Kang the Conqueror’s original MCU story would have tied perfectly to that of The Fantastic Four, explaining why Doom as his replacement works so well.

That changeover has organic roots in the fact that the original Kang (Nathaniel Richards) is supposed to be a future descendant of Reed Richards, creating more time-loop opportunities for pruning ...

Kang was originally a 31st-century scientist named Nathaniel Richards – a descendant of both Reed Richards and Doctor Doom, more on that later - but it's not so cut-and-dried as that.

(If you’re wondering, Kang is a distant descendant of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, but that’s less a central building block of his character and more a piece of trivia.) ...

Reed Richards stretching his vocal cords is an impressive enough feat as is, but it's not all he can do when backed into a corner. When he confronts Kang about the time-loop he and his Fantastic ...

He's also a descendant of Doctor Doom, Reed's arch-enemy. He's even teamed up with Doom to challenge Marvel's heroes more than once. With the 'Fantastic 4' character's arrival in the MCU in ...

Who is Kang the Conqueror in the MCU and what will Jonathan Majors' villain be up to in Phase 5?

But this time, Kang was the version of Nathaniel Richards who won and stood atop the multiverse with the ability to bend it to his will. But instead of stability, he brought only chaos.

Last September, Fantastic Four #35 had the this revelation from Nathaniel Richards, father of Reed Richards and ancestor of Kang The Conqueror. We knew that in a parallel dimension, ...

In what would undoubtedly be a curveball, having Jonathan Majors appear as Reed Richards could pose a masterstroke for the continuity of Kang the Conqueror’s influence within the MCU’s future.