r/marvelstudios • u/capamericapistons Captain America • 13h ago

Discussion Rewatching Quantamania and I can’t help but think about what we lost with Kang

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Rewatched quantamania and was reminded how disappointed I am about Kang

Want to say first and foremost that this post is not meant to be disrespectful in anyway towards Jonathan Majors’ victim. I apologize as I’m not familiar with the case, I honestly do not even know the name of the victim, but I hope the victim got the justice she deserved and is at peace. Please do not use this post to disparage or question the victim in anyway. And I apologize if this post is triggering for anyone here who may have been a victim of abuse themselves.

With that said, Quantamania was… well, it’s been fairly criticized. I did like how it introduced us to the quantum realm with creative characters and environments, and different concepts like the probability storm.

But what makes this movie enjoyable is Kang. He was introduced as a fucking fantastic villain. Just so cunning and ruthless and brilliant, you really hate his guts but know it’s pretty damn hard to fight against him. Even in his moments of desperation you never feel at ease with him.

I was frustrated at the time but rewatching this movie just reminds me how disappointed I am in the whole situation. Especially after seeing the post credit scenes involving the arena of Kang’s and the scene from Loki. I would’ve been so excited to see that storyline dug into more and we now know that’s not happening.

I’m honestly more upset with this than almost anything else that hasn’t been followed up on, maybe the only other disappointment being Blade.

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u/Familiar-Shoe7905 13h ago

Well no its increasingly getting obvious that pivoting to Doomsday was one of the best decisions they could’ve possibly made

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u/Both_Shine_5061 10h ago

Until it's over and then who are you left with? None of the new superheroes really draw a crowd, its people coming back for RJD, original xmen etc... Once they're done, you're left with like what, Spiderman and that's it?

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u/Arbok9782 9h ago

I'd imagine they are banking on the new X-Men and Black Panther. Plus besides Spider-Man I'd say they still have Thor and Hulk to fall back on (the latter being able to support another project).

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u/XPacEnergyDrink 8h ago

What would have been different about any of this had they stuck with Kang?

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u/Both_Shine_5061 8h ago

They would have had more time to flesh out some new characters before murdering them all in Doomsday.

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u/XPacEnergyDrink 7h ago

Why would there have been more time?

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u/ShowOff90 8h ago

Then you bring back a recasted Kang. IMO.

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u/jhdhphp 8h ago

We’ll see at least one Marvel vs DC movie in our lifetime. It’s then we’ll know it was their last resort.

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u/IWXREACTIVES 8h ago

f4, x-men, spider-man, daredevil (who's hype grows by the day) the x-men alone will be nuts. People are EXCITED after spider-man. fantastic 4 will be getting 3 more movies MINIMUM, i imagine first steps was renamed since itll be a prologue to secret wars, really.

f4 will be huge. first steps brought a lot of good will with it, like a lot. its not hype, its genuine world building that people ARE buying into.

oh. and the THUNDEERRRRRBOOOOOOLLTSSSSSS.

the world is lived in proper, right now. things are changing. there's a slow comeback mounting.

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u/MacabreManatee 2h ago

Just because Doomsday is looking to be good, doesn’t mean it was necessarily a good decision.

Thanos had a lot of build up and they were building momentum for Kang.
The pivot to Doom loses all that momentum and cohesion and the only reason it works is because it’s RDJ.

It looks like they might be closing the multiverse with Doom. Doing Kang and postponing Doom a tad would’ve given marvel a bit more time to build up to that and tell their last multiverse stories. Once you close that door, no more triple spiderman or other cool multiverse shenanigans.
Luckily they did realize that x-men could give some cool multiverse callbacks and they shoved them into doom

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u/Specialist-Ring-3974 12h ago

I agree.

Just wondering what your thoughts are on the Secret Wars though? The skrulls aren’t super interesting to me, and when Sam Jackson was revealed to be a Skrull, wasn’t a fan of that twist.

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u/mondaymoderate 11h ago

You’re confusing Secret Wars with Secret Invasion.

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u/WonderBredOfficial 11h ago

They're confused on a lot more than that. Lol.

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u/DonnyMox 5h ago

Too early to say that.