Was he really that bad of an antagonist? Will a recast make you more or less interested in what they do with the character?
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Was he really that bad of an antagonist?
Was he really that bad of an antagonist? Will a recast make you more or less interested in what they do with the character?
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time travel shenanigans is a really dumb plot armor because it's OP
"oh you think you have defeated me!? well i already traveled through time to keep that from happening!"
I don't hate the way he's been portrayed so far, particularly in Loki S2, but I am at a fricking loss to understand why they thought Kang was a good antagonist for an entire phase and Dormammu wasn't, when they basically have the same impossibly tough power sets
it's not that it can't work - the original FF vs Galactus works because of a one-time bluff that Reed would rather die on his own terms, but "to me my Galactus" doesn't work because it's a gay as shit power fantasy where the original is a no-win situation with a stressful ending - or even that they'd already done the one-time gag with Dormammu in the MCU, it's that it's such a total mismatch with what we'd already seen and what was still coming out
Quantumania dealt with Kang pretty well and would have been fine as the sole appearance of the character, maybe even better received for being the sole appearance
Kang doesn't really have any great runs and is in print just a one-trick pony like Apocalypse or Sinister or frickin Absorbing Man or something, he shows up, gets beat up, and leaves, so between the absurd step up to that power level for the MCU and the fact someone seriously thought Kang Dynasty - even the name - was worth doing? get fricked
Kang Dynasty is from the point at which the Avengers were dying as a print franchise, it is like the worst thing you could draw attention to, Avengers Forever would have been a better punt
I hate to be part of the echo chamber, but Doom should have been the obvious choice. They could have immediately set it up in Falcon and Winter Soldier by the end by revealing the Flag Smashers originated in Latveria. Like, have that as a post-credit of the show. People would have gone fricking apeshit (in a good way)
Time Travel nonsense is death to any plot line, worse than multiverses.
Didn't he get his ass beat in every movie?
So far all we've seen in action is a nutjob "good" Kang who wanted to die, and the marooned Kang in Quantumania that had limited resources
My interest remains zero.
He should have been in the first Avengers.
People shit on his ending for being overrun by a thousands of giant ants, but thousands of giant ants would be difficult to defeat for anyone especially if blind-sighted. Where they actually fricked up was but not raising the stakes. Kang should have killed either Janet or Hank to drop more of an emotional anchor and show “oh frick here’s what evil Kang is capable of, that’s how badly he wants to win”.
Also John David Washington is apparently the choice to replace Majors, and I think that will be based as frick
Yeah I wasn't bothered by Kang being overwhelmed by a swarm of ants. In fact there's this look he gives Hank where it implies he remembers a similar Ant-Man he may have defeated in the past.
Ants are addicted to sugar and easy to control, like all junkies.
Why wasn't the villain in Quantumania Psycho Man?
Actually comes from the Microverse
Wears almost the exact same armor with more green
Actually fought Ant-Man in the past
Being defeated by ants does not make him look bad or ruin public opinion of the next phase villain
Kang was set to be the villain of ant man 3 way back before even talk of the “next big bad” was being talked about.
Yeah he could have worked just the same as Kang for that movie.
Marvel basically planned the whole thing backwards
Remember when Mephisto was announced as the villain for MoM? Lol, now we get him in Iron Heart. I’m so confused.
>Remember when Mephisto was announced as the villain for MoM?
No, because it never happened.
It did, very early on.
He is not impressive and does not really give that feeling of ominous dread that he is coming like they played up with Thanos.
>First appearance, is immediately killed, and not in some epic amazing way, just stabbed while sitting at a desk
>Second appearance, quickly defeated by large ants, did not look impressive. He just had little wrist lasers
>Third appearance, was a stuttering weirdo that spent most of his time running away and scared, we saw him killed a few thousand times
on top of the fact that we saw that all of his technology was stolen from some scifi writer he kidnapped and put to work in his time basement. Nothing about him really seems very next big bad for the universe to me. He's coming off more like a Bob the Hydra Agent type of guy that happens to be on the ground near some bigger events but when he runs into a hero he gets his ass kicked. But the next event, he is around there for some reason all over again.
should've just had Kang have his Earth's Mightiest Heroes backstory where he's conquering the past to save his future and the love of his life.
Replace the main villain Kang with any actor, then have Jonathan Majors Kang show up right at the end as a cameo; eg have Victor Timely show up as villain Kang dies. Timely went missing at the end of Loki S2 anyway.
Majors shouldn't have his whole career ruined because of one psycho white woman.
the frick are you even talking about
you mean the woman he was convicted of assaulting and sentenced to a year of rehab on probation? you fricking maroon
Nah I mean the psycho white woman who made accusations against him that weren't held up in court but he was sentenced for being mildly aggressive upon exiting a cab. Not even a misdemeanor. Actors in the 90s and earlier were doing much worse without their careers suffering.
And call me a slur again and I'll execute you.
nah you mean the convicted criminal who happened to be accused by a white woman
which is a weird thing for a white guy to point out, but there you go, frickwit
>nooo the poor rich black man is being opressed by da white women!!!
Depends of who they recast him with.
If they pick somebody like this, I'm in 220%.
Fun fact, Family Matters can’t get a full cast reunion because Harriet’s actress fricking hated Jaleel White
A multiversal villain with infinite nearly identical also evil selves isn't a threat to anyone but the writers who have to reconcile that nonsense with the rest of a poorly written script.
>Was he really that bad of an antagonist?
no, it's just a bunch of loud doomsaying morons
>Will a recast make you more or less interested in what they do with the character?
I was always interested in the character and the actor is getting recasted anyway. this isn't new to the MCU and I don't know if I'll like Majors better than the new guy because there's no new guy yet.
what I'll say is that Loki did a better job at showcasing Kang's potential as a big villain with his absolute control of the multiverse and the risks of going to battle against him. in Quantumania he was just the villain of THAT movie and was a good one, bodying everyone until he was completely overwhelmed. how is that a bad villain? only in the after credits scene you see that true potential shown in Loki. he's slowly being teased like Thanos was, the difference is that it's being done in the movies and Disney+ series
the biggest problem lies with the audience's expectations, they think "multiverse" means X-Men and Fantastic Four but it goes further than those two, even if we have already seen them. Ta Lo, the Illuminati, the TVA, the Noor, the X-Men at the end of The Marvels, just like in Infinity Saga not every movie had a story centered around and infinity stone. the morons are just getting frustrated over learning there's more to the Marvel universe than Thanos and mutants.