How Kang is a Greater Threat to the MCU Than even Thanos…

by Josh Ramos · July 30, 2022

With the massive announcements at this month’s Comic-Con, it became clear that the character who first arrived in the Loki series is set to become an integral part of the Marvel universe moving forward; which has led us to explore how Kang is a more significant threat to the MCU than ever Thanos…

For the first time in two years, Marvel Studios returned to the lauded stage at Hall H, to give what may have been the biggest San Diego Comic-Con announcement of all time; redefining and reshuffling what fans have come to understand of the next phase of the MCU.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, participates in the Marvel Studios’ Live-Action presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on July 23, 2022. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

Marvel’s inconsistent Phase Four slate thus far has been- in a small part- due to its limited uniformity, and inability to truly be building towards the next massive MArvel event; something that had been a foundational piece to the first decade of the Marvel Universe.

San Diego Comic-Con allowed MArvel the chance to stand before its fans and lay out the next two years of Marvel projects; highlighting the impending sagas and the culminating adventures that will be established in the next two years of projects.

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Like the Infinity Saga before it- constructing a massive event out of the first three phases of the universe- Phase Four is now the starting place of the Multiverse Saga. Like the Infinity Saga before it, there will be a new and devastating threat standing against the MCU.

But what is most interesting about this next era of the Marvel Universe, this impending big bad may be a more terrifying opposition than we’ve ever seen; as Kang may be a greater threat to the MCU than Thanos was.

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The entire basis of that belief comes down to one thing; Kang is less of an individual and more of a whole lineage of villains that persists.

With his appearance in Loki, He Who Remains established one thing, he comes from a very sacred line of variants, each different than the last, and much more evil than him; and it is this reality that makes this character so terrifying.

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Thanos was one horrifying entity that sought total power and genocide, but Kang is not an entity, he is almost endless, and he will continue to return to wreak havoc on the MCU again, and again, and again, and again; with learning how to stop his variants hunger for power being the only way to stop the villain.

Jonathan Majors has already brought a unique charisma and menace to the role in the short snippets that we have seen, and his character is poised to be among the most devastating that the MCU has encountered.