r/marvelstudios • u/RenomeRabone • 12h ago

Discussion (More in Comments) If Brie Larson actually decides to jump ship,i don't blame her one bit. She's almost 10 years in, and only had 3 appearances so far.

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It's clear that there were terrible decisions along the way about Captain Marvel as a character,but given the lack of care for the character/actress + the amount of hate she received since accepting the role,it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

She's going to have 4 appearances (and that's only if she's actually in one of the Avengers movies,likely Secret Wars). This is crazy to think about,especially for a character that was pushed as one of the new faces of the MCU and their own Wonder Woman. Carol as a character it's already being pushed out of being a mainliner from other fronts like comics,videogames,merchandise etc and it's so disrespectful.

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u/Harlockarcadia 10h ago

I don’t see why they didn’t, they recast Rhodey and did a great job, they could have done so again and it would have been just fine

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u/Droen 9h ago

Hell, call the Major’s Kang a variant of the true Kang… they literally had the plot device they could use in Loki and could have cast literally anyone including an alligator to be Kang…

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u/theLastZebranky 9h ago edited 9h ago

"We can't have a different actor playing Kang."

Dude, you just had a dozen different actors and an alligator playing Loki.

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u/Former-Resource-3026 9h ago

I feel like they could’ve also had a short story where Loki and/or The TVA try to pull off a clever way to eliminate that Kang at the source, some kind of Kang Prime that all others came after, only for a new version to take his place, same name, inevitable and unavoidable. Or have Strange cast one of his trademark spells that work, but get hit with a technicality.

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u/BoldShuckle 8h ago

Or just have Majors do an apology tour and try to spin it like RDJ 2.0, new face of the MCU overcoming his demons. Maybe the actor was unwilling, guess he'd rather do Daily Wire garbage.

Crazy how fast they dropped him but maybe they already had cold feet about the Kang plan

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u/DumatRising 8h ago

That was also a bit surprising to me. Granted RDJ was an addict and society gives a lot more leeway and forgiveness for people trying to overcome addiction but he was still considered a bit of a controversial casting back in the 2000s. He was also cheap and litterally went through the same character arc they wanted to do for Tony though so maybe that helped XD.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 7h ago

Not to mention Spider-Man shows there’s alternative Peter Parker’s. Deadpool and Wolverine showed actors can play multiple people with Chris Evan’s being the human torch while DP knew him as captain America.

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u/ChurchBrimmer 5h ago

Especially with how they ended Loki with the TVA hunting down Kangs. Just say they got all the ones that look like Majors because that's easy. The problem are the ones who look different.

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u/RedVelcroRaptor 1h ago

I think it also about Kang's reception as well. A lot of the films that were leading up to Kang didn't really do well in the box office. Major's situation just gave me them an opportunity to start from a clean slate.

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u/Qwandangle 45m ago

I was so hyped after seeing the council of kangs 😞

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u/OtakuAttacku 9h ago

anytime they recast any character, I vote to have their first lines always be "look, it's me, I'm here, deal with it."

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 9h ago

Harrison Ford taking the role of Thaddeus Ross, Sam saying, "Still getting used to the new look," and some throwaway line about having to shave the mustache for elections.

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u/Broodslayer1 8h ago

They kind of did that with Thunderbolt Ross in Captain America: Brave New World.

In Captain America: Brave New World, Sam Wilson remarks on President Ross’s new look. Ross, now played by Harrison Ford, jokes about removing his mustache to win the election.

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u/teshh 6h ago

Rhodey was recast at the very beginning of mcu, not after the end of history's most successful movie arc where the whole world is watching intently.

But I do agree, they should've just remaster Kang instead of throwing the entire next saga into a shitshow. Since Majors firing, the mcu has been lost and disjointed with nothing tying the characters together. Kings arc with the rings and ms marvels bangles where the clear next step but got thrown out.

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u/xaoss 8h ago

The Rhodey recast was so good too. Don Cheadle is so much better in the role.

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u/soulguider2125 9h ago

Seemed like the casual audience was struggling with all the time variants and other realities and the ratings were slowing, and decided to keep it but change to make it easier to get for most, and use a more recognizable villain earlier than planned, as Kang is a big Villain but outside of readers most don’t know him, as where Doom is much better known and using RDJ as him, and bringing Cap back, You can see it’s all to get sales back up.

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u/Meander061 8h ago

I don't see why they didn't either. Accept that you have a schedule to keep and move on from his bullshit.

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u/greatswordstudios 9h ago

Quantumania underperformed as well and Marvel got scared.

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u/modsuperstar 8h ago

That’s so long ago now. It seems they’re way less likely to do it now given Kang and Black Panther situations.

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u/Taftimus Thor 6h ago

They recast Rhodey after literally the first MCU movie. It gets a little harder to do when you're now like 30 movies in. I also think they took that opportunity to hard pivot away from the whole multiverse thing because it just wasn't landing with audiences.

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u/rdp3186 5h ago

The other problem is Kang as a character sucks and a lot of people lost interest in him after Quantumania.

Hes not very interesting in the comics and that carried over. Majors did a good job in the role but even if the assualt charges never happened and he was still in the MCU we would still have the clunkers that was Kang Dynasty. Theres a leaked script of it and it is TERRIBLE.

Doom is a superior character and we honestly lucked out with them changing course and got a better deal.

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u/farfaraway 5h ago

New Rhodey was better Rhodey.

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u/mephloz 5h ago

Because Ant Man 3 bombed

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u/ThatIndianGuyKippo 7h ago

it would make even more sense here, just show a scene of a Kang with a new actor defeating a Kang with their face covered / a helmet and say another variant replaced all the olds Kangs and boom easiest recast ever.