After defeating Thanos in Avengers 4: Endgame, the big new villain in the MCU is already certain. Through a first appearance in the Loki series Kan the Conqueror introduced as the most powerful threat to superheroes.
The antagonist played by Jonathan Majors will, however, be mainly characterized by the phase 4 established multiverse very different from Thanos.
MCU boss reveals new details about Thanos successor
As revealed by the Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers 6: Secret Wars titles, Kang will officially be the next big adversary for the new hero team. However, when it appeared in Loki, the variant played by Jonathan Majors made it clear that it countless versions of him in the multiverse at once there.
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At San Diego Comic-Con, MCU boss Kevin Feige spoke in more detail about Kang, according to Slash Film, and also revealed that the Thanos successor is a very unusual opponent becomes:
It’s not just that there’s a bigger purple guy with a helmet. That’s not what Kang is. Kang is a very different kind of villain and the fact that he’s many, many different charactersis the most exciting and distinguishes him the most.
So far, the multiverse has been used in the MCU phase 4 with blockbusters like Spider-Man: No Way Home, heroes from the most diverse universes like three different Peter Parkers to unite.
The multiverse should be particularly exciting when a powerful villain in countless variants co-exists and many, if not all, assembled for one mighty battle.
At the latest in Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty, which May 2025 comes to the cinema, the Thanos successor will then be the new main villain. Before that, he is slated to next appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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