The Real Reason The Infinity Stones Don't Kill Captain Carter In What If...? Season 2

Kahhori (Devery Jacobs) is a new Marvel superhero created from whole cloth for "What If...?" Season 2. She first appears in Season 2, Episode 6, "What If ... Kahhori Reshaped the World?" which sees her absorb power from the Tesseract, which falls to Earth when Surtur (Clancy Brown) destroys Asgard ahead of schedule. The Tesseract, as Marvel Cinematic Universe fans know, is a containment vessel for the Space Stone, the Infinity Stone that grants its wielder total control over space itself. Most frequently, that means the holder gains access to portal magic. In "Captain America: The First Avengers," the Space Stone warps the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) to a distant realm, stranding them for eternity alongside the Soul Stone.

But that's only a fraction of what the stone can do. In "Captain Marvel," Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is exposed to the Space Stone during a plane crash, and it bestows her with frankly terrifying abilities. The same item that launches Red Skull across the galaxy and transforms Carol into a minor deity is what powers Kahhori, and the scariest thing about that is how she seems to possess an entirely different powerset than Carol. She teleports Erik Kilmonger (Michael B. Jordan) out of his armor, runs across the ocean as if it were a physical plane, and even wields some form of telekinesis, which allows her to levitate and ... reshape ... whatever her heart desires.

According to Bryan Andrews, the new MCU hero's cosmic powers, which should technically be less than one-sixth of the Infinity Stones' collective, full might, are enough to shield Captain Carter from a power capable of unraveling the known universe with a single snap. That's pretty cool, but it's pretty scary, too.