An episode of What If...? Season 2 does something incredibly special as it draws from MCU lore to tell completely original stories. And by completely original, we mean that the show is set to introduce the franchise's first original superheros without a point of origin from the comic books.

One such hero is Kahhori, a woman from the Indigenous Mohawk tribe who discovers new powers after the Tesseract lands in the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy before America was colonized.

According to an official statement from Marvel, Kahhori and her story were crafted in "close collaboration" with members of the real-life Mohawk Nation, an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous North American tribe. Aside from established MCU lore, the episode was written with deep regard to the history of the Akwesasne region before it became upstate New York. Marvel Studios' creators also worked with the Mohawk Nation to design Kahhori's appearance and environment.

Kahhori is one of several original MCU characters that will appear in the second season of What If...?, but her appearance most certainly provides a definitive moment for Indigenous representation in television.