Episode 3 is going to be “What If… Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?” Happy Hogan, as the title suggests, is going to rescue Christmas by saving the Avengers Tower. It’s Christmas, and everyone is on holiday in the Avengers towers. Justin Hammer (Bad Guy from Iron Man 2) sees this as the best opportunity to attack the Avengers Tower.
But Justin doesn’t know that we still have one hero left in the Avengers Tower, and that is our Happy Hogan. Happy Hogan is going to do a Die Hard and save the tower from the hands of Justin Hammer with the help of Darcy, and together, they will save Christmas. It’s definitely a fun Marvel episode that you would want to watch with your family on Christmas.
What If Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
Before diving into What If Season 2 Episode 3, let’s quickly recap the previous episode. Starting with the episode titled “What if Nebula joined the Nova Corps?”. This is much earlier in the timeline when she became good in the MCU. What if she got her redemption much, much earlier?
Generally, the episode is meant to be a Blade Runner riff on the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the Nova comics with a bunch of other space-based characters like Yon Rogg from the Captain Marvel movies. Jude Law came back to voice his character from that. Korg and Miek from the Thor movies are back, and Taika Waititi also came back to do his voice.
For the most part, in all the What If episodes, all the movie actors came back to do their voices in animation with a few exceptions. A perfect example is that Glenn Close is not doing the voice for Nova Prime during this episode.
The opening scene is of Nebula’s finding. Yondu was murdered body in an alleyway on Zander. And even though Yondu is in the episode, Michael Rooker came back to do his voice and is credited in the episode for the Yondu character. He doesn’t have any speaking lines in the actual episode, and he speaks in other episodes, though.
Like I said, the whole vibe here, like the very noir crime thriller pouring rain here, is meant to be a reference to the Blade Runner movie Tears in the Rain.
Things are meant to pick up a little while after Zander erected a planet-wide shield wall to keep out Ronan, the accuser, during the events of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. In this reality, Ronan successfully kills Thanos when he tries to double-cross him in the first Guardians movie.
Nebula explains that in this universe, when Ronan came to sanctuary, he was able to kill Thanos. A lot more happened in previous episodes, but now let’s discuss when Episode 3 of What If Season 2 will be released and what will happen in it.
What If Season 2 Episode 3 Release Date
What if Season 2 Episode 3 is released on 24 December 2023 on Disney Plus? This Episode is titled “What If… Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?”. At the time of writing, 9 episodes are scheduled for this second season of What If, and we think there will be only 9 episodes like the previous season.
The Synopsis for Episode 3: “During the yearly Christmas celebration, Happy Hogan is the only person still on the scene to stop Justin Hammer from taking over Avengers Tower. Iron Man’s errand boy, however, might find that he transforms himself in more forms than one as he sets out to prove his heroic abilities.”
What If Season 2 Episode 3 Release Time & Where To Watch
Episode 3 of What If Season 2 will air at 3 am PT in the US. New episodes of What If Season 2 will be released every day this Christmas season. The episode 3 release timings for the rest of the world are as follows:
- Pacific Time (New York) 3:00 AM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Eastern Time (Canada) 6:00 AM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Greenwich Mean Time (London) 11:00 AM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Central European Time (Germany) 12:00 PM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Indian Standard Time (India) 3:30 PM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Philippine Standard Time (Philippines) 6:00 PM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
- Australian Standard Time (Australia) 8:00 PM on Sunday, 24 December 2023
You can watch What If S2 E3 on Disney Plus every day at 3:00 AM PT in the US.
