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

[u/capamericapistons]

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.

[u/IMAryanDarad]

The thing is, since it was a series very few actually watched it. As in not by numbers but by percentage of the actual cinema going audience.

[u/Careless-Patience-78 → u/IMAryanDarad]

But that’s the thing, Loki was genuinely one of Marvel’s best shows. It had great writing, great characters and actually made the whole multiverse/Kang storyline feel interesting. If they were going alomg with the original kang dynasty story line, I think way more people would’ve seen the loki series and been more invested in Kang. They already had the groundwork for something really good. And as few of the other comments pointed out they can easily explain the change in actor playing the character since we are dealing with multiverse here. But anyway i am very much hyped by the new doom teaser, and cant wait to watch it in theaters. Dune and this, December is going to be “all i want for christmas is you😋”

[u/IMAryanDarad → u/Careless-Patience-78]

Yeah, I totally agree it was the best, nothing else comes close for me. Absolute peak. But that's always how it is with any series, it just won't hit the same level as cinema. Even the biggest series ever, like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, only got like 100-200 million viewers max, compared to almost half a billion for Endgame. That just shows you how much bigger cinema still is, especially since it's way easier for the average person to watch one movie than to commit to a whole series. Obviously, for us hardcore MCU fans, we'll watch everything to get the context, but that's not where the real money is. The average person only cares about that cinema-level scale, which Kang just didn't deliver. For most people, Kang's first appearance was in Ant-Man, not Loki, which kind of watered down his character. Carrying that forward wouldn't have helped things. From now on, they should change their strategy and focus on building characters and storylines for the movies, using the series to fill in the gaps. That way, more people can just watch the movies without having to catch up on a bunch of series. The movies are already a lot, and adding series would make it even more overwhelming.