To the joy of the fans of the universe Marvel, the premiere of the film Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania unfolds a new phase in the adventures of the superheroes of the seal created by the remembered Stan Lee. The new movie starring Paul Rudd, incarnated to the diminutive Scott Lang, and Evangeline Lillyin the role of Hope van Dyne, continues the development of the characters of the two previous installments.
The thirty-first film in the most memorable franchise in movie history, based on comic book characters, is directed by Peyton Reed with the planning and authorization of the official showrunner of the prestigious saga, Kevin Feige. Thus begins the expected “Phase 5” of the MCU, which will place a new challenge on the temporary reality of the characters, who make up the superheroic cosmogony.
The conflict has a name: Kang. After the fatal outcome of Thanos in “Avengers: Endgame”, the saga orphaned a villain with a powerful entity. Beyond the mystical adventures that united “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and in “Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness”the dimensionality of the new installment inspires expectation and a certain epic air.
Kang’s first appearance, represented by the Jonathan Majorsit was in the final episode of ‘Loki‘, one of Marvel’s most applauded series on Disney+. In the chapter, “He who remains” It is defined as one of the peaceful variants of the supervillain who, according to his own account, founded the Temporal Variation Authority after a great war between universes that confronted him with other of his variants.
However, the temporal protector is killed by sylvie, the female variant of Loki, in the season finale. Before his death he leaves a warning: there are more evil variants of him in the multiverse. The first to run into one of them will be Scott Lang. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” It will serve for us to witness who is estimated to be the most evil variant of the galaxy, Kang the Conqueror.
Kang the Conqueror first appeared in 1963 in issue #19 of the comic. fantastic four and it took only a year to receive the name of Kang, something that would happen later, in the eighth installment of The Avengers comic, by the work of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
According to the comic, Kang’s adventures date back to the adventures of Nathaniel Richards, born in the Earth-6311 time line, in the middle of the XXX century. We are talking about an ordinary scientist who discovered a way to travel in time. Richards would travel to ancient Egypt to control En Sabah Nur, the future mutant Apocalypse. He managed to rule as a god for a decade, until he was defeated by the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, but Richards would discover the advantages of traveling between universes and conquering everything within his reach.
For this reason, the main power of the villain is intelligence and his threat lies in his ambition to conquer the entire multiverse. In addition, he ages at a slower rate than a normal human, masters time manipulation to perfection, and is a born tactician skilled in armed combat. However, it is the temporary game of conquering the future, undoing the past, and traveling from the present that causes him to inadvertently create variants of himself that are dedicated to vying with each other over his desire to conquer and hindering his shared goal. universal domain. Appearances of new superheroes will probably be required to stop the threat, Kevin Feige will have the last word.
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