While the MCU started firing up the multiverse saga all the way back during Avengers: Endgame, Marvel has barely touched on the man who was actually at least indirectly responsible for everything that happened not just during Season 1 of Loki, but also WandaVision, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals.

I'm talking about Kang the Conqueror, introduced in Loki Season 1, the inadvertent architect of the past several years of MCU stories and the new big bad that our heroes will have to deal with for several more.

Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania and other recent entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.