What If? (1×07) What If… Thor Were an Only Child? Review

For our review of the last episode of What If?, click here.

While last week’s episode of What If? leaned a little too much into the ridiculous in order to tell the story of Killmonger’s revenge, this week’s episode perhaps leaned in a little further to tell a more comedic story about Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and what would happen if he hadn’t have grown up with the grounding presence that was his brother Loki. The quick answer to that question was parties and a lot of them and sometimes they’d go too far which was essentially what happened over the course of this episode.

The beginning of the episode more or less played out like the original Thor with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) searching for alien life and then finding it via Thor and his posse who landed in Las Vegas. With no Loki and Odin recently passing away, it was just him and his mother Frigga (Josette Eales) who was tasked to prepare him for assuming the throne of Asgard (Loki did show up later as a Frost Giant). If only Thor took that responsibility more serious. With his mother leaving to spend time with some friends, he was told to study but of course that’s not what he had in mind hence his trip to Earth. All he wanted to do was party. Besides his usual posse, he brought along a colorful cast of characters prompting a few recognizable cameos which made for a few hilarious moments.

As far as Foster was concerned, she was just trying to understand what was going on and how it connected to her research. That being said, one can’t help but be enamored by Thor despite his childish and immature nature. Initially calling SHIELD for help and not getting an answer, they finally showed up after a night of partying. They took the threat of Thor and what he brought with him very seriously which made for quite the contrast. With seemingly no other choice, it was time to bring in the last resort for which we already know was Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Alexandra Daniels). Disposing of Thor and the damage he and his increasing posse were creating however would be easier said than done. This led to some fun encounters between she and Thor and also with Darcy.

The real last resort, when all else failed, was to go back to Frigga for whom would instill fear within Thor and anyone else who dared stand in her way, not even Captain Marvel or the forces of SHIELD who each stood down and watch the embarrassment from afar. Seeing Thor make a complete 180 as a result was perhaps the cherry on top but despite his attempts to clean up after what had happened, it wasn’t enough to get by his mother.

The trend of abruptly ending episodes continued with Thor being greeted by what appeared to be an army of Ultrons after asking Foster out on a date. Perhaps the only reason why these episodes keep ending abruptly is that they’re connected? All of this has to amount to something soon.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.