Despite having an extraordinarily long character arc thanks to his starring role on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Phil Coulson's "death" in The Avengers left him mainly absent from subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe storylines. According to actor Clark Gregg, Marvel's What If...? could change all that.

Gregg posted a video of the What If...? trailer to his Facebook page along with a hint at the possibility of Coulson showing up in one of the animated series' many timelines. "Enter the multiverse of unlimited possibilities," he wrote. "Marvel Studios' first animated series, @OfficialWhatIf...?, starts streaming August 11 with new episodes Wednesdays on @DisneyPlus. You never know who might show up."

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Marvel recently announced that What If...? will debut with a ten-episode first season, exploring alternate universes based on events from the MCU's 23-year run. Inspired by the comic series of the same name, these events are overseen by Uatu the Watcher (Jeffrey Wright), a cosmic being who "observes all that transpires here," but, according to him, is forbidden from changing any of the timelines.

The What If...? trailer not only provided more context to known stories like Peggy Carter becoming a super-soldier and a Marvel Zombies-inspired world, but also teased new events like Killmonger saving Tony Stark's life, Loki confronting Nick Fury in the desert with an Asgardian army and the Dora Milaje fighting the Scarlet Witch.

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While Phil Coulson could theoretically appear in What If...?'s Loki story given his connection to 2011's Thor, no information about Gregg's involvement has been confirmed yet. Having played Coulson since Iron Man, Gregg's last cinematic Marvel appearance was in Captain Marvel, as a younger version of his character who collaborated with young Nick Fury during the arrival of Skrulls on Earth.

Coulson's post-Avengers revival and role within S.H.I.E.L.D. were explored in the long-running TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with Gregg not only playing Coulson, but an alien doppelgänger named Sarge in Season 6 and a Life Model Decoy of Coulson in Season 7. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s final season also delved into a similar space-time narrative, with Coulson's team traveling through history to stop the Chronicoms from erasing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s existence.

Created by A.C. Bradley and directed by Bryan Andrews, What If...? stars Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher, Hayley Atwell as Captain Peggy Carter, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, David Dastmalchian as Kurt, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow, Sean Gunn as Kraglin, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Sebastian Stan as James “Bucky” Barnes, Chris Sullivan as Taserface, Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine and Taika Waititi as Korg. The series premieres on Aug. 11 on Disney+.

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