Nathaniel Richards (Kang) (Earth-730784)

Kang the Conqueror
Name	Nathaniel Richards
Current Alias	Kang the Conqueror
Aliases	Rama-Tut
Affiliation and Relationships
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-730784
Place of Birth	Somewhere in the future
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	Conqueror of worlds
Base of Operations	Mobile across the Timestream Formerly Egypt
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Brooks Wachtel
First	The Avengers: United They Stand S1E03 (November 13, 1999)
First	The Avengers: United They Stand S1E03 (November 13, 1999)

 You would dare to oppose Kang? 

—Kang the Conqueror

History

Kang the Conqueror, also simply referred by himself as Kang, was the global dictator of Earth somewhere within the far future. Kang had subjugated humanity into excessive slavery ordering billions of slaves to build giant monuments and palaces in his honor. Kang's repression became so severe that humanity rose up against him.

Upon overthrowing him, Kang was placed within a temporal prison, trapping him between dimensions. The prison was housed within a large cnopic jar while its key was made to appear as a decorative Egyptian style obelisk. The obelisk was then sent into ancient Egypt in the hopes that no one would ever find it, and Kang would remain imprisoned for eternity.

However, in the late 20th Century Sam Wilson and his nephew Andrew visited the American Museum of Natural History on a guided tour led by Dr. Johnson, one of the museums archaeological curators. Dr. Johnson explained that the obelisk was rediscovered under tons of rock thousands of years later. Dr. Johnson asked Andrew if he could place the obelisk upon a statue, which appeared to be made for holding the obelisk. This unwittingly released Kang.

Kang attacked the museum with a robotic drone he called a "Time Tracker" in order to find the obelisk. Kang believed that with the obelisk he would conquer Earth repeatedly one century at a time or his "Conquest of Time". The tracker fired at the museum visitors with a beam of what was termed by Ant-Man as "Trans-Dimensional chronographic distortion" (Time Manipulation). The visitors were frozen in place by the beam as the tracker searched for the obelisk.

The Avengers arrived to stop Kang who recognized them as "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" but believed that they were no match for him. As the Avengers repeatedly attacked Kang, he was protected by a force field. This gave Sam (as the Falcon) enough of a distraction to find and hide the obelisk in a box, which Kang could no longer track. This forced Kang to retreat until he could find another way to retrieve the obelisk.

As the Avengers found a way to subdue Kang, he re-materialized near the Avengers Mansion, generating a massive holographic image of himself over the city. Kang demanded the return of the obelisk or all or many of New York's residents would die of rapid aging created by a massive blast of Kang's time distortion field across the entire city.

The field also effected Tigra, making her several decades older. While Kang began a full assault on the mansion to retrieve the obelisk, Ant-Man mentally linked with the obelisk through his helmet and learned of how Kang arrived to be in the present era. Kang single-handedly managed to destroy all of the Mansion's automated defenses and nearly all of the Avengers, including trapping Wasp in a small temporal prison similar to his own.

This forced Ant-Man to surrender the obelisk to Kang, knowing full well millions of humans both in the past and future could or will be enslaved, tortured, or killed under Kang. However, this was just a clever ruse as during Ant-Man's mind link with the obelisk somehow taught him how to reprogram the future device and instead of empowering Kang detonated within him, re-imprisoning him in a temporal bubble and reversing the aging effects of his time field.

Kang was placed within his snow globe sized prison in a random safe in Avengers Mansion and was presumably there still.

Attributes

Abilities

Presumably Kang has no superhuman abilities outside of his armor than higher then average human intelligence and general knowledge of some future events and technology.

Weaknesses

Kang Armor: Kang's armor can only sustain a direct assault of any kind for only a minimal amount of time. The longer the or more powerful the attack the faster the armors energy supply is drained thus forcing the armor to automatically recharge. During this recharging period Kang is rendered somewhat vulnerable to nearly everything except for most small arms fire and physical blows from someone of average human height, weight and strength.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Kang Armor
  • Wrist Gauntlets that fire energy blasts similar to Repulsor blasts and missiles
  • Fully self sustaining energy system however, it can only either sustain a large energy blast or a strong force field only for a short period of time.
  • "Force Field" energy shield generator that also appears to act as Kang's flight system as well
  • Internal teleportation system
  • Multiple energy weapons (rifles and pistols) hidden away in various compartments in the armor.
• A spherical device that somewhat resembles either a crystal ball or snow globe this allows Kang to track his personal effects as well as monitor events that occur outside of his line of sight (outside/inside of buildings in the air/on the ground depending on his position etc...)
• A robotic aerial drone called a Time tracker. The tracker is equipped with a laser turret that fires a beam of time manipulation energy which temporally freezes its intended target in place.

Weapons

Various energy weapons, Time Manipulation field

Transportation

• Self propelled flight system
• Personal teleportation system

Notes

• While this article is currently named Nathaniel Richards, Kang's actual name was never once given in the animated series. Nor has this version of Kang ever appeared in any other form of Avengers media. Nor has this Kang appeared with any of the Cross-Time Kangs that were alternate timeline versions of Nathaniel Richards.
• Voiced by Ken Kramer.

See Also

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