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Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania: Paul Rudd & Jonathan Majors Tease Big Consequences As Kang The Conqueror Enters The MCU.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is about to hit theaters, kicking off the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Paul Rudd‘s Scott Lang and his family face off against Jonathan Majors‘ Kang the Conqueror.

In the sixth episode of Loki, He Who Remains—the mysterious, timeless leader of the Time Variance Authority—provides this warning to Loki and Sylvie. Coming from one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse, who built an organization capable of controlling time itself (and which casually uses Infinity Stones as paperweights), it’s an ominous warning indeed. And the time has finally come for the MCU to meet his most infamous variant of all: Kang the Conqueror.

On Friday, Jonathan Majors returns as Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where the iconic Marvel Comics villain faces off against the titular superhero duo, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), in the Quantum Realm. Directed by Peyton Reed (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp) and written by Jeff Loveness (Rick and Morty), the third installment in the Ant-Man series will also feature the returns of the original Ant-Man and Wasp, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), respectively, and Scott’s daughter, Cassie (with Kathryn Newton in the recast role). Add Bill Murray (playing the little-known role of Lord Krylar) and the live-action debut of a villain who’s basically a massive floating head with tiny limbs, and this interdimensional adventure is set to be a weird one.

Quantumania will not only build on the events of the preceding Ant-Man films—2015’s Ant-Man and 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp—but also on the dramatic conclusion of the Infinity Saga, which left Scott as one of the last living Avengers on Earth. Despite being a superhero who nobody, teammates and civilians alike, could ever seem to remember in previous films, Ant-Man played a big role in saving the world from Thanos’s destruction in Avengers: Endgame. Now, he and the rest of his family of insect-themed heroes are back to kick off the MCU’s Phase 5.

But let’s be honest: This movie belongs to Kang. In his performance as He Who Remains in Loki, Majors stole the spotlight from the Lokis themselves, and as he steps into the role of Kang in earnest, he’s positioned to do the same to Ant-Man and the Wasp on the big screen.

As such, this primer will be all about the Conqueror—from his comic book origins to the debut of his variant in Loki—and why his appearance in this film will have ripple effects throughout the Multiverse Saga. (Spoiler warning: If you haven’t seen the first season of Loki yet, well, then I’ve already kind of spoiled some of it. Sorry about that. Just skip past this next section if you don’t want any other big spoilers from the series.)

He Who Remains and the Season Finale of Loki

Most finales and third acts in the MCU end in massive CGI set pieces, where the hero battles the villain as the stakes reach their highest point. But the Loki season finale tweaks that familiar Marvel Studios formula. Sure, the stakes are still set just as high—as usual, it’s only the fate of the multiverse. But rather than having a menacing villain take on the hero in a final showdown that ends with the hero coming out victorious, the episode introduces a man wearing a purple cape, with an apple in hand, who’s only interested in talking. He Who Remains never tries to fight Loki or Sylvie—neither of whom are true heroes in the first place—and in the end, no one wins.

In the Comics
Although Kang made his MCU debut as a variant known as He Who Remains, that wasn’t how he got his start in the comics. (In fact, He Who Remains is a different character altogether.) But he didn’t exactly appear as Kang the Conqueror either. This all speaks to what is a long, convoluted history in the comics for one of the Avengers’ most iconic and frequent foes. As He Who Remains says in Loki, “I’ve been dubbed many names by many people. A ruler. A conqueror. He Who Remains. A jerk. But it’s not as simple as a name.”

The first time that an iteration of Kang appeared in Marvel Comics was in 1963, in the pages of Fantastic Four no. 19, written and illustrated by the legendary duo of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, respectively. Except Kang is never mentioned by name during this first appearance; the villain here is known as Rama-Tut, a robotics student named Nathaniel Richards from the year 3000 who has traveled back in time to ancient Egypt and established himself as a pharaoh. The Fantastic Four meet him, as they, too, have traveled back in time to ancient Egypt in search of a cure for blindness (just roll with it), and they are briefly captured by him before they manage to escape and send him fleeing back to the future.