Hey, my fellow Plastic Addicts. We are just under ten days away from the second season of the “What If…? Season 2” show so it’s time for me to create an Ideal wave. I initially wanted to make it random What if characters from the comics, but it got too hard to decide what to include as there are too many. So instead, I decided to base it on a particular alternate universe but that proved hard to do as well. So, I narrowed it down to three popular universes, the MC2, Ultimate and 2099 universes, and let you decide which one I should base this wave on. The result ended in a tie between the Ultimate Universe and the MC2 universe (2099 wasn’t far behind) so I used my tie-breaking privilege to have the MC2 universe win. Why? Because out of the three, it was the only one that spun off from a What if…? issue.

In case you are wondering what the hell the MC2 universe is about, in this universe, Peter Parker and Mary Janes baby survived childbirth and grew up to become Spider-girl. After the success of that issue, she gained her own ongoing series that last over a 100 issue and had a good number of spin-off series that include many either children of the Prime universe heroes, successors of the mantle or older characters as well as brand new characters.

For this wave, instead of making it a BAF wave (which would have included J2 as the BAF), I instead decided to make this a Retro style line of 6 characters. This is because back when Toybiz were chucking out as many 5inch lines as they could, they released a series called First Appearances that were basically 4 characters from this universe. So just think of this wave as if Hasbro was to do a retro style line using the Toybiz style card back.

As always, the rules:

• 6-8 figures per wave. No more. No less.
• Some version of the Title hero must be in it (Spider- Girl in this case)
• 1 or 2 Female per wave.
• 1 or 2 Villains per wave, but these could be female as well.
• 1 or 2 brand new character that has never been done before
• 1 or 2 remakes. The Remakes can also be new costumes as Like Classic Spider-man or Iron Spider.
• Each wave most have a Theme ie Spider-man can include Street Level heroes or Iron Man can include Tech Heroes and villains.

The Theme for this wave: MC2 universe

As you can see, I picked the character that many people would think were just another version of Prime characters. I also didn’t include Stinger in this wave because she techinically was included in the 2-pack with Astonishing Ant-man. (Yes, I know it was based on 616 version but the costume is the same). Also as you can see I have 3 ladies in the wave already so I wanted to even the wave out. As for why I picked them and how they can be made:

• Spider-Girl – Yes I didn’t include Stinger because she was made previously, but you can’t do a MC2 wave without the character that essentially launched it, not to mention that the older figure is 8 years old. This of course will not be using the same mold, but instead a new fully articulated mold so you can get her into all sorts of Spidey poses.
• American Dream – Next we have the Captain America of this universe with American Dream. The cousin of Sharon Carter that grew up idolizing Steve Rogers, she would join A-Next (this universe’s Avengers) shortly after they formed. This will use the Shriek body with new forearms and shins.
• Wild Thing – The daughter of Wolverine and Elektra, this universe’s answer to her father was also released in that retro line as well. This will use her “sister’s”, Laura, Wolverine costume with a new shoulder pad. The claws will be done by making them into swappable hands.
• Mainframe – The Iron man of this universe, Mainframe is an android that Tony Stark designed after he retire to continue his legacy. He would become a founder of A-Next and was the leader for many adventures. This would use a redesigned classic War Machine figure.
• Darkdevil – For the next character, I had to include Darkdevil. This has been a character that people have wanted for a long time and since he is involved with Mayday for a while, even leading team of New Warriors, he needed to be done. This will use the a retooled Vulcan mold and will come with 2 set of stick, one normal and the other glowing.
• The Buzz – For the final character, I wanted to to include a character I only learnt about while looking through the Ultimate Guide to Spider-man, the Buzz, Jonah’s grandchild. Because of his skinny body, this will mostly use the pizza Spider-man body with some tweaks.

And that is what I would choose if I was in charge of making a wave based on this universe. What do you think and what would you change or include if you were in charge? Let me know below or on any of the social media sites.