The first five episodes of Marvel’s What If Season 2 are now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia. Check out my spoiler-free review of Marvel’s What If Season 2 here.

The synopsis reads:

Season two of “What If…?” continues the journey as The Watcher (voice of Jeffrey Wright) guides viewers through the vast Multiverse, introducing brand-new and familiar faces from the MCU. The series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic Universe moments with an incredible voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their iconic roles.

During a screening event of Marvel’s What If Season 2 with Brad Winderbaum (Exec Producer), AC Bradley (Writer/Exec Producer), Bryan Andrews (Director/Exec. Producer) and Matthew Chauncey (Writer/Producer), they spoke about many subjects, including Kahhori.

Kahhori is a new original character created by the Marvel’s What If team who’s not from the comics. She will make her debut in Marvel’s What If Episode 6, which will premiere on Disney+ Hotstar tomorrow on 27 December 2023.

A.C. Bradley said:

Kahhori. Oh, she’s amazing.

Special shout out to Ryan Little, who wrote that episode.

And also to the entire Mohawk community, who, like, really kind of backed us up. I remember our first Zooms about that. Again, pandemic. It was, like, April 2020. And it was really fun. We got Disney Diversity on the phone, and we told them the episode. And they went, “We’re gonna call the Smithsonian.” And I was like, “Is that, like, the bat phone? You’re allowed to do that?” They’re like, “Yeah, we’re gonna get the Smithsonian. They have the Rolodex. They have the Museum of the Native American. They have the Rolodex. Let’s get them involved.” And so from day one, we were talking to people. We brought them in for everything from design, story, costuming, music. It was really a collaborative effort, and we were so lucky to get all the help. It was really kind of amazing and beautiful.

And I’m very, very proud that we were able to pull that episode off.

Bryan Andrews added:

It’s pretty incredible. It was one of the early ideas I think we had, because what bigger what if is there than, like, you know, what if colonialization didn’t happen? What if the Europeans didn’t come here? And that’s kind of, at least for me, what I keyed into. But we needed more, and when talking with the consultants and getting into their belief system and the rest, we were able to totally find an in that was solid and worked. And just as Ashley said, and Ryan was instrumental. He was so fantastic. He was super point on this and really working with the consultants a ton to bring this character to life.

But it was incredible the work that the vis/dev team did and our art team did with the locales, because when the consultants would see the artwork finally, after giving a few notes and things like that, they were amazed. They wrote us, like, a letter saying that they felt for the first time that their people were honestly being represented in media. And that was huge for us to hear, ’cause, like, they were no bones about it.

Like, no, this is legit. And we’re showing it to the First Nations, to the various Mohawk tribes that were all around, like, the area, like Montreal and East Coast. They’re coming together, and we’re showing it to them before this airs. And hundreds of members of the First Nations tribal community are, like, showing up, and like, kids, family, because it’s all in their language. The whole episode is subtitled, and they’re, like, that hasn’t been done for us before. And so they are beyond the moon for it, so we’re really proud of that.

A new episode will premiere each subsequent day for a total of nine episodes.