up, lesson learned, but you still saved them. Loopholes can be fun to play with. 😁

This episode meant to be a lot. Maybe in NWH strange's spell could cause into two different peter parker or two different dr. strange either .maybe that's why he forced to fight with him. Mind my note after the movie released😇.

Universe went to its original form i.e. infinite small point with infinite temperature just before the bigbang. Jaby!!!!

What if? has been dark. I remember a spiderman comic where the question was "what if you could be Spider-Man" and the next panel is all of spideys main villians laughing in front of your grave.

This was the best episode of the entire series

Jaby is surprisingly jovial for an episode this dark!

So I wonder if there is a connection between the tentacles we saw here and the ones we saw in the first episode. If multiple universes are threatened (say by an interdimensional being) maybe the Watcher will intervene. We saw an alternate avengers team in the trailers so maybe the season finally is going to be the Watcher assembling a team of the most powerful heroes in the multiverse to combat a monster from beyond any universe we have yet scene.

This is easily the best what if episode We need more of these heavy stories...

Love your reactions guys. And yes, this episode was very emotional and it teaches us about "Acceptance". Letting go of the old and embracing the new or what is to come. Choices have consequences, and we have seen what happens when we do not accept things for what they are. Some things that happen are the natural order of life and "ABSOLUTE" or "INEVITABLE". Keep it up. Love your videos. 👏🏾😎

“A hero will sacrifice the person they love to save the world, but a villain will sacrifice the world to save the person they love.”

To save the world u have to sacrifice the thing u love ... Or to save your love you have to sacrifice the whole world.. this was truly a beautiful episode and tear dropping one ..

If Jaby would have saird "Cumberbitch" instead.......it would have created a whole new universe 😂 15:07

This episode was amazing 🔥🔥🔥

They even could movie out of it! The story is so good 🙂

Started watching STEINS gate YESTERDAY and finished it yesterday , SO people who watched it know that it it NEI IMPOSSIBLE to change an ABSOLUTE POINT IN TIME , seeing her die time after time in front of you not able to change it EXACTLY LIKE THE ANIME . but THEY found STEINS GATE but he DIDN'T . AMZING EPISODE

Strange addressed the Watcher because he no longer believed he was in control. He was desperate, and the Watcher knew that interjecting wouldn't alter anything. Strange needed to hit rock bottom, to not believe in anyone other than himself.

Tbh thinking about it you can understand the proximity of the release of no way home trailer where peter tries to live 2 different lives and the what if episode where dr strange tries to live 2 lives feels like intentional......

Well but it's nice to re-watch it again on Jaby's channel, jaby watching and reacting to Ep 4. While simultaneously us watching Ep 4 watching Jaby watching Ep 4.

Jaby, The Watcher didn't just "decide" to say something to Strange, at the end. Strange called him out and spoke directly to him. He knew The Watcher was there, and The Watcher knew that there was no consequence to revealing himself, because Strange had already destroyed the universe.

The reason for the Watcher being there at the end to me feels like they wanted to show us his regret and how absolute his decision/ results were and even with the presence of the watcher, nothing could be done.. just made the already tragic ending much more tragic

Jaby always comes up with a reason to complain lol

They put in the scene to show Dr. Strange could sense him. He would be able to. He read the books about him. He spoke to him at the end, because Dr. Strange called to him. It wasn’t dumb at all. Also makes his actions more painful to realize when The Watcher said he couldn’t help and didn’t.

Definitely my favourite of the four released thus far. A well done tragic story is a strangely beautiful thing.

Hey Jaby and Achara, I watched back the segment of the Doctor Strange movie where things deviate from the What If episode and I realised that the one decision that changed the whole fate of the universe wasn't actually Doctor Strange, but Christine's decision to reject his invitation to accompany him for the Neurological Society Dinner. Go to the timestamp 9:47 in the movie, when Strange was having a convo with Christine in the hospital. I feel like this is an important detail.

The only thing that saddens me is the fact that the only reason this timeline blew up was because Stephen decided to hyphenate the laminectomy procedure to "Palmer-Strange Technique" instead of just calling it the Laminectomy Procedure which made Christine come with him to the dinner.

Great job, crew!!!! Best episode, yet!!! Hi, Achara!!!

Treats Bride of Frankenstein (1935) like a recent Kenneth Branagh film. lol.

all the "smaug" training came handy here

I hate when people don't understand something so they call it dumb! The watcher is always there observing. Strange is powerful enough and has crossed dimensions b4 so him sensing a being like him isn't surprising. There's a reason why the watcher or watchers don't interfere. I'm not going to spoil it in case they delve into it in this series but, yeah there's a reason. Also the watcher has made himself known to people in time of great tragedy like the coming destruction of a universe.

Me: an intellectual. Remain in the current "now". Create a perfect replica of Christine that's not alive, send it back in time during the crash while swapping the real Christine before she got killed. Christine gets to live in the 2 years after the crash (missing only 2 years), while Strange still goes on to become the Sorcerer Supreme as he thinks Christine died.

I saw someone else mentioned this on another video but, the decision that split this timeline from the main is that Christine chose to ignore her "Strange Policy"

I watched this with my 9yo and we loved it. I don’t regret it at all, he’s more than mature enough to handle it and it’s a good cautionary tale

Achara got very emotional during that episode,it showed on her face

*"You cannot change the Absolute Point in Time"* This explains why out of millions futures, they only won in one against Thanos. Bcoz, in all other possibilities, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, Thanos is still gonna be victorious.

Glad somebody remembered the tentacle monster!

It is great to see stakes once in awhile.

sorcerer Armani hehe

Hopefully they continue this seriousness throughout other episodes and hopefully movies

when Ancient One said "two timelines in one universe", she meant two Strange. When she attacked him, she literally split him into two, one left the scene and traveled back and found the lost books, one was left there unconscious, so he can live his life in that timeline, because Strange rewinded that timeline, he didn't teleport thru time, he moved time, that's why there's only one Strange that picked up Christine, and now there's two of them, one left, one was there to live in it. The evil one absorbed demons for years, reaching the point in time where the good Strange has reached two years of Christine's death, the evil one was like Steve and Peggy, hiding while the world moves, that's why he would still be in the same timeline, two Strange in one timeline. The scene where everyone was turning into tar, that's not happening throughout the multiverse, it's still in the same reality.

Jaby watcher showed himself to strange for a reason as series progresses you'll know why he showed up that moment, Cause first episode we didn't saw watcher in episode, in second we saw him 1 time and in 3rd episode we saw him couple of times and now in this one he actually interacted with someone so let's see what he does in future episodes😁

3:50 Jaby: It's like the beginning of the Time Machine That's exactly what Greg (Reel Rejects) said!

It's just like in Loki when they're in an apocalypse. The Watcher showed himself because he knew that it would change nothing in the end. He cannot interfere and this way he didn't. And of all Avengers it makes the most sense that Dr. Strange would sense and know about The Watcher.

The watcher saying that he can't interfere is an indication that he definitely will interfere in the future.

It is a case of time leaping because dr.strange is jumping in past in same time line. so, whatever has happened will happen for sure. If dr.strange wants to save her he will have to do a time jump i.e. going to a past in different timeline. Dr.strange noob 🤣 Watch Steins;Gate.

Ha ha thought of Zelda as well . Him entering the temple/library was also like Link entering a dungeon in Skyward Sword.

My headcanon is that he didn't have enough power to succeed because he didn't absorb the bug

This is definitely set up for him to be a future villain since only he survived the death of his universe trapped in what ever sheild or gem he casted at the end

This felt like an Outer Limits episode

FYI edge of tomorrow is a anime based on a manga or lite novel i'm not sure but yeah it's a japanese original

The watcher didn’t show up to say I told you so, my guess is that Strange got so powerful he was able to see the watcher watching and started to interact with him

Geez and I thought the LAST episode was dark... hi Jaby and Achara

Actually the watcher responded to dr strange calling him for help and not just came out by him self as strange could sense his presence and knows who he is so the watcher was like "eh whatev".

Strange is that powerful that he can hear the watcher, that's some dope story telling

23:45 they may be teasing him getting more involved as the series goes on. I'm pretty sure he has intervened before in the comics (to stop Galactus I think).