No Kang Do: Marvel Studios Drops Jonathan Majors

Let’s recap his role here in the MCU so far: Majors made his debut as a Kang variant, known as He Who Remains, on the Disney+ series «Loki.» He returned to the MCU in»Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,» portraying a more vicious version of Kang that rules the Quantum Realm. In the «Ant-Man» film’s storyline, he plays several other Kang variants, such as Rama-Tut and Immortus. Naturally, many have already begun to ask the big question, where does Marvel Studios go from here with the Kang character?

Throughout the MCU’s Phase Four and Phase Five, fans have gotten well-acquainted with the multiverse. Various forms of Kang have been depicted as masters of the multiverse, capable of traversing it, bending it to their will, and working together to take out anyone against them. This is why he and his variants have been positioned as the Thanos-level (Josh Brolin) threats of the Multiverse Saga, which encompasses Phases Four, Five, and Six. 

Though the folks at Marvel Studios likely could find a way to write Kang out of the franchise in favor of another overarching villain, it wouldn’t be the right move. Fans know about the Jonathan Majors situation and remember how hard Kang was publicly pushed as the MCU’s next big bad. All of that information would loom large over an abruptly Kang-free MCU, likely to the detriment of the franchise. Since the character is so essential to the MCU’s immediate future, there’s only one viable way forward: recast Kang.