We know villain Kang the Conquerer will appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumanium, with Lovecraft Country‘s Jonathan Majors taking on the role.
Beyond her position as arbiter of the timeline and the variants that attempt to subvert it, she is, it’s revealed, one of the few people inside of the TVA who have met the Time Keepers, the three figures who transformed a previous version of the multiverse into one coherent timeline.
That character’s name is Ravonna Renslayer, and that’s a name familiar to longtime Marvel fans, as well as one unlikely to have been chosen at random from the vast Marvel comics library.
For much of her comic career, you see, Ravonna was little more than the object of the affections of the fan-favorite villain Kang the Conqueror.
In addition to Kang, he has also been the Scarlet Centurion, the Ancient Egyptian despot Rama-Tut, and Immortus — a version of Kang from the far future who rules a dimension called Limbo, and has an entirely different mission from his previous incarnations: he works for the Time Keepers, preserving the timeline from being altered by forces unknown.
Like Loki, Kang was created by the duo of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, but there’s another piece of comic book synchronicity when it comes to connecting Kang to the Loki series; the TVA was created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, who also created something called the Council of Cross-Time Kangs for a 1988 issue of Avengers.
Does this all sound a little too unlikely? It’s already known that Kang is set to appear in the MCU in the near future, but there’s nothing to say that his debut couldn’t happen a little earlier than expected.