🔴What If Season 2 Episode 7 Ending Explained💥
0What If Season 2 Episode 7 Ending Explained
Marvel's What If...? Season 2, episode 7 ends with Hela becoming a brand-new goddess in an alternate MCU. Voiced by Cate Blanchett who reprises her live-action role in this new animated anthology episode, "What If...Hela Found The Ten Rings" sees the Goddess of Death being banished to Earth by her father Odin, rather than being imprisoned in Hel as seen in the main MCU. As such, this results in an exciting new origin for Hela and a bold future by the episode's end.
As seen in previous episodes of Marvel's What If...?, a handful of episodes have previous MCU plots and themes meshed together to create new multiversal stories that are familiar while still exploring new territory in these alternate realities revealed by Uatu the Watcher. This includes "What If...Hela Found The Ten Rings?" as it's essentially the first and third Thor films mixed with Shang-Chil and the Legend of the Ten Rings. However, the episode ends with an exciting new status quo for this alternate version of Hela who was banished to Earth, finding inner peace and how to offer mercy as a new Asgardian goddess.
Much like her brother Thor Odinson in the main MCU, Hela was banished to Midgard by Odin rather than being imprisoned in Hel. Likewise, her crown and source of power were stripped away, only to be claimed by one who could extend mercy (not unlike Thor's hammer Mjolnir). Facing none other than Xu Wenwu's Mandarin and the Ten Rings who offered an alliance, Hela ended up making her way to the mystical realm of Ta-Lo where she learned how to fight and seek inner peace as one of their guardians.
Having discovered her inner desire to claim the freedom to choose her own path which she never had as Odin's daughter, Hela faces her father when he arrives on Midgard to claim the Ten Rings after learning of their ability to kill Asgardians from Heimdall. Joining Wenwu, the duo defeats Odin, though Hela ultimately offers her father mercy. This act restores Hela's crown while also transforming her into a Goddess of Death with a newfound appreciation for life, choosing light to fight the darkness both externally and within.
Choosing to stand with Wenwu, Hela used her new Ta-Lo training to great effect. She effectively used Odin's own power against him while also bending the very air to wield a collection of firey knives, all while Weneu continued to assault the All-Father with the cosmic Ten Rings. Working in tandem, Hela and Wewu were able to separate Odin from Gungir, his mighty spear and source of power.
Using the powers of light she had learned from the guardians of Ta-Lo, Hela was able to remove Gungir from Odin's grasp. At the same time, the All-Father was unaware of Wenwu striking from the other side who'd brought the Ten Rings together to deliver a massively powerful punch that brought Odin to his knees. Furthermore, once Hela offered Odin mercy and regained her crown, Gungir also became hers with Odin's surrender, conceding the throne of Asgard after realizing that his daughter had grown on Midgard far more than he ever could have expected.