Who Is Kang the Conqueror? The MCU's New Big Bad Explained
Warning: Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Loki season 1.
Lovecraft Country star Jonathan Majors appeared as Kang the Conqueror for Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania, making his debut in Loki episode 6, and here's everything you need to know about the Marvel movie's new main villain Kang. The Multiverse and Variants introduced in Loki season 1 are central to the MCU's Phase 4, 5, and 6 narratives, collectively dubbed «The Multiverse Saga.» Phase 6 finishes with the next two new Avengers movies, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, with Kang as the Big Bad. The MCU Kang the Conqueror is the post-«Infinity Saga» Thanos replacement.
Disney+'s Loki TV series stars Tom Hiddleston as the titular God of Mischief, or rather as a variant of Loki who was created as a result of the Avengers' time travel. Captured by the Time Variance Authority and put on trial for crimes against the «Sacred Timeline,» Loki eventually learned the timeline was naturally chaotic; any moment has the potential to create a so-called «Nexus Event,» a branched reality. The result was a Multiversal war, and the winners of that conflict imposed order upon the timeline, establishing the TVA to prune branches before another Multiverse could be created. Naturally, that particular strategy didn't last long when Loki arrived and caused mayhem.
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Loki officially introduced viewers to Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains, who revealed the Multiversal conflict had been triggered by different variants of himself. His death meant the restoration of the Multiverse – and, inevitably, the emergence of more variants of He Who Remains, all of whom would vie for supremacy. For He Who Remains
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