Originally published at: Will Dr. Doom replace Kang the Conqueror in Marvel's next phase? | Boing Boing
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Not necessarily. In the comics, Kang is a man from the future named Nathaniel Richards, and is a descendant of a different Nathaniel Richards, father of Reed Richards. He is also rumored to be a descendant of Victor von Doom. Five minutes of exposition could take care of replacing Kang with Dr. Doom as this phase’s Big Bad.
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Heck, you could always pull a “man behind the man” thing like the first Guardians did which then led into Infinity War/Endgame.
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I want Doom to get his day in film; by which I mean a well done appearance, but something tells me a shoe-horned-in role as a replacement for Kang is not that day.
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Oh, I really hope so. Academics are still somewhat underrepresented in the Marvel universe.
And the stories about him defending his thesis are legendary.
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Of course they could just re-cast the character, which would require no explanation.
There’s an obvious explanation: Loki and the TVA mucked with something in the Sacred Timeline and that resulted in a change to how He Who Remains looks. Loki could even lampshade it: “Weren’t you a bit taller the last time I saw you?” or something similar. It is a bit wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, but so is the TVA.
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Given that they’ve already established that multiversal versions of characters look different (e.g. Spider-Man), it’s extremely easy to recast the alternate reality version of a character they’ve introduced as coming from multiple universes. (Even if they did make it much harder with the “council of Kangs” scene, where all the visible Kangs were played by Majors.)
Marvel seems to have bigger problems than that, though. Their original approach was a genius use of the comic strategy - introduce various characters separately, then have cross-overs that bring the audiences of the individual films with them, thereby creating audiences for “cinematic universes.” They created too definitive an ending for the Avengers to keep their continuity and momentum, and worse, have completely broken the dynamic by using the tv shows to both continue narratives of existing characters and introduce new characters. They can’t use their formula that way - there aren’t enough people watching the shows for that to work. For everyone else, there aren’t familiar characters drawing them in, and if you do watch the movies without having seen the shows, you feel like you’re missing something, even if you’re familiar with the plots. (It didn’t help that the post-Avengers movies were a Black Widow flashback - that fed into the shows - and that Eternals movie, which was mis-timed at best, but it was hard to see how it was going to be the basis for anything.)
It seems like Marvel really need to start over, having movies that introduce characters, then having team-ups. Which at this point could only happen a decade from now, at which point people might be sick of superhero movies. (In fact, the moment might have already passed, based on box office numbers.) Not that there won’t be an audience for superhero movies, but there won’t be an “Avengers Infinity Wars” sized-audience, that can support the ever-escalating costs of bigger and bigger spectacles.
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His doctorate is in Doomology. And he defended his thesis with an army of magically enhanced robots.
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Marvel have already done it without multiple universes
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… OTOH it would suggest the studio didn’t take its own product very seriously, that the top priority is the joke, the wink at the camera
Not everything needs to be “explained,” much less winked at — it would be like “Star Trek” characters making little jokes about Kirk’s fake hair 
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big dad, maybe
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That’s just a whimsical name for economics.
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How is he going to toot a horn with metal lips?
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Hoping this will be the way they bring Mike Colter back as Luke Cage
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