Avengers - Kang - Time and Time Again (2016)
Fourth dimension based hijinks are a well known trope in comic book history. While DC typically has Booster Gold and the Flash to give thanks for timeline troubles, in the Marvel Universe, Kang The Conqueror is unremarkably to arraign.
Kang, whose first Curiosity appearance can be tied dorsum to 1963, was born Nathaniel Richards in the 31st century on an alternative peaceful world (earth-6311). Kang stumbled upon time travel applied science adult by Doctor Doom and has been a major threat to the Avengers and earth itself over the past 60 years.
Due to Kang'southward abiding abuse of fourth dimension, the Marvel universe is filled with alternative versions of Kang. These Kangs take been known to operate independently of Kang, in back up of, or unremarkably against Kang.
Let's encompass the nearly prominent members of the Kang Gang.
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Kang the Conqueror – This is the Nathanial Richards version who first time traveled and ultimately led to the cosmos of the alternative versions. Wears a very snazzy Purple and light-green space suit.
Rama Tut – Kang's first exploration into time travel led to the creation of the Rama Tut persona. Rama Tut used his knowledge of advanced technology to take over Egypt and install himself as Pharaoh. He is considered the commencement canonical appearance of Kang.
Ruddy Centurion – After existence ousted as Pharaoh, Kang adopts the Doctor Doom inspired Scarlet Centurion Persona. Kind of looks like a red Serpentor from GI Joe.
Immortus – A version of Kang from further down his timeline, who has dedicated his existence to ensuring timeline preservation and unwinding the timeline chaos caused by Kang. Usually wearing a pope style hat.
Iron Lad – An Alternative version of Kang who traveled dorsum in fourth dimension to finish Kang. Non surprisingly, he looks like Iron Man.
Kid Immortus – A future version of Iron Lad. His attire is a mix of Immortus, Kang and teenage malaise.
Mr Gryphon – An alternative version of Kang created after Kang'south constant shenanigans acquired a glitch in the timestream. Generic 40ish business concern man.
This is just the starting lineup of Kangs. For reading lodge purposes, nosotros endeavour to explicitly land which version of Kang (and potentially Kangs) are involved.
Related Reading Orders:
The Avengers
Kang Begins
Kang'southward early on appearances are a puzzle that slowly comes together piece by slice.
Fantastic Four Epic Collection: The Principal Program Of Doctor Doom
Collects: Fantastic 4 (1961) #nineteen-32, Annual (1963) #ane-2
The Fantastic Four travel back in time and boxing Rama Tut who is revealed to be a bored fourth dimension traveler from the futurity. After his defeat at the hands of the Fantastic Four, Rama Tut escapes to the time stream where he happens upon Doctor Doom and a friendship is built-in.
Essential Avengers Vol. one
Collects: Avengers (1963) #one-24
Kang cements himself as a critical Avengers villain with multiple appearances during the early days of the series. Avengers #viii is considered the first approved appearance of Kang the Conqueror and he follows that up by attacking the Avengers with a Robot Spider-Man in consequence #11.
Avengers #23 and #24 start to flesh out Kang more as a character and introduces Ravonna, a princess from the future who steals Kang's centre.
Immortus likewise takes on the Avengers in #ten but his relationship to Kang is not completely articulate at this betoken.
Avengers: Kang – Time and Fourth dimension Again
Collects: Avengers (1963) #69-71 and #267-269, Thor (1966) #140, and Hulk (1962) #135.
Kang pulls the Avengers through fourth dimension to 4000 AD to fight against the Grandmaster's Squadron Sinister.
Kang Tries to Ruin Everything: Kang in the 1970s
Kang'south initial sew together to this point was trending in a positive direction – he was nonetheless an out of control ego maniac merely he was showing signs of redemption with his deportment towards Ravonna. Kang quickly squashes any goodwill. Kang going to Kang.
Marvel Squad-Upwards Masterworks Vol. i
Collects: Marvel Team-Up (1972) #1-11
Issues #9-eleven features Spider-Human being teaming up first with Iron Man, followed by the Human Torch and finally the Inhumans to face up off against Kang and Zarrko the Tomorrow Man. (Zarrko the Tomorrow Human being is definitely a name that someone in 1973 would create for someone from the future.)
Avengers: The Complete Celestial Madonna Saga
Collects: Avengers (1963) #124-125, #129-135; Captain Marvel (1968) #33; Giant-Sized Avengers #ii-4; Avengers Celestial Quest #ane-eight
Steve Englehart's mind-bending story effectually the enkindling of the Angelic Madonna (Mantis), is besides disquisitional to Kang's history (histories?). The Celestial Madonna is prophesied to bear a kid of peachy power and Kang appears with the intent to father that kid. Pretty gross, Kang. The complicated connectivity of Kang, Rama Tut and Immortus is fully revealed.
Avengers: The Snake Crown
Collects: Avengers (1963) #141-144 and #147-149
Immortus transports Thor and Moondragon to the wild west in search of a missing Eagle and Kang. The arc ends with the first of what volition be many Kang deaths.
Return Of the Wu Kang Clan: Kang in 1980s
The 1970s was an amazingly unsuccessful fourth dimension for Kang. Kang enters the 1980s deleted from the time stream so he can only get up from hither.
Undercover Wars
Collects: Marvel's Secret Wars #i-12
Kang is one of the many villains selected to exist part of Battleworld. The blossoming friendship between Kang and Doom is tested (Doom kills Kang later Kang betrays him) but ultimately prevails (Doom resurrects Kang afterwards).
Avengers: The Once And Future Kang
Collects: Avengers (1963) #262-269, Avengers Annual (1967) #fifteen, Avengers West Coast Annual (1986) #1.
Due to the increasing number of divergent Kangs running around, a Quango of Kangs is formed. Unsurprisingly, Kang sets forth with trying to eliminate the other members. Another important result in the Kang-Immortus relationship.
Avengers: Westward Coast Avengers – Lost in Space and Time
Collects: W Declension Avengers (1985) #17-24, Fantastic Four (1961) #19, and Doctor Strange (1974) #53.
The West Declension Avengers and Dr Foreign take a fun time traveling trip back to ancient Arab republic of egypt and our favorite Pharoah, Rama Tut. This event helps add context to Rama Tut's involvement with the Celestial Madonna Saga.
X-Men: Inferno Crossovers
Collects: Avengers (1963) #298-300; Fantastic Four (1961) #322-324; Amazing Spider-Human being (1963) #311-313; Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #146-148; Web of Spider-Man (1985) #47-48; Daredevil (1964) #262-263, 265.
A Tie-in story to the X-Men Inferno outcome featuring Double Kangs! One version of Kang battles the Avengers in a pretty straightforward manner while another version in one case again tries to capture Mantis and ends up drawing the ire of the Fantastic Iv.
Avengers West Coast Visionaries – John Byrne, Vol. 1: Vision Quest
Collects: Avengers Westward Coast #42-50
Avengers Westward Coast Visionaries – John Byrne, Vol. 2: Darker than Crimson
Collects: Avengers West Coast #51-57 and #60-62
Vision Quest and Darker than Scarlet operate as one big story. Immortus plays a key part in a story that centers around the Scarlet Witch, The Vision and their twins.
Kang in the 1990's
Kang, nearly driven insane due to the truth revealed by an alternative version of himself, is hoping for more luck in the 1990s. Will he trade his trademark green and imperial armor for a fashionable pair of JNCO Jeans? Read on to find out.
Infinity State of war Autobus
Collects: Infinity War #1-vi; Fantastic Four (1961) #366-370; Spider-man (1990) #24; Deathlok (1991) #16; Daredevil (1964) #310; Warlock And The Infinity Sentinel #7-ten; Doc Strange, Magician Supreme #42-47; Silver Surfer (1987) #67-69; Wonder Human being (1991) #13-15; Alpha Flight (1983) #110-112; Silver Sable & The Wild Pack #4-5; Guardians Of The Galaxy (1990) #27-29; Quasar #37-40; New Warriors (1990) #27; Marc Spector: Moon Knight #41-44; Nomad (1992) seven; Sleepwalker #18; Cloth From Helm America (1968) #408; Blastoff Flying (1983) #109; Curiosity Comics Presents (1988) #108-112
The Kang and Medico Doom buddy comedy continues as they squad upward to try to stop Magus.
Avengers: Citizen Kang
Collects: Captain America Annual #11, Thor Annual #17, Fantastic Iv Annual #25, Avengers Annual #ii
Avengers The Terminatrix Objective
Collects: Avengers The Terminatrix Objective #1-4
Citizen Kang and The Terminatrix Objective operate every bit one large story. Kang's former love, Ravonna, now going nether the name "Terminatrix" goes to war confronting Kang, a futurity version of herself and Kang again.
Avengers: The Crossing
Collects: Avengers (1963) #390-395, The Crossing , Timeslide; Atomic number 26 Man (1968) #319-325; Force Works #16-22; War Auto #twenty-25; Age of Innocence: The Rebirth of Iron Man
One of the well-nigh reviled events in Marvel comics history and a skilful case of when comics go bad – Kang is responsible for the villainous plough of a founding avenger. Most of the event is waved abroad merely all the same an interesting piece of history albeit not the best execution.
X-Men: The Ascension of Apocalypse
Collects: Rise Of Apocalypse #1-iv, Further Adventures Of Cyclops & Phoenix #ane-4, X-men: Apocalypse/Dracula #ane-iv, Black Knight: Exodus, Fantastic Four (1961) #19
A flashback story to the early days of Apocalypse where we see that we can lay some of the blame forApocalypse on Rama Tut.
Avengers Forever
Collects: Avengers Forever #one-12
Kang attempts to unite other Kang's from unlike fourth dimension periods in his endless war against Immortus. This is some other important event in the Kang-Immortus relationship.
Kang Wins!
Avengers: Above and Beyond
Collects: Avengers (1998) #36-40, 56, Avengers: Ultron Imperative, and Avengers Annual 2001
Kang and his son, Marcus who is the new Scarlet Centurion (not to be dislocated with Kang'south Md Doom cosplay from the 1960s), set their plans in motion for what will take place in the Kang Dynasty.
Avengers: the Kang Dynasty
Collects: Avengers (1998) #45-54
Kang faces off against a rundown and overextended Avengers team and actually wins. Kang takes the globe!
Little Kangs
This era centers around Iron Lad and his constant struggle to avoid becoming Kang.
Immature Avengers: The Complete Collection
Collects: Young Avengers #1-12, Young Avengers Special
An alternative version of Kang travels back in time to form a team and stop Kang. This all takes place soon after the tragic events of Avengers Disassembled, so Cap is less than thrilled to see the young heroes in action.
Avengers: The Heroic Historic period
Collects: Avengers #1-6, Avengers Prime #1-five, New Avengers #1-vi
The Avengers of multiple timelines are caught in the middle of Kang and an alternative earth Ultron.
Avengers: The Children's Crusade
Collects: Avengers: The Children'due south Crusade #i-ix & Avengers: The Children's Crusade– Young Avengers #1
Iron Lad continues to travel through time to rebel against Kang.
Fantastic Four by Matt Fraction Motorbus
Collects: Fantastic Four (2012) #1-16, 5AU ; FF (2012) #1-sixteen; Marvel Now! Indicate I #1
Iron Lad turns villainous and adopts the name "Child Immortus". He teams with a young Ravonna and a teenage Annihilus to courtroom the favor of Dr. Doom.
Uncanny Kang (aka "Wait…Kang stole twin babies?")
Kang launches his wildest scheme yet which is really saying something.
Uncanny Avengers Volume 2: The Apocalypse Twins
Collects: Uncanny Avengers #vi-eleven, #8AU
Kang impersonates Loki and kidnaps the twin babies of ii of Apocalypse'due south horsemen. Kang then raises the Apocalypse twins in an alternate reality. This plan surely can't go wrong for Kang.
Uncanny Avengers Volume 3: Ragnarok Now
Collects: Uncanny Avengers #12-17
The Apocalypse Twins destroy Kang's future. So you could say that his plan backfired.
Kang forms the Chronos Corps with individuals he has saved from alternative dimensions.
Uncanny Avengers Volume 4: Avenge the Earth
Collects: Uncanny Avengers #xviii-22
The Chronos Corps play a key role in saving Earth-616. Kang absorbs the catholic power of a dead celestial and every bit you lot can imagine, that doesn't end well.
Kang Runs Out!
Avengers, Vol. half-dozen: Space Avengers
Collects: Avengers (2012) #29-34
Problems #33 and #34 of the Hickman Avengers era eye around Helm America crashing through time until existence establish by Kang, Immortus and Iron Lad.
Siege: Battleworld
Collects: Siege #1-4, Uncanny X-Men (2011)# 9-10
A home run of a Secret Wars (2015) tie-in series written past Kerion Gillen. In Doom'due south Battleworld, Abigail Brand runs a very different version of SHIELD and is saddled with Kang equally her second in control.
All-New, All-Different Avengers Vol. i: The Magnificent Seven
Collects: All-New, All-Unlike Avengers one-6; Avengers 0 (All-New, All-Different story); Complimentary Comic Book Solar day 2015
A glitch in the timestream, traps an alternative version of Kang in the 21st century. This Kang adopts the allonym "Mister Gryphon" and forms Qeng Enterprises (Kang has never been subtle). Mister Gryphon attempts to drown the Avengers in carmine tape while as well forming an powerful alliance with the Chitauri warrior, Warbringer.
Uncanny Inhumans Vol. 1: Time Crush
Collects: Uncanny Inhumans #0-iv, Complimentary Comic Book Day 2022 (Inhumans Story)
Event happens at the same fourth dimension as All-New, All-Different Avengers Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven because of Kang doing Kang things.
In an attempt to avoid his son'southward death, Black Bolt makes a deal with Kang to bring the child into the time stream. This deal shockingly goes sideways and the Inhumans are virtually wiped from the timeline.
Avengers: Unleashed Vol. 1: Kang War 1
Collects: Avengers (2017) #1-6
A story across generations of Avengers. Vision attempts to travel through time and housebreak baby Kang. This causes an overwhelming amount of new Kangs to be created and the Avengers are forced to get together a squad from throughout history to accept on the Kang stronghold.
Avengers: Back to Nuts
Collects: Avengers: Back to Basics #i-vi
Mister Gryphon transports Kamala Khan dorsum to the fourth dimension menstruum of a past Avengers battle which just and so happens to be Avengers #8 against Kang the Conqueror.
Infinity Kang
Infinity Wars by Gerry Duggan: The Complete Drove
Collects: Infinity Countdown Prime #1, Infinity Countdown #ane-5, Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock #1, Free Comic Book Day Astonishing Spider-Man/Guardians of the Galaxy 2022 (Guardians of the Milky way Saga), Infinity Wars Prime #1, Infinity Wars #i-6, Infinity Wars: Fallen Guardian #1, Infinity Wars: Infinity #ane, Thanos Legacy #1 (B story)
Kang is murdered, resurrected and joins the Cosmic Avengers against Requiem.
Thanos: The Infinity Saga Omnibus
Collects: Thanos Annual (2014) #1, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation (2014), Thanos Vs. Hulk (2014) #1-4, Thanos: The Infinity Relativity (2015), Infinity Entity (2016) #i-4, Thanos: The Infinity Finale (2016), Guardians Of The Galaxy: Mother Entropy (2017) #1-5, Thanos: The Infinity Siblings (2018), Thanos: The Infinity Conflict (2018), Thanos: The Infinity Catastrophe (2019)
Jim Starlin'due south epic collection of Thanos tales includes Kang coming face to face with the Mad Titan and becoming an agile histrion in Adam Warlock'southward war against Thanos.
Doc Doom Vol. 1: Pottersville
Collects: Md Doom (2019) #1-5, War Of The Realms: War Scrolls (2019) #iii (B Story)
An openly lost and dislocated Kang blinks in and out throughout the serial as Doctor Doom struggles to unravel a mysterious ability coup.
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