Marvel Perfectly Explains How Kang's Time Travel Powers Actually Work
Warning: contains spoilers for Venom #9
Marvel Comics finally explained how Kang the Conqueror's time-travel powers actually work. While he does not possess any real superhuman abilities, Kang always displayed a mastery of time that goes beyond simply having access to the most advanced technology. Thanks to a newfound partnership with Eddie Brock, aka Venom, Kang had the chance to explain just what it takes to be a true master of time.
Kang made his debut as an iconic foe of the Avengers, but his actual origins are a bit convoluted. The Conqueror started out as Nathaniel Richards, a descendant of Fantastic Four's Reed Richards. He was born in the 30th century, when the world was in a constant state of peace and prosperity. Sickened by his contemporaries' lack of stimuli and challenges, Nathaniel found a time machine and used it first to travel back to ancient Egypt, where he set himself up as a Pharaoh Rama-Tut before being ousted by the Fantastic Four, and then to the war-thorn 40th century, which he conquered, finally becoming Kang. From there, he began to expand his conquest throughout history, frequently taking other identities such as Immortus, and developing a fixation for the Age of Heroes and the Avengers.
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Compared to his future self Immortus, Kang never cared much about respecting the balance of the time flow and not altering timelines. However, in Venom #9, by Al Ewing, Bryan Hitch, and Alex Sinclair, the Conqueror reveals that actually altering the past or the future requires a great deal of skill and mastery of precise rules. Due to Venom's new abilities as the King in Black, Eddie Brock has become «lost in the timestream,»
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