All The Kang Dynasty & Secret Wars Setup In The MCU So Far

screenrant.com:

Marvel officially announced Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, but the MCU has been setting these stories up for years. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has always promised the studio would only go to San Diego Comic-Con when they were ready to "over-deliver" — and that was certainly the case in 2022, with Marvel announcing their entire Phase 5 slate before confirming the two films standing at the culmination of the so-called "Multiverse Saga." 2025 will see the release of two Avengers movies, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, at the end of Phase 6.

Both films are named after classic comic book adventures. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty bears the title of a 2001-2002 story written by Kurt Busiek, in which the time-traveling Kang the Conqueror successfully defeated the Avengers, forcing the world to surrender to his rule — only for the Avengers to turn into a resistance movement, ultimately managing to overthrow him. Kang has plagued the Avengers for decades in the comics, but this was his most impressive story, one in which he came closest to triumphing. Meanwhile, Avengers: Secret Wars' title likely references the Jonathan Hickman epic of 2015 in which every timeline in the multiverse collided. As cosmic as the stakes may have been, the story was an intensely personal one, charting the conflict between Reed Richards and Doctor Doom. It's particularly interesting to note, therefore, that Marvel has confirmed Fantastic Four will kick off Phase 6.

Related: Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty Title Explained

Still, none of this is really a surprise to viewers; indeed, there's been open speculation about Secret Wars for years because it was seen as the only way