The Kang Dynasty is notable for making Kang the only Marvel villain to actually conquer the world. But, the 2001 comic book storyline by Kurt Busiek provides enough material to create a rousing Avengers film. That could be the case with Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Marvel Studios has always played fast and loose with its adaptations of famous comic book storylines, sometimes adapting them in title only. The Scarlet Centurion was defeated when his time machine was destroyed and he was thrown back into the timestream.

He then brought those Avengers back to the present to face the real Avengers! He traveled back in time from there to one of the Avengers’ earlier battles and altered events, creating a divergent timeline and an alternate Earth with an alternate team of Avengers.

In the 20th century, Nathaniel took inspiration from Doom and established himself as the armored Scarlet Centurion. He even shares his name with Reed Richards’ father, an entirely different character named Nathaniel Richards.) It’s also been suggested that Kang is the descendent or ancestor (by way of time travel) of Reed Richards. (While Kang’s ancestry remains obscured, both he and the Fantastic Four believe Richard and Doom are related. Roy Thomas and Don Heck and Werner Roth/Marvel Comicsįollowing his defeat by the Fantastic Four, Richards traveled to their time, the 20th century, and sought out the team’s greatest enemy: Victor von Doom. The Scarlet Centurion was Kang’s first attempt to mess with the Avengers.

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