I am convinced I have figured out Marvel’s big Kang secret

polygon.com:

I want everyone to know that I figured it out years ago: The secret, the masterstroke, the ace up Kevin Feige’s sleeve, the one incredible trick that was going to prove the haters wrong and convince the world that Marvel Studios Phases Four through Six were not a boondoggle but in fact an incredible gambit of corporate planning and careful IP management. Trouble is, I don’t think this plan will work anymore. Marvel must, and probably has, gone back to the drawing board. Change is in the air, and while I have no actual insight into the matter, I am pretty sure that the grand finale of the Multiverse Saga that will make it to the big screen is not the one that was planned when it was announced on the Comic-Con stage.

There is no way to confirm this beyond Marvel brass saying so (Kev, buddy, call me), but I want them to know that even if Marvel changed its plot, for one beautiful moment, I had figured them out. The trick was a simple one: Kang, the big bad of the current MCU saga, was also going to be its biggest hero. He was going to be Mr. Fantastic.

Wow! A claim so bold that it has summoned the disembodied “Q&A” voice! Trust me, I’ve thought about this. I can land this plane.

I can! Let me lay out the bread crumbs. Marvel announced its casting of Jonathan Majors as Kang in September 2020. This announcement, to me, seemed suspiciously early, the kind of news blast that seems like it’s trying to get ahead of an appearance in something else Marvel had planned. You know, like He Who Remains at the end of Loki season 1.

I am not. I am just, no matter how much I run from it, a gifted comic book scholar, and I cannot escape my nature. I did not think HWR or any kind of Kang would appear in Loki, but I did think that Marvel