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LadyBidule·9/9/2021 in General

Who do you think the Watcher is talking to? (and other funny What If...? questions)

Hi :)

First, I apologize if these questions have already been asked on the board, in which case I'm not aware of it and would gladly be redirected towards the threads in question :)

I've been asking myself who Uatu is talking to, and I don't think Marvel Studios made a statement about this (and I'm not aware of this ever being explained in the comics either - since he addresses the reader in a similar manner - but I haven't read every single issue of the comics).

Is the Watcher's narration non-canon because he is breaking the fourth wall, and the stories only are canon?

Or is it canon despite him breaking the fourth wall (Deadpool is said to be coming to the MCU in the same incarnation we know, which I think will be hard to reconcile with the MCU's premise, because breaking the fourth wall is also breaking an author-audience contract that's been established for 13 years, but let's see how that plays out).

Or... is Uatu actually telling these stories to another MCU character? And if so, who? And why?

Bonus questions:

1/ If the narrative is indeed canon: is Uatu telling all these stories at the same time (so far, it'd have to be at least 2018 if not later), or is each episode placed where it should be in the timeline (#1 in 2011, #2 in 2014, #3 in 2017 and #4 in 2018), and Uatu is just telling the stories as events go ?

2/ At the end of #3, when he interacts with that other Dr. Strange, where is the Watcher from that reality? Why is universe 199999's Uatu interacting with another universe's character instead of that universes's own Uatu? Or are Watchers multidimentional beings that exist for the whole multiverse (as far as I know, in the comics, they're from universe 616, thus supposedly have counterparts in most other realities).

Nothing that serious, but fun head scratching ^^

Thanks for your replies. Curious about your ideas :)

(Edited by LadyBidule)

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Optimusprimebumblebee "Neo Astral-X" 123·9/9/2021

The audience he breaks the fourth wall like Deadpool

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GenericDuck·9/9/2021

Yh I think he’s breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience, like Deadpool.

It’s all canon, iirc.

I think the events taking place happened in their respective time periods. There’s obviously things that happened differently though, which could cause things that happened in the MCU to still happen but at an earlier or later point. I’m not too sure. I would say, unless said otherwise, assume they’re happening during the same time they would’ve in the MCU.

Maybe Uata was watching that reality because there was no Watchers in that reality? Maybe all the realities he’s visited don’t have Watchers? That reality (with Doctor Strange Supreme) presumably didn’t have anymore Watchers because it was in the process of being destroyed(?)

(Edited by GenericDuck)

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David Kaique·9/10/2021

There is a rumor that She-Hulk will break the fourth wall in her show.

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Gerisama·9/10/2021

Maybe he's talking to the Informant

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LadyBidule·9/10/2021

@David Kaique Oh true I read that somewhere. I hope not. With this and the possible abuse of the multiverse concept in the future, I fear the MCU may fall into too many easy comics tropes that, for me at least, harms the credibility of the material (even though, admitedly, Byrne's use of breaking the 4th wall was cool, but I find it more acceptable in a comics contexte than on screen).

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LadyBidule·9/10/2021

@Gerisama Unfortunately, the Informant is no longer among us :(

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LadyBidule·9/10/2021

@GenericDuck when it comes to the timeline, I meant the moment the Watcher narrates, not the events he narrates. Basically, I was asking myself, should we put each episode on the timeline when the action takes place, or all at the same time (meaning the Watcher told all stories all at once).

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LadyBidule·9/10/2021

@GenericDuck Actually yeah you are right about that universe's Watcher: by the time "our" Wtacher speaks to Strange, that universes's Watchers would already be dead if I remember the episode correctly.

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ནཡབཡོོི རཡིིབཡིིལཧ·9/10/2021

@LadyBidule “Unfortunately the watcher informant is no longer amog us” https://youtu.be/p0aHDT8wwrw

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O'D 1945·9/19/2021

In the episode 'What If... Doctor Strange lost his heart instead of his hands?', Strange and The Watcher spoke directly to each other, as well as the Watcher giving audience narrative.

What do you think?