Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania writer Jeff Loveness has been doing the rounds to discuss Marvel Studios' latest movie, but after being tapped to also pen Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, he's understandably choosing his words carefully. However, the writer has dropped at least a few big hints about where the Multiverse Saga may be going.
Talking to ComicBook.com, for example, Loveness seemingly confirmed the identity of one character we can expect to see when Earth's Mightiest Heroes assemble again. "Namor, man. I'm excited to write Namor," he tells the site.
We're sure Ant-Man will also factor into that story given his history with Kang and the writer would go on to acknowledge that Scott Lang "is the guy who literally saved the universe in Endgame [and] might accidentally be the guy who f***s the multiverse in its next saga."
Loveness also mentioned to The Hollywood Reporter that, "There was a version of Quantumania where we thought, 'Well, it’s an Ant-Man movie, so maybe it should have more of a loser Kang or maybe even a goofy Kang the Conqueror.'"
However, after he saw He Who Remains in the Loki finale, "I took it as a challenge to dive in and write the classical and tortured supervillain version of Kang the Conqueror from the Silver Age."
In a separate conversation with Variety, meanwhile, the writer elaborated on the mid-credits scene that showed us the Council of Kangs and confirmed there are literally thousands of his Variants waiting in the wings and plotting...something.
"Well, that’s the beautiful thing about Kang in the comics. He is defeated a lot," Loveness responded when asked if we'll see the Conqeuror again. "In fact, it’s almost comedic how often he loses. The scary thing is that he’s not defined by his failure, and he can keep coming back stronger and stronger. It’s not like you can just blow up the mothership, just beat him once and you’re done."
"He is almost an existential threat, and the more you fight him the worse he’s going to get."
"That is a fun, post-modernist challenge that is different for a superhero movie, and it’s going to present a very complicated challenge for them going forward," he said of what The Avengers can expect to face in The Kang Dynasty. "It was very hard beating one of these guys. What’s going to happen when suddenly the rest of them are aware of what we’re doing?"
As of right now, it's still hard to predict where Marvel Studios is taking the Multiverse Saga. Will it be a case of Earth's Mightiest Heroes assembling to battle an endless army of Kang Variants or something more? Loveness clearly intends to dive into the villain's unique place in the MCU in a big way, but what that will look like remains to be seen.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is currently playing in theaters. As for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, that's been dated for May 2, 2025.