Victor Timely, also known as Kang the Conqueror, was a planned antagonist in the cancelled Avengers: Kang Dynasty and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars. He was also going to be teased in the post credit scene alongside Baron Zemo.
Kang was set to be the antagonist of both films, alongside its Council of Kang. However, due to the negative reception of Antman and the Wasp: Quantmiumania, and his actor, Jonathan Majors, deemed guilty in a highly public assault case, Disney fired Majors in December 2023, and the character got replaced by Robert Downey Junior’s Doctor Doom.
He was played by Jonathan Major.
Biography[]
Avengers: Kang Dynasty[]
Early draft[]
In the early draft of the film, Kang alongside his council of Kang are the main antagonists of the two films. Following the destruction of the multiverse, they will form the Battleworld, where Kang and his multiverse variants are the rulers.
Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers[]
Kang was supposed to appear int he post credit scene but unfortunately was removed.
Trivia[]
- In the early version of Kang Dynasty, Doctor Doom is entirely absent from the story.
- Jonathan Majors expressed interests multiple times towards Marvel studio to return the role as Kang, but currently Marvel has no plan for Kang and his variants. Additionally, there were calls from the community for Kang to be recast.
- He is similar to Straxus in Transformers: Legacy, where both villains are fan favorites characters and are planned in a multiverse projects. Only to be cancelled due to the negative reception of a previous project.
- He also shares some similarities like Darkseid that started in two hero-assemble films, only to be removed due to the failure of a project before them.