Forget Kang, the MCU has already survived a crazed conqueror everyone forgot about

Director Peyton Reed is sick and uninterested in being considered because the brains behind a franchise deemed because the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s smallest in additional methods than one, and the introduction of Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania immediately actually makes the upcoming threequel really feel like an Avengers-level occasion.

Not solely does Paul Rudd’s third solo outing as Scott Lang mark the official kickoff of Phase Five because the construct in the direction of The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars begins in earnest, however it’ll additionally give us our first style of the most recent huge dangerous, one which’s already being overrated as a menace significantly smarter, deadlier, and extra harmful than Thanos.

As you’ll be able to infer from the title, Kang isn’t right here to f*ck round, with the multiversal warlord hellbent on taking on each actuality that includes the grand calculus of the multiverse. However, MCU followers on Reddit have made a really salient level noting that a number of worlds have already been canonically conquered up to now by a vengeful demigod. Nine of them, to be exact.

Before changing into the stern-if-benevolent father of Thor and Loki, Anthony Hopkins’ Odin led his armies to victory on each single one of many Nine Realms, establishing himself as arguably the only strongest non-Celestial determine within the 616 timeline’s pre-Thanos historical past by doing so.

Kang is likely to be essentially the most harmful conqueror the MCU has ever seen, however he actually isn’t the primary, so perhaps Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder will likely be compelled to channel his outdated man’s previous (which has hardly ever been talked about out loud) in an effort to take the battle to a villain promising to perform the identical feat on a good grander scale.