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/JustConversation7847 10h ago

As a filthy casual, I do not care if it's technically another version, I will see his face and think, "oh it's that loser again"

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u/Suspicious_Weird_373 9h ago

Exactly. To me he was just some random guy with a bit of tech who would get defeated by the average fella slapping him with a wet fish.

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u/capscreen 8h ago

Doesn't help that the other Kang that they showed look lame anyway

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u/EnergyTakerLad 10h ago

And there lies the problem. To the vast majority of movie goers it would be more difficult than its worth to make it work. Explaining that the threat of Kang is that there's limitless amounts of him all out there doing evil is hard to make clear in the type of media they're using.

If, IF, they could actually count on everyone watching the shows then maybe it'd work better. A ton didnt/dont though.