The imminent arrival of the supervillain in Ant-Man 3 looks likely to shake up the future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Time travel has come a long way in a short time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Bruce Banner’s ham-fisted dabbling at the beginning of Avengers: Endgame swiftly quantum-leaping into Iron Man’s full-blown invention of functioning technology mid-way through the penultimate film of the studio’s phase three. But, with the news that Jonathan Majors has been cast as Kang the Conqueror in the forthcoming Ant-Man 3, it’s all about to get even stranger than Scott Lang zipping from the quantum zone to discover his underwear has inexplicably been soiled by his six-month-old self.
Kang has the potential to connect the Avengers (or what’s left of them) to myriad other inhabitants of the comic-book world that we haven’t yet seen in the MCU, some of them primed and ready for inclusion following Disney’s takeover of 20th Century Fox. That’s because the supervillain has hopped in and out of multiple time lines from the ancient Egyptian era to the 3oth century, and even as far as the 40th century, like a cross between Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout and Doctor Who, finding ways to mix with the likes of the X-Men, Fantastic Four and even the Young Avengers along the way.