I heard this guy is the new 'big bad guy' for the current stage of Marvel.
This dude is too polite and friendly, also Ant-Man and co managed to handle him pretty well. His powers seem random, generic and weak.
Now with the assualt allegations against Jonathan Majors who knows what will happen going forward.
Not good.
Likely some rewrites on the way.
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Latest news is that Majors is going to be fully exonerated
And Disney appears to have learned its lesson after Amber Heard proved that, yes, it is indeed possible for women to lie about being assaulted. So they kept quiet about Majors.
As for Kang being to polite and friendly, (1) that's how he lures people like Janet Van Dyne into helping him and (2) he's dead at the end of this film anyway.
Kang's biggest power is his ability to navigate the multiverse. So even though THIS version of Kang and He Who Remains are both dead, there are an infinite number of variants who can take over, several of whom we've seen at the end of this film along with thousands more willing variant conspirators
In other words, as a multi-movie villain, Majors can play him many different ways to reflect all that variation.
I guess... just thought he'd be more visibly powerful and intimidating given he's meant to be such a threat. I don't think this movie did a good job of getting that point across. Came across as a generic throwaway villain, to me anyway.
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Hmmmn good point actually
His words were threatening enough and Majors has screen presence for sure
But Brolin’s Thanos was on a whole other level, and it wasn’t just his appearance
I guess the fact that there are so many Kang variants means they can keep getting scarier with each iteration
But it DOES start to feel like retconning, which is a risk whenever movies introduce time travel and/or multiverses. The stakes decrease as a consequence
Keep in mind there are many, many Kangs. We've met two thus far, and neither seemed to be particularly dangerous, but there are infinite Kangs residing in infinite universes throughout the multiverse. One of them is going to be especially bad-ass, and I suspect we'll meet him soon.
Perhaps the closest real-world analogy would be if you were to have to play a game of one-on-one basketball against a random person, and your adversary happened to be a small, weak man whom you easily defeated. It would be foolish for you to surmise from that encounter that you can defeat any human in a game of basketball.
Agreed, we've seen two Kangs so far, and I wasn't impressed with either of them. The writers can try all they want by making Loki afraid of him, but he was still a goofy villain with no presence whatsoever. Ant-Man 3 did a marginally better job in that its Kang was more serious, but despite boasting about killing hundreds of Avenger variants, he still got beat by two D-listers. Lame. I have no faith whatsoever that future Kang variants will be any better. After dealing with the Council of Ricks and the Council of Lois Lanes, I'm not holding my breath that the Council of Kangs will somehow upstage Thanos. I'm so over the council trope.
Thanos had a great design, great writing, and a great actor in Josh Brolin, and the hype after Avengers 1 was real. MCU Kang feels like a bottom-of-the-barrel villain awkwardly forcing his way into the spotlight. It's like the MCU writers don't know what to do now that they have Doctor Doom back, so they're stalling for time with this guy. Kang wasn't even a mid-tier villain in the comics, so I can't see why they're trying to elevate him in the movies. At best, he would've been a pretty good starting villain for an MCU Fantastic Four movie.
The multi blah blah is too abstract and vague anyway.
But what else could they do? Bring back Ultron?
We're in the final stages of Marvel. I just hope they start having fun with it and introduce some whacky (lesser known) characters.