Marvel Studios has fired Jonathan Majors following domestic violence verdict
The actor will no longer be playing Kang in future Avengers movies
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Well, that didn’t take long at all: A little more than an hour after a jury in New York found Jonathan Majors guilty of misdemeanor counts of reckless assault and harassment against ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, a representative for Marvel confirmed to Deadline the studio has fired Majors from his role as Kang The Conqueror/He Who Remains, a character who was meant to be the main Marvel Cinematic Universe villain for the foreseeable future—he was even going to be the title character in one of the upcoming Avengers movies, The Kang Dynasty.
Majors made his Marvel debut in the first season of Loki and played the bad guy in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania before reappearing on season two of Loki as a different version of the same guy, with Majors adopting a number of aggravating character quirks that seem even more off-putting in retrospect now that we know we’ll never see a “regular” version of Kang again.
Deadline says that it’s still unclear—possibly even within Marvel Studios—whether or not Kang will be dropped entirely or if he’ll be recast with a new actor, but both would be easy to justify given the current state of the MCU. Loki’s second season ended with Tom Hiddleston’s (former?) god of mischief taking a more active role in keeping the multiverse alive, rendering Kang irrelevant, but also we are dealing with multiverse stories, so Marvel could easily toss off an explanation about this Kang just being a different guy than the other ones. Deadline even notes that this wouldn’t be the first time Marvel hired a different actor to play an existing character (though not for this specific reason), with Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard as Rhodey after the first Iron Man and Harrison Ford apparently replacing William Hurt as General “Thunderbolt” Ross in Captain America: New World Order.
Also, Loki creator (and season one showrunner) Michael Waldron recently stepped in to write the next two Avengers movies (including The Kang Dynasty) after director Destin Daniel Cretton stepped down, and as we noted at the time, he seems like an appropriate choice if Marvel is looking for a writer who can untangle this Kang mess—especially now that the studio will be moving forward without Majors.
Whatever’s going to happen, Marvel seems unsurprisingly unwilling to say too much right now. It’s clear that there’s some kind of plan, otherwise this decision wouldn’t have been made so quickly, but Marvel also has a history of announcing too many things too early and then being left to rework all of its plans—like with The Kang Dynasty, and in 2020 when the pandemic threw years of previously announced release dates into disarray.
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Phases 4 and 5 will hereon in be referred to as the “gas leak phases”
I got a Community notification for this?!
*Kevin Feige bursts into the room inexplicably wearing a Chiquita Banana costume*
You people are all my favorites. Keep carrying that torch.
Why don’t we let The Eternals sing their awkward song!
Fury will start using his name as a pun all the time.
Is Britta in this?
they definitely britta’d those phases
Pretty sure they got ridda the Britta.
The fans are gonna be so annoyed when they take the one where Kang wears blackface (for a very clear in-universe reason) down from streaming forever.
I refuse to recognize it’s even in Phase 5. There was absolutely no logical or storyline demarcation between the end of 4 and the beginning of 5. They just randomly said, “yeah, Wakanda Forever was the end of Phase 4.” Makes no sense. At least say that the release of the Kang variants at the end of Quantumania was it. I’d even accept Glorious Purpose as the end.
Kangnabbit!
Guess I can assume they would have kept working with him then if he was found innocent.
And everyone would have been a-ok comfortable with that. /s
If Antman can kick your ass, you’re not much of a threat anyway.
Don’t mention Ant Man and asses when Thanos is around.
Doctor Strange actually saw two outcomes where they beat Thanos, but he likes Scott so he didn’t want to mention the second unless he really had to.
IYKYK.
He could go in through the ear too like the Atom in that future Justice league in that Morrison comic.
I mean, in that What if…? episode Ant-Hank managed to kill almost all of the Avengers. He’s powerful as hell when he knows what he’s doing.
Different Kang. The reveal there seemed to be he was a little Bitch Kang and the real big bad Kangs kicked him out of the Kang Club.
That was the weakest version of him.
Nobody cares about The High Evolutionary outside of Guardians vol. 3. Just recast Kang with Chukwudi Iwuji and either say High Evolutionary was a variant or ignore it entirely.
I like that casting choice!
The beauty of this is anyone can be Kang.
Get Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane, Jackie Chan.. let’s go crazy!
I’m Kang and so is my wife!
It turns out the real Kang was the friends we made a long the way.
All of the above
Let’s do ALL OF THEM.
Ooh, I can second the casting of Nathan Lane.“Kang, you old son of a bitch? How ya doin’? How do you feel about being banished to the Quantum Realm?”“How do you think I feel? Betrayed, bewildered … wrong response?”
I would’ve gone for William Jackson Harper, personally.
Kang sees the Time Knife.
It was neat!
I like this
Sam Richardson. Solved.
…and do it fast, before James Gunn casts him as Perry White or something.
I actually love the idea going forward that ANYBODY could be a Kang variant and it’s the easiest fucking way to tie everything together. The real Secret Invasion wasn’t the Skrulls…it was a bunch of Kang Variants sneaking in and getting in to position to execute their plan.
Unlike a lot of commentators, I love the character of Kang. I hope they replace him rather than ditch the character.
I also like Kang as a villain, but any multiversal story becomes a lot more interesting with Doom AND Kang, rather than just the one. Hopefully, being forced to rework the story (before it’s filmed) leads to a better story.
Avengers Forever and the original council of Kangs story were pretty good without Doom. And Kang descends from Nathaniel Richards (although that’s Byrne era and may have been revised since then)
I’m not saying that you can’t do a Kang story without Doom, so much as suggesting Doom’s best use is seeing someone else’s agenda, and shifting things to his own purposes (a la Secret Wars 2015).
I want to read that. I generally like Hickman. I stopped reading floppies a few years before that and Marvel’s version of Crisis on Infinite Earths. I would like to get a collected version of that that has all the related comics in one big omnibus at some point.
I mainly remember him as having a pretty cool action figure from the early ‘80s Secret Wars toys, but there was also a cool arc with him in the early issues of Uncanny Avengers a few (or probably now several) years back.
Secret Wars figure was my first exposure to Kang! I had no idea what he did or who he was, but it was a pretty good figure!
Nothing against Kang, but I’m sick of any plots involving multiverses and/or time travel, so if shelving Kang would accomplish that, I’m all in favor.
I like the character of Kang, but I never liked Majors in the role. I for the life of me cannot understand why others did.
I like Kang very much as well, but I have serious misgivings over how the MCU has introduced his character. They went all in on the variant Council of Kang angle, when they should’ve properly done the unstoppable future Conqueror angle first.
Now suddenly everyone’s like “Oh boy, now they can bring in Dr. Doom to replace him for the rest of the multiverse saga!”No. Doom isn’t someone’s substitute teacher. He’s no one’s pinch hitter. Doom needs his OWN arc, not to be slotted into someone else’s. Doom is the biggest Marvel villain, bar none. You need to build him up and establish him, with intention. Start a new storyline from zero, don’t just have him come in to resolve Kang’s whole deal.Doom is both a mad scientist AND an evil wizard, and is world-class at both disciplines. I think a good “Doom threatens the universe” Avengers movie should exploit that magical angle, as it’s something we haven’t seen the MCU Avengers deal with yet, and none of the established heroes other than Dr. Strange and arguably Spider-Man have any real experience with magic.
Also, you need at least one movie where he just gets to be a petty bitch toward Reed Richards before he’s upgraded into being a threat to the universe, because come on. That’s like half the fun of the character.
I don’t know that much about Dr Doom outside a few comics I read as a kid, but this sounds right.
I only know Dr Doom via the cartoon samples MF DOOM used on his albums.
and?
tfw you wish they didn’t burn mads mikkelsen on a kind of forgettable character in the first Dr. Strange. But then again I don’t actually remember what Doom is like day to day, maybe they would go all draco malfoy like with that kid in the new Hunger Games for it
Yeah he absolutely needs to be the villain in an FF movie before upgrading to being anybody’s/everybody’s villain.or, as Doom would put it “DOOM IS NOT YOUR FALLBACK PLAN, FEIGE! DOOM IS THE MAIN EVENT!”
Dammit, inadvertently plagiarized you!
“Doom needs his own arc”?No, peasant. “His own arc” needs DOOM.
If this helps us add Doombot to the MCU then I’m all for it.
Yep. Doom’s “big bad” anchor needs to be Secret Wars.
Dr. Doom is the best supervillain in comicdom. Fight me.
Best approach: Recast Kang, and simply don’t comment on the fact that he looks different. The characters don’t need to acknowledge it. It’s the same character played by a different actor, it’s happened before, it doesn’t need in-world explanations.
I feel like the double-edged sword of franchises like Marvel itself is fans crave cohesion and would prefer a clumsy, wiki-friendly pivot to suspending their disbelief.
That’s very much a “them” problem. If you stop catering to that crowd over damn near everything, many of these so called problems wouldn’t exist. It’s a movie, not your entire life. Recast and let the complainers shout into the void.
First of all, it’s not a “them” problem. It’s a problem these studios engineered in the first place. They want people invested as if this disposable entertainment actually mattered, and for fans to feel obliged to consume everything they put out. The studios themselves are also perfectly happy to wildly overestimate their own importance and buy into their own hype along the way. That’s why there’s all the rumours of executives considering pivoting to a new villain out of nowhere, as if none of them had ever heard of recasting before.
Second, it’s very optimistic of you to think it’ll just be complainers, when it’s much more likely that this will simply burst the bubble of a lot of canon obsessed fans and make them realize that maybe they don’t need to watch and care about the MCU nearly as much as they have. That’s the happy ending in my book, but I’m not sure Disney will want to run that risk when the MCU is already not doing too great anyway.
I mean, we all did that with Rhodey, didn’t we? Worked like a charm.
To be fair that was REALLY early in the MCU lol, but now multiverse, boom no explanation needed.
Exactly. Loki already showed that not all Lokis look like Hiddleston, so why would all Kangs have to look like Majors? Recast, hang a lampshade on it that the new version is better than the old version and took them out if you must, and move on.
It worked so well for The Hulk, that most people forgot that Edward Norton was once in the MCU.
I think it helps if the replacement actor is more likeable than the person they’re replacing, as Cheadle was.Now the problem is, how on Earth could you find someone more likeable than Majors?
Rhodey, Bruce Banner, Thunderbolt Ross, fans can handle it.
And Banner.
Rhodes, Banner…
They did it with Rhodes.
And Bruce Banner. Really all of the their re-casts were never commented on. I don’t see why they’d have to start now.
It was weird how Hawkeye was played by Juliette Binoche for just that one movie though.
If by “weird” you mean “awesome”, yes.(And darn it, I sort of want that now.)
those artisanal chocolat arrows didn’t work so well though…
Was that the one where she faced off against Julia Ormond?
Seriously though, I’d watch that. A lot.
Isabelle Huppert as Doctor Doom or GTFO.
You and I remember Juliette Binoche very differently.
A Bewitched Dick transplant.
Bewitched Dick Transplant is the name of my thrash Metal band!
“Dink-a-dink-a-dink.”
Transplant?!? Ow!
*John Boyega waits patiently by the phone*
Presumably so that he can yell “fuck no” at Bob Iger and slam the phone down.
Agreed. I liked his performance(s), but Majors can be recast easily enough. Leaning into the multiverse concept makes it even easier for them.
Don’t blame me; I voted for Thanos!
Loki showed that variants can be different age, appearance, gender or even species.
Kang isn’t even always the same person, so they could really do anything with the character.
I think the best option would be to cast a woman, and when someone comments on the difference to previously encountered Kangs, say something to the effect of “my male variants are useful pawns, but too emotionally unstable to be the true Conqueror.” The rage tears from the bigots would give these movies YEARS of free publicity.
I chuckled out loud at that idea. Have a star.
Nebula from another dimension in the comics was a Kang as well, so there’s one option right there if Karen Gillan’s up for it.
I can only assume you’re talking about the comics, because in the MCU he’s literally been the same person every single time. Which is the major issue here. Even in the mid-credit scene from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, every version you see in the arena and in the Council of Kangs are all different versions of Jonathan Majors.
I don’t think the future of the franchise should be constrained by a mid-credits scene. That Council of Kangs could simply be made up of a subset of similar variants. Even if we stick to just what’s already established in the MCU, the Loki show established that variants can be different genders, races, and even species. And since we’re dealing with time travel, any age too. They could still cast basically anybody.
Counterargument: recast him and use that to the advantage of the character (and the narrative) so that people don’t initially realize who he is. And then suddenly, SURPRISE! Hell, have a fucking ensemble of different Kangs. Who is Kang? It could be anyone we don’t already know yet, and maybe it’s even one or two minor characters we did think we knew.
That would be pretty neat, actually. Mostly what I’m trying to avoid is some labored exposition like “oh yeah he looks different because [technobabble], now let’s get back to the punching.” Your idea would be fune. And that way, if one of the new Kangs turns out to be problematic, they’re easily replaced!
Could even tie it into the overall storyline. Side effect of Loki S2, an entirely new Kang variant who is just different enough that their actions start to randomize all the Kangs.
Then make the Kang that is the true villain of the next Avengers film ‘The Kang Who Won’. or something.
Yes, and it’s trivially easy to do so with Kang. The entire conceit is that thousands of variations of him exist under slightly different circumstance across the multiverse.They’ve all been Majors thus far, but Loki and Peter Parker both have had several variants show up, all played by different actors. It genuinely doesn’t matter. Make an Old Man Kang, a Child Kang, go crazy with it. The audience will be fine.
a Child KangIron Lad’s time to shine!
For real if they insist on some complicated overexplanation rather than a recast I will lose my mind. What is the point of a multiverse if not so a different dude can be a version of the same character?
The only time this worked was when they replaced Aunt Viv on Fresh Prince, and Will let out some line like, “Aunt Viv, you seem like a completely different person!” and looked at the camera.
Better approach: ditch kang entirely and just restart with Dr doom or some other villain.
Given how few people saw the third Ant Man movie or the second season of Loki, they can do what we they want. Ironically, their whole business model creates a situation where the only people who care about Kang are also the ones who get annoyed.
THERE IT IS EVERYONE GET IN HERE
Can I get my Plastic Man movie now!?
Ask James Gunn. Although, honestly, that does seem like a movie he would want to make at some point.
Paste Pot Pete or bust
Yes, but you’ll also get an Elongated Man movie to further confuse the public.
Cast Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Kang. It seemed they were leading into her being a Kang variant with the Loki S2 plotline anyway.
That’s actually a pretty awesome idea. I always felt she under- utilized in that show
Agree, and also underutilized in general. She’d make a great Kang.
good show but yes she and Wunmi Musaku were both underused
I agree, though, for me, the same could be said about every cast member on Loki. That show was a real murderers row of scene-stealers.
it was but there’s a difference. Eugene Cordero wasn’t underused, he was used perfectly, for example
I’ll put it this way: I wouldn’t say no to more of anything with anyone in that cast.
I wouldn’t say no to them just doing a season three (ahem without Jonathan Majors)…comic book characters can just come back again and again…then again, I’m not sure where Loki can go as a character now that he is only a good guy but people have said there is a whole storyline about him embracing his godhood as the god of stories instead of mischief? Sounds kinda cool? Especially if you have that cast
One of the reasons–if not the main reason–I’m looking forward to Deadpool 3 is that it’s rumored to heavily involve Morphius and/or the TVA.
As for the God of Stories arc, I’ve been trying to catch up on that since finishing Season 2, and I think Hiddleston might be a hair long-in-the-tooth for that particular set of stories. But hell, if they make it, I’ll watch it.
My replacement Kang choice is Babs Olusanmokun.
Jesus. Christ. Of course (OF COURSE) there are dudes (always dudes) on social media in outrage over the firing because it was “only” a misdemeanor.
Fer cryin out loud, if they’re genuinely upset over this, then they have too much time on their hands.
People get fired for less. That’s just reality.
I’ve seen A TON of “evil woman lying as always to get money and fame” nonsense from chuds on social media about this case. Seriously fucking unhinged, it’s fucking scary that all these incels are out there functioning in the world.
It really is because they probably won’t show their faces and no woman wants to end up with one of these.
I’m just a man, but I can think of nothing worse to become “famous” as a woman who was an assault victim of a massive movie star. That seems like some sort of living hell for anyone. To be famous for something as horrifying as that.
I’m not sure they’re functioning. That’s what makes them incels.
Yep. A lot of “Well she’s clearly unhinged.”As though that makes him breaking her finger and verbally abusing her all the time okay.“He was defending himself.”And she wasn’t?“They’re both awful.”Probably, but because he’s a man certain men will excuse that awfulness in him and use that awfulness in her as a cudgel.ETA: Aside from the cynicism of dudes excusing dude behavior because DUDES I’m also seeing a much more complicated but no less cynical “He’s not just a man, he’s a *black* man, and she’s a *white* woman.” bunch of bullshit. It’s some real fun white guilt judo being used. Black, white, Asian, Latino, it doesn’t fucking matter. A violent narcissist man verbally and physically abused a woman. End of.
Nutjobs: “He’s innocent until proven guilty!!!”
(Actor gets proven guilty) Nutjobs: “That doesn’t count! The jury got it wrong! The judge was corrupt! He’s innocent!”
one of the funnier things i’ve seen is, when people (rightfully) point out he should have just paid her off and done an apology press tour, they get a ‘well doesn’t that make him look guilty?’do you not think the guilty verdict makes him look guilty?
Recasting and keeping the plot elements works for the characters. Of the named Avengers, only the Ant-Family and Loki have interacted with a version of Kang, and Loki himself is no longer a moving piece on the board. Everyone else can be told that it is “Kang” and wouldn’t have any frame of reference. Now, the audience will have to accept the fact that Quantumania blew its load showing all the different Kang variants played by Majors, but honestly that was the least of that movie’s issues.
Eh, they can just say that those Majors Kangs were just the ones we could see from that angle, and that the versions played by the new person were farther off in that shot, their faces indistinct.
“All the Majors Kangs go to the right! Now all the Adam Sandler Kangs head to the left! Reginald VelJohnson Kangs, go wherever the fuck you want.”
Or just, you know, “somehow, a different Kang” it.
It’s not “somehow” when the MCU has already established it. If Loki can be an alligator then Kang could be a different black man (or woman).
Now, the audience will have to accept the fact that Quantumania blew its
load showing all the different Kang variants played by Majors, but
honestly that was the least of that movie’s issues.My assumption anyway had been that Majors would be the majority of Kangs but the final reveal would be the big bad Kang was played by someone else.It’d be an easy character flaw to bake in. He’s so blinded by his own arrogance he forgets the first rule of the multiverse: Variants can be anyone.Which allows the worst of the Kang variants, ignored/shunned/forgotten by the others, to enact his or her plan and strike when the rest are most vulnerable.
“Everyone else can be told that it is “Kang” and wouldn’t have any frame of reference”Ah, you mean like nu-Kirk having no idea who Khan is?
I loved in the “How It Should Have Ended” video about that movie where Khan did the big “my name is KHAAAAAAN” reveal and Kirk just said “uh, hi! I’m Kirk, this is Spock, and this is Bones.”
Fortunately, it also showed a few that didn’t look like Majors, so that door is already wide open.
Harrison Ford apparently replacing William Hurt Only cause he died though, oddly. Not because he was an abuser and a rapist.
Ironically, Hurt WAS an abuser and rapist, but he’s one of the ones whose abuse we collectively decided to ignore. (Also, he’s only allegedly so. He never even went to court for it, much less was convicted.) https://medium.com/narcissistic-abuse-rehab/marlee-matlin-on-surviving-william-hurt-d8428742afa8#
I think you misunderstood my comment, I’m aware. I don’t know that I’d say allegedly when he didn’t deny it and basically apologized without explicitly saying “yeah, what she said in her book is true.”
Just MHO, but I took HeathMaiden’s comment to be expanding on yours (as you also did hers) not contradicting/criticizing.
Hurt did, indeed, vaguely apologize for bad behaviour (he was an ugly/violent-and-perhaps-blackout drunk before getting sober) at some point after Matlin went public, but outwardly seemed to suffer no long-term consequences to life or career before, during or after.
It’s also highly likely a lot of people missed any half-a**ed acknowledgement he may have made having either forgotten the stories pretty fast, or, having decided to ‘didn’t see none/can’t imagine it/so whatever’ the issue at the time, any apology would have been moot for them anyway.
Also, “actor was a shitty person in the past” vs “actor is actively a shitty person right now” tends to affect how they’re perceived.
I had no idea. Sadly, none of this surprises me.
Holy shit. I had no idea about William Hurt.
I did not like Michael Waldron’s script for Dr. Strange 2. I wish they would hire a writer with storytelling experience outside of Marvel.
My favorite theory is The Fantastic Four features a scene where Dr. Doom simply kills all the Kangs to take their power.
To call up ancient history, there were two Darrin Stevens on Bewitched and no one cared about the switch. Just find another black actor and recast—duh.
no one cared about the switchCitation needed.
Boy, they had that announcement ready to go in a holster, huh?
Had Majors been found not guilty, I’m guessing they also had a settlement offer to end his contract drawn up as well.
Other than releasing loki season 2, the complete silence from marvel about majors throughout the year has been defeaning.
Pretty much. As soon as the Disney lawyer said “Go!”
Yup. They needed to get Loki Season 2 out there, because it would have been way too expensive to recast and they’re cutting budget on Disney+ anyway, then as soon as he was convicted, they could fire him.
They probably needed a conviction to trigger whatever behavior clause was in his contract to avoid a massive payout to cancel the contract. While it would have looked way better for them to drop him months ago, gotta pinch those pennies when your brand is in trouble.
Wasn’t Johnny Depp’s payout for Fantastic Beasts something in the tens of millions?
Even after a rough year, Disney still has money to burn, but they don’t do so unless necessary.
You can only burn so much money until you get cold. I don’t think Johnny Depp ever had criminal charges against him, though, and I doubt any behavior clause included civil issues, even if he were found liable.
Actually, they come out of this looking completely reasonable. Not only did they wait for a conviction (so Majors’s apologists can’t accuse them of presuming guilt too early), but they also hadn’t filmed anything with him since the incident he was arrested for (so no one else can accuse them of supporting a known abuser).
They don’t look particularly bad waiting, but they would have looked better not waiting when it became clear that whether or not Majors was a criminal, he was a volatile and unpleasant person to know and to work with.
well, there’s that ending of Loki that did seem to exit the character.
It wrote out Victor Timely and closed out He Who Remains. There’s still the army of Kang’s from the end of Quantumania.The issue isn’t Kang, it’s the person playing him. Which is irrelevant since the multiverse has established that Spider-Man can be three different people at once and Across the Spider-Verse included both a cat and a dinosaur in that mix.
There’s got to be a way they can rework it so Gugu Mbatha-Raw can become the new Kang. She’s a great actress, and the end of Loki 2 was 95% of the way there.
Doesn’t have to be “the new” Kang. She was always Kang. That’s why she was such a good soldier to He Who Remains.
But this can’t be! He was a great man! A Five Star Man even!
No mention of how Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo? Seems like a far bigger recasting than the other two mentioned.
I don’t know why you would need to recast one Kang, just give Kang a recognizable facial scar and cast as many people as you need as different Kangs who all have the scar, there were alligator and Richard E. Grant Lokis, the Kangs don’t all have to be the same
Don’t blame me – I voted to acquit Kodos.
Maybe Marvel can use this as a good excuse to take some time and rethink some of their strategies for the future. I’m not as big a naysayer as some people when it comes to the MCU – I really liked ‘The Marvels’, for example – but it’s very clearly been a rocky road for the last year or two. Take the opportunity to say “We need to rethink the Kang arc in light of developments” and then spend some time recapturing that old magic.
as we noted at the time, he seems like an appropriate choice if Marvel is looking for a writer who can untangle this Kang mess
By your own admission, it was aggravating we never saw a ‘regular’ version of this villain… These are story problems. So the writer responsible for the “Kang mess” in the first place, is the best choice to fix it? Sure, I guess. Also, the best cure for a toothache is honey.
They should just replace him with Krang from TMNT.
I mean, Marvel will have been planning this since the charges were drawn up. They acted pretty fast to fire him suggesting all the legal stuff had been done. They will let the dust settle before starting planting seeds of a new future.
Why would they need to wait? Quantumania and Loki S2 are both out the door. They’re in the clear.
People are overthinking this. Majors was in Loki and Quantumania, a TV show not watched by many people and a film not watched by many people. His character in Loki was basically nullified. His character in Quantumania was defeated. Any references to more Kangs can just be handwaved away.Marvel can just close the book on Kang and do something different. The general public are really not that invested in Marvel’s mapped out business plans, they’ll cope if Kang’s Dynasty never sees the light of day.
Lol a shit ton of people watched Loki S1
I think Marvel should recast Kang and the best actor to do it would be Kirk Lazarus.
He would be dude playin’ the dude, disguised as another dude!
Finally, it is M.O.D.O.K.’s time to shine!!!
It’s pretty bonkers that once completely obscure character, i.e. Kang, outside of hardcore comic nerd circles no one had ever heard of was going to be the focal point of a billion dollar media empire for the next several years.
Literally describing Thanos.
Yeah but they didn’t just chuck out a movie title called “Avengers: Thanos.” He lurked around in the background for 10 years.
That really was Thanos, too, though. I at least remembered the Kang action figure from my childhood. I didn’t know about Thanos until I roomed with a comic nerd in college.
I don’t know how people can still say this considering how the MCU started out.
Yeah but it was 10 years of build-up.
I’m talking about the first Iron Man movie, not the first Avengers movie.
The only good reason not to just recast the role with zero explanation is that this, combined with the fact they already delayed all their forthcoming films, gives them the perfect opportunity to use Deadpool to wipe the slate clean on the entire franchise and reboot. Not start over from the beginning, but at least start over from Endgame.They know what’s working and what’s not working. We know it. Everyone knows it. I love Marvel and the characters, and would love to continue these stories. It’s just gone off the rails with poor planning, poor writing, and too much content. Keep what’s working, drop what’s not working, scale back, recast as needed, bring in new people with fresh ideas. Deadpool is the perfect arena to do all this, while making fun of it at the same time. Have Deadpool literally hit button that reboots the entire fucking thing.