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Marvel Studios swapping out Doctor Doom for Kang offers the chance to jettison the Multiverse Saga
The villain has changed, but has the storyline of Marvel's big Phase 6 finale also undergone significant upheaval?
We know, from San Diego Comic-Con’s much-discussed Hall H panel, that Marvel has abandoned its original plan to make Kang the centerpiece of its current uber-storyline, The Multiverse Saga, in favor of the returning Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. We also know that the fifth Avengers film, which had been titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, is now titled Avengers: Doomsday. What we don’t know, is this: is Marvel still actually making The Multiverse Saga?
Okay, okay, let me explain that question a little. The Multiverse Saga, as it had been unfolding before Kang was quietly moved aside, was a story that had a very specifically focused arc: the multiverse as a concept in the MCU was something that was all about Kang — he was the character who had discovered its existence, he
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