How Kang Could And Should Be an Even Better Big Bad Than Thanos
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As Black Panther: Wakanda Forever wraps up Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), we are slowly but surely inching toward the much anticipated Avengers: Secret Wars. In true Marvel fashion, following the lead of the Infinity Saga, all the clues are beginning to appear and will be tied up in one grand finale. Only this time, the earth’s mightiest heroes will be up against a new supervillain, Kang the Conqueror, who has been touted to be a much bigger and badder antagonist than Thanos.
In Phase 4, we have already been introduced to a variant of Kang (played by Jonathan Majors), Nathaniel Richards, also known as He Who Remains, in the first installment of the live-action Disney+ series, Loki. The eccentric genius had explained what was going on with the variants and the Time Variant Authority (TVA) and offered Loki and Sylvie (Loki’s variant) a chance to be his disciples and lead the TVA, thus maintaining the timeline and preventing his evil variant, Kang the Conqueror, from taking control of the Multiverse. However, Sylvie was skeptical of Richards and ended up killing him, which resulted in the evil Kang the Conqueror taking control of the TVA and also the Multiverse. While the MCU Kang is a high-level genius with the ability to take control of the Multiverse, we have yet to get a closer look at the true extent of his powers.
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In the comic books, Kang has been a formidable adversary of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Kang has no superpowers or super strength. However, his genius has given him the ability to move around timelines and universes, picking up technology and weapons from time and space unknown to his enemies. He is a genius extraordinaire, scientist, engineer, historian, combatant, and tactician who has mastered time. His full-body armor allows him to lift enormous amounts of weight, shield him from a nuclear attack, and project gravito-electromagnetic force fields. The armor has a long-lasting supply of air, and food and is fitted with advanced weaponry. His primary agenda in the comics is to conquer all the universes he can. As he goes about his quest, he ends up creating multiple Kang variants. Some of these variants end up becoming his adversaries.
Though Kang the conqueror is no god like Thanos, he has a hold on all timelines and all universes, which makes him much more unpredictable and menacing than Thanos who had no such abilities. The scene showing the Infinity Stones just lying around at the Time Variant Authority (TVA) in Loki gave us a flavor of how much more powerful Kang is compared to Thanos, who had to spend considerable time and energy collecting only a handful of these stones. Moreover, unlike Thanos, who had the single agenda of “saving” the world by cutting its population down by half, Kang is more unhinged in his motives of attaining multiversal dominion. Kang is clearly more dangerous than Thanos as shown in Avengers: Mech Strike (2021). In the comic series, Kang enhances his abilities by connecting with Avengers tech and is able to sap all life out of Thanos in no time. The Avengers are definitely up against a much bigger threat this time around!
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Kang the Conqueror is set to appear in the first film of Phase 5 of the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, set to release on February 17, 2023. From the trailers, it is evident that Kang is onto making new trouble as he asks Ant-Man to steal back something that was stolen for him in exchange for getting Ant-Man out of the microverse. While we can only expect to see Kang in full glory in Phase 6 of the MCU, Avengers: Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, it is intriguing to watch as Marvel sets up the characters and events leading up to the colossal finale.
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