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Story is not written, scholar-- and neither is destiny! History is made! Made by the deeds of the strong! The brave! And destiny is forged! The historians, the students, the gray-beards-- they come in the wake of the strong and write down what the brave have done! But it is the conquerors who change the world!
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~ Kang the Conqueror
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That's the problem with heroes, really. Their only purpose in life is to thwart others. They make no plans, develop no strategies. They react instead of act. Without villains, heroes would stagnate. Without heroes, villains would be running the world. Heroes have morals. Villains have work ethic.
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~ Kang the Conqueror in The Last Avengers Story.
Nathaniel Richards, also known as Kang the Conqueror, is one of the main antagonists of the Marvel Universe, most commonly serving as one of the main antagonists of the Avengers franchise and a major antagonist in the Fantastic Four franchise.
He is a time-traveling conqueror from the future, possessing the incredible ability to traverse through time. Driven by an unwavering desire for absolute control and domination, his ultimate goal is to establish his reign over the vast expanse of the entire universe. Since his initial appearance, he has consistently emerged as one of the Avengers' most persistent and perilous adversaries, constantly posing a significant threat to their collective efforts.
Kang's origins as Nathaniel Richards, was a brilliant scientist from the future, add depth to his personality. This background showcases his intelligence and ingenuity, as well as his ability to manipulate time and technology to his advantage. Furthermore, Kang is also influenced by his complicated relationships with other Marvel characters. His encounters with heroes such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four reveal a certain level of respect and admiration for their skills and capabilities. This conflicting dynamic adds an interesting layer to his personality, as it showcases his recognition of worthy adversaries and his willingness to form temporary alliances when it suits his interests.
One of the most striking aspects of Kang is his insatiable thirst for power and control. He is driven by a relentless ambition to conquer and dominate whatever he sets his sights on. This insidious desire stems from his deep-rooted belief that he alone should rule over all of time and space, and he will stop at nothing to achieve this goal. Kang's unwavering determination and single-minded focus on his objectives make him a formidable adversary in any battle.
Moreover, Kang possesses a strong sense of pride and arrogance, which further shapes his personality. He sees himself as superior to others, viewing most individuals as mere pawns in his grand scheme. This arrogance often leads him to underestimate his opponents, which sometimes becomes his downfall. Nevertheless, his confidence in his own abilities is a driving force behind his actions and decisions.
Biography[]
Background[]
The backstory of Kang the Conqueror, a notorious supervillain with the ability to travel through time, is a multifaceted and intricate tale. Originally known as Nathanial Richards, Kang emerged in a distant future, several centuries beyond the timeline depicted in the mainstream Marvel Universe. In this era, the technological advancements were unparalleled, granting him the extraordinary power to manipulate time and journey through different eras.
After encountering his ancestor Doctor Doom, Nathanial found himself filled with inspiration to create a remarkable suit of powered armor, adopting the moniker of the Scarlet Centurion. Utilizing an alternate Earth, he skillfully manipulated the original Avengers into apprehending all other superhumans within their realm. Once this cunning plan was successfully executed, he cunningly transported the prominent Avengers to that very world, coercing them into a fierce battle. His elaborate scheme aimed to ensure his victory over the losing team, thus granting him the opportunity to conquer that particular realm. Alas, despite his grand intentions, it was the mainstream Avengers who emerged triumphant, ultimately vanquishing the Scarlet Centurion and forcibly returning him to his own time period.
Feeling deeply humiliated by his previous defeat, Nathanial decided to reinvent himself as Kang the Conqueror. With this new persona, he embarked on a relentless mission to conquer not only his own world but also various alien realms, including the powerful Shi'ar civilization. However, Kang's thirst for vengeance against the Avengers, who had previously thwarted him, drove him to travel back in time. Hoping to finally have his revenge, he engaged in a fierce battle with the Avengers, but once again, fate dealt him a crushing blow as he was defeated once more.
Not long after their encounter, he cunningly devised a deceitful plan to outsmart the Avengers, opting to create an intricately designed robotic replica of Spider-Man in order to catch them completely off guard. With this cunning ploy, Kang successfully defeated the formidable superhero team, inflicting a temporary defeat upon them. However, his triumph was short-lived as the real Spider-Man, with his unwavering determination, swiftly intervened, demolishing the facade of Kang's robotic duplicate and setting his fellow superheroes free from their captive state. Sensing the tide turning against him, Kang wisely chose to retreat back to his own time, where he could regroup, conquer, and strategize for his inevitable return. This retreat allowed him the opportunity to further solidify his plans, ensuring that his next encounter with the Avengers would be even more devastating. As the intriguing Venom series unfolded in 2021, Kang intriguingly found himself aligned with the absent throne, dutifully serving under the enigmatic figure known as Meridius.
Powers and Abilities[]
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Put away your childish weapons! They are no more than toys to me.
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~ Kang the Conqueror.
Kang possesses a genius-level intellect, and is a master strategist and scientist. His technology is far more powerful and advanced than that of Iron Man or Doctor Doom, and has so many capabilities.
His armor gives him the trademark ability to time through travel seamlessly, making him the only character in the Marvel universe (other than his counterpart Immortus) to be able to time travel without creating divergences. He can also manipulate time to his will. The armor also gives him a relatively small amount of superhuman strength, capable of lifting 5 tons, as well as great durability. He has an anti-gravity controller, in which he can render himself and other objects up to 2.2 tons, weightless. He can create extremely powerful force fields around himself up to twenty feet, and can fire energy blasts from his hands and helmet that have the force of several tons of dynamite. He often utilizes a hover pad with which he can fly during his battles, and can summon weapons through time-portals instantly.
Many of these weapons include an antimatter field generator, a vibration-wave projector, an electromagnetic field amplifier, a hand-held warhead launcher, electrical emitters, nerve gas sprayers, and a molecular expander, among other things.
He also commands vast armies of warriors from across all of time, including his own future army, which possess advanced weaponry similar to his own. An expert in future robotics, Kang also has numerous robots to do his bidding.
Kang travels in his Damocles Base, a huge time-traveling spaceship which is shaped like a sword.
Kang the Conqueror appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making his debut as the main antagonist of the TV series, Loki and will return to make his feature film debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He is portrayed by Jonathan Majors.
Television[]
Marvel Future Avengers[]
In Marvel Future Avengers, Kang serves as the main antagonist of the first season and the mastermind behind the Emerald Rain Project.
He ess voiced by Jiro Saito in Japanese and Steve Blum (who also voiced Amon and Starscream) in English.
Kang serves as a major antagonist in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. This version of Kang is a well-intentioned extremist trying to save his timeline and his lover Ravonna after it was wiped out by an anomaly in the timestream. Kang goes after Captain America believing him to be responsible for the destruction of his timeline and tries to conquer the world before being defeated by the Avengers. In Season 2, he erases the Avengers briefly before being defeated by another group of heroes known as the New Avengers.
Avengers Assemble[]
In Avengers Assemble, Kang has a story arc in Ultron Revolution which is meant to set up the Civil War arc, but this ends up being a retcon. Here, Kang has taken over Earth in the 3000s and it's implied that he conquered the whole universe, since he said "In the future, there are no worlds left for me to conquer.". Kang realizes that AIM managed to make a portal to the future to steal from him, leading to the Avengers finding his dystopia. The Avengers find out that rebels are fighting him, and Rogers manages to fight Kang and strand him in the Jurassic. Kang's empire falls, so to take it back he finds his way to the present to join the Cabal, led by Loki. He manages to brainwash Falcon into serving him for many years but this turns out to be in order to reverse a world ending anomaly. Kang is never seen again, but it is implied that he is plotting to make a new empire in the future.
Video-Games[]
Lego Marvel Avengers[]
Kang the Conqueror appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers DLC pack of Captain Marvel as both a boss and a playable character.
Lego Marvel Superheroes 2[]
Kang serves as the main antagonist and a playable character in Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. Kang travels across space and time to collect areas of different realms to build his city-base, Chronopolis, along with gathering heroes from those eras, including the Avengers.
At the beginning of the game, Kang and his forces attack the Nova Empire on the planet Xandar to acquire it. As soon as Kang notices the Guardians of the Galaxy fighting off his invasion, he uses the Forever Crystal to summon the Celestial Eson to fight them. Even though the Guardians of the Galaxy prevailed and banished Eson, Kang deploys several projectiles to form a barrier around a section of Xandar, vanishing it from existence. Kang then departs on his ship, the Damocles, while the Guardians flee and travel to Earth to alert the Avengers.
Kang enlists many supervillains on Earth, who all plan their own schemes for his arrival. Once Kang arrives on Earth to obtain a fraction of New York City, he teleports the Avengers there to Chronopolis, where they meet other heroes and villains from alternate eras.
Once Chronopolis was formed, there were energy barriers separating the realms, in which Kang had to open portals to help his villainous cohorts travel in between them. The source of the dimensional barriers was the Nexus of Realities.
Kang arrives in a local swamp, where he appears before Thor, Captain Marvel and She-hulk after they defeated the Man-Thing, and reveals to them a local swamp tree as the Nexus of Realities and Man-Thing as its guardian. Kang then throws a bomb at the tree, destroying it and lowering the energy barriers, thus allowing his forces to invade and travel through the other realms of Chronopolis with ease.
Throughout the progress of the game, Kang is at his citadel, where he is observing Chronopolis and admiring his plan in action. Kang's bride, Rovana, slyly urges him to stop his plan of conquest, but Kang strongly opposed her, prompting the latter to contact Cosmo to aid the Avengers.
As Kang catches wind of the heroes' plan to use the Nexus shards to summon Cosmo to Chronopolis, he hacks into their device designed to summon Cosmo to fool them into summoning Ego instead to destroy them. Luckily, the heroes fixed their machine, banishing Ego, and successfully summoning Cosmo in Knowhere to Chronopolis.
Once Cosmo arrived, he helps the heroes emit an EMP signal from Knowhere that lowered Kang's Citadel's defense systems. Captain Marvel then orders the Nova Corp to attack the Citadel, but Kang's ship suddenly arrives and wipes out the entire Nova Corp. Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Star-Lord invade the Damocles and face Kang there, only to discover him as a hologram. Kang then causes his ship to crash and dispatches Korvac to assure the heroes' demise, though the heroes soon manage to escape from the ship after they defeated Korvac.
The heroes head over to Kang's Citadel and finally make their way towards Kang. In the final battle, Kang challenges Captain America as a giant hologram to face him while he terrorizes Chronopolis by using his ship as a massive sword. Once Captain America creates a giant projection of himself, he takes Kang head-on and defeats him, forcing him out of his hologram simulator. However, Kang still refuses to give up, as he now plans to use his Forever Crystal to reset time to prevent the heroes' victory from happening. However, he soon discovers that Rovanna has now sided with the heroes and secretly aided them while she takes his crystal away from him. Rovanna feels ashamed of herself for her betrayal, as she revealed her feelings for Kang. Kang tries to manipulate Rovanna into handing over his crystal, but Rovanna now stands up to Kang and uses the Forever Crystal to transform him into an infant.
In the aftermath, Infant Kang is placed in the care of the heroes while the newly reformed Rovanna vows to return the realms of Chronopolis to their proper eras with the Forever Crystal. However, Rovanna soon returns from the future as Terminatrix to seek help from the heroes, as she and the Supreme Intelligence come across Captain America, Captain Marvel and Iron Man and inform them about a chronal fracture.
Marvel Contest of Champions[]
Kang the Conqueror is an antagonist in the mobile fighting game and also serves as a boss and playable character. In the story quest, Kang competes in the contest with a team of heroes and villains to challenge the main player known as the Summoner who is tasked by the Collector to win, otherwise they will be added to his collection. A variant of him, Superior Kang, is the main antagonist of Act 7, chapter 4 of the game.
Marvel: Avengers Alliance[]
Kang the Conqueror appears as a boss and playable character in the defunct video game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
Trivia[]
He was created by the late Stan Lee and the late Jack Kirby.
He was ranked "65th-greatest comic book villain of all time" by IGN in 2009.
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