Jeff Loveness, the author of Avengers 5, discussed his opinions on the usage of time travel in Avengers: Endgame.
Time travel has always been significant in the Marvel universe, and Avengers: Endgame marked the moment when it also started to matter in the MCU. Thanks to an idea from Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man and a later creation by Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, the idea was introduced via the Quantum Realm.
Since the Time Heist, time travel has only grown more important to the MCU’s ongoing narrative. Loki on Disney+ clearly made the most of time travel to introduce the TVA, Multiverse, and Kang the Conqueror, laying the groundwork for their significant roles in the narrative to come.
The writer of the threequel and the upcoming Avengers film has provided an explanation for why the MCU’s history of time travel has left him “bummed out” before Jonathan Majors’ Kang makes his official MCU debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Writer of Avengers 5 Discusses Endgame Frustration
Writer of Ant-Man 3 and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Jeff Loveness discussed how he prepared to introduce Kang to the MCU in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as well as his thoughts on Endgame’s Time Heist mission in the most recent issue of SFX Magazine.
Loveness was questioned about if he “dived deep” into Kang’s comic book past to introduce him to the MCU, to which he said that his research was “very deep,” mentioning in particular how he dug “far into the Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion stuff:”
There is too much depth! I really got into reading the Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion material as well as Celestial Madonna with Mantis! That is the character’s joy. He is a man who is actually at war with himself; he is like an infinite snake eating infinite tails.
In addition to serving as the Pharaoh of Egypt, Rama-Tut was the first character from the Marvel universe to appear, appearing in Fantastic Four #19 in 1963. He was also mentioned in Moon Knight, which takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the meantime, Scarlet Centurion was the 23rd son in Kang’s dynasty to don armor and be skilled in military tactics and warfare.
The MCU writer expressed how he is “a little unhappy” that Endgame included so much time travel and that Kang must now “broaden out into the Multiverse” when time-hopping has always been his “bread and butter”:
I’ve never seen a time-traveling character handled with such dexterity and exploration. I’m a little bummed because “Endgame” involved so much time travel; as a result, you almost need to expand on the character a little bit as well. Perhaps expand a little further into the multiverse to show the character’s dimensionality and the character’s limitless freedom while also uprooting him completely from his time and himself. Is everything just going to crumble once more because he can destroy everything in another iteration of himself? If you’re going to destroy Rome the next day because they want their own Rome, what’s the point of building it?
While he “took a tonne from the comics,” he continued, fans should still anticipate him to “throw a curveball” so they are unprepared:
“I definitely borrowed heavily from the comics, but the fun of these movies is that you also get to add some of yourself into it; you get to give it a totally fresh perspective because if you just do a 100% comic book adaptation people know all the gimmicks and what to expect. You must lay that as a foundation before launching a curveball. I’ve made an effort to make him, hopefully, a more interesting character than people anticipate.
How Kang’s Changes in the MCU Were Forced by Avengers: Endgame
The majority of Kang the Conqueror’s distinctive characteristics and plots can be traced back to the way he employed time to travel to tamper with the past, present, and future. He evidently also has a long relationship with the Multiverse, as evidenced by the Council of Kangas, a collection of his Variants.
Thanos often has less to do with time travel; instead, the Infinity Stone-obsessed Mad Titan tends to lean more toward the cosmic. Time travel has to be incorporated into Avengers: Endgame in order to reverse the carnage from Avengers: Infinity War and take a sentimental walk down Infinity Saga memory lane.
Naturally, in order to prevent having two Avengers movies back-to-back with the theme at their core, this will have compelled Jeff Loveness and colleagues to somewhat shy away from time travel. Since this is the Multiverse Saga, the idea of parallel universes and timelines will probably take its place.
Marvel Comics and Kang fans will be thrilled to learn how extensively Loveness is researching the antagonist’s past in order to prepare for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. This should result in a powerful Conqueror adaption, which Jonathan Majors’ talent will only enhance.
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