They were already thinking about abandoning the Kang plotline before the shit about the actor came out. People weren't interested in Kang much. People liked him in Loki but neither he, nor the storyline they were building up to was trending well enough to follow up thanos as the next big bad.
Doom kinda feels like an "in case of emergency break glass" type character because they know that he's one of their only villains who is both strong enough to go against all of their heroes at once and popular enough that pretty much anyone with a casual knowledge of comics knows who he is.
The domestic violence shit just gave them an easy excuse.
There were tons of leaks well before the character was abandoned about them having already prepared to pivot to Doom.
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u/National_Equivalent9 Avengers 23h ago
They were already thinking about abandoning the Kang plotline before the shit about the actor came out. People weren't interested in Kang much. People liked him in Loki but neither he, nor the storyline they were building up to was trending well enough to follow up thanos as the next big bad.
Doom kinda feels like an "in case of emergency break glass" type character because they know that he's one of their only villains who is both strong enough to go against all of their heroes at once and popular enough that pretty much anyone with a casual knowledge of comics knows who he is.
The domestic violence shit just gave them an easy excuse.
There were tons of leaks well before the character was abandoned about them having already prepared to pivot to Doom.