Kang the Conqueror Would’ve Fought the Avengers This Weekend

The month of May is typically an important time for Marvel’s Avengers movies: the original movie came out May 4, 2012, and Age of Ultron May 1, 2015. Once upon a timeline, instead of the adjacent Thunderbolts, this weekend would’ve marked the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ first theatrical reappearance since Endgame. During its SDCC panel on July 23, 2022, Marvel Studios announced Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars would respectively release May 2 and November 7, 2025. The duology was to be the epic closer to the Multiverse Saga—begun in Phase Four with 2021’s Black Widow, and which now spread across several TV shows, in addition to films. It was that summer’s Loki which truly kicked off the whole “multiverse” part of this, and its first season concluded with the reveal of this saga’s big bad: Kang the Conqueror, played by then-rising actor Jonathan Majors. While the multiverse focus continued via What If…? and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Majors wouldn’t actually ... Read full article.