What If...?: What If... Howard the Duck Got Hitched?

December 25, 2024 8:05 PM - Season 3, Episode 4

AKA “What If… it wasn’t Robin who laid an egg?”

A sequel to the earlier season episode with Party-Hearty Thor, exploring the consequences of Howard the Duck and Darcy getting married. A lot of cosmic big-timers want that egg.

posted by Halloween Jack (6 comments total)

I had very low expectations going into this. I didn’t even make it all the way through the previous episode, and I tend to not like Howard the Duck stories that aren’t written by Steve Gerber. Other people have difficulty getting the tone of the stories right (the film adaptation is an obvious example of this).

I’m happy to say though, that this a damn good Howard the Duck story, and one of the best episodes of the series.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 5:43 AM on December 26, 2024 [4 favorites]

Did the baby kill Thanos?!
posted by ursus_comiter at 9:56 PM on December 26, 2024

I enjoyed how fully silly and farcical this episode was. Especially how all these factions want to exploit the cosmic power of the egg, but the Grandmaster just wants to cook it for brunch.
posted by ejs at 12:25 AM on December 27, 2024

This was a fun one. And I think that the baby did kill Thanos, and a whole lot of other villains, too.
posted by Spike Glee at 7:18 AM on December 27, 2024

I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU BABY

Every time they say "the Ducks."

How did the baby come out human with blue hair?

This is one of the best episodes, albeit it seems like Darcy should be smarter than she is, or at least I'm used to her being smarter.
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:15 AM on January 5

I'm four episodes in and this one was by far the best. Usually there are oddball hero combinations, but this one has basically all the villains converging. And although they all have a common purpose, they're not united: like, what's going to happen when one of them grabs the egg first? The rest of them fight them for it is what.

Every time they say "the Ducks."

"Mr. and Mrs. The Duck."
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:52 AM on March 4