Kang the Conqueror will be making his cinematic debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and, from the looks of things, is no stranger to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. By the time Scott Lang is introduced to the villain, Kang will have already amassed his army and conquered the Quantum Realm, his current prison. However, his isolation in the realm has made him desperate, and his desire to conquer is stronger than ever. But the reason for this isn't because of a desire for power. Instead, it's because he's trying to avoid a grim fate that all of his many variants have also faced -- certain death.

In an antithesis to the one way that was required to beat Thanos, Kang's fate is that he will always lose. There are multiple context clues to this that have gone back as far as Loki. As a result, Kang's aggression in trying to escape in order to survive makes him more of an animal backed in a corner rather than an apex predator. But even if it may seem like a state of mind he's consistently struggled with, the MCU has laid the groundwork to prove that Kang's struggle to survive is very much valid.

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Kang Conquers to Avoid His Death

In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to look at multiple variations of their battle against Thanos. But of the millions he saw, only one guaranteed a substantial victory. Considering the range that Kang has in terms of intelligence and technology and his ability to see the timeline, he likely pieced together that by not seeing past one moment in time, he's destined to lose before he becomes the all-powerful ruler he's wanted to be. Therefore, in a self-fulfilling prophecy, his entire life is a dash for power to avert a seemingly certain fate.

By having variants of Kang all fighting to survive, it's the perfect foundation to allow for the Kang Dynasty to be born. While survival of the fittest would be the name of the game, those that have survived and killed weaker variants could try and work together to avert fate. However, in classic Kang fashion, his variants are also his worst enemy, and in attempting to be the only conquerer, he may continue to confirm his tragic end. But another temporal factor may guarantee his inevitable death, thanks to fixed points in time.

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Kang Is Victim of a Fixed Point in the MCU

Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains from Loki

In What If...?, an episode explored if Doctor Strange had lost Christine instead of his hands. As revealed, this loss pushed him to try and change the past to save her, ultimately ending in him singlehandedly destroying his reality. The reason for this was that Christine's death was a fixed point that had to happen for that Strange variant to exist. Fixed points are largely unknown, but the aspects that are understood confirm their importance as they can never be altered. Loki added to this in the form of He Who Remains, who tried to pass on the responsibility of maintaining the Sacred Timeline because he knew every moment that would happen up until a point. But this variant failed to understand that he wasn't dealing with the end of time but the end of himself.

He Who Remains' end proved that even tyrants and warlords aren't safe from fate, and his sole purpose was to end the Multiversal War. But for these next variants, they'll try and avoid their untimely end with more violence and aggression than ever. However, the real tragedy and irony are that the harder Kang and his variants fight, the faster they approach their end, as their defeat is a fixed point so that the multiverse can thrive and create more heroes.

To see Kang's first moves, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits theaters Feb. 17.