Kang The Conqueror's Master Plan is Back To Destroy The Avengers
Warning: Contains spoilers for Avengers #58
The demon lord Mephisto has stolen a page from Kang the Conqueror's playbook to defeat the Avengers. Just like how Kang uses his time-traveling technology to gather vast armies of the best warriors in history, Mephisto is picking up his minions across time in his attempt to get rid of the Avengers once and for all.
Kang is one of the Avengers' earliest and most iconic foes. A time-traveling warlord from the 30th century, Kang lives for the thrill of conquest and to defeat worthy adversaries. He found the worthiest of them in Marvel's modern age of heroes when he clashed for the first time with the Avengers. Impressed (and defeated), Kang would then obsess over conquering that timeline and besting the Avengers. One of Kang's favorite tactics is to extract the strongest and bravest warriors from the timelines he visits, drafting them into his army. Now, the Prince of Lies Mephisto is using a similar strategy to disrupt the Avengers' attempt to stop him from conquering the Multiverse.
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In Avengers #58 by Jason Aaron, Javier Garròn, and David Curiel, the Earth's Mightiest Heroes are traveling across time and dimensions to try to get ahold of Mephisto and his Council of Reds before their nefarious plans for the Multiverse come to fruition. In Edo period Japan, Mephisto's goons are attempting to kill the Ghost Ronin, the Ghost Rider of that era. First, Mephisto sends a group of demon-possessed bikers, and then an entire raiding ship full of bloodthirsty Vikings. Finally, the demon lord sends futuristic assassins with high-tech weapons. However, all these warriors are easily dispatched by the Ghost Ronin, who
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