
Shows that feel likeWhat If...? (2021–2024)
If you loved What If...?, the closest series we have are Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013), Marvel's Runaways (2017) and Loki (2021). All three share What If...?'s cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is X-Men '97 (2024).
If What If...? hit the spot, these will too

A corner of the Marvel world free to try formats nobody else would
The difference: Weekly network spy drama, grounded and much longer

Familiar Marvel furniture rebuilt around a different set of people
The difference: Teen drama, serialised and much smaller

Marvel's multiverse used as a playground for other versions of everyone
The difference: One continuous story, live action, with a real arc

Marvel characters at full animated scale, unafraid of big feeling
The difference: One continuous story with history behind it, not a fresh timeline weekly

What the legacy characters do once the main story is over
The difference: Live-action buddy action with real-world politics

Marvel heroes recombined for one specific experiment
The difference: Street-level crossover, grounded and grim

Marvel characters reshuffled into an unfamiliar arrangement
The difference: Live action, and it does not work

A hero's origin reconsidered, with mixed results
The difference: Straight live action, humourless and slow

A premise that asks who these characters would be under different conditions
The difference: Espionage plotting, muted and self-serious

A Marvel story willing to change its own rules episode by episode
The difference: One character's fractured psyche, live action and much darker

Common ground: superhero
The difference: Sits closer to drama than What If...? does

Animated superheroes taken seriously, with a deep bench of characters
The difference: DC, serialised, and about growing up rather than what-ifs
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