Anyone feeling a bit of bait and switch here and we end up seeing Rudd "killed off" early in the film. If they are showing his fight with the big bad early on in the trailers what we are seeing isn't the ending.
Rudd sacrafices himself within the first 30 mins or so and the rest of the movie is Kate and Cassie.
I think that's just the way it is with modern trailers. That's why I don't watch them unless I don't care.
There's too much story for Rudd to die that early, that doesn't leave time for intro+set up+betrayal. However, it does seem like it has to be a loss in some way, because this is the introduction of the big villain from what I understand. If Ant-Man wins and this Kang isn't the main Kang, that could be a bit hollow.
Then, why the hell hasn't Dr. Doom been in a film yet?
I get the feeling they're getting through this adjustment period after losing all their good characters and an actor gearing up to be featured more, and the big guns (X-Men and F4) are being saved for when they want people to really give a shit again. Right now they seem to mostly be running off the limited license stuff they had before the acquisitions while they get everything settled, dripping in some new stuff via TV because that's the experimental phase.
If they get Doom right it could be very effective, but I think they need to give him the proper attention. He's not been done well before, so that needs to be overwritten.
Marvel introduced the crossovers on this scale, so we know it can be done. There's the potential for the crossovers to be even bigger now, and I'm sure it will happen because they want to milk this cash cow until it's dead and buried. But that must take some planning. F4 at the end of the current schedule isn't an accident.
Btw Quantumania still looks boring.