Atwell would go on to briefly appear as the beloved character again in the concluding part of Marvel’s Infinity Saga, Avengers: Endgame, but upcoming animated Disney+ series What If…? would then give Atwell a chance to join the new Marvel multiverse by lending her voice to a Variant version of Peggy Carter who receives the super soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers – becoming “Captain Carter.” If you can’t get enough of Captain Carter when the first season of What If…? arrives this month, you can just go ahead and rejoice, because the creators of the show are hoping to feature her in future seasons, too. “We knew we wanted to make Peggy Carter the first Avenger…What’s the change that would actually make this possible?” head writer AC Bradley tells our own Don Kaye. “And what it is, is a woman stays in the room. Peggy has always been ahead of her time, so let’s showcase that in the 1940s.” “A lot of the season one episodes are riffing off certain points in the cinematic universe and maybe even delving in a certain phase, but we need to expand and explore more things, so we had to come up with other ideas that were a little further down the timeline,” director Bryan Andrews says, later adding “Peggy Carter is pretty awesome; Captain Carter is pretty awesome, we’d love to see more of her.” It’s a sentiment that Bradley agrees with. “I think we’ve all grown really attached to these new versions [of the characters],” Bradley says. “Hopefully we will get to see more of Peggy Carter being Captain Carter.” Of course Marvel fans were delighted to find out that Peggy Carter would be featured in the new series – albeit in animated form – when it was announced, but could her ongoing presence in What If…? finally lead to a live-action MCU movie for Atwell? “The fan reaction has been so tremendous,” Andrews says. “It would be amazing to see more of her in any which way, whether it’s What If…? or if it’s her own big live-action movie. It’s like, hell yeah!” What If…?’s Captain Carter is certainly something new, but we hope we haven’t seen the last of her in the live-action MCU. In addition to Atwell, Marvel’s What If…? features the voices of Tom Hiddleston Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benicio Del Toro, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Renner, Kurt Russell, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Douglas, Jon Favreau, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Kat Dennings, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Sebastian Stan, Seth Green, Taika Waititi, Tilda Swinton, and Natalie Portman – among a host of other MCU vets. It will begin streaming via Disney+ on August 11. We’ll have more from Bryan Andrews on What If…? in the coming days!
