{"id":7994,"date":"2016-09-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:22:16","slug":"which-major-avengers-villain-cannot-appear-in-avengers-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/09\/14\/which-major-avengers-villain-cannot-appear-in-avengers-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t Major Avengers Villain Kang Be in an Avengers Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2009\/04\/19\/movie-legends-revealed-history\/\">here<\/a> to view an archive of the Movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Marvel cannot use Kang, one of the biggest Avengers villains, in their Avengers films. <\/p>\n<p>Very few things in the world of pop culture are quite as confusing as the matter of who controls the production rights of various Marvel Comics characters, since Marvel has parceled out the rights to their characters to so many different studios over the years that it can be extremely complicated figuring out who owns what character and when said studio got control of said character. We have already addressed a few of these confusing rights issues in the case of whether <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/05\/31\/is-deadpool-a-part-of-foxs-x-men-movie-deal\/\">Deadpool was part of Fox&#8217;s X-Men rights<\/a> or whether <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/11\/24\/does-marvel-not-own-the-rights-to-make-an-incredible-hulk-film\/\">the Incredible Hulk&#8217;s movie rights are fully owned by Marvel Studios<\/a>. Today, though, we delve into one of the most surprising characters whose rights are <strong>not<\/strong> controlled by Marvel Studios, and thus off-limits for the Avengers films<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-375x250.jpg\" alt=\"avengers\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-515x344.jpg 515w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=legenrevea-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00WYX3094&#038;asins=B00WYX3094&#038;linkId=b9ce951f730a4d3a6de0bf8f5d0721f4&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=&#038;title_color=&#038;bg_color=FFFFFF\">    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; one of the Avengers&#8217; earliest and greatest foes, Kang! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kang-the-Conqueror-515x221.jpg\" alt=\"Kang-the-Conqueror\" width=\"515\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kang-the-Conqueror-515x221.jpg 515w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kang-the-Conqueror-375x161.jpg 375w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kang-the-Conqueror-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kang-the-Conqueror.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read on to see why Kang is off-limits!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe issue at hand is that the production rights (that&#8217;s the rights that studios need to actually produce a movie about a particular character) in a lot of these contracts were noticeably vague, as they often said things like &#8220;Characters from X-Men comics,&#8221; so it leaves it up for debate exactly who owns the rights to, say, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, characters who debuted in the pages of X-Men (which Fox owns the rights to) but becoming Avengers characters for the majority of their existence in comics (which Marvel owns the rights to). In the case of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Fox and Marvel had a bit of an issue with each other over both wanting to use Quicksilver in their then-upcoming movies (Avengers: Age of Ultron and X-Men: Days of Future Past), with the compromise being, as Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige explained: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We both have [Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch]. There\u2019s a specific arrangement with those two characters that would allow us to use them with \u201cAvengers,\u201d but not discuss or reference their mutant or Magneto-related lineage. They can use them as mutants and as Magneto\u2019s relatives, but cannot have anything to do with \u201cThe Avengers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1-515x258.jpg\" alt=\"avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1\" width=\"515\" height=\"258\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1-515x258.jpg 515w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1-375x188.jpg 375w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marvel has worked out a similar shared arrangement deal with Fox on the Kree (who debuted in the pages of Fantastic Four, but have had many notable Avengers stories, including, but not limited to, the famous Avengers epic the Kree\/Skrull War), but often these things come down to a matter of &#8220;We get Q. You get R. We get S. You get T.&#8221; For instance, Marvel was denied access to the Badoon for Guardians of the Galaxy, who debuted in the pages of Silver Surfer, a character that Fox has control over.  <\/p>\n<p>Amazingly so, though, Kang the Conqueror&#8217;s rights also belong with Fox, despite the character debuting in the pages of Avengers and being a longtime Avenger foe. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jgunn\/posts\/10152713350681157?comment_id=10152713556391157&#038;reply_comment_id=10152713636106157&#038;total_comments=11&#038;comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22}\">broke the news on his Facebook page<\/a>. So much of this is supposition, but the most likely theory is that Kang&#8217;s alter ego being Nathaniel Richards (relative of Reed Richards), plus the connections he has had with Fantastic Four villain Rama-Tut (Kang under an earlier identity) and Doctor Doom (Kang felt that he was a descendant of Doom) has led to Kang falling under the Fantastic Four rights. Again, these things are usually not advertised with any precise nature, so it&#8217;s unlikely that we will ever know for sure <b>why<\/b> Kang was determined to be under Fox control, except to note that, oddly enough, he is. <\/p>\n<p>So sadly that means no Kang usage for future Avengers movies (unless the rights to the Fantastic Four get back to Marvel somehow, of course, like how Daredevil&#8217;s rights were at Fox for years but now are at Marvel). <\/p>\n<p>The legend is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to James Gunn for the information!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2009\/04\/19\/movie-legends-history\/\">my archive of Movie Legends Revealed<\/a> for more urban legends about the world of films. And click <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/tag\/superhero-films\/\">here<\/a> for legends just about superhero films!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is &#98;&#x63;r&#x6f;n&#x69;n&#64;&#x6c;&#101;&#x67;e&#x6e;d&#x73;r&#101;&#x76;e&#x61;l&#x65;d&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which major Avengers villain is off-limits for Avengers films? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Which Major Avengers Villain Cannot Appear in Avengers FIlms?","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[2214,2226,2223,2220,2219,2057,2218,2215,2217,2216,2225,2224,2222,1748,2221],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-24W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7650,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/05\/31\/is-deadpool-a-part-of-foxs-x-men-movie-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":7994,"position":0},"title":"Is Deadpool a Part of Fox&#8217;s X-Men Movie Deal?","date":"May 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. 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