The BEST Marvel What Ifs...According To You! 

You should do a "Spider-Man breaks into your base and then demands you let him join your team ASMR"

What If... Dr. Doom had just paid Luke Cage his money, honey?

One of my loves was the "What if Peter Parker stopped the thief that killed Uncle Ben?" I don't think that was the title, but you get the idea.

The first issue I read, and still one of my faves is, "What if Wolverine was Lord of the Vampires?". Seeing pretty much everyone in the MU killed and/or turned into vamps and then dusted at the end was mind-blowing to my 12-year old self.

"The Marvel Universe is Pro-Hulk, until it isn't!" Ain't that the truth

The "What If Captain America Were Revived Today" story is pretty good on it's own, but Cap's "a flag is a piece of cloth" speech at the end is VERY powerful, and impacted a lot of young minds politically, self included, and still gets brought up in political blogging circles from time to time. I doubt you could get something like it past editorial today.

"What if Venom possessed The Punisher." was one of my favorites. Frank Castle gets the Venom symbiote, and it goes just about as well as one can expect.

"What if The Punisher killed Spider-man" was a favorite of mine when I was a kid.

Holy hell! Starting a petition to get Sasha to voice an animated Mephisto. Just…damn!

Please do a full video on "What If Jane Foster Had Found The Hammer of Thor?" comparing it to the Canon Now

Great list. My personal favorite is What If Elektra had lived?, since it both aged poorly quite fast and has the Watcher telling Daredevil (on Elektra's tombstone) that if Elektra had lived Matt and Elektra would have been happy, living away from the superhero life.

I personally like the “silver surfer with the gauntlet” story. (Issue 49 if you’re wondering)

It didn’t really miss the Mark per se, but the What If that explored the idea of what if the Fantastic Four all got the same power gave me pause after the segment where they all got the Thing’s power. My young mind wasn’t ready for that kind of gut punch.

Sue IS attracted to Namor. In FF 6 (I think) the Thing finds a pic of him hidden under Sue's mattress (or somewhere).

The "Wolverine vs Conan" was a personal favorite as well as "What if Kraven had Killed Spider-Man".

Elseworlds-wise, I'd recommend JLA: The Nail. It explores how the DC Universe came to be if Superman never existed.

You know what's a great What If idea with a... Questionable execution, What If the Fantastic Four had different powers. On paper, well on the scripted page, the idea that their different powers came from a different aspect of their personalities is such a billion dollar idea, but it was kinda rough in the book. Ben instead if being a rock monster because of tough guy traits gains dragon wings, because he's a pilot, and becomes "The Dragonfly" (but he doesn't have dragonfly wings though...). Johnny can't burst into flames because he's a hothead, but because he's a heartbeat too, becomes a... Robot (don't know how, just cosmic radiation). Sue isn't invisible or force fielding, she's just Ms. Fantastic with stretching powers (because she's always keeping things together) and Reed isn't stretchy, but a literal big brain, but it's fine, they fight Doctor Doom, and Reed takes over his mind and body forever, and becomes Doom, the Fantastic Four member... There's some things to iron out, but the bar has something there lol

What If Vol. 2 Issue 44 “What If… Venom had possessed The Punisher” is one of the BEST character studies of Frank Castle ever written.

Spider-girl was a surprisingly fun comic, albeit the oddly jagged art early on took a lot of getting used to. Too bad the MC2 universe as a whole never really caught on.

First of all: let's all talk about how good that hair/lip combo is. Secondly: Exiles was a fun series in the 2000s-ish times. It was a team of heroes (started out being mutant focused because of the "x" but then branched out) from alternate realities that to do missions in other alternate realities. They weren't shy about killing off team members either--and whenever that happened they'd recruit another alternate reality version. Essentially What If as a team book. The premise was so fun and lots of the early stories were great. Though, there was a twist that was pretty divisive (I for one didn't like it) and it kinda lost a lot of its steam from then (if I remember). Anyway, that's my cheat answer to my favorite What If

What if Aunt May was a herald of Galactus?

My favorite What If...is the wolverine:Enemy of the State. The marvel universe has to deal with a brainwashed Wolverine courtesy of the Hand. The original was great too and the what if conclusion is kind of brutal.

The Spider-Man/Fantastic Four one also has a sequel story that leans all the way into Sue/Namor which I really enjoyed also it's technically canon in the multiverse, so to heck with you, 2018 panel

Mephisto: *Did you say marriage?*

Can't say it's my favorite "What If ..." but I remember reading issue 42 in the first series - "What If the Invisible Girl Had Died?" - and being moved by the beautiful eulogies to Sue. In my memory, it was some of the best writing I've ever found in comics. Need to reread that issue and see if it holds up anywhere near as good as I recall.

16:13 Thordis (þórdís) is a legitimate Icelandic woman's name, and it appears in the Sagas. Nothing awkward about it.

Cool job summarizing so many issues and keeping them interesting without spoiling endings. I would love if you did more What If? Especially comparing the ones that eventually became cannon to how the future writers handled it versus how the What If staff did.

Isn't it funny that most of the What ifs came true.......Hulk gets intelligence, Jane Foster becomes Thor, Spider-Man joins the The Fantaics Four....ect.

The classic half panel "What if Alpha Flight talked like Hosers?" needed a mention.

I love the old-timey What ifs, at least as a concept. These days, the answer to the question "What if something happened differently?" is usually "everybody dies", but back then the writers really went deep into the implications and consequences. Like in the very first one, the Fantastic Five one, Sue chose Namor over Reed during a kidnapping that actually happened in issue 20-something of FF, but happened differently because of how the addition of Spider-Man to the team influenced their adventures, especially their first trip to the Moon and fight with the Red Ghost, again, from the original FF#13 - only this time Spidey took Sue's place while she was told to stay in the -kitchen- Baxter Building, raising her doubts about her place on the team. Or the one where Spidey saved Gwen Stacy after her unfortunate trip to the Love interest Death Bridge, which was built around what those characters were. Or the one where Spidey's clone survived the original clone "saga", which ended with two Peters deciding to be roomies and carry the Spider-Man burden together. There was so much more thought put into the story back then. But then again, you can say that about the entirety of Big Two these days.

Hearting Sasha a lot today. 💙 💙 Thank you Sasha! My favorite is What if Spider-man joined the FF and What if Spider-man had a daughter. Favorite Sasha Quote: "Pay your team Reed" lmao

Mephisto would have had a field day with Lois Lane.

What If Someone Else Became Spiderman. It multiple stores, Flash Thompson, Betty Brandt, both were bit by the spider instead. Another is What If Captain America Led A Team Of Super Soldiers.

My favorite "What If..." is "What If Elektra Had Lived" from the Daredevil story arc penned by Frank Miller. Brilliant!

No What if Aunt May became herald of Galactus? How could anyone not love Golden Oldie?! What if Wonder Man and Power Man were women was also a good visual.

I remember being let down by the story but What If Daredevil had become a member of SHIELD had a great cover. At the time of my reading it, I had only seen DD in his red suit w horns. Him w a blindfold on was crazy cool to me.

4:55 I always figured Sue mostly enjoyed teasing Namor more than she actually enjoyed the thought of BEING with him.

Ayoo got recommended here and Im loving the content!!!

What if Spiderman Had Not Married Mary Jane Watson?? was one of my favorites as a kid. It had so much of the melodrama I love from both my comic books AND my soap operas, you should definitely cover it at some point!!!!!! It also was a 2 parter with the second issue being "What if Spiderman had married the Black Cat?" It's one of my favorite childhood comics.... please do a video on it lol

4:52 - You might like the "What if Namor Joined the Fantastic Four" what if because they do pursue that route. And it's one of the rare takes where none of the parties (Sue, Reed or Namor) come out looking bad from it.

This is my first time watching you ..WOW you are breath of fresh air. Not only are crazy sexy nerdy and very knowledgeable about comics. You are great I am HOOKED. PLEASE STAY ON.

I do not remember the issue number, but there was this one What If? comic that had Thor sort of walking into the adventures of Conan the Barbarian. Things go badly for Thor, but the ending was sort of epic.

Unrelated but could you do a history of superboy vid?

First, where is "What if Aunt May became a herald of Galactus?" on this list? Seriously, though, I loved the back-up one-pagers like the hostess cakes spoofs or the Punisher having itty bitty legs (actually, I think that last bit was from "What The--?!" not "What If?", my bad). Seriously, though, great video full of fun call-backs!

There's also weird What If?'s like Vol 1 Issue 4, which Marvel treats as canon. I think that issue offered up the explanation for how Captain America kept having comic adventures in late and post WWII after the retconed him into going into the ice before the war ended.

I love that your Spiderman voice is basically Gavin from the Kids in the Hall

The Spider-Man What If’s are hilarious, it usually ends with Peter getting arrested or murdered.

I forgot the title, but loved the issue where Infinity fired the Ultimate Nullifier weapon at the universe, and vaporized that entire reality out of existence. Heady stuff.

The first what if comic I read was a back to back issue. It had two what-ifs: Dazzler becomes herald of galactus, and Tony Stark gets stuck in Camelot. I was very young, and I found them in a box filled with comics (mostly marvel) at my grandparents' house.

Watching now. One of my favorites was “What If Wolverine became Lord of the Vampires?” from volume 2. Blew my young mind because at that point in my comic collecting(I was buying in real time at that time) I had not realized that Dracula was in Marvel comics or that he fought the X-Men. Honestly one of the great things about What If? for collectors before the internet was it gave you a cool look into past comic stories that you may not have known about.

6:36 I think I remember Marvel Zombies having a cover that was a take off on this panel, with zombie hulk reflected in zombie Wolverine's claws.

WOW! You were ON IT Today! Loved your enthusiasm. Yeah, funny how a couple of "What Ifs" are now cannon.

Ah, that first Spider-girl series. It took bits of the messy Clone Saga and made it palatable. One of my favorite series of all time. I should really go re-visit this series via the complete collection TPB I have collecting dust on my shelf.

I am so disappointed I didn't see the community question. Went ahead and rung that bell so I wouldn't miss it next time.

I used to buy nothing but "What If" issues from my local comic shop after I discovered them. It was amazing to see these characters in a different setting and equally amazing to see how INSANE the issues could get! The domino effect is always interesting to think about

I love the flash back of younger Sasha💕but I love “ at the time of recording- cool wig wearing Sasha !”

The May Parker Spider-Girl is awesome. "What if Karen Page had Lived?" from 2005 and Bendis is a good but dark one.

I've always wondered if you script out your videos or just say whatever comes into your head. Either way, you have the gift of gab and the pacing of your videos are excellent!

What The? was an assistant editor issue, I think... it had something that still makes me laugh was an image of Cyclops with "What if Cyclops' beams came from his ears?"

What If # 35: What If Elektra Lived. What makes this issue so special is it's the only one where Uatu the Watcher comes out of the shadows and makes his presence to the subject of the story known. This issue is vey reminiscing of the movie It's A Wonderful Life, where Clarence the Angel shows George Bailey how life would be if he wasn't born. Uatu who has the same emotional capacity as Mr. Spock, comes to a grieving Matt Murdock at Elektra's grave, and explains how things wouldn't automatically be better if she lived. It's basically Uatu coming to somebody's emotional rescue.

2nd volume had a 2 parter about what if captain America was thawed out in the 90’s. Red skull had captured the world because cap wasn’t around in the 60’s. Superheroes rounded up, murdered , exiled. It’s really great. Issue 64-67 somewhere in there. It really is a great read. Might be worthy of a video too. Really do love the hair.

What If's were always kind of a treat way back in the day. You could rarely find them on news stands (at least where I live) and they had a higher cover price than standard titles. I didn't get to read many of them until I was a little older, making my own money, and grabbed them in comic stores. Conan In The 20th Century was a major standout, and remains my fave to this day. A close runner up for me would be What If The World Knew Daredevil Was Blind? Sounds hokey, but it was better than you may think.

I would argue Hope Pym/Red Queen fared even better than Mayday Parker. She got her own movie (Ant-Man & the Wasp) and ended up integrated into main canon (Nadia Van Dyne).

I think "What If" is one of the most fun concepts to play with, i loved what if and exiles which also visited a version of the demon in the armor world. If i could write for marvel i would want to write What If.

My favz are ones based on my fav stories...Miller's DD/Elektra is revisited a few times (V1 35 - Elektra had Lived written by FM/V2 2 - DD Kills Kingpin - Born Again, 47 - DD Kills Nuke - Born Again), the humour issues (V1 34 with some more FM art/ V2 34), and the issues with Sienkiewicz cvrs (V1 44,45,47).

It would be cool to see you do videos on the MC2 characters like The Fantastic Five or Darkdevil as I think the MC2 is a fun universe.

One of the most fantastic Marvel stories I remember, circa 1971. Written by Harlan Ellison. Hulk gets shrunk down to insect size and has adventures in a garden. Don't remember why. Don't remember the result. But the art was BEAUTIFUL!

"What if Spider-Man never became a superhero" He becomes an asshole tv star

You gotta read the what if from the "event" "Assistant Editors Month" where Aunt May becomes "Golden Oldie". Also the what-if based on the original Clone Saga where "the clone" (later known as Ben Reilly) lives and they end up doing the "two guys living one life" twin trope.

There are a few What Ifs did not mention that I adore from the ongoing: #1 "What If Tony Stark-- SOLD OUT?!" - Basically Tony sells his Iron Man tech to the world so EVERYONE becomes an Iron Man. Super-powered heroes go out of business (Spider-Man being the one hero the story focuses on). From there we have freaking Magneto show and be all, "This tech has doomed mutantkind and now i'll doom all of humanity!" So yeah, this story ends up with Tony Stark vs. Magneto. I mean that along with the armor Tony uses in the final battle is just freaking nuts. #2 What If Doctor Doom became Sorceror Supreme?! - I'm surprised this one wasn't mentioned. Perhaps given the Fantastic Four still show up in it, but it's a minor role. The real leads are Doom and Strange. With the most freaking twisted way of Doom "healing" Strange's hands. Not only that but the end twist is a chiller. #3 What If Captain America Wakes up in the Modern Day? - This one I think was in the second volume and was a two-parter. Part 1 was Cap being woken up by Doctor Doom, who of course baits him into a fight with their mutual rival, the Red Skull. Without Cap, the two villains have conquered the world and are waring with one another. Part 2 sees Cap meet actual heroes who oppose both fiends. It's the whole unsettling fate we learn for the X-Men and Spider-Man characters that really makes the second one so gripping for me.

10:16 Sasha, if a gentleman named Mr. M gives you a card that says he's a 'marriage counselor' on it- RUN! As for a What If to cover, how about the one where Korvac killed the Avengers?

DO MORE WHAT IFS! They are amazing and I loved the MC2, it was amazing while it lasted. I really wish it had lasted for a few years longer than it did.

Really loving the Multicolored hair. The content is also great, but I am also just very pro Anime Hair, and you do a great job with it.

6:32 Actually allegedly in the Avengers EMH universe. Which was intended to also be the Wolverine and the X-Men universe but there wasn't any real crossover.

What If was one of my favourite series as a kid despite pretty much never having read the story they were playing with. You got a nice little synapsis of a story on the first page and then another full issue weirder story. Plus What If had the decency to be one issue stories which is a plus as a kid. I'd recommend What If the Avengers Fought Galactus about a world where the Fantastic Four never gained powers. It's an interesting What If as you have The Watcher commenting on a story which he is part of and how this reality changed his own actions. Probably not a good first What If recommendation, just one I really liked.

Please do What If? Vol 2 #6 "What If... the X-Men Had Lost Inferno?" One of the best What if? story!

Issues I read as a kid were ones like What If Magneto took over the USA, What If Hulk Killed Wolverine (gotta love that shiny chrome cover) What If Scarlet Spider Killed Spider-Man and What If starring Juggernaut: The Kingdom of Cain

What if the Avengers were pawns of Korvac? is one I liked because it was an early example of multiple cosmic entities getting together.

That's a Doctor Doom story. Part two is where I engage of six days of Maker Genius and create Doom's face in cardboard and silver paint and desk stuff and ducttape and it looks superfab when I throw the hood on.

In game design they call the too many options phenomenon "Analysis Paralysis" and it can really slow games down.

The X-Men x-cutioner's song story arc was what got me into collecting comics, so when I saw the what if about that, I immediately grabbed it. Definitely my favorite one

They were somewhat interesting, at least in the first run of the series, but they rarely felt compellingly so, as the tended to reaffirm or reassert the mainstream status quo in the end. My favorite is still #34, though. Yes, it's mainly just gags and such, but it does include Hembeck's "The Difference" which really does explain the What If idea pretty well. Plus I just loved the 2 page Spidey Intellectual Tales!

One of my favourites I can't remember the title but it was something like, "What if Conan lived in modern times" and he goes up against Captain America who walks away having respect for our favourite Hyborean hulk.

You are very good at this channel and have managed to make my jaded mind get back into comics, keep it up

Oh, I'm a big fan of What If...? It's probably the series that actually got me most interested in Marvel in general. Each issue provided a recap of the divergence, so it helped catching up on what had happened in the universe to date. My overall favorite is probably the two-parter from What If Vol 2, #s 28 and 29, "What If Captain America Were Not the Only Super Soldier In World War II?" and "What If Captain America Formed the Avengers?" To really sum up what I like about it, it's (to me at least) the story that the more recent Secret Empire wanted to be.

Your Spiderman voice brings me back to your videos lol. Keep em coming

Really loved that moment in the first few pages when the Watcher mentioned Spider-Man's fight with Superman!

Hi Sasha. Love from Kitchener to you and your family. My favourite is What If Vol.1 #1... It's got everything

Sometimes "What if..." went outside the box in terms of its story structure. I remember a 3-in-1 one story where it featured "What if Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman and Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell, not Carol Danvers) had remained villains?" In the Ghost Rider story, he encounters Daimon Hellstrom "The Son of Satan" and is defeated (possibly killed) by him. In the Spider-Woman story, she kills Nick Fury and becomes a fugitive from justice. In the Captain Mar-Vell story, his enemies are defeated and he's promoted to Colonel. The only other multiple "What if..." issue that I can remember was the Assistant Editor's Month edition which had a number of gag ideas like "What if Iron Man had an EATING disorder?" and "What if Daredevil were DEAF instead of BLIND?"

What if’s are awesome concepts. First one I ever bought as a kid was, What If the Punisher got the Venom Symbiote! Which I only got because I was obsessed with Venom back in the day.

I don't remember the issue numbers but I liked the issue where Spider-Man is shot before he kills the Red Skull and the Armor War issue where Tony Stark becomes a recluse after beginning an "Armor race" or weapons build-up that threatens not just mutant-kind but all of humanity.

This was an outstanding video. I have been a fan of WHAT IF...? since the first volume. I especially love the first ten issues of the 1st series. I think this warrants a second video from you.

Your channel is one of my favorite comic channels on youtube right now. Just wondering if you could leave pauses in the edit. With the jump cut style - there's never a pause and I feel like I'm holding my breath half way through. I appreciate the energy but would welcome a bit slower more conversational style.

WAS THAT YOUR VOICE DOING MEPHISTO? THAT WAS GOOD!

This channel feels like a good comic book. You can jump in on any video for the first time and it makes sense. But if you watch a lot, it becomes better and better

What if? Sasha made a video like this, but on DCs Elseworlds stories?

My first and favorite What If is, "What if Captain America had Formed the Avengers?" It ends up with really great alternate versions of most of the Avengers in a crazy dystopian setting. It also kind of asks the question, "What if America made more Super Soldiers after Rogers went into the ice?"

My favorite was “What if the X Men had stayed in Asgard”

Great Video Sasha As Always.

Oh my God, your Ditko Spider Man voice is Amazing!