Kang’s embarrassing ‘Quantumania’ defeat has fans convinced he’s more con artist than conqueror

Well, now that we’ve all seen the full thing, it turns out that was a load of baloney. In the end, Kang was essentially defeated by a bunch of ants, which seriously hurts his street-cred. In fact, it’s such a come-down from his claims that he once bested the Asgardian Avenger that fans are starting to worry if he’s actually more of a con man than a conqueror and has been lying about his past victories all along.

As Twitter @drsoap8 went viral for posting, “Really loving Majors as Kang but I do not believe for a second that his a** killed Avengers like Thor after watching Quantumania.”

As the OP added in a follow-up tweet, the treatment of Kang in Quantumania is essentially the opposite of how well Marvel proved Thanos was a huge threat upon his proper introduction at the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War, when he wiped out half of the surviving Asgardians, killed both Heimdall and Loki, and trounced the Hulk. Kang, meanwhile, couldn’t take some ants. Like the tweeter says, despite Jonathan Majors’ performance, this isn’t the multiverse-shaking start for Kang that we envisioned.

Still, at least the studio has got time to fix this, either in Loki season two or in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, before his epic arc concludes with Secret Wars. But, for now, we’re not sure Kang managing to gore Thor is really part of Marvel lore.