At the conclusion of Ant-Man 3, did Jonathan Majors Kang the Conqueror pass away? Peyton Reed, the director of the MCU threequel, opened out in a recent interview.
Fans have only recently begun to see Marvel Studios’ quantum adventure in theaters, giving them their first substantial look at Majors’ Multiversal antagonist.
Many people are curious about what happened to Kang, the “warrior [Variant]” who caused Scott Lang and his family so much difficulty in the super-powered movie, despite the fact that Kang’s future was hinted at in Ant-Man 3.
Spoilers for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania can be found in this article’s remaining sections.
It is uncertain whether this specific Kang is dead and gone or a menace that could reappear after being dragged into his own Multiversal Power Core.
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Does Ant-Man 3 feature Kang’s death?
Peyton Reed, the director of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, talked about whether or not the film’s central Villain Variant is actually dead following their epic showdown. Paul Rudd plays the little lead character.
In response to a query about whether Kang the Conqueror in this iteration perished in Ant-Man 3, Reed was evasive, saying, “I guess that’s the true question.”
He cited the film’s conclusion as an example of how viewers may identify with Paul Rudd’s MCU hero as he “struggled with that question”:
It is, in my opinion, the true question. You can probably picture Scott Lang pondering that issue. And I believe that if you don’t see the body, it doesn’t necessarily indicate — because, you know, I didn’t actually know that that was a strict rule.
I think Kang, or the Kang versions, are going to have a presence throughout Phase 5, the director bemoaned. For the time being, it doesn’t matter that the heroes “prevent[ed] [this Variation] from getting out of the quantum realm”:
I believe Kang or one of the Kang variants will be present throughout Phase 5. An upcoming film is titled “Avengers: Kang Dynasty.” Why does that matter? I’m not doing that, so I’m not sure. We’ll discover that. Yet to me, the main focus was Kang the Conqueror, who faced off against these heroes and was, in a sense, stopped from leaving the quantum realm.
You don’t really want an answer to that question, Reed remarked when asked one final time if this Kang was dead.
You really don’t want to know the answer to that! You’re not really interested in the response to that query. You falsely believe that you do.
Is Warrior Kang from Ant-Man 3 dead?
Because the MCU has been presenting stories for the past 15 years, viewers have come to understand that nobody is truly dead unless a body is present. Yet even then, a lot of characters that were thought to be gone for good have returned and gone on to have successful careers under the Marvel Studios umbrella.
This also seems to apply to the Kang Variant from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
It’s not like Jonathan Major’s Multiversal villain was pulverized to bits, making it seem like his rule was over. He was instead drawn within his Multiversal Power Core, which the public has already seen inside.
Can Scott Lang and the Ant family expect any trouble from this Kang?
The answer is affirmative, and it’s very probable that he does. Peyton Reed even makes a reference to that reality in the movie’s climactic scenes when Paul Rudd’s MCU hero wonders if Jonathan Major‘s villain was really defeated.
‘Warrior’ Kang and his other Variants from the Council of Kang post-credits sequence might return in some way. Or might he be the Kang from The Kang Dynasty who was hinted at defeating several Avengers?
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