Kang the Conqueror Was Replaced as a Villain in the MCU Long Before Majors Was Found Guilty – We Just Missed the Hint

This year’s SDCC was full of reveals related to the MCU, but the highlight of the night was definitely the revelation that Marvel Studios is not moving forward with Kang the Conqueror as a villain and that ‘Avengers: Kang Dynasty’ is being retitled ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ with Roberto Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.

The announcement itself received mixed reactions for several reasons, and one of them is definitely that Kang the Conqueror still has quite a few fans in the MCU who want to see his story concluded.

And Kang’s story has been developed across several projects, ‘Loki’ season 1 & 2 and ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.’ ‘Quantumania’ did flop, but season 2 of ‘Loki’ presented us with a new variant of Kang, Victor Timely, that made his story all the more interesting.

However, Kang’s most successful project is seemingly the one that also wrote him out of the MCU, long before he was officially fired by the studio.

At the end of Season 2 of ‘Loki,’ we know that Loki essentially replaces He Who Remains and the TVA in general by creating a new Multiverse, one without Temporal Loom that deletes the timelines deemed “dangerous.”

Loki is crowned “the God of Stories” and every individual in the Multiverse now has free will, without the involvement of the TVA. But, if you recall the organization still exists but operates under different principles. The TVA no longer prunes timelines, they now operate as specialized hunters for Kang variants.

Now that Temporal Loom is out of function and He Who Remains no longer has control over “Sacred Timeline” thousands, millions of, potential Kang variants can start another Multiversal War. In order to avoid that TVA’s new main focus is to stop the Multiversal War before it takes place by manually removing Kang variants from the equation.

Such an ending, in a fitting way, ended Kang’s storyline in the MCU, and there’s nothing stopping the TVA from hunting down Kang variants off-screen and never touching upon this particular storyline again.

A February 2024 article from THR suggested that Marvel Studios was shifting away from Kang’s storyline due to the underperformance of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,’ potentially setting up Doctor Doom as the new main villain. However, Loki producer Kevin Wright later confirmed that the series had no reshoots and that the ending was always intended to conclude Kang’s arc, with the TVA handling his variants off-screen.

No. This is maybe — not maybe — this is the first Marvel series to never have any additional photography. The story that is on screen is the story we set out to make. We went out there with a very specific idea of what we wanted this to be, and we found a way to tell it in that production period. It’s very much what’s on screen on Disney+.

Filming for ‘Loki’ Season 2 occurred from June to October 2022, four months before the release of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,’ so what Wright is saying sounds legit, and it’s just a neat coincidence that now solves an incredible amount of problems.

Kang’s storyline still does have some loose ends that can be wrapped up, but as far as we know, we’re likely going to only get brief references to him in the upcoming projects. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

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