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Marvel is at an impasse.

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But no path forward will be forged without complications.

Here are the four that seem most plausible:

1) Marvel stays the course.

2) Marvel keeps the multiverse but hard-pivots from Kang.

Do we really need Kang?

This was a handy way for Marvel Comics to combine its mainline 616 continuity with its Ultimate universe.

In bothSecret Warsstories, Doctor Doom effectively stole the powers of the Beyonder/Beyonders.

And Marvel wouldnt even need to wait until their Fantastic Four reboot in 2025 to introduce him.

3) Marvel keeps the multiverse and slowly moves away from Kang.

(Avengers: The Doom Dynastyhas a nicer ring to it anyway.)

Captain Marvel, a resurrected Iron Man, Magneto, Howard the Duck, whatever floats your boat.

Sidelining Kang in the process may not even actually require Doom.

Marvel abandons the multiverse.

Crisis or secret war averted.

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