Game of Thrones’ next spinoff really shouldn’t be an Aegon the Conqueror series
HBO has far better options than another Aegon
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HBO has far better options than another Aegon
While the MCU started firing up the multiverse saga all the way back during Avengers: Endgame, Marvel has barely touched on the man who was actually at least indirectly responsible for everything that happened not just during Season 1 of Loki, but also WandaVision, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals.
I’m talking about Kang the Conqueror, introduced in Loki Season 1, the inadvertent architect of the past several years of MCU stories and the new big bad that our heroes will have to deal with for several more.
Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania and other recent entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
When Jonathan Majors made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Loki, he was merely “He Who Remains,” an enigmatic being who claimed to be policing the timeline to prevent other incarnations of himself from wreaking havoc. Once he was murdered (by Loki variant Sylvie’s hand), however, those other incarnations were …
Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania is about to set in motion the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s wildest story arc yet: that of the multiversal juggernaut Kang the Conqueror.
Kang is an incredibly complex character, not just in terms of his motivations but also his very existence. He’s a paradox, having lived for an eternity and constantly interfering with his own past and future through endless time-travel adventures–many of which apparently involved genocide.
In other words, Kang is not really concerned with the same things normal human beings are. His sights are set a bit higher. And, on some level, he is unknowable. But that’s not going to stop Jonathan Majors, who plays the character, from giving it his best shot.