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'''Kang the Conqueror''' ('''Nathaniel Richards''') is a<!--Do not add "fictional" as it is tautological; supervillains (and characters in general) are by definition implied to be fictionalized to some extent.--> [[supervillain]] appearing in [[American comic book]]s published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Created by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], the character first appeared in ''The Avengers'' #8 (September 1964).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who Is Kang the Conqueror? The Marvel History of the MCU's Next Villain, Explained |url=https://nerdist.com/article/kang-the-conquer-marvel-comic-history-variants-next-big-mcu-villain-jonathan-majors/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Nerdist |language=en-US |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405115546/https://nerdist.com/article/kang-the-conquer-marvel-comic-history-variants-next-big-mcu-villain-jonathan-majors/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Kang the Conqueror is most frequently depicted as an opponent of the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]] and the [[Fantastic Four]]. A time-traveler, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, such as [[Rama-Tut]], [[Immortus]], [[Scarlet Centurion]], [[Victor Timely]], [[Iron Lad]], and [[Mister Gryphon]].
Kang the Conqueror has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful villains.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Harth |first=David |date=2022-03-13 |title=The 13 Most Important Marvel Villains, Ranked |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-important-villains-ranked/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR]] |language=en-US |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114201819/https://www.cbr.com/marvel-important-villains-ranked/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |author1=Marston |first=George |date=2022-09-19 |title=The best Avengers villains of all time |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/best-avengers-villains/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=gamesradar |language=en |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114201822/https://www.gamesradar.com/best-avengers-villains/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2">[http://www.ign.com/lists/top-100-comic-book-villains/65 Kang the Conqueror is number 65] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063909/https://www.ign.com/lists/top-100-comic-book-villains/65 |date=October 19, 2021 }}, [[IGN]].</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=Oddo |first1=Marco Vito |last2=Robbins |first2=Jason |date=2021-09-28 |title=20 Most Powerful Marvel Characters, Ranked |url=https://collider.com/most-powerful-marvel-characters-ranked/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=Collider |language=en-US |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114005220/https://collider.com/most-powerful-marvel-characters-ranked/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Harn">{{Cite web |last=Harn |first=Darby |date=2022-06-27 |title=10 Most Powerful Avengers Villains In Marvel Comics |url=https://screenrant.com/most-powerful-avengers-villains-marvel-comics-scarlet-witch/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |language=en-US |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114201821/https://screenrant.com/most-powerful-avengers-villains-marvel-comics-scarlet-witch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Kang has made media appearances in animated television and video games.
==Publication history==
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{{main|Victor Timely}}
A divergent version of Kang establishes a small, quiet town called Timely, [[Wisconsin]] in 1901 to serve as a 20th-century base, where he occasionally resides as '''[[Mayor]] Victor Timely'''. Posing as his own son '''Victor Timely Jr.''', he develops an interest in a visiting college graduate named [[Phineas Horton]], providing the young man with insights which eventually led to his creating the original [[Human Torch (android)|Human Torch]].<ref>''The Avengers'' Annual #21 (January 1992). [[Marvel Comics]].</ref>
===Doctor Doom===
{{main|Doctor Doom}}
When an alliance of the founding Avengers -- Thor, Giant-Man, Wasp, Hulk, and Iron Man; Avengers from the past -- Captain America, Black Knight, Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, Namor; the present day Avengers -- Hercules, Wasp, Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man, Vision; and the Future-Vision; had all traveled back through time to alter Kang's past, and were attacking Kang's Fortress, they were suddenly confronted by Kang's future selves including the Scarlet Centurion and Immortus. The Avengers could spot Doctor Doom among them, who claimed that the Avengers had "cornered" them at a point where their powers were at their greatest, which implied that this Doctor Doom was actually a future Kang, too.
While these future incarnations of Kang erased the other Avengers from the timestream, Giant-Man was able to flee and gather the Chronal Energy Container, a device used by Kang's alien miners to mine time by robbing life forms of their future. Giant-Man then used it to trap the Kangs, which allowed the other Avengers to return to existence. Afterward the Future-Vision used the Chronal Energy Container to send all Avengers back to their own times while erasing their memories save for his past self and the present day Avengers team. He then stayed to guard the imprisoned Kangs at the End of Time.<ref>''Avengers'' Vol 7 issue 6 (April 2017). [[Marvel Comics]]. </ref>
===Scarlet Centurion===
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===Ultimate Marvel===
A female version of Kang appears in the [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate universe]], claiming she has a plan to prevent the destruction of Earth. It is revealed she is from an alternate Earth sent back with a containment suit, arriving one week after the [[Ultimatum (comics)|Ultimatum Wave]] destroyed New York, convincing [[Maker (
===''X-Men/Star Trek''===
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===Television===
* Kang the Conqueror appears in ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'' episode "Kang", voiced by Ken Kramer.<ref name="btva">{{cite web|title=Kang the Conqueror Voice – Marvel Universe franchise <nowiki>|</nowiki> Behind The Voice Actors|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Marvel-Universe/Kang-the-Conqueror/|website=behindthevoiceactors.com|date=December 20, 2019|postscript=. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources.|access-date=December 20, 2019|archive-date=November 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117235603/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Marvel-Universe/Kang-the-Conqueror/|url-status=live}}</ref> This version hails from the 41st century, where he was overthrown during a revolution and imprisoned between dimensions, with an [[obelisk]] as his only means of escape.
* Kang the Conqueror appears in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', voiced by [[Jonathan Adams (American actor)|Jonathan Adams]].<ref name="btva"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/yost/status/26679622142 |title=Twitter / Christopher Yost: @VenomMelendez Maria Hill |publisher=Twitter.com |access-date=2010-12-28 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126042340/http://twitter.com/yost/status/26679622142 |url-status=live }}</ref> This version hails from the 41st century. Introduced in the episode "Meet Captain America", Kang's timeline is retroactively erased from existence due to a temporal anomaly, which leaves his lover Princess [[Ravonna]] in a coma. Kang traces the disturbance to [[Captain America]]'s presence in the 21st century, and in the episode "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow", launches an attack against the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]], taking them to his time to show them the devastation he claims Captain America caused. However, [[Iron Man]] gains access to Kang's Time Chair and transports everyone back. Injured and defeated, Kang escapes to his flagship, the ''Damocles'', and prepares to conquer Earth with his armada. In the episode "The Kang Dynasty", the Avengers launch an attack against him, boarding the ship and sending most of the armada back to the 41st century. Before they can return Kang's ship, the [[Wasp (character)|Wasp]] discovers what happened to Ravonna and convinces her team to find a way to save her. In the episode "New Avengers", the Council of Kangs frees the original Kang from prison and provides him with new armor, which he uses to take over [[Stark Tower]] so he can use its arc reactor to bring his citadel to the 21st century, incidentally causing "time ripples" across New York and scattering the Avengers across time. In response, the [[The New Avengers (comics)|New Avengers]] Protocol is activated and [[Spider-Man]], [[War Machine]], [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]], the [[
* Kang appears in ''[[Avengers Assemble (TV series)|Avengers Assemble]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url= http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/ultimate-spider-man-and-avengers-renewed-on-disney-xd-with-new-titles | title= 'Ultimate Spider-Man' And 'Avengers' Renewed On Disney XD With New Titles | date= 1 June 2015 | first= Albert | last= Ching | website= ComicBookResources.com | access-date= 14 July 2015 | archive-date= September 24, 2015 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140345/http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/ultimate-spider-man-and-avengers-renewed-on-disney-xd-with-new-titles | url-status= dead }}</ref> voiced by [[Steve Blum]].<ref name="btva"/> This version hails from the 30th century. Throughout the series, he battles the Avengers amidst failed attempts to destroy Manhattan and negate his rival [[Iron Man 2020]]'s existence, with one appearance seeing him join the [[Cabal (comics)|Cabal]] in successfully scattering the Avengers across time and space, though they are eventually reunited.
* Kang appears in ''[[Marvel Future Avengers]]'', voiced by [[Jiro Saito (voice actor)|Jiro Saito]] in the Japanese version and again by Steve Blum in the English dub.<ref name="btva" /> This version is the leader of the [[Masters of Evil]] and the mastermind behind the Emerald Rain Project, an attempt to reverse-engineer Terrigen Crystals to create a race of superhumans under his control and defeat the [[Inhumans]] in his time.
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*'''Kang the Conqueror''' debuted in ''[[Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-11|title='Ant-Man 3' Title and Kathryn Newton Casting for MCU Threequel Revealed|url=https://collider.com/ant-man-3-title-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-kathryn-newton-cast/|access-date=2021-06-21|website=Collider|language=en-US|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211040744/https://collider.com/ant-man-3-title-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-kathryn-newton-cast/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Casey |first=Connor |date=December 10, 2020 |title=Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Announced |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-announced-mcu-kevin-feige-paul-rudd/ |access-date=December 10, 2020 |website=ComicBook.com |archive-date=December 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211012742/https://comicbook.com/movies/news/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-announced-mcu-kevin-feige-paul-rudd/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A multiversal traveler in the newly created multiverse who believed that the multiverse was dying due to his variants, he attempted to instigate a war to stop them, only to be captured by the [[Council of Kangs (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Council of Kangs]] and exiled to Earth-616's [[Quantum Realm (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Quantum Realm]]. There, he met [[Janet van Dyne (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Janet van Dyne]] and worked with her to fix his ship's energy core and take them both home. After years of failed attempts, they successfully re-powered it, but she learned of his true nature and used her Pym Particles to prevent him from accessing the core before she eventually escaped the Quantum Realm. Despite this, Kang conquered it, built a new empire, swayed Janet's old Quantum Realm friend [[Krylar (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Lord Krylar]] to his side, and recruited [[Darren Cross (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Darren Cross]] into his ranks. In 2026, Janet, [[Hank Pym (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Hank Pym]], their daughter [[Hope van Dyne (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Hope van Dyne]], [[Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Scott Lang]], and his daughter [[Cassie Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Cassie]] are transported to the Quantum Realm and got separated. Kang captures the Langs and manipulates Scott into retrieving the core; Scott was successful, but Kang obtains the core and betrays Scott. After Cassie instigates a rebellion against him, Kang engages Scott in battle until Hope helps him knock Kang into the core.
* In the mid-credits scene of ''Quantumania'', the '''Council of Kangs''', led by [[Immortus (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Immortus]], [[Rama-Tut (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Rama-Tut]], and [[Centurion (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Centurion]], discuss the fate of "The Exiled One" and discuss having to deal with Earth-616.
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