Avengers: Endgame
Avengers : Endgamemight have set up the villain for Marvel ’s Phase 4 , with its time - change of location secret plan pave the way for Kang the Conqueror to be the antagonist ofAvengers 5 . With Thanos and the Infinity Stones over with , theMCUis in need of a new Big Bad for whatever human body the next Avengers film takes , and Kang would fit the bill nicely .
There ’s been a fortune of public lecture abouthow Marvel will replace Thanos , who proved a major smash as a villain , peculiarly inAvengers : Infinity War , with lots of talk about characters such as Galactus , Annihilus , or even Norman Osborn . There ’s no shortage of villain pick for the MCU , but since they like to ride things before they happen , it ’s deserving look back atAvengers : Endgameand what it might be setting up .
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Thanks to its use of clip - travel , one of the biggest tip is to Kang the Conqueror , a villain who is all about trip through time , and would be a big enough threat to take on the Avengers . Although his right hand were with Fox , the Disney takeover mean he ’s very much in play , and there ’s a chance he ’s already shaping into the scoundrel ofMCU Phase 4andAvengers 5 .
Kang The Conqueror Explained
In Kang the Conqueror ’s first Marvel Comics visual aspect , he was n’t foretell Kang at all . debut inFantastic Four # 19 , he went by the name Rama - Tut . actual name Nathaniel Richards ( he might be a descendant of Reed Richards ) , he traveled back in clip to Ancient Egypt , becoming the Pharoh and taking the future - Apocalypse as his heir . It was n’t untilThe Avengers # 8a year later that Kang the Conqueror would formally appear , fight an Avengers line - up that include Thor , Wasp , and Spider - Man ( all hero who ’ll be present in theMCU ’s Phase 4 ) , but then having various identities is kind of Kang ’s matter .
Other iterations of the role include Immortus , a future reading of Kang who resides in Limbo , and Iron Lad , who was an original part ofthe Young Avengersteam . There ’s also Victor Timely , the mayor of a small Ithiel Town Kang instal as a post to go for some down sentence . The cause for having multiple alter - egos is that Kang the Conqueror is a time - traveler , and alongside these version are multiple duplicates of Kang , with each journeying through time creating a new one .
Although Richards does n’t actually own any typical world power , he is a genius who specialize in time - travelling , and possesses a time - ship that allows him to visit any hundred , through which he ’s able to collect an array of different weapon and armors to give himself enhanced power , utilizing implausibly forward-looking technology that no one else has accession to or can cope with . He ’s also able-bodied to recruit different ground forces , which conduce to him conquering dissimilar time catamenia , and further enables him to go toe - to - toe with superheroes . That , combined with his ability to time - travel best than anyone else , throw him a compelling choice forThe Avengers 5 .
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Avengers: Endgame Created The Multiverse (In Multiple Ways)
retaliator : Endgamefully stick in time - travel to the MCU . Although this had already been shown withDoctor Strangeand the Time Stone , it took on a much gravid grandness here , and by utilizing the Quantum Realm it constitute a means of time - travel subsist without the exercise of an Infinity Stone ( which is ready to hand given they ’ve been destroy ) . However , along with establishing this new variety of time - travel , it also meant creating multiple timelines .
As the Ancient One explained inAvengers : Endgame , every metre the Avengers take an Infinity Stone from its place in the timeline , a novel branch realness is create . In theory , these are close by Captain America returning the Stones back to their correct plaza in time , but it ’s not quite so unproblematic . We see Loki take the Tesseract and evaporate , while Cap decides to rest in the past tense of another world ( if you mind to the Russos ' account , at least ) , which leaves two of these branches very much in sport . Add in the Thanos from 2014 making the leaping to the present of 2023 , and there are potentially three ( and maybe even more)timelines created inAvengers : Endgamethat still be in the MCU .
That ’s on top of the different dimensions that were already establish byDoctor Strange(the Dark Dimension ) andAnt - Man(the Quantum Realm ) , meaning that despite howSpider - Man : Far From Hometreats it , the multiverse does indeed exist in the MCU , which means there ’s scope for a villain like Kang the Conqueror to tap that and emerge inAvengers 5 .
How Kang Could Fit Into MCU Phase 4
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Phase 4 will be switch over between expanding the cosmic arm of the MCU ( The Eternals , Guardians of the Galaxy 3,Doctor Strange 2 ) and telling smaller , more street - grade stories ( Black Widow , Shang - Chi , Spider - Man 3 ) . In Kang the Conqueror , Marvel would be getting themselves a villain who can do both : as a time - traveller , he fit in with the former , but since he ’s also an Earth - bloodline persona without veridical power , he does n’t feel too heavy for the latter .
The Eternalsis a cosmic MCU prequel , so there ’s a fortune of them further uprise ideas around time - travel and dissimilar dimension , and likewiseDoctor Strange 2.Loki , the Disney+ TV serial publication , is another elbow room Phase 4 can indirectly tease Kang . Looking at the planned Disney+ MCU series , they all have some sense of determination : Falcon & Winter Soldieris about lay down the new Captain America;Hawkeyewill be fix up Young Avengers . Loki is peculiarly separate from that because he ’s just off on his own , but Kevin Feige has forebode these shows will have an encroachment on theMCU . Since Loki will be in a different timeline , then by using that as one of the edifice blocks of Kang gives it a place in the grander system of things . It ’s also worth noting that Kang has connections to the Fantastic Four , and with the Fox deal being completed things have fallen nicely into spot for him to appear , although Marvel ’s First Family shew up in theMCUstill feel like it ’s a long room off .
It ’s unclear as yet just how the Avengers will be shaping up in Phase 4 , butAvengers 5will happen at some distributor point . It ’ll require to extract together a mathematical group of different heroes and disparate strands , and Kang being the baddie can linkPhase 4andAvengers 5all the path back toAvengers : Endgame , which is the sort of storytelling and universe - establish Marvel sexual love to do . If he turns up inAvengers 5 , then it connects thing together , and most importantly gives the Avengers an all - new threat to face who ’d be different to Thanos , but still worthy of the squad - up .
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