Now if you rewind to the very beginning of the year, you might remember that certain industry insiders indicated that we would find out what would happen with Kang in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. And while one prevailing theory for a while was that Kang would be used to set up Doom’s power level, basically Jonathan Majors would come back, and then Kang would immediately lose to Dr. Doom. That never seemed likely for the character. Why would Jonathan Majors sign up to come back and not have some sort of redemption for
himself or the character. Still, multiple sources reported that the door was apparently still open for Jonathan Majors’ Kang to return and even went as far as to say that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was actually considering bringing Jonathan Majors back if not for Secret Wars, maybe somewhere down the road. Now, interestingly enough, less than 24 hours later
TMZ would come out to debunk that claim. Still, those industry insiders, in the face of that debunk, maintained that their sources were accurate, and this sort of felt like it might be the last time we hear about that character. Well, not so fast. Apparently, and according to brand-new rumors, we’re going to find out what happened to Kain. And what’s more than that, a lot of Eagle Eye Redditors have started to notice there’s definitely some very curious technology, definitely some very curious artifacts that look like they belong.
in Kang’s previous, previous digs, the TVA. We’re breaking it all down to the Easter eggs for Kang we’re already seeing in the Fantastic Four and what this newest rumor says about Kang the Conqueror being mentioned in Avengers: Doomsday. But first, if you could grab the subscribe button, we do daily Marvel content at the channel. That’s all we do. If you’re into that kind of thing, thanks to everyone who’s been subbing lately and helping grow the channel, we are growing again at a breakneck pace.
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what his fate was, what actually ended up happening to him, because while Loki Season 2 to me seemed to offer the off-ramp that Marvel Studios was looking for with the character, and reportedly even before the legal troubles popped up, Marvel Studios was considering a switch to Doom because of the box office for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and it certainly felt like they wrote the end of Loki Season 2 like that.
We still have that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania post-credit scene that needs to be put to rest regardless of whether or not the TVA had been hunting variants of Kang, again as the end of Season 2 indicated, and the fact that the loom had now been replaced by Loki, seemingly the story of He Who Remains is no longer in power or relevant, where once there was a circularly loomed timeline, but now there’s Loki holding together a multi-branched world tree. Now, speaking of the TVA, and interestingly enough, a couple of people on Reddit in the last couple of months
have pointed out that a lot of the technology inside the TVA, especially on Reed Richards’ desk, and what’s presumably the lab level, as it’s marked in the elevator of the Baxter building that we saw in the playoff promo of all places, amongst the tech in that lab are monitors, some of which are blue and some of which are orange, and especially the orange ones with their sphere shape and the interface on the front definitely make them look exactly like the monitors and tech they have in the TVA. Now, first of all,
Remember, the Fantastic Four are set during the 60s in their timeline, and the 60s are the aesthetic that they had for the architecture of the TVA, with the orange and the blue, the whole design of it. It’s meant to feel nostalgic and from the 60s, and where there might seem like there’s a relationship there, hey look, the Fantastic Four from the 60s, the TVA looks like it was founded in the 60s. Keep in mind, he who claimed to be the founder, he who remains, Nathaniel Richards, is the person he was referring to.
a distant relative of Reed Richards. Also keep in mind, as He Who Remains describes time before Loki takes his seat at the end of Loki season 2 at the center of the World Tree, it was a perfect circle, meaning the past is the future and the future is the past, and the 1960s per se on multiple timelines are just one check around the circle that keeps coming up.
There is a relationship here, obviously between Reed Richards and He Who Remains, and now the technology in the TVA, which we all assumed He Who Remains created, and the technology that Reed Richards has. And it could be just as easily explained as, hey, they’re in the same time period, they’re both Richards, you would expect them to come up with the same technology, but it seems like a stronger reference than that. And the point that I’m making ultimately is, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that even though Jonathan Majors is most likely not showing up in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars,
that still they would have to reference the events of the Multiverse Saga as they pertain to the multiverse in all of the events that lead up to Loki, God of Stories, sitting at the center of the World Tree, specifically running through Kang the Conqueror and He Who Remains and Victor Timely. It would be impossible for them to sort of get everybody caught up, everybody filled in on what the story was, without at least mentioning his character. And it seems like in that, with a couple of turns of crafty exposition, they’re going to explain his character and why his character.
is no longer a part of the story and definitely not the big bad that we know they were all setting him up to be for the last three or four years. Look, you guys know how I feel about this, and I think Kang is one of those villains where if he did show up five, ten, or even fifteen years in the future of the MCU, if there is a fifteen years in the future of the MCU and it was Jonathan Majors returning, it would be so fitting for a character like Kang, who always just seems to come back and is truly eternal or timeless. So,
It could be a really cool return, and I’m at least just going to keep my head optimistic that maybe somewhere down the road there can be redemption there. You guys know how I feel about this and that they should have stuck with Jonathan Majors or brought him back, but again, I don’t see him getting served up to Dr. Doom as an easy adversary to establish how powerful Doom is as the kind of return that Jonathan Majors would even want to have in the first place, as unlikely as I thought it would be that they wouldn’t mention Kang or what happened in either of the Loki seasons at all. Remember,
Loki is reportedly going to have a huge role to play in Doomsday, and the plot may revolve around him. So that’s the reason we’re seeing Easter eggs like we are in the Fantastic Four. It’s also the reason they put the TVA in Deadpool and Wolverine. They wanted to bring the TVA back somewhere else outside of Loki season one and season two so that people who just watched the MCU movies and are more lay fans who aren’t up on all of the Disney Plus continuity can still reference what the TVA is.
how it works, the multiverse, et cetera. That’s why they needed to set it up in order for us to push the story forward with Avengers Doomsday. But you guys let me know all your thoughts down below. I already know what most of your comments are going to be about Jonathan Majors. We all feel the same way: that they should have brought him back. And again, like I said, I’m just going to stay optimistic that maybe somewhere down the road, Kane can show up again as a villain, and it would be awesome. He’s a big Fantastic Four villain. We’ve got another decade of the Fantastic Four in the MCU. It could happen. Still not in Avengers Doomsday.
