There are few villains in the Marvel pantheon more powerful or influential than Kang the Conqueror. First appearing in Avengers #8 in 1964, Kang has spent the last 50-plus years meddling, interfering and revising as best he can the past, present and future of Earth-616.
His exploits against the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men - well, just about everybody in the Marvel universe - are legendary. But what are the worst things Kang has ever done? Let's take a look at the top 10 dastardly deeds of Kang the Conqueror in all his forms.
10 First Things First (Maybe)
The history of Kang the Conqueror is complicated, to say the least. Not every version we see of him is necessarily the same and his first appearance wasn't his first foray into the past. But it was the first one we saw, and so it made an impression. Kang shows up in the past (or the present) and kidnaps most of the team. He ransoms them for the surrender of the world, as one does. When that doesn't work, he decides to just kill everybody and releases radiation from his time ship. Guess he wasn't too concerned about the future then.
9 Spider-Bot
Kang follows this up with some trickery that will seem quaint compared to his later endeavors. Nevertheless, he creates a robot version of Spider-Man to fool the Avengers. The Robot Spidey tries to join the Avengers saying he can help find Iron Man who is missing at this point. Perhaps because the robot wasn't as quippy as the genuine article, this ruse failed. Also, the real Peter Parker showed up and it was awkward and Kang had to give up the ghost.
8 Rama-Tut
Kang's ambitions in the past begin even before this, however. Kang is Nathaniel Richards, from the 30th century and an alternate Earth known as Earth6311. He may be a descendant of Reed Richards. He may be a descendant of Doctor Doom. No one is sure. What is sure is Kang got bored in his relatively peaceful future and went back to ancient Egypt. He set up shop as Pharoh Rama-Tut and even tried to mold En-Sabah-Nur as his heir apparent. That name will be familiar to a lot of readers. The Fantastic Four booted Rama-Tut, but this version of Kang wasn't done wrecking house.
7 Secret Wars
Another version of Kang later tried to assert his will during the 80s mega crossover Secret Wars. With all the major heroes and villains transported to Battleworld by the mysterious Beyonder, Doctor Doom tries to quell tensions and get all the bad guys to work together. You can imagine how that goes.
The villains try and take out Doom, and Kang goes for the jugular, destroying the ship Doom tries to escape in. Kang later gets his when a triumphant Doom, now in full control of the squabbling villains, has Ultron blast Kang to smithereens. Guess Kang didn't see it coming.
6 Princess Ravonna
In his native time, Kang was just a regular guy who wanted to do regular things. Like get married, and have little Kangs. A bunch of Kangs would be a problem later, or earlier, or just in general as you'll see. He sought the hand of Princess Ravonna, but she wasn't too hip on the idea. Despite this, she took a shot meant for Kang from a rival, Baltag. Rather than let her die, Kang preserves her in suspended animation, drawing out her life unnaturally just so he can have her.
5 Ravonna Redux
Keeping an undead trophy wife wasn't enough. Kang later went back in time to bring Ravonna back from the dead, intervening at the moment she was shot and saving her life by allowing his past self to die in her place. This created an alternate timeline and just one of many, many Kangs. And then it got even more complicated as the original Kang - though who could say was the original when he often didn't know or recognize other versions of himself - assembled a harem of alternate-reality Ravonnas to placate his grief. She never got a break.
4 Tricking The Hulk
At some point, Kang settled on the idea that he could undo the eventual formation of the Avengers and his eventual opposition by going back to World War I and killing a French ancestor of Bruce Banner. You'd think a guy who creates a bunch of timelines and alternate versions of himself would know this wouldn't work, but at least all his messing around with timelines provides some fodder for his eventual appearance in the MCU. Kang tricks the modern Hulk into crashing through a time barrier, but again, it doesn't work and Kang is left to figure out something else.
3 Infinity War
Another potential point of entry for Kang in the MCU is his involvement in the comic book version of Infinity War. In the comics, The Snap has happened and everything is back to normal until Magus (an evil version of Adam Warlock) tries to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet. Doctor Doom gets wind of this and enlists the help of Kang.
They try to steal the Gauntlet from Magus and bungle it, leading Doom to vaporize him. This time, Kang gets out of it by transferring his mind to another body back in the future. Naturally, this makes things more complicated.
2 Council of Kangs
Much as Dr. Rick Sanchez discovered, you screw around with the multiverse enough and you will end up with a council of yourself. That's exactly what happened to Kang. First, Kang and two of his alternate versions kill all the others they can find. Two, they replace them with robots to maintain their power. Three, the Original Kang sprang a complicated plot so convoluted (it involved shocking his alternates with the existence of still living Ravonna to kill them, which, just kill them) and he went nuts.
1 Terminatrix Objective
All of Kang's chickens come home to roost in the Terminatrix Objective. Incapacitated and under siege from all those Kangs, Kang is at the mercy of the revived Ravonna. Except now she's calling herself Terminatrix, or she did until she assumed the title of Kang. Terminatrix fights a future version of herself (because, naturally) by pitting two different squads of Avengers against each other in the battle to wake a time-being known as Alioth, who destroys all of the Kangs throughout time and space.