Avengers: Endgame took us on an exciting trip through the MCU's timeline, revisiting key movies in the franchise's history, including The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. Now, with time-travelling bad guy Kang the Conqueror set to take centre stage, many fans are wondering what exactly he'll be getting up to in the coming years.
During a recent interview with SFX (via The Direct), Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty writer Jeff Loveness explained that, while he was "bummed" to be beaten to the punch on time travel, the Multiverse awaits.
"I haven’t seen a time-travelling character done with such intricacy and exploration. I’m a little bummed because 'Endgame' did so much time travel, so you almost need to broaden him out a little bit too, maybe broaden out into the multiverse a little more, the dimensionality of the character, the limitless freedom he has while also being completely uprooted from his time and himself."
"Is it just going to all fall apart again because another version of him can destroy it as well?" Loveness continues. "What’s the purpose of building Rome if you are going to burn it down the next day, because they want to have their own Rome?"
Reading between the lines, these comments may go some way in confirming reports that the next two Avengers movies will take us on a journey through the Multiverse. That means, instead of returning to the events of past adventures, we can expect to visit worlds inhabited by some very different Variants and perhaps even a few familiar faces.
Talking about his research when it came to bringing Kang the Conqueror to the MCU, Loveness namedropped a couple of Variants who stood out to him along the way.
"I got way into the Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion stuff, trying to read my way through that, and the Celestial Madonna with Mantis! That’s the joy of the character," the writer teases. "He is just this infinite snake eating infinite tails, a man literally at war against himself."
We're clearly going to meet a lot of Kang Variants in the next few years, with Avengers: The Kang Dynasty likely where the villain embarks on an all-out war with Earth's Mightiest Heroes...and himself.
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty arrives in theaters on May 2, 2025.