Avengers: Doomsday is right around the corner, and it’s hard not to feel super excited for the upcoming blockbuster. Doctor Doom is one of Marvel’s greatest and most diabolical villains, and it’ll be a blast to see him battle it out against Earth’s mightiest heroes.

That being said, Doctor Doom is sort of being used as a fill-in for Kang, and the movie was originally planned as Avengers: Kang Dynasty, with Kang as the big bad. The folks at Marvel Studios made the pivot after Kang’s actor, Jonathan Majors, found himself in hot water. Instead of simply recasting the character, they changed the direction the story was going in and what the central conflict is.

This change due to the actor’s real-life actions was sudden, making the shift also feel sudden in the MCU’s ongoing story. With Doctor Doom on the way, it begs the question, “what the heck happened to Kang?” Wouldn’t it have made more sense to recast Kang and then bring in Doctor Doom for the next Phase of the MCU? This is especially the case with them introducing Kang as a character with millions-to-infinite multiversal variants. Another actor could have just been those other variants.

Since Kang wasn’t recast and was instead replaced by an entirely different character, what did happen to him? In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Ant-Man and the Wasp defeat Kang the Conqueror. In Loki, the One Who Remains is dealt with. However, during a post credits scene of Quantumania, we see countless Kangs filling a giant stadium, with more primary ones having their own evil meeting. The One Who Remains also mentions in both seasons of Loki that his variants are out there, and that they’re dangerous. So, what about them?

In theory, they’d still be a huge threat to the multiverse. How could that conflict just be dropped? How could they all be ignored?

Sure, Mobius says at the end of Loki Season 2 that the TVA is working on finding all the Kang variants to deal with them, but only that the Conqueror (who Ant-Man and the Wasp took care of) was actually eliminated. Some folks have said that Mobius’s quick line was enough to wrap up the Kang conflict, but if anything, it only builds it up more. The TVA is making a point to track down all these variants but have been unsuccessful, so either they need to actually take out these Kangs themselves, or the Avengers need to do it. Until then, they’re out there and are a huge threat to the multiverse.

Maybe Doomsday will start with Doctor Doom taking the Kangs out or something along those lines. It could even be quick, but it would be a great way to introduce Doom as a massive threat to everyone and everything. Either way, something needs to tie up this loose end. Until then, it feels really strange that a villain who posed a threat to the multiverse had been built up only to be dropped completely. It’s awkward storytelling.

Read Next: The MCU has Done Agent 13 Dirty