What If Titles for Season 2, Ahsoka Mid-Season Recap, One Piece Impressions, and more!

Author: TV & Movie News from Superhero Slate
Published: Mon 11 Sep 2023
Episode Link: https://superheroslate.com/2023/09/what-if-titles-for-season-2-ahsoka-mid-season-recap-one-piece-impressions-and-more/

This week Superhero Slate is revealing Season 2 titles for Marvel’s What If, making our predictions for the second half of Ahsoka, giving you a review of Netflix's One Piece, and more!

News

One Piece (7:10)
- First impressions of Netflix series

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (19:10)
- Will beat every Superhero movie in 2023 with $150 million opening

NYCC (22:50)
- New York Comic-Con on October 12
- Panels starting to get scheduled

What If...? (26:30)
- Season 2 episode titles revealed
  - What if Gamora killed Thanos?
  - What if Captain Carter finds Hydra Stomper? (Continued from Season 1)
  - What if the Tesseract landed in Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America? (Introduction of new hero Kahhori)
  - What if Hank Pym & Janet Van Dyne fought the Red Guardian during 1980’s?
  - What if Yondu delivered Star-Lord to Ego?
  - What if Happy Hogan saved Christmas? (Iron Man 3)
  - What if Wanda had grown up watching musicals instead of sitcoms?
  - What if Odin & Hela had faced Wenwu?
  - What if Avengers had fought Surtur?
- 9 Episodes, with first being cut from first season
- Is there a ‘culmination’ of these or just single stories going forward?

Loki (31:55)
- Season 2 teaser trailer

Agatha: Darkhold Diaries (34:20)
- May be a reason for show’s continuous title changes
- Producer says “something is afoot” and may indicate a different title per episode

Daredevil: Born Again (37:10)
- Spider-Man will be mentioned during show by Kingpin
- Previously thought to appear, but no longer the case

Deadpool 3 (39:15)
- Rumor: The TVA is selecting Heroes from dying worlds as a way to stop the multiverse from collapsing on itself
  - Deadpool and Wolverine meet as Wolverine was chosen from Fox universe
- Rumor: Daniel Radcliffe cast in “secret role” in film
  - Wolverine variant amid fan casting of him taking over mantle in MCU

Avengers: Secret Wars (45:05)
- Sam Raimi top choice to direct movie currently
  - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Spider-Man trilogy
  - DS2 brought in $950 million
- Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter 3; Gravity) near top of list as well

Spider-Man 2 (47:45)
- Reveals more characters from game

Crisis on Infinite Earths (50:15)
- Animated adaptation looking to be split into a trilogy
- Animation Director updated resume to have parts I, II, and III listed for this film

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (50:55)
- TV series set in Godzilla v Kong universe
- John Goodman (Kong: Skull Island) returns
- Takes place across 2 time periods: Wyatt Russell and Kurt Russell play same character

James Bond (54:45)
- Christopher Nolan rumored to be making deal to write and direct 2 Bond movies
- With full creative control, unlike previous Bond entries with producers overseeing

Rotten Tomatoes (58:25)
- PR firm Bunker 15 has been purchasing positive reviews for shows/movies, launching with a high rating
- Focused on sites that are favorable and ‘debuting’ scores
  - "obscure, often self-published critics who are nevertheless part of the pool tracked by Rotten Tomatoes,"