Jeff Loveness, the author of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, discussed his opinions on the usage of time travel in Avengers: Endgame. Time travel has always been significant in the Marvel world, and Avengers: Endgame marked the moment when it also started to matter in the MCU. Thanks to an idea from Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man and a subsequent creation by Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, the notion was presented via the Quantum Realm.
Since the Time Heist, time travel has only grown more important to the MCU’s ongoing narrative. Loki on Disney+ clearly made the most of time travel to introduce the TVA, Multiverse, and Kang the Conqueror, laying the groundwork for their significant roles in the narrative to come. The writer of the threequel and the upcoming Avengers film has provided an explanation for why the MCU’s history of time travel has left him “bummed out” before Jonathan Majors’ Kang makes his official MCU debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Writer of Avengers 5 Discusses Endgame Frustration
Writer of Ant-Man 3 and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Jeff Loveness discussed how he prepared to introduce Kang to the MCU in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as well as his views on Endgame’s Time Heist mission in the most recent edition of SFX Magazine. Loveness was questioned about if he “dived deep” into Kang’s comic book past to introduce him to the MCU, to which he said that his research was “very deep,” mentioning in particular how he dug “far into the Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion stuff:”
“Too deep, too deep! I got way into the Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion stuff, trying to read my way through that, and the Celestial Madonna with Mantis! That’s the joy of the character. He is just this infinite snake eating infinite tails, a man literally at war against himself.”
In addition to serving as the Pharaoh of Egypt, Rama-Tut was the first character from the Marvel universe to appear, appearing in Fantastic Four #19 in 1963. He was also mentioned in Moon Knight, which takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the meantime, Scarlet Centurion was the 23rd son in Kang’s dynasty to wear armour and be skilled in military tactics and warfare.The MCU writer expressed how he is “a bit unhappy” that Endgame included so much time travel and that Kang must now “broaden out into the Multiverse” when time-hopping has always been his “bread and butter”:
“I haven’t seen a time-travelling character done with such intricacy and exploration. I’m a little bummed because ‘Endgame’ did so much time travel, so you almost need to broaden him out a little bit too, maybe broaden out into the multiverse a little more, the dimensionality of the character, the limitless freedom he has while also being completely uprooted from his time and himself. Is it just going to all fall apart again because another version of him can destroy it as well? What’s the purpose of building Rome if you are going to burn it down the next day, because they want to have their own Rome?”
While he “took a tonne from the comics,” he continued, fans should still anticipate him to “throw a curveball” so they are unprepared:
“I certainly took a ton from the comics but the joy of these movies is you also get to put some of yourself into it, you get to put a completely new spin because if you just do a 100% comic book adaptation people know all the tricks and what to expect. You have to use that as a foundation and then throw a curveball. I’ve tried to lean into him being a more interesting character than people expect, hopefully.”
The majority of Kang the Conqueror’s distinctive characteristics and plots can be traced back to the way he employed time travel to tamper with the past, present, and future. He evidently also has a long relationship with the Multiverse, as seen by the Council of Kangs, a collection of his Variants. Thanos often has little to do with time travel; instead, the Infinity Stone-obsessed Mad Titan tends to lean more toward the cosmic. Time travel has to be incorporated into Avengers: Endgame in order to reverse the carnage from Avengers: Infinity War and take a sentimental walk down Infinity Saga memory lane.
Naturally, in order to prevent having two Avengers movies back-to-back with the theme at their core, this will have compelled Jeff Loveness and colleagues to slightly shy away from time travel. Since this is the Multiverse Saga, the idea of parallel universes and timelines will probably take its place. Marvel Comics and Kang fans will be thrilled to see how extensively Loveness is researching the antagonist’s past in order to prepare for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. This should result in a powerful Conqueror adaption, which Jonathan Majors’ skill will only serve to enhance.
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