Avengers' villain Kang the Conquerer is owned by Fox? WTF!?

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After the immense success of Marvel's space epic Guardians Of The Galaxy, which grossed a cool $774M, last year, its sequel quickly became one of the more hotly anticipated films of 2017 and of Marvel's Phase 3 in general. Director James Gunn only recently began working on the script, and has been fairly open about his process, teasing fans with vague hints about potential new cosmic characters, which may or may not include Nova and/or Adam Warlock. Considering his last film included a cameo by Howard the Duck, it's probably safe to say, Gunn is open to including any cosmic character he can get his hands on to make Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 even better than the original. 

However, based on a recent Facebook reply by Gunn, it looks like there may be a few characters he won't get a chance to play with anytime soon. Actually, to be perfectly blunt, it looks like one major Avengers villain and one major alien race won't be setting foot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the foreseeable future. Check out his reply below:

So, yeah, the rights to both Kang the Conquerer and the Shi'ar belong to 20th Century Fox, which considering Kang's familial ties to the Fantastic Four makes sense, but it is somewhat disappointing as Kang is also one of the Avengers more formidable foes. However, there may be somewhat of a silver lining as having the rights to both Kang & the Shi'ar could potentially open up a cosmic universe for the X-Men and/or the Fantastic Four. It would certainly be an interesting path to take following Bryan Singer's sure-to-be epic X-Men: Apocalypse.

Even though, it is certainly disappointing, not all hope should be lost as this could always turn out to be a shared rights situation, similar to how Marvel was able to use the Kingpin while Sony also holds the character's rights. Marvel also currently shares the rights to mutant twins Quicksilver & the Scarlet Witch with Fox.

What do you guys make of this revelation? Sound off with your thoughts below!

Source: Comic Book Movie

This is worse than the Quicksilver and Skrull film rights situation. It's like if Fox were to own the rights to Venom because his origins are tied to Reed Richards, so Marvel couldn't use him in a Spider-Man movie. So WTF will Fox do with Kang? Seems we'll never see Kang on film now.