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Hornezz posted...

The infinity stones weren't mention by name until the end credits of Thor 2, five and a half years after the MCU started. The Tesseract and Loki's staff appeared before but they weren't identified as such.

It worked retroactively to connect things. That when they were first revealed, one had already been part of 2 movies, then GotG had the third, and then later you found out that there were actually 2 in play with those 2 earlier movies.

And Kang doesn't have to be in every little thing. They can easily just use after credits in tons of different movies and shows to slowly build up more of his threat.