Who is kang

The planet was later saved from war and brought into a period of peace thanks to the efforts of Nathaniel Richards, a time traveler from Earth, who settled on the planet and used his knowledge to create a new and better society on Earth He eventually became known as The Benefactor. His motives? Nothing less than complete and total universal domination. It is worth noting, however, that Kang is often the cause of his biggest problems.

Kang is also rumored to be a descendant of Reed Richards , a. Mister Fantastic, but that lineage has never been confirmed in the comics. Born in the 30th century, he had a much longer lifespan than humans in the 20th century, but what makes Kang powerful and dangerous is his superhuman intellect, unparalleled skills as a military tactician, and indomitable will.

Kang also wears armor made out of materials from the 40th century, which responds to his thoughts and imbues him with superhuman abilities.

The armor gives him superhero strength and durability. Deep into his future, Kang the Conqueror's powers continued to grow and he became the time lord known as Immortus. Tired of fighting and losing his loved ones in multiple timelines, Kang decided to give up his life as Kang in order to serve the Time-Keepers from the temporal Limbo dimension.

The Time-Keepers were aliens from the end of the universe who chose Immortus as their avatar to defend timelines from those who would upset them, including his younger self. Immortus often found himself on the side of the Avengers and other heroes while he battled his former self in defense of the timeline.

Iron Lad was a fan-favorite member of the Young Avengers with a look reminiscent of Iron Man who responsible for organizing the team of Avengers-related teen heroes. Fans and his teammates were surprised to learn that Iron Lad was actually a younger version of Kang the Conquerer. When Kang traveled back in time in order to convince his younger self to accept his destiny, his plan backfired.

Iron Lad instead killed his future self and created a temporal paradox that was only resolved when he returned to the future to follow his destiny and become Kang the Conqueror. The Inhuman king Black Bolt sent his son Ahura to the past with Kang in order to save him from the incursions that led to the modern Secret Wars event.

Kang agreed under the condition that he would get to keep Ahura. However, Kang manipulated Ahura and tricked him into wiping out the Inhumans in the past, leading him to eventually take over the role of Kang as an adult. The Inhumans were forced to kill the adult Ahura, but they were able to save their young son from the past as well. Already having deep ties to the Avengers and Fantastic Four, this more recent comic story gave him a strong tie to the Inhumans as well.

This helped establish Kang as an even bigger threat that continued to deepen his roots in Marvel mythology. Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco's Avengers Forever attempted to clean up some of the muddy waters of Marvel's timeline that had been created partly by Kang himself over the years, which resulted in Immortus' attempt to kill classic Avengers ally Rick Jones.

Jones was powered by the Destiny Force, which Immortus had traced to a dark future he hoped to avoid— though Kang the Conqueror arrived to protect Rick Jones.

Jones then pulled a team of Avengers from different eras of time to help him fight the Destiny War— first alongside, and then against Kang the Conqueror and Immortus. The long-running storyline featured a number of unforgettable moments that included the complete annihilation of Washington, D. Thankfully the Avengers were ultimately able to stop Kang and restore order, though the damage was irreversible. Uriel and Eimin were the Apocalypse Twins, whose birth and eventual rise to power as leaders of the mutant race would have threatened Kang's eventual rule in the future.

So he took preventative measures and kidnaped the twins as babies so that he could raise them using his own brutal methods.

When The Apocalypse Twins were teenagers, they escaped from their adoptive father and actively worked against him to bring about their own rule. However, Kang's machinations were ultimately revealed as a plan to erase mutantkind as an overall future threat, though he was stopped by the Uncanny Avengers. Kang has borrowed Rick Jones' "Destiny War" maneuver a few times over the years as he has pulled Marvel heroes and villains from different points in time to fight for him in important battles, like when he entered into an unwinnable battle with Ultron in the Next Avengers future that ultimately broke time.

The Avengers had to go back and convince Ultron to lose and save the timeline. Then there's Iron Lad of the Young Avengers — an armored hero who took his inspiration from Tony Stark, and who was actually a teenage version of Kang attempting to try his life over again as a hero. Iron Lad tragically returned to his own timeline due to issues with changing the past, leaving his life and memories as a hero behind to fulfill his destiny as Kang. The android body of the Human Torch was later used to build the Vision — who went on to try to defeat Kang by kidnapping him as a child, resulting in an even more fractured version of Kang with even more identities.

Interestingly, Kang's identity of Victor Timely gets a few nods in Loki, with the MCU version of Kang's lover Ravonna Renslayer 's real name revealed as Rebecca Tourminet, an alias she used while Kang was going by Victor Timely, as well as the appearance of Alioth, an old enemy of Kang who is his most powerful rival in comic books, and who played a big role in Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective , which introduced Ravonna's Rebecca Tourminet alias.

That's a lot, but it's most likely that the version of Kang who comes to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be based on the main version - though with at least one of his variants already onscreen, and a whole host of them waiting in the wings, it's very likely we'll see some of his other identities pop-up as well.

As we said, Kang has deep connections to many Marvel heroes. Most obviously, he shares a name with Reed Richards' father Nathaniel Richards. Complicating things even more, the original Nathaniel Richards Reed's father is also a time-traveler and in some realities has also been Kang, though in most cases they are descendants who share a name.

He's also a descendant of Doctor Doom, Reed's arch-enemy, and used Doom's time-travel technology to develop his own tech and weapons. He's even teamed up with Doom to challenge Marvel's heroes more than once.

And of course, there's Kang's Iron Man connection, not just through Kang's time as Iron Lad, but through one of the most notorious and disliked Avengers stories ever.

In ' The Crossing ,' Kang manipulates Tony Stark into becoming a villain, at which point he dies and is replaced with a teen version of Tony Stark from earlier in the timeline, all of which was eventually reversed through even more comic book science. Kang also once teamed up with the Apocalypse Twins, mutants who were twisted by the X-Men villain Apocalypse to be his successors. Interestingly enough, it's that story that develops Kang's connection to the Wasp, who is trapped in a dystopian future world by Kang where she marries Havok of the X-Men and even has a child, though the relationship and the child were eventually erased when Wasp and Havok returned home though not all the memories of that time went away.

Weirdly, the one time Kang fought Ant-Man and the Wasp by themselves, it was in a corporate tie-in comic for Synchrony Bank in which Ant-Man learns to open a savings account yes, really.

Most importantly, Kang once actually managed to conquer the Avengers' whole timeline, taking over the world and imprisoning almost everyone who might be able to stop him, including Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Of course, he was eventually defeated — but not before he and Captain America fought to the finish as a pair of gigantic holograms clashing in space above the Earth.

Now, Marvel Comics is showing a new take on Kang's origin story with the five-issue Kang the Conqueror limited series, which kicked off with a new take on Kang's earliest beginnings as a time-traveler.

Kang actually doesn't have any powers of his own — but he is a gifted military strategist and combatant and has access not just to extensive weaponry from across all eras of history including the far future, he has unparalleled time-travel technology. That weaponry includes his vaunted Damocles Base, a massive time-traveling starship shaped like a sword, which holds a massive arsenal of its own.

In the past, Kang has managed to launch attacks across multiple time periods at once, including in the story Avengers Forever , in which Immortus brings together a team of Avengers from across different eras to challenge his younger self. And aside from his weapons, Kang is sometimes backed by an army of potentially trillions of soldiers from all across time and space, which he has often employed against his enemies.

Likewise, Loki episode 6's variant Kang, He Who Remains, demonstrates that he doesn't seem to have powers of his own, but advanced knowledge of what will happen in his entire timeline up to a certain point, and the technology to manipulate time around him both in response to, and in preparation for his enemies.