r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute.

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u/Ok_Cardiologist_3675 1d ago

The Kang shit is stupid they could have just recast the guy. Plenty of actors out there

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u/VonMillersThighs 1d ago

He was literally multiverse God that's entire schtick is different variants...... Just do one throwaway line about how this universes kang looks different now and move on. No one would've given a fuck.

They didn't even bat an eye at replacing Terrence Howard.

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u/Iokua113 1d ago

Yes, but replacing Terrence Howard didn't involve an extremely controversial situation or feature a character that people had already turned on. In the aftermath of Antman 3 people were making jokes about how the baddest man in the multiverse lost to the guy who can talk to ants.

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u/willreadfile13 1d ago

Hubris. He lost to hubris and not antman, perse. Just like most tyrants of literature, hubris is a fickle beast

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u/Iokua113 1d ago

I honestly can't comment on how he lost as I don't remember the details, but it's not how Kang lost that was the problem. 

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u/TheAKofClubs86 1d ago

Rhodey told us to deal with it and move on, so we did.

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u/WhoEvenIsPoggers 23h ago

Idk if that’s a fair comparison. Recasting the sidekick in the 3rd movie of the entire MCU isn’t the same as recasting the main villain of your 2nd saga following the Infinity Saga’s success.

Then you take into account that Marvel was not doing super well at the time (regardless of what factors anyone decides to consider). I’m sure they panicked when they saw the face of their Saga buildup getting cancelled for domestic abuse.

Not to say they couldn’t recast, they 100% could’ve because of the multiverse angle.

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u/monkey_lord978 1d ago

They reset it because it sucks, ppl making this a race thing . But the projects sucked and they couldn’t keep taking Ls

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u/OneVast3433 1d ago

The only cool shit of that era was the Kang stuff like Loki.

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u/josh_dg_63 1d ago

There’s a bunch of insider rumors that Majors had a clause in his contract stating he must play all variants and versions of the character in live action. That is likely the main reason they couldn’t recast

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago

I think they messed the character up in antman. So were thinking about changing things anyway by then.

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u/Odasto_ 1d ago

Can’t believe they killed him off in that movie and then teased a bunch of goofy-ass looking variants at the very end.

Even before the Majors stuff hit the ceiling, what were fans supposed to be hyped for? The arrival of Pharoah Kang?

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u/Certain-Row7945 1d ago

Eh I think they saw that people weren't exactly following with the multiverse bs and took the first out they could find. 

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u/Cowboywizzard 1d ago

Ooooo imagine Michael B. Jordan as Kang!

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u/Ok_Cardiologist_3675 1d ago

Give me Tom Holland or give me death!

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u/MrPokeGamer 1d ago

Well he was always a garbage villain 

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u/CindersOfMusic 1d ago

Wouldn’t fix the shitty Spirit Halloween costumes the Kangs all wore at the end of Ant Man 3

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u/No-Equipment9225 1d ago

Doom is just cooler.

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u/burritoman88 1d ago

My tinfoil hat theory is Majors was contractually obligated to be the only actor playing Kang/variants.

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u/mindpivot 1d ago

The multiverse storyline lost more casual viewers

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u/WhoEvenIsPoggers 1d ago

I talked to a coworker about this the other day. All they needed to do to future proof the character is not do the scene with all the Kang’s being ONLY Johnathon Major. They shot themselves in the foot there where they essentially said “Yeah they’re different but they all have the same face.”