Marvel Theory Reveals Kang Variant Already Exists In The MCU's History
Kang the Conqueror will make his debut in Ant-Man and the wasp: Quantumania, but his presence in the multiverse has already been teased thanks to his many variants, and a theory suggests one of those variants played a role in the MCU’s history. The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues its expansion with its highly-anticipated Phase 4, which covers movies and TV shows, with the latter connecting to the former, and while it has been exploring different concepts, the main one so far is the multiverse.
The MCU began its exploration of the multiverse in the TV series Loki, which introduced the concept of variants and saw Loki and his variant, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), breaking the multiverse by killing He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors). This new character was revealed to be one of many variants of Kang the Conqueror, the villain of the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but as the MCU continued exploring the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Kang has been left aside – but not entirely, as there have been subtle hints of his presence in the MCU.
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An unexpected connection to Kang the Conqueror was dropped in the TV series Moon Knight through the discovery of the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, but a theory takes this link further by suggesting that Alexander the Great was one of Kang’s many variants, and the legendary leader might have even been one of Kang's most notable identities from the comics at one point: Rama-Tut.
Kang’s real name is Nathaniel Richards, and he’s a 31st-century scholar and descendant of Reed Richard’s time-traveling father, though he might also be a descendant of none
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