Who is Marvel’s Kang the Conqueror?
KANG the Conqueror is one of Marvel's most notorious antagonists.
With his upcoming feature film in 2023 movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the blue-faced time traveller played a part in the Disney+ series Loki.
Who is Marvel's Kang the Conqueror?
Kang the Conqueror, originally a 31st-century scientist named Nathaniel Richards, is one of 's oldest villains.
He is known for his blue face mask and futuristic weapons.
He was born in the year 3000 and is believed to be a descendant of the Richards' fantastic bloodlines as well as the evil Doctor Victor Von Doom.
Nathanial recreated Doom's time machine to travel back in time and conquer the past - as his alter-ego Kang the Conqueror.
Over various periods of time, he has taken on various different identities, including murderous pharoah Rama-Tut and the young avenger, Iron Lad.
There's also alien warrior Scarlet Centurion.
But Kang's primary alter-identity is Immortus, who has won battles against the Fantastic Four and the .
He has challenged the Avengers numerous times under many different identities.
He splintered the Marvel timeline to create his own council of Kangs.
Although Kang has made appearances in animated television and video games, he will make his feature film debut in upcoming MCU film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - releasing in 2023.
Kang will be played by Jonathan Majors, known for his role as Atticus Freeman in the HBO television series Lovecraft Country.
What are Kang the Conqueror's powers?
Kang actually has no superhuman abilities but is an evil genius and and master physicist, who has harnessed the art of time travel.
His time travelling abilities mean that he has 40th-century technology, including highly advanced battle armor.
The armor has the ability to enhance his strength, as well as having energy, hologram and force-field projection, which has a 30-day supply of air and food.
When did Kang appear in Loki on Disney+?
The Loki season one finale aired this Wednesday, 14 July, 2021, and introduced Kang - referred to as He Who Remains and played by Jonathan Majors in the show - as the one to blame for the series' events.
Kang's presence has certainly been felt before he even appeared in the show.
Kang just introduced in the first episode of Disney+'s Loki, in a narrated sequence explain the supposed creation of the three timekeepers.
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The job of these timekeepers, created many years ago, is to organise the Marvel multiverse into one "sacred timeline."
Marvel fans believed that one of these timekeepers is Kang the Conqueror - the villain even appeared as a sculpture in the background of Loki's TVA hearing.
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But episode 4 of Loki revealed that the Time Keepers are fake.
This didn't stop fans from theorising that Kang might by a singular, all-powerful figurehead of the TVA.