Marvel Studios has now officially fired Jonathan Majors after he was found guilty of assault and harassment. The role of Kang The Conqueror (and his many variants, including He Who Remains, Immortus, and others) is now vacant (at least, at the time of writing). The company can either recast the role with someone else or completely rewrite the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Multiverse Saga and change the upcoming Avengers Kang Dynasty to something else.

If Marvel Studios decides to go with the latter, there are plenty of other villains in the vastness of Marvel Comics that they could choose to bring to life in the MCU as the new big bad of the Multiverse Saga.

As the ComicsLord, here are several suggestions:

Victor Von Doom AKA Doctor Doom

Look, let’s get this out of the way first because we all know that he’s the most popular and most highly-demanded villain by fans since perhaps the beginning of the MCU. Maybe Marvel Studios is already planning to introduce Doctor Doom, since they’re planning an Avengers Secret Wars movie. Doctor Doom was a major villain in the original 1984’s Secret Wars and he was the main villain in 2015’s Secret Wars, which it seems the Multiverse Saga is already working towards with its Incursions and heavy emphasis on the multiverse.

Contrary to what many MCU fans might think, 2015’s Secret Wars is one of the only Marvel crossover events to have a multiversal-focused storyline. So, that means that the MCU adding Doctor Doom is pretty much almost confirmed since the MCU literally has no choice but to adapt 2015’s Secret Wars. But before any of that, let’s hope the MCU’s Fantastic Four movie turns out to be actually good.

Doctor Doom is an iconic and legendary villain who deserves as much build-up and effort as Thanos did, so let’s hope Marvel Studios won’t screw this up.

I promise the later entries in this article are more interesting than Doctor Doom.

But in order for God Emperor Doom of Secret Wars to come, the MCU also has to introduce…

The Beyonder Or The Beyonders

The Beyonder was the cosmic being originally responsible for 1984’s Secret Wars and like Doctor Doom, it’s likely that Marvel Studios is already planning to introduce him into the MCU leading to Avengers Secret Wars.

However, in the comics, the race of beings that the Beyonder hailed from, simply called the Beyonders (or the Ivory Kings), were responsible for a lot more. They are responsible for the Incursions in the comics, and it was their unlimited power that Doctor Doom stole in 2015’s Secret Wars, which allowed him to create Battleworld and become God Emperor Doom.

How strong are the Beyonders? They killed almost all the cosmic beings in the Marvel Universe, including the Living Tribunal.

Annihilus

Just like Doctor Doom, Annihilus started as a Fantastic Four villain, but he is now a universal threat of his own. He comes from the Negative Zone, where he rules, and in the comics during the Annihilation storyline (which is my number one favourite Marvel crossover event of all time), he invades the Marvel universe.

How? He’s like Genghis Khan. He brought the Annihilation Wave and swept across the universe, destroying the Kree and Skrull intergalactic empires. How strong is he? He even enslaved Galactus and used him as an energy source for a Death Star-like weapon.

With the introduction of a new Guardians Of The Galaxy team in 2023’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, perhaps it’s the right time for a new cosmic threat like Annihilus.

Magus

Adam Warlock started as a bad guy in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 but ends up becoming a Guardian. However, now that he exists in the MCU, we could possibly see the future introduction of another powerful Marvel villain, Magus.

In the comics, Magus is an evil version of Adam Warlock, either from the future, or a pure evil variant of himself. Magus is as powerful as Adam Warlock, but with the added advantage of having the cult-like army known as the Universal Church Of Truth. In 2021’s Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy game, Magus was the main villain.

The Many-Angled Ones

This is some deep cut. The Many-Angled Ones are based on the Old Ones in the Cthulhu Mythos.

They come from the extradimensional Cancerverse, a metaphysically unbalanced dimension where Death itself has been completely banished and Life runs rampant, like cancer, and seeks to spread their dimension’s plague of “undeath” to all other universes. They even turned Thanos into their Avatar.

I won’t mention Galactus in this list because he’s boring. Why? It’s more interesting because the Many-Angled Ones are so powerful that in their universe, the Cancerverse, they transformed Galactus into the Galactus Engine, a grotesque centipede train-like version of Galactus.

So, yeah, you want Galactus? I give you the Many-Angled Ones.

Amatsu-Mikaboshi AKA Chaos King

This is another deep cut. In the Chaos War storyline, it was revealed Amatsu-Mikaboshi AKA the Chaos King was the primordial god of darkness and the void. Mind you, this was years, almost a decade, before Knull would later join Marvel canon in the King In Black storyline. So, really, he was like the original King In Black. Take that, Knull.

He was so powerful that Hercules and Thor had to form the God Squad, a team consisting of many gods from the different mythological pantheons on Earth. Now that Hercules is in the MCU, we could see this potentially happening.

How strong is Amatsu-Mikaboshi? He defeated gods like Zeus, Galactus and Death was afraid of him.

So, Knull? No, Amatsu Mikaboshi came first.