Why Thanos WORKED and Kang SUCKED

Thanos was the main villain of the Infinity Saga and became one of the best antagonists in the entire superhero genre. The same was supposed to happen with Kang, the main villain of the Multiverse Saga... but Kang didn't work like Thanos, and in this video, I'll explain why.

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[ajitsreepathi]

In a nutshell:
Kang is all bark and no bite.
Thanos was no bark but all bite.

[dinostuff]

Simple answer, one didn’t get beaten by ants

[tubbymontana]

If thanos was introduced by losing to antman idk if I would still care about him no one can recover from that

[monkpool]

They really fumbled with Kang. They announced him too early

[Mr_amethyst]

Kang had no plot armour💀

Bro forgot that he's main villain💀

[Kidkinsey]

You hit it on the nail, 5 minutes into infinity war I was like OH thanos is a steppa, a HOUR into antman 3 I was like ok where’s Kang and can we see him do something crazy. Kang was in a hand to hand match with SCOTT LANG and didn’t utterly dominate him. Like what are we doing here

[Susynaldo]

thanos just looks like an inter galactic emperor
kang is just some black dude with a purple suit

[Byronic]

This was a good video but I disagree about Kang and the He Who Remains angle. The fact HWR wasn’t worried about the Avengers was because he was more scared of his variants was the entire point. The idea of him being barely concerned about an Avengers who already beat Thanos was the point.
And sure while AntMan was a bad look for Kang, that would have been easily remedied by having him reappear in a post credit somewhere to reinforce the idea that this character is basically a Ex Machina with his ability to time travel and always come back, which would have set the stage for okay, like how do you possibly beat a Ex Machine. That is what Kang was supposed to be. And I really think the trial only made Majors star power even bigger. But with all that said, RDJ as Doom is clearly a bigger Box Office draw but more importantly it also means the Russos are back.
Thanos was amazing because of the Russos. They made sure he never lost a single fight, even in Endgame he was winning and it took the entire Infinity Gauntlet the same power that wiped out half the universe to beat him.

[guilhermeteodosio]

Thanos first cameo: defeats the Hulk and kills half of Asgard

Kang first cameo: loses to Antman and a bunch of bugs

[rajaaliyan]

I have to defend the Loki season 1 kang because he wasn't there to be the villin he was there to show us how much of a threat the actual villin was that an entire timeline was h idden from him.

[lennywright]

Kang reminds me of the kid in elementary school that claimed he was a black belt, but got beat up by the small nerdy kid when he tried to pick on him 🤣

[seiketso]

Yeah i agree. Losing to Ant-man is wild. I watched the movie thinking Kang was going to win and i rooted for him, mostly because i just watched Majors in Creed 3. But damn losing to a B-tier hero like Ant-man is crazy.

[Coopershawk-lftx]

Reason 1 why Kang sucks: Literal ants kicked his ass. Idk what more information is needed.

[Byronic]

If they wanted another easy remedy to fix Kang would have been to do what they may very were possibly do with Doom, and have him seize Loki throne at the end of time, grab the branches of time, and collide them together wiping out thousands and thousands of universe in one swoop causing incursions and having the final few universes fight for their survival to be the only one remaining.

[Rose_Bride]

For me, I was just never excited about Kang. NOTHING about him made me afraid of his upcoming villain arch, whereas the threat of Thanos was IMMINENT. Kang kept telling me that I should be afraid, but like you said, the guy just talked WAY too much. And the eccentric variant we saw in the season 1 finale of _Loki_ certainly didn't help matters. I was more afraid of Loki _himself_ in that first _Avengers_ film than the thought of Kang.

I didn't even watch the 3rd _Antman_ film because.... I just didn't care. And from what I hear I didn't miss much.

[apexphotostories]

the way they built up Thanos for IW was so good and how they made IW more of a Thanos film than a Avengers film

[RomaroBrandon]

The reason Kang failed and Thanos didn't was because Thanos was not the main villain until Infinity War and wasn't defeated until Endgame. Not only was Kang the main villain in Ant-Man 3 but he was defeated in that movie. The fact that he was defeated by Scott Lang and a bunch of ants didn't help.
Imagine if Thanos was the villain in No Way Home and Peter Parker defeated him with actual spiders.

[LazCasado-wwmp]

Yeah, Jonathan was not even convincing when he said I am Kang ! But Mr. That is the Other that was talking to Thanos !

[spyjack]

I think Kang was better in LEGO Marvel superheroes 2 than he was in the mcu

[Hayst-pvwz]

Loki's kang motivation kinda makes sense, I mean the universe falls apart if he doesn't prune other timelines and it make sense that kang wanna keep his other variant away to avoid war.