Series
What If...
DaVaun Sanders, Madeleine Roux, Mike Chen, Rebecca Podos & Seanan McGuire · 5 novels · 2024–2026
What If... is a young-adult novel series exploring alternate turns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's history, each volume built around a single diverging premise - such as Loki proving worthy of Mjolnir - and following the consequences for its characters. Released alongside Marvel's animated anthology series of the same concept, each book is written by a different author and stands as a self-contained story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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What If... at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2020s5
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- What If... Loki Was Worthy?darkest · most intense
- What If... the Multiverse Was Doomed?brightest
- What If... Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings?calmest