Did you watch ant man and the wasp quantamaniya? Here are few important facts you should know about Kang the Conqueror




First of all who is Kang? Kang or Nathaniel Richerds is the main villain in  Marvel's next phase. So you must know at least a little amount of knowledge about Kang. Before the origin let's talk about who he is in the present? The reason why I used the word 'present' is because he is a time traveler. A time-traveling entity and descendant of the scientist of the same name, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, including his respective future and past heroic selves, Pharao Rama tut, Immortus, the scarlet centurion, Vortex prime, Victor timelyIron ladChronomonitor #616, and Qeng Gryphon. Other characters to assume the title of "Kang" include Kang's sons Marcus and  Ahura Boltagon.

Kang and Ravonna

  He also got married to several women in different timelines and  Ravonna, Mantis, and Nebula, as well as alternate versions of Sue Storm and Kamala Khan are examples. Yeah, Ravonna from Loki series!

Kang the Conqueror has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful villains because he has been a challenge to the fantastic four and avengers. Kang has made media appearances in animated television and video games. He made his feature film debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), portrayed by Jonathan Majors, who also portrayed Pharaoh Rama-Tut, Victor Timely, Immortus, Scarlet Centurion, Chronomonitor #616, and the wider Council of Kangs in the film's mid-credits scene, and will reprise the roles in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2025) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2026). Majors also previously appeared as "He Who Remains", a version of the character from the previous incarnation of the multiverse and creator of the Time Variance Authority (TVA), in the episode "For All Time. Always." from the 2021 first season of Loki, and will return as Victor Timely in the series' 2023 second season.

As a descendant of Reed Richards' time-traveling father Nathaniel, Nathaniel Richards becomes fascinated with history and discovers the time travel technology created by Victor von Doom, another possible ancestor of hisWith plans to claim En Sabah Nur—the mutant destined to become Apocalypse—as his heir, he travels back in time aboard a Sphinx-shaped timeship and becomes the Pharaoh Rama-Tut (while a variant of him is simultaneously recruited by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) as Chronomonitor #616), in ancient Egypt. Fantastic Four defeats the pharaoh. An embittered Nathaniel Richards travels forward to the 20th century where he meets Doctor Doom, whom he believes might be his ancestor. He later designs an armor based on Doom's and, calling himself the Scarlet Centurion, pits the Avengers team against alternate-reality counterparts. He plans to dispose of all of them, but the Avengers manage to force him from the timeline, where a divergent version of him becomes Victorex Prime, the archenemy of the Squadron Supreme.

Nathaniel then tries to return to the 31st century, but overshoots by a thousand years, discovering a war-torn Earth that uses advanced weapons they no longer understand. He finds it simple to conquer the planet, expanding his dominion throughout the galaxy, and reinvents himself as Kang the Conqueror. But this future world is dying, and so he decides to take over an earlier, more fertile Earth

Powers and abilities

Kang has no superhuman abilities but is an extraordinary genius, an expert historical scholar, and a master physicist (specializing in time travel), an engineer, and a technician. He is armed with 40th-century technology, wearing highly advanced battle armor that enhances his strength, is capable of energy, hologram, and force-field projection, has a 30-day supply of air and food, and is capable of controlling other forms of technology. Courtesy of his "time ship", Kang has access to technology from any century, and he once claimed his ship alone could destroy the Moon.

As Rama-Tut, he used an "ultra-diode" ray gun that was able to sap the wills of human beings. At a high frequency, it is able to weaken superhuman beings and prevent use of their superpowers. They can be freed from its effects if the gun is fired at them a second time.


Variations

There are different variations of Kang the Conqueror:

Pharaoh Rama-Tut

Pharaoh Rama-Tut was Kang's original alias when he ruled ancient Egypt. Later in life, he retires as Kang and returns to the Pharaoh Rama-Tut identity, and helps the Avengers defeat his past self when he attempts to capture the "Celestial Madonna". He nearly surrenders to destiny to become Immortus, but changes his mind and returns to the Kang identity when he discovers that Immortus is a pawn of beings called the Time-Keepers.

Immortus

Immortus is an alternate version of Kang who resides in Limbo. Kang was destined to become him until the last issue of the Avengers Forever series, in which powerful beings called the Time Keepers unintentionally separate the former from the latter.

Iron Lad

Iron Lad is an adolescent version of Kang who learned of his future self when Kang tried to prevent a childhood hospitalization. Attempting to escape his destiny, the teen Nate Richards steals his future self's advanced armor and travels back to the past, forming the Young Avengers to help him stop Kang. When his attempt to reject his destiny results in Kang's death, the resulting destruction caused by the changes in history forces Iron Lad to return to his time and undo the damage by becoming Kang.

Victor Timely

A divergent version of Kang establishes a small, quiet town called Timely, Wisconsin in 1901 to serve as a 20th-century base, where he occasionally resides as Mayor Victor Timely. Posing as his own son Victor Timely Jr., he develops an interest in a visiting college graduate named Phineas Horton, providing the young man with insights that eventually led to his creation of the original Human torch

Scarlet Centurion

Numerous versions/relatives of Kang have assumed this alias, typically with a penchant for death games (setting teams of heroes against one another):

  • Nathaniel Richards the Second, in a one-time identity he assumed after being the Pharaoh Rama-Tut but before going on to become Kang.
  • Marcus Kang aka Marcus XXIII, the son of Kang the Conqueror was active during Avengers Forever.
  • A version of Kang who remained the Scarlet Centurion and conquered the alternate universe    

Crosstime Kang Corps


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