Kang The Conquer vs The Marvel Universe: Full Story (Comics Explained)
Kang the Conqueror's premiere in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is quickly approaching! But just who exactly Is Kang? What is his Origin? What are his greatest fights? In this video we'll be covering the new origin of Nathanial Richards, as well as talking about his greatest fight against none other than Doctor Doom as well as the rest of the Marvel Universe!
▸ Who Is Kang? Kang the Conqueror, also known as Immortus, Rama Tut or Iron Lad is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is most frequently depicted as an opponent of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. A time-traveling entity, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, including his respective future and past heroic selves, Rama-Tut, Immortus, and Iron Lad.
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“Kang is Dead. Long Live Kang” What a line
Kang is the best example of a villain who is clearly a villain but you still can't help but love. You find yourself routing for Kang against the traditional Heroes. Kang and Doom.
Exactly
Rooting, not routing
Thanos
@@westside9032 Thanos is garbage tier. Mans is nothing but the Universe's most prolific simp.
@@kalebstuart3083 I mean.. Kang is a simp for revonna
The line about his choice to leave his love behind to indulge his greatness across all of space and time gives me chills.
That's exactly what I said to my ex-wife before the divorce too!
😊😊😊😊😊😊nnnnn😊😊nnnppnnnnnnnnn😊😊
I find the first story so tragic and heartbreaking like a Greek tragedy. No matter how much he tried his destiny was already written and everything that he did to change his fate just ended up bringing him one step closer to it. Your channel is amazing! Thank you for making my Southern California commute bearable!
Just move already lol I left SoCal in 2013 when I joined the Air Force and eventually got sent to Japan. Got married, and after the military I had to return for 6 months in 2018. My wife got my Japanese visa and I left again. Never looked back. I can't believe I ever tolerated SoCal/LA for so long!!! There is a beautiful, NORMAL world out there I promise lmfao
He thought he’d tamed Time, but Time had other ideas
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@@187btokes not everyone cares about living in foreign countries
@@murk4552 and?
Kang is the definition of a villain being the hero of his own story and Kang is even justified in his actions from time to time (No pun intended)
Nah bro. You know what you did.
@@kel-A-3414 fully intended
Kang is nothing more than an incell. Mad at the universe because a girl doesn't love him. He is not the complex villain that people want him to be because of the new movie.
@@miketurner2095 Bro, she died 💀 Did u even read the whole story?
@@miketurner2095 You sound more like an Incel than anything else
Kang is my 2nd favourite villain in Marvel Comics, with Victor Von Doom as No.1
Yes! Doom is my #1 as well.
Who is your 9th favorite?
Doom is just tiers above everyone else there's no one that comes even close
@@Peter-ci1zw Thanos as the 3rd, and it ends there for my villains.
As it should be
I feel like a lot of Kangs problems can be solved if he got some therapy, got a few homies, and look for someone else 😭
KNg sitting I. Therapy with another Kang variant as his therapist.
LOL 😆
@@savedgesurvive Guidance Kangcelor
I mean, instead of going back in time and completely messing up his own younger self, he should have just sent back a book to his slightly older self containing all the information he would have needed. The thing with people is that even in a deterministic universe we are not the same person every day of our lives. Come to think of it, the reason he fails is that after he screws up, he cuts so many pieces off himself that he no longer understands even himself, that's kind of sad, and funny, at the same time.
@@savedgesurvivekangs therapist to kang: “and how does that make us feel?”
Kang is a really sad love story covered up by tyranny, rage and conquest. For all his bravado, power, ruthlessness and intelligence, he's lashing out at the world because his loneliness and broken heart. Which I never knew until I read more about Kang. He's almost a sympathetic figure if not for the whole "conquering" tyrant, warlord thing. Lol. Definitely one of the better villains in the MCU. Rob does amazing job as always explaining and making you sympathize with a character despite their flaws. Hell of a story and read by Rob.
@@malus1426 This all knowing and powerful broken man is willing to set fire to the fabric of time and destroy lives just for love. That's sad asf in the bad way. Like you said he could possibly have anyone, do just about anything and this is what he does with time and power.
Cant wait to see Johnathan express all these emotions
@@TheDominiqueBallou I'm with you. Also I hope he's as diabolical and dangerous as he is in the comics.
@@TheDominiqueBallou how would that even work since yk he's a descendant of reed/doom ....like seriously, how would thar work. Also after antman and wasp II, yh no idk about that one chief
What I think is hilarious is that I was legit listening to the whole playlist this morning, I'm at the near end of the conclusion where Kang meets his younger self again, just for the easy full version story to be posted minutes before I finish all the individual videos 😂
Thing is with Kang is he’s such a fascinating concept for a character. The “man out of time”, almost like a more fantastical and villainous version of Doctor Who, where he’s scattered throughout time so much that at any given point in any given universe you can run into a version of him. However, I think Marvel hasn’t quite realised Kang’a potential in terms of stories. There’s so many ways they could go with him, by far the most interesting they’ve done is that existential crisis that comes from being able to go anywhere and anywhen
Great comment greater profile pic
@@erique1238 You know, I was thinking the same thing.
Yes, they realized his potential. However, you still have to get the rights from the comics books ,story boards and origin of 3 characters molded into one. Except now have to involve technology and fantastic four .
this idea was already done with the molecule man.
Literally an infinite amount of possible story arcs.
this is by far the most ambitious, complex and deeply-sourced comic book channel on all of YT. my goodness, the amount of passion u have for these absolutely seeps through every second of every video. i'm a girl and was never into comics before but you've made me a huge comic book fan and i'm honestly in awe at every single video you put out. it's INSANE!!!
The subtext of “never love” could be that the one thing Kang couldn’t have was love. No matter what he did, love wasn’t meant for him. Not from parents, not from friends and not from the partner he wanted…Never love.
One thing time could never give him
Kang is like the main character in a video game. You are fully aware that you are playing a video game as the main character. Especially after you’ve beat the entire game, you know everything that’s going to happen or ever will happen and you also have all the cheat codes. Are you unbeatable ? No but you have every advantage while every other character is an NPC that is not fully aware of the game universe in which they live in. This also means that you can only play within the context of the video game and still have a set of rules yourself. Basically like an Agent in The Matrix.
You missed a couple. Kang is like a game, with infinite saves. some might be lvl 1, lvl 16, lvl 100, etc etc. Each and every single save can reach the same heights or greater. If you finished a play through you can take all your experience as the lvl 100 character and transfer it all to the lvl 1 character.... cutting out all wasted movements.
@@kool4209 absolutely great point as well I didn’t think of that analogy for the infinite versions of Kang.
He is basically Flowey from Undertale.
@@kool4209New Game +
Couldn't Kang theoretically be a descendant of both Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom? All that would need to happen for that to be the case is just 2 of Reed's and Doom's descendants end up getting together, and then Kang will be a descendant of both Doom and Reed no matter what.
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I wanted to just come on here and thank Rob, for being the first person to theorize Kang having a connection with the 10 rings( his technology). And possibly being behind the post credit scene on how the rings could have actually been from the future not the past… Now everyone is theorizing that idea. I think it’s time we give this man his flowers for his knowledge on all things marvel.. 💐💐
RMB?
"Only Myself Left to Conquer" sounds like Kang's one man show where he talks about his life on stage.
Rob, this is one of the most poetic stories you’ve ever broken down, and you did it poetically too. Definitely one of my new favorite explained videos
Yeah this is easily my favourite delivery of Rob’s, I come back to this story more than I like to admit, despite me liking other stories more.
Kang is going to save the MCU you ask me I've never been more excited for a villian out the marvel comic universe
''save''? Marvel just made over 3 Billion in 2 years . Its dc who needs to be saved
so dramatic, ''save'' . lol
so easy to spot the fake fans trying to take a shot at Marvel
@@evennight5770 usually followed by a post about how they “Didnt watch” a movie or show and yet we 100% know they did.
This didn’t age well…
This story is beautiful.... Kang was just a villain to me had just learned about him in the MCU... His story is viciously gorgeous... He ismy new favorite comic book character of all time, this was eye opening ... You've made a reader of Me...
I'm going to start telling ppl to jave a viciously gorgeous day.
I love this channel so much. 2 hours worth of lore, details, and stories. Keep it up!
I think this video is a reupload
@@adenmohamed2958t is. I remember watching this video maybe around Nov
I feel like since he is from the 31st Century, aka approximately 1000 years, so approximately 10-15 generations, it is reasonable that both Reed Richards and Doctor Doom are in Kangs family tree somewhere. Which would mean that Kang has to be careful when interacting with both so that his timeline could be intact. *Theory* Kang has terrible parents, those parents could be descendants of both Doom and Richards, and let's say both were hiding it from eachother (embarrassed of their legacies or something) until the birth of their kid, and then they realise, they gave birth to Kang, and decided that there best bet is to leave Kang without parents in hoping to stop Kangs timeline, which ultimately makes Kang.
I hope everything with Jonathan Majors works out. He was a perfect fit to be Kang.
Looks nothing like Kang
@@virtualrealityfitness283 it's not about his look it's the acting that was impressive. Of course they don't look alike the comic character is white.
@@virtualrealityfitness283…you just saw a comic book with his girlfriend changing races…like come on
He got cooked, unfortunately.
"Love makes us blind as hate makes us see" great line
if you say so, though I personally think Hate makes you just as blind.
@@ravinraven6913 the narrator said it
@@ravinraven6913its both
@@ravinraven6913You just not mad enough, lil bro.
After watching Loki/Antman and from my understanding Kang is every version/variant of himself from a different time period. The mcu i think over did it tho. Because now people think each universe has only one Kang since we see each kang at the rally. But in comics Rama tut is immortus who is He who remains, it’s just different parts of his life. He explains the connection and that’s he’s very old in Loki but he’s doesn’t explain why the variants look different (we just assume it’s copies but not only are they copies they are different aged versions of himself). He who remains is just the oldest version of himself which meant he already lived the others lives (that’s why he’s bored he won)
The consel is different time periods of kang coming together. The older kings have experience that already and He who remains seen the furthest. So to protect himself he helps himself throughout the time line( immortus creates iron lad who becomes Ramatut to grow and eventually being Victor S/He who remains/Immortus/etc just to meet Nathaniel to create Ironlad and etc. but each version is different because of their experiences.
GOD MY BRAIN... after hearing this whole story, I am still cannot understand how in the hell world the story begin and end in such complexity it so beautiful and the core of the whole story is still intact.
I'm still trying too figure out how he can time travel so much - smh.
@@parrishharris3008 Well he was born in the age that everything is discovered... for me it explain a lot that a simple stuff like love... destroy his own life
@@bladez161AJK well that’s only partially true. One of the reasons why Kang is able to be anywhere in time is because of his specialized vessel, also Kang was special in his own timeline. Basically a genius inventor like reed Richards or tony stark hence why he has a time bending/multiverse travelling ship.
You did an AMAZING job on this collection of videos! I appreciate the time and energy you put into breaking these events down. Thank you!
The irony of Kang the Conqueror is that he always GETS conquered.
1 great reason why Kang and Doom are related: They both share the weakness of being their own worst enemy Kang literally started his own heartbreak story in the beginning if he doesn't blow up that Village he never sends her dna in space later which starts the whole story to begin with it literally starts and stops when his own actions he's the sole reason he's miserable And that's the same problem Doom has when he has the upside on the FF his ego is the start and stop of his downfall
You are a master of your craft. Thank you for these videos man, no one else can explain comic books like these in such an engaging way.
“A master does not allow his love to die.” Love Kang and that whole first story, so tragic.
It’s so true how love, the kind where you are in lockstep with another, lives intertwined, and fully invested. It really is one of the best feelings in the world. Likewise, the loss of it, can change someone irrevocably or even break them. I lost my fiancé during the height of Covid and I must say I wouldn’t wish that pain on my worst enemies. I can fully understand Kang’s choices and reasoning, even though it’s ultimately wrong. Even after the last couple of years with therapy and love & support, allowing me to achieve some sense of normalcy again, I’d still be willing to do anything to go back.
I love you man. Sorry you’ve dealt with this pain
I think it's absolutely hilarious that not only did he get Petrov to kill Doom for him, he also achieved his original goal in getting him to reconsider. After all, how can Doom be the greatest threat to every universe if he can be killed by an elderly historian with zero combat experience?
I think that line of thinking is false....hitler was able to have millions put to death, but how can Hitler be too bad when he was so afraid of being captured he would rather take poison and shoot himself? Sounds like a coward to me, but that has nothing to do with him being able to kill people or have people killed. Same thing here. Doesn't matter what defeats them, it doesn't take away from what they did or can do.
Amazing video 😳
you're such an amazing narrator and explainer. keep it up
I loved the way you take pride in your work and come out and read these stories from my favorite coming books.
You were absolutely SPITTIN when you explained the 99% vs. the free. Loved this video my guy.
The reason why Kang is confusing is because the character was created way back before the concepts of the multiverse and time travel were solidified in Marvel cannon. As such the basic principle of how he created new versions of himself are where the problems start. So, if the premise is that some guy in the future has the ability to travel time and the multiverse, how does he spawn multiple versions of himself? Meaning, if he goes back to 2 million years, there is no version of himself there. In order for one to be there, he would literally have to stay there himself in person to supervise what is going on. But you can't be in two places at one time, meaning after the end of that lifetime, how does he go back to the starting point where he was in his timeline? And if he does use his time travel/multiverse travel device to travel back, then he will run into 2 versions of himself depending on when he goes back to. It all gets convoluted really quickly, especially given how the multiverse and branching timelines were explained in Endgame.
just finished rewatching the secret wars 2015 and spider verse full stories this came just in time 🙏 best comic channel on youtube
I love that you have compiled all these I appreciate it Rob
I rewatched this twice, first because I was lost around the half hour mark and still finished, second because amazing explanation here if you are willing to listen. Love this channel!!
Everything Kang! (I like the depictions of him, but I would like it better if Kang uses his anti-gravity technology more, functioning in a similar way to telekinesis)
Cant believe i managed to find entire plot breakdowns for chainsaw man, berserk and kang the conquerer all in one day
This was epic! I been listening to it every chance I get since you uploaded it! So glad I found your channel
Give this man his flowers while he’s still here! Makes me feel like I actually read all these comics! Bravo! 👏🏾
Young Kang definitely needs to be a movie or something.
I love your analogy using "us" to explain Kang. (I use analogies at my job to help my clients better understand issues involved in their cases). Maybe one day you can do the same for Hawkman. 😁 Keep up the good work!
Dude you're cracked all these dope lore videos are the best you know so much
Love the channel. Watching your channel has rekindled my love for reading comics!! I've read so much this past year. Thank you. One request I have is, please put the list of the name of comic issues in the description.
A surprisingly epic life story of a villain
The true beauty of this story is that Kang is trying to not get away from the one thing he cannot leave himself.
Is that worded correctly yet confusing or just plain unintelligible
@@kevinjackson-baber7508 correctly
Oh this one, the deep dive, you hit some serious thinking points. I love the notion about parenting! As a father of two, I enjoy observing the growth of my kids. Observing life as they see it. Oh man, what you shared here will reside rent free in me. This series breakdown is the favorite breakdown of all, in your collection. Thanks Rob!
It subtle but that primitive face paint on nathaniel is part of kangs ultimate design. So good!!!
I heard that Kang The Conqueror has the ultimate super power -- Plot hole immunity. Is that true ?
i never thought i would ever understand kangs backstory after many times over the years of trying. however this vid answered all my questions and cleared up so many story arcs that just confused me. i now feel like i know abt 70% of his lore compared to abt 25% before watching this. i can’t thank you enough for all the work and heart you put in to these vids💙🤘🏽
I appreciate you doing what you do. Your evolution is laid bare by video and IMHO, you have really taken the ball and ran with it. I appreciate that.
I've watched this video 10 times it's your commentary makes it 100 x better
To think the same bloodline that produced Reed and Franklin would end up producing Kang, too. ...Actually now that I think about it, that tracks. Doom was right all along about that family...
DOOM is ALWAYS correct
It took me 5 years to realize Rob is a Neil deGrasse Tyson variant 🤯
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The first person explanation was a solid move. Genius idea!
Incredible video. Real talk. Thank you for this. First got sucked into your channel with your blue marvel video 💪🏾✊🏽
2 hours worth of Kang goodness and yet there's still lots that weren't included such as the Kang War in Kurt Busiek's Avengers run. WIth Avengers defeated, Kang successfully conquered the world. Also the Avengers Forever by Busiek and Pacheco which is also one of the best Kang stories....
I made the same mistake with my first love Kang did with Revanna......damn I love great writing....and Kang is my # 1 favorite villian. Great breakdown Rob.
Hell yeah cover the rest of this! I've been wondering why a story like this hasn't been done yet. Gathering all street level heros to go against street level villains/gangsters is awesome
Awesome job explaining Kang's origins. I feel that I have a much better understanding now. :D Thank you!
I remember another Kang story where he took over the Earth in present time. With his son "Marcus"as the Scarlet Centurion. It was a year long storyline in the Avengers. He captured all the heroes, everyone on the planet were his slaves. I can't remember if you covered it but if you didn't, could you?
I think that’s Kang Dynasty
@@00EvanG yeah that's kang dynasty
Comicstorian has one. But i would love rob to do one...
Thank you fellas, I did not want to go through cases of comics to find it, but I wanted to read it.
I'm so glad I screen recorded robs video of Kang being terrified of Thanos🤦🏿♂️ can't find it for some reason
That was amazing truly. Thank you for your work.
Thank you for this video; I learned so much from it about Kang the Conqueror. Kang is my favorite supervillain, I love this time-conquering bad guy!
Kaang couldn't settle down with Ravanna because he would meet one and she would die again and again. A new one pops up, and dies. So kaang eventually spreads one of them into the time stream. Which he can only do because up until that moment every Ravenna dies. Every Ravenna dies, because fate essentially scripts it. So times fate was for kaang to always lose Ravenna, he can only experience a repeat process of this because he later sends her throughout time, which he can only do BECAUSE there was a long line of Ravenna popping up, that are only there because a future moment, he would send then into the time stream. I'm pretty sure I botched this but Jesus this version of kaang alone is bonkers.
Glad I didn't throw my ex-wife in a time portal. Whew, really dodged a bullet there.
I never really understood how Kang story could be confusing almost every story that has to do with time travel follows a similar setup of paradoxes, time loops, alternate timelines and realities it's all just entertaining but not confusing but that's just me
Nah this is way extra lmao
Nah. This is on crack
Yesss we needed this. You always come through
This is the stuff I came here for originally. Good work bud.
As far as Kang being a descendent of Reed or Doom, I don't think it has to be either or. I think it stands to reason that somewhere down the line, someone in reeds family married into Dooms family. It's not unreasonable.
I truly wish this channel has a Spotify playlist or podcast!!! This channel rocks!
Kang is Kang. Great video just finished watching the whole video. Thank you Rob for uploading :)
Majors will be the greatest villain the MCU ever had. Cant wait for his arc in the MCU
What If: the Gentle Man had a green lantern ring
This video is awesome. looking forward to seeing the rest,
Love the channel!! Keep up the awesome work. I love when you get pumped up and go," Soooooon!" I'm glad to see a fellow BlueGreener making it big
one thing i still dont understand is why doesnt kang age? or age extremely slowly, we see young adult kang, middle aged kang, and old kang, but seems like middle aged kang lives out hundreds of life times. Is it future med tech or just timey wimey stuff?
Pretty sure its because of apocalypse and his anti aging curse he put on Nathaniel
@@kiefferindisguise5196 ahhh thank you that checks out with when he seemingly stopped aging. Been wondering about this forever
As much as I enjoyed this 2 and half hour video, and the detailed love story of Kang and Renslayer, I'm kinda still in search of Kangs overall character arc. Like where is the timeline involving the council of Kangs and the additional ripples Kang has caused from beginning to end? Nathaniel created a huge domino effect and thats the over all arc I'm trying to find.
You have an amazing channel I'm sitting here sick at the moment and listening to comics through you telling them is great you do an amazing job explaining things and telling the story and you even describe them as best as you can and even tell us what else to check out if we want to find out about other things with characters thank you for this wonderful channel
His Destiny is basically the line of Thanos in a nutshell "Inevitable." But his life is just Irony His time, in loop His existence, eternity His love, eternal
This is a beautifully romantic story. Tragically epic, exciting and gripping quest through time. Long live Kang!
My question is.. why does kang’s suit take away his facial hair while wearing it??
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I remember watching your videos years ago, very monotone but very good content. Nice to see you're finally comfortable with showing a bit of personality
Yo @comicsexplained I absolutely love this channel
So basically, Kang is an adult child of an alcoholic...
Really hope the MCU gets better
Right? The mcu has given us zero memorable movies, absolutely nothing to celebrate, and worst of all, it doesn't even hold a candle to what DC has done with their live action movies.
@@w1lDstYLe really? I don't necessarily agree with those last 2 points.
@@justinhearst ah, my bad man, it was sarcasm, every point I made was easy to disagree with. Sarcasm is just hard to convey or understand through text and nothing audible, I was just hoping my points were so ridiculous that it was clear sarcasm, but with the many people hating the mcu now just because it's so common to love the mcu and they wanna be different, I can see how my comment might come off as serious.
@@w1lDstYLe Understandable. Thanks for the clarification.
@@w1lDstYLejust because dc is bad doesn’t automatically equate to marvel being good what kind of logic 😂
Awesome video, great explanation!
Your background music is pretty cool
So grateful i found this channel, this is awesome
Amazing explanation, thanks bro
I understand comics and knew KANGS storyline throughout the years, BUT I love the way you broke it down…
The story of Kang reminds me a lot of that Netflix show dark. Super underrated always love a good time loop story
Thankyou Rob. Love this so much....just awesome
i love these long videos they are so good when im playing destiny 2
ok......the picture at 2 hours and 12 seconds is AMMMMMMMZIIIIINNNNnnngggg!!!!
Thank you Comics Explained. Because of you, I started actually investing time in reading comics. You deserve 10 million subs my friend.
Blowing my mind. Thank you for your work! 🤯