He's meant to be the next Thanos and has had all of two appearances so far, albeit far more in depth than Thanos had by that count.
Thanos first appeared in the original Avengers but his credits cameo does little else than throw a comic reference about how the humans are "courting death" which is what Thanos does in the comics most of the time.
His GotG appearance gave some development but he's mostly sitting in the shadows, probably in part as the cgi of the time wasn't that great.
He's next seen in the Age of Ultron credits picking up the empty Infinity Gauntlet
It wasn't until Infinity War, his fourth appearance, that the character actually received proper development. This coincides with improvements in cgi tech which is why the character looks so different compared to earlier versions.
By comparison Kang's first appearance in the Loki series gives a lot of background to the character, or at least the version Loki meets. But there is still development in who Kang is and what Kang means in the greater multiverse concept that the MCU is using for its current phase of movies.
While losing Josh Brolin between GotG and Age of Ultron wouldn't affect the MCU that much outside of voice lines because the character was always cgi, Kang is different because he isn't cgi.
That said it's still Marvel's fault for deciding to portray Kang the way they did since most of the time he's wearing his Conquerer garb that includes his blue face mask. Marvel could have built up to a face reveal but it wouldn't surprise me if some woke idiot pushed through the current version for the sake of idpol and social media points.
Beyond everything else it means the characters of Iron Lad and Immortus probably won't happen but then even by comic standards those characters have very convoluted histories which won't translate to the MCU at all because the audience doesn't have the attention span or brains for it.
He's meant to be the next Thanos and has had all of two appearances so far, albeit far more in depth than Thanos had by that count.
Thanos first appeared in the original Avengers but his credits cameo does little else than throw a comic reference about how the humans are "courting death" which is what Thanos does in the comics most of the time. His GotG appearance gave some development but he's mostly sitting in the shadows, probably in part as the cgi of the time wasn't that great. He's next seen in the Age of Ultron credits picking up the empty Infinity Gauntlet It wasn't until Infinity War, his fourth appearance, that the character actually received proper development. This coincides with improvements in cgi tech which is why the character looks so different compared to earlier versions.
By comparison Kang's first appearance in the Loki series gives a lot of background to the character, or at least the version Loki meets. But there is still development in who Kang is and what Kang means in the greater multiverse concept that the MCU is using for its current phase of movies.
While losing Josh Brolin between GotG and Age of Ultron wouldn't affect the MCU that much outside of voice lines because the character was always cgi, Kang is different because he isn't cgi.
That said it's still Marvel's fault for deciding to portray Kang the way they did since most of the time he's wearing his Conquerer garb that includes his blue face mask. Marvel could have built up to a face reveal but it wouldn't surprise me if some woke idiot pushed through the current version for the sake of idpol and social media points.
Beyond everything else it means the characters of Iron Lad and Immortus probably won't happen but then even by comic standards those characters have very convoluted histories which won't translate to the MCU at all because the audience doesn't have the attention span or brains for it.