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* CanadaEh: "What if Alpha Flight talked like T.V. Canadians?", one of the gag stories in Volume 1 #34.

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** "What if the Fantastic Four had never formed?" (V1 #36): As a result of the Thing deciding to go off on his own and lash out against humanity, Peter Parker shies away from the Science Expo, Donald Blake misses his flight, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are pulled away from their projects to stop the damage and the “Fantastic Three” gets BroughtDownToNormal by a botched attempt to stop Ben. As a result, the world ends up with no heroes, and the Watcher shudders to think about how badly that will end for the world.



** "What If the Fantastic Four's Second Child Had Lived?" (v2 #30) explores two different possibilities had the daughter that was stillborn in "A Small Loss" (FF #267) had survived. The second scenario involves Sue dying in childbirth and the daughter being named after her.

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** "What If the Fantastic Four's Second Child Had Lived?" (v2 #30) explores two different possibilities had the daughter that was stillborn in "A Small Loss" (FF #267) had survived. The second first scenario involves Sue dying in childbirth and the daughter being named after her.



** ''What if Wonder Man never died/What if Vision destroyed the Avengers?'' (v2 #5): Wonder Man averts his first death and Ultron ends up downloading his one brain into the Vision body. But at the end, Wonder Man is left near death, and the Vision’s brain is disabled by Hank Pym [[GodzillaThreshold retaking the mantle of Ant Man]], leaving the robot’s body free to have Wonder Man’s brain uploaded into Vision, as in the regular reality.

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** ''What if Wonder Man never died/What if Vision destroyed the Avengers?'' (v2 #5): Wonder Man averts his first death and Ultron ends up downloading his one own brain into the Vision body. But at the end, Wonder Man is left near death, and the Vision’s brain is disabled by Hank Pym [[GodzillaThreshold retaking the mantle of Ant Man]], leaving the robot’s body free to have Wonder Man’s brain uploaded into Vision, as in the regular reality.



** ''What If Yellowjacket Died?'' (Vol 1, #35) has Janet start lashing out at the other Avengers for the fact they [[SpeakIllOfTheDead badmouth her late husband), go on to beat up crooks on the street under the name “Black Wasp”, culminating in her [[BystanderSyndrome refusing to help out in a fire]].

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** ''What If Yellowjacket Died?'' (Vol 1, #35) has Janet start lashing out at the other Avengers for the fact they [[SpeakIllOfTheDead badmouth her late husband), husband]], go on to beat up crooks on the street under the name “Black Wasp”, culminating in her [[BystanderSyndrome refusing to help out in a fire]].
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* StableTimeLoop: In ''What If the Iron Man of 2020 was Stuck in the Present?'', Arno helps Morgan Stark try to take over Stark Industries and when confronted by Tony, goes into a VillainousBreakdown ranting about how it’s “always him ruining everything”, before blowing himself up. We then get a TimeSkip to a few years later with Morgan now hiding in Argentina, ranting and raving against his cousin with the same dialogue, while his son, identified as Arno by his mother after [[AbusiveParents both are]] [[DomesticAbuse beaten up]], can only stare solemnly at a crude drawing of Iron Man that had visible teeth, much like the future version of the armour.
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** "What if Rick Jones became the Hulk?" (v1 #12), where Rick Jones saves Bruce Banner and takes the brunt of the Gamma Bomb. Despite being a completely different person, Rick-as-Hulk is still picked out by Loki in the scheme that forms the Avengers, he still leaves the team out of mistrust, Rick still partners up with Captain America, is the key to stopping the Kree-Skrull War and bonds with Captain Mar-Vell. The only big difference here is that Banner is able to keep Rick-Hulk away long enough that the US Military can't hunt him down.

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** "What if Rick Jones became the Hulk?" (v1 #12), where Rick Jones saves Bruce Banner and takes the brunt of the Gamma Bomb. Despite being a completely different person, Rick-as-Hulk is still picked out by Loki in the scheme that forms the Avengers, he still leaves the team out of mistrust, Rick still partners up with Captain America, is the key to stopping the Kree-Skrull War and bonds with Captain Mar-Vell.Marvel. The only big difference here is that Banner is able to keep Rick-Hulk away long enough that the US Military can't hunt him down.
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** ''What if Wonder Man never died/What if Vision destroyed the Avengers?'' (v2 #5): Wonder Man averts his first death and Ultron ends up downloading his one brain into the Vision body. But at the end, Wonder Man is left near death, and the Vision’s brain is disabled by Hank Pym [[GodzillaThreshold retaking the mantle of Ant Man]], leaving the robot’s body free to have Wonder Man’s brain uploaded into Vision, as in the regular reality.


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** ''What If Yellowjacket Died?'' (Vol 1, #35) has Janet start lashing out at the other Avengers for the fact they [[SpeakIllOfTheDead badmouth her late husband), go on to beat up crooks on the street under the name “Black Wasp”, culminating in her [[BystanderSyndrome refusing to help out in a fire]].
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* BondVillainStupidity: In "What If Peter Parker Had to Destroy Spider-Man"(v2 #76) JerkJock Flash Thompson was bitten by the radioactive spider, and decided to use his new spider-powers to become a criminal named The Spider. He conned Peter Parker into inventing his web-shooters, claiming he wanted to be a superhero. When Peter realized the truth, he confronted Flash, who then used his webbing to tie Peter to a flagpole several stories high and left him to his fate, counting on the webbing to dissolve in an hour and Peter to fall to his death. Peter managed to hang onto the flagpole and climb to the building ledge, making his way to safety. He then devoted himself to developing new tech to stop The Spider.
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* WhatIf: The underlying trope of the series.

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* WhatIf: The {{Trope Namer}} aside, the underlying trope of the series.
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** In "What if the Invisible Girl had died?", Reed Richards goes on a suicidal rampage to find and kill Annihilus for the death of Sue Richards.

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