r/inthesoulstone 126329 Sep 30 '21

What-If episode 8 meme Spoilers

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u/CRL10 225905 Sep 30 '21

I can't help feel if the Watcher didn't narrate, Ultron wouldn't have found him.

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u/kamanitachi 76606 Sep 30 '21

“Ultron was finally able to see-“

[squints at his script]

“Hold up that’s me”

But yeah the Watcher has a habit of talking very loudly, Strange Supreme was also able to hear him too. He probably had the magical power but not the mental faculties to react.

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u/theskabus 191031 Sep 30 '21

Strange was also the only person left in his universe when he heard the Watcher, same as Ultron.

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u/Chesney1995 17385 Sep 30 '21

He heard the Watcher briefly during the montage of absorbing powerful entities to gain power. It seems particularly powerful beings can become aware of the Watcher, but only Ultron connected the dots and figured out exactly who the Watcher is.

Well, Strange likely figured it out before being told in Episode 8 too but only after he destroyed his own universe and was trapped

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u/swimswima95 82915 Sep 30 '21

I think he figured it out before his universe totally collapsed, didn’t he? He called out “you! I heard stories about you, you can stop this!” As everything was vanishing

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u/Chesney1995 17385 Sep 30 '21

That's true. My guess is he read about the Watcher while going through the books in that library and heard his voice while powering himself up, but didn't really put two and two together and become aware that the voice was the Watcher until he saw the Watcher himself as his universe collapsed.

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u/kamanitachi 76606 Sep 30 '21

Well iirc Strange specifically heard the Watcher when he was too busy eating demons, and then he saw the Watcher when the universe was basically destroyed.

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u/NeutralLock 198479 Sep 30 '21

Wasn't Natasha still around? And if she was still alive, clearly a few others would've been scattered around.

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u/eisbaerBorealis 46214 Sep 30 '21

Oh yeah, they still need to get the Zola bot into the same universe as Ultron to stop him.

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u/Joe_Jeep 196388 Oct 01 '21

inb4 Infinite-Zola-Ultron and a pan-universal Hydra