The Tragic Fate of Kang the Conqueror

[Music] what's up my comic comrad today we're wrapping up our overview of the 2021 king the conqueror miniseries with issues three through five this mini-series does a great job of analyzing kang's character and giving us a peek of why he is who he is and the tragedy that is his life including a look at his love ravona and how all he really wants in life is to be with her but like many fictional love stories their love story ends in a tragedy overall it's a really interesting story that could have serious relevance for the character as he expands his presence in the mcu anyway we covered the first two issues of the series right here so if you haven't read those comics for yourself or watched our episode on them make sure you do so before watching today's episode because if not things are gonna get spoiled for you with that said let's see how this solo kang series wraps up issue 2 left us with a young king or nathaniel richards going to apocalypse to team up with him and defeat rama tut aka another version of kang who wanted to enslave nathanael and his love ravona well at the beginning of issue three we see nathaniel has reached an agreement with en sabanor aka apocalypse to get his revenge sabanora then uses his powers on young nathaniel saying hear me now child of time and prepare your human mind for the gauntlet to come your predecessor the fallen pharaoh made the goddess time into his concubine he cheated her over hours and minutes he traveled through her and swiftly when her satisfaction demanded patience and saboner seeks not this path for it is strewn with cowards so if you are to cross the ages of our mutual goal the destruction of the tyrant king you will do so by her measure in her time protected from her ravages but not immune to her wisdom evolution demands it do you understand nathaniel richards he replies this is my plan apocalypse of course i understand now cease your lectures and do it send me on my way and with that apocalypse sent nathaniel richards forward in time to king the conqueror's first battle with earth's mightiest heroes the avengers while there nathanael sees the avengers attacking kang who just invaded via his ship nathaniel's captions say the avengers their names echoed in my head from the years of study thor captain america iron man giant man the wasp they look bigger in my memory such as too often the way with fools they did not even notice the boy underfoot they thought they could defeat kang on the field and the victory would soon be theirs i knew the outcome kang would escape into time for time was his weapon and only through its clever application could he be surprised so as they fought him with shield and hammer i approached not as alexander but as odysseus i made kang's time ship know me as a friend for none could access its arsenal but kang and as the avengers start their final assault on kang with thor using lightning from his hammer kang says damn those fools those damn fools ship retreat into the time stream but a voice then says escape in time all you want kang you are the fool today for you have crossed time and space survive the ravages of ancient egypt and the distant future only to die at my hand as we see nathaniel pointing a gun at him k asks how i do not discover my ancestors time machine until my 23rd year you've not even mastered the technology of the year 4000 what are you nathaniel answers i'm what you made your second chance and now you have only yourself to blame kang then responds you are a disappointment and a betrayer nathaniel tells him no in the old kingdom you captured a young rebel priestess her name was ravona she died under your mind control stripped of everything that gave her life i loved her and i am her avenger your time is done kang says is that so then what happens now little king nathaniel tells him i kill you i erase from all time the conquest of kang i take this timeship back to the old kingdom where i replace you i say ravona i bury your legacy in the ancient sands and we live an unconquered life kang replies are you insane you idiot child if i trained you the chrono stream will buckle under the weight of your paradox you will poison the very fabric of time nathaniel tells him time means nothing to kang a voice then says how fitting for as you will soon come to know kang means nothing to doom as we see doctor doom teleport inside the ship that's right their standoff is interrupted by dr doom who also wants to kill kane it's at this point that nathaniel and kang have no option but to strike a temporary truce in order to defeat doctor doom as nathaniel says we stood side by side using our matching force field technology to freeze doom in his steps and with their combined power they're able to send them back to his castle nathaniel then says but this day it was not the bully who held the knife continuing to say no kang doom is right about one thing your time is done as he shoots and kills kang it's at this point nathaniel replaced his future self in a timeline and returned to ancient egypt taking on the role of rama tut as rama he was able to spare ravona's life but couldn't win her love as she said if you love me as you claim you would give me my freedom the captions of nathaniel say there was no time for plain speak apocalypse's war was at my gates so i gave her wrath in place of freedom the ultra diode ray would never be her fate again for her safety i had ravona taken to a compound of my own creation a hidden place where the violence of the war would pass by her should she survive i would find her in the aftermath i had become pharaoh for one purpose and through mastery of time i had succeeded and then the trap closed around me and so like him i ran as we see the fantastic four come back in time to defeat him which we saw many moons ago in fantastic four 19. anyway being forced to flee this time to a distant war-torn future he was met by yet another version of ravona the captions say but once again time had a surprise for he who had thought her conquered and her name was ravona this brings us to the end of issue three and on to issue four which i'm going to run through a bit quicker after meeting the second version of ravona in this war-torn future the two quickly team up fighting off the beans of this future but their partnership is very short-lived it all went downhill when he turned and looked at her saying whoa i loved you at the dawn of civilization i love you at the end she replies nathaniel you come from a past sky from a time when this world was green and soft and living and of all the faces the first you saw was mine you think that's an ending but it is only a moment in this moment we have killed arbalist the tyrant beast but another shall rise and he too in turn will be killed we may be killed if there is to be any worth in this world to live in this moment will never be enough he tells it ravona please understand me everyone else alive they are footnotes we could be all that matters no more reeving pain any of it we needn't toil toward an impossible end we could leave all of this we could live gloriously but she just responds to this by body tossing him and saying no you understand our technology in ways we can't imagine your view of history's shadow stretches beyond horizons and all that power you used to claim me as you claim this woman you loved except that she is not me and i am not yours i belong to myself and the moment we've made shall be our last nathaniel then takes a second to look at the blood on his hand while remembering what his future self told him in a previous issue never love but nathaniel just answers himself saying as if it were a choice nathaniel then says fine if the choice was to be mine between heart pierced by her gaze and one hearted against her then i would choose conquest essentially nathaniel stopped resisting his fate and became the cross-time conqueror fate wanted him to be but it wasn't that simple because he soon found a third version of ravona who he knew died tragically in his predecessor's timeline so he tried a new tactic this time around which was mercy he decided to show love to earn ravona's love and the two would have been happy but the mercy he showed to everyone around him allowed ravonna to be killed by baltag an assassin of kings who betrayed him by killing ravona by shooting her in the back with her dying in king's arms this cemented the cycle of violence young nathaniel richards was trying to desperately escape but he wasn't done trying so in a last-ditch effort of defiance against time kang vowed to bring ravona back to life even if it meant shattering all of reality as he puts ravonna in some device saying awake ravona awake one thousand times and be saved by my final conquest and that brings us to the end of issue four which leads us into the fifth and final issue of this mini-series in this issue we see kangas following through with his promise to bring ravona back to life we see him on top of a giant meteor inside of a globe city with him saying i call this place chronopolis this is where we live ravona where you live i swear even if it takes 1 000 attempts as he stares at her body inside of a chamber he continues to say she was not you but she had wisdom go my ravona and be infinitely reborn in the space between the stars as he pulls a lever to a device he's activating as we see three different babies of ravona all over time captions from kang sei using every bit of chronopolis power i unravel the very fabric of time i found the threads of fate and made the city its loom and from it i wove a machine in constant replication i injected ravana run slayer's very soul into time like a die into the threads of an entire tapestry where time had taken her from me i forced time to do the opposite the birth of infinite ravonas in infinite timelines giving myself infinite chances to save her the plan was genius it was flawless until it began we are then given a montage of panels where we see several different versions of ravona with kang trying to have his happy ending but all of them fail one way or another with us seeing the last version of her saying monster how dare you how dare you she then starts attacking kang saying the great machine knows time it sees all who manipulate it plus i could smell you across a time stream you hideous jackal my life you made me believe you were a good man and then you stole my life as she swings some sort of energy sword at him he blocks it saying no i saved you ravona you saved me and i loved you i love you ravona you're magnificent so i wrote your name across time she replies it was not yours to write pathetic little nathaniel richards kang then says oh well another failure all that's left to do is cauterize the wound as he blasts her with a gun as he's doing this she says i never had a chance to be free from you but some of them one of them might i can't free them from time but i can free them from you you're the wound kang burn as she uses her power to destroy chronopolis but of course kang as always escapes through time and as he falls through time he says then i realized what it meant i thought hard about that day that place that all-important moment and i arrived 10 minutes early he was younger than i remember nathaniel richard's eyes i remembered as once my own i had felt so powerful so capable i'd looked at kang with the stain the sneer was insufferable i swore to erase it from the boy i gave him the chance i'd been given from the monster who made me but with the benefit of my knowledge i would save him the trauma i would do it right but as he says he's trying to do things differently this time kang goes through all the same events that we saw his younger self go through in previous issues but this time again he's the older version now having tried to be with ravona his love for all these centuries we even see this older kang or nathaniel kill ravona's tribe which was the exact incident that sent his younger self on this journey to pursue ravona but this time doing it to teach a lesson to young nathaniel as he says the one that in my fury i felt forced to teach and after kane kills ravona and the tribe young nathaniel steals his armor and sets off to make his own destiny and find ravona in time just like he did at the beginning but we see that this older nathaniel just wakes up saying run nathanael run and become you think me conquered but it is not kang who has died this day for nathaniel richards is not a boy nor man nor hero nor villain he is only a beginning as we see kang has a second suit of armor as kang waits for the meteor to destroy this world much like he did earlier in the series he says a king and a tyrant a villain and a hero we will be all things experience all things the beginning and ending of time are hours by immortality's boon you will have the power of a god and when you have lived in a mortal's life still here you will stand never love how could i when there is no one left to love across all time my ravonas are gone my past affixed its loop completed her grip upon my heart releases and so the hus stops i have found my desiccation he stares at armageddon as the meteor approaches sane alexander wept because he could not conquer his world alexander wept because he could not conquer himself but i am not alexander as we get an epic shot of the meter destroying the dinosaurs and the world behind him with kang walking away saying rest and fire nathaniel richards rest knowing you have vested all who you thought to be great in this world die knowing you stand astride destiny give your face and your voice to who you created and who in turn created you and above all other things though all time and space may conspire to defeat you never ever love as king hovers in a chair watching the planet be destroyed and with that the series ends what a series guys this was one of the best kang stories i ever read i love how this was both a revisited and revised origin story for king and in the process show us how tragic his origin and life was again the only thing he really wanted was just to be with his love ravona but in the end that was impossible no matter what he did he learned that his fate was inevitable as he came full circle and found himself in the exact place where the older version of himself was at the beginning of the story the cycle had just reset simply put i thoroughly enjoyed this series and i think it's a must read for anyone who is a fan of kang the conqueror or just wants to know more about the character but what do you guys think of this mini series let us know in the comments and that's gonna bring today's episode to a close but if you like this video check out this one right here and if you like all of our content subscribe like and comment it helps the channel out but other than that i'll see you guys next time when i talk about all things comics

Channel: Variant Comics

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Keywords: kang the conqueror, ravona, doctor doom, marvel, marvel comics, comics, comic books, rama tut, entertainment, variant, nathaniel richards, loki, kang, variant comics

Id: SxFGPHElHao

Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2022