This Guardian of the Galaxy might be about to start out a twisted romance with Kang

There are many causes to like The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, however one of many largest is that it lastly provides Mantis a number one position, after a few years of Pom Klementieff’s perky member of the group being stored on the sidelines. While the group’s story as a complete is ready to finish in subsequent May’s Vol. 3, there’s each probability that sure Guardians may return after that. Let’s hope that Mantis is certainly one of them so the MCU can capitalize on the character. In explicit, by means of her intriguingly twisted comedian e-book romance with the franchise’s latest massive dangerous, Kang the Conqueror.

The Mantis of the comics could be very totally different from the MCU, together with her authentic arc revolving round her standing as “the Celestial Madonna,” fated to turn out to be the mom to an important being within the universe. Kang was decided to cease this, which led him to homicide her lover, Swordsman. Mantis nonetheless obtained her blissful ending, although, when she married a Cotati who had inhabited Swordsman’s reanimated corpse and the pair went on to begat her prophecized youngster, Sequoia.

Yes, that’s all very gross and bizarre however that’s simply backstory to what we’re actually taken with. After disappearing from the comics for years, Mantis later returned in a surprising means in 1995’s crossover occasion “The Crossing” wherein she had all of a sudden now turned to the darkish aspect and was portrayed because the villainous bride of her previous enemy, Kang. Fans hated this twist and later storyline Avengers Forever retconned this Mantis as a faux (particularly, certainly one of Immortus/Kang’s Space Phantoms he’d brainwashed into believing they had been Mantis).

There can be no want for such an advanced rationalization within the MCU, nonetheless. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, or maybe Secret Wars, may all the time introduce an evil variant of Mantis from one other universe who begins a romance with Kang, maybe appearing because the Harley Quinn to Jonathan Majors’ Joker. Now that Marvel is starting to permit Klementieff to stretch herself somewhat extra, handing her a juicy villain position to play in Phase Five or Six would actually give her an opportunity to point out off her vary. Let’s hope it occurs.