Fans can’t help but worry about how Kang the Conqueror will be stopped in Avengers 5 and Avengers 6, with him hovering over the Multiverse Saga of the MCU.
It will take a number of heroes for the Avengers to even have a chance against Kang, who made his MCU debut in the season finale of Loki in 2021 as He Who Remains, according to rumored plot elements for 2025’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars are both scheduled for release in 2026, but recent information from Marvel Studios’ CEO Kevin Feige implies that the Avengers may not even be the villain’s greatest threat.
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The Avengers 5: Who Could Stop Kang?
Kang himself may pose the greatest threat to Kang as the Multiverse Saga of the MCU develops, according to Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, in a piece from the most recent issue of Empire Magazine.
Kang has several Variants was one of the first things fans discovered about the character when he initially appeared in Loki. Comic book readers will be familiar with this idea since Kang is known by a variety of aliases, including Iron Lad of the Young Avengers.
As a result, Feige’s revelation that Kang will not only be “warring with our heroes,” but also “warring among themselves” came as no surprise.
“Given that you are working with the Multiverse, he is a natural choice. Kang gave us permission to perform the novel Big Bad. He’s a different kind of evil, fighting both with our heroes and his own kind.”
Although the notion of having numerous Kangs in the same product has been discussed before, fans are excited to hear it from Feige.
The author of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, Jeff Loveness, also talked about the antagonist in the most recent SFX magazine.
He started off by equating Kang with historical “bad men with a crusade, a goal,” citing figures like Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan as examples:
“Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, those Spanish conquistadors who arrived in the New World… They are historically evil, but they are evil with a cause and a goal. If you’re going to enter a world that isn’t your own and impose your will, you better have some pretty strong convictions.”
According to Loveness, future movies may feature “a lot more [Kang] in a lot of various ways,” echoing Feige’s teasers regarding the character.
“Kang is a very alone person. In the future, we’ll see him in a variety of different contexts, but I really wanted to showcase this character’s compassion and even weakness now, before he reaches such cataclysmic, Avengers-scale heights.”
Finally, Loveness “welcomed the Kang vs. Thanos argument,” outlining the intriguing new storytelling techniques being employed with Kang that are distinct from the main antagonist of the Infinity Saga.
“I believed we had a great chance to practically depict Napoleon in exile, Stalin imprisoned in Siberia, or Julius Caesar on the frontiers of Gaul debating whether to cross the Rubicon. Catch the supervillain before everything gets going and make it feel almost like The Lion In Winter. He’s obviously terrifying and imposing as well, but you get to spend a little bit more time with him in this film than, in my opinion, you would in a more traditional Avengers film where he’s supposed to be operating at full capacity. The Kang vs. Thanos controversy excites me because I believe it will help us learn more about Kang as time goes on.”
Against Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang….
It wouldn’t be shocking at this moment if Avengers 5 and Avengers 6 had dozens or more Kang variations, opening up intriguing story possibilities for those movies.
Maybe to defeat the bad guys, the Avengers will have to work with a rogue “good” Kang variation. Kang had previously served as a Young Avenger, and given that the MCU appears to be creating its own version of the fan-favorite team, an Iron Lad Kang or something similar may be in the works for the MCU.
Alternatively, it’s possible that Feige is alluding to Kang’s internal conflict; perhaps the villain’s shortcomings and difficulties in life will prove to be his undoing. If that’s the case, it doesn’t rule out the idea of other Kang variations and, in fact, makes room for an intriguing physical representation of a character’s mental conflict.
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