The wider the Marvel Cinematic Universe grows, the more original Marvel superheroes make their on-screen debut into the billion-dollar franchise. But what does this mean for the Marvel supervillains, though?
Marvel Has More Heroes Than Villains To Defeat
Ranging from humans to supervillains, the MCU franchise has introduced fewer anti-heroes to come up against the most overpowered superheroes both on the small screens and the theatrical screens.
While MCU fans get to watch their favorite supers make their live-action debuts, this poses a massive problem in constructing the Marvel Universe in the long run.
For the longest time, since the beginning of gathering the original Avengers in place, Marvel has been building up the introduction of the purple-skinned Mad Titan Thanos (Josh Brolin).
Thanos was almost always teased in the post-credit scenes of nearly every Marvel movie and series that paid off once Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame came to fruition.
Since then, more Marvel superheroes were added to the roster and strengthened their origin stories in their own titular movies and series, with Young Avengers and more mutants going right up after the end of The Marvels.
However, what about the big villains that came right after Thanos' era?
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No One Has Surpassed Thanos Yet
There had been plenty of supervillains that came about to take Thanos' place in the MCU. The supposed supervillain that the heroes should be cowering against is Kang the Conqueror and his variants.
The first Kang variant we met was in the Loki Season 1 finale, He Who Remains. As hyped as he was, his introduction fell flat, most especially when Sylvie aka Lady Loki easily killed him with a stab of her knife.
The second variant, Kang the Conqueror, turned out to have a much stronger force when he resided in the Quantum Realm, dealing with Ant-Man and the Wasp alongside their family.
Similar to Thanos, Kang was agile and flexible even with just the use of his fists. And let's face it, Ant-Man was no match to simply come up against the Multiverse's big bad on his own. (Well, there goes the Ant-Man up Thanos' butt theory).
However, the real doozy in the line of variants of this supposed infinite entity is when Victor Timely came into the picture in Loki Season 2.
Victor Timely, aka Kang Prime in Marvel Comics, is essentially the leader of his entire lineup of variants. However, the Loki series decided to change how he's portrayed on the small screens.
Mr. Timely is but a swindler and a meek engineer who may have fooled Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes, but is ultimately, human and not a supervillain at all.
Whether or not this is Marvel Studios' ploy to slowly drive Kang the Conqueror actor Jonathan Majors out of the franchise and transition to a different supervillain in the future is still up to debate, though.
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The Smaller Villains Did Kang Better
Here are some of the smaller-scope villains who pretty much outdid Kang the Conqueror and his variants: Mysterio, Namor, Agatha Harkness, The High Evolutionary, and even the Scarlet Witch herself.
Mysterio fooled Peter Parker into thinking he was always looking for the greater good for Stark Industries and looking out for the kid himself, taking advantage of Peter's vulnerability after losing his father figure Tony Stark in Endgame.
Namor had his own reasons to come up against Wakanda and the new Black Panther, and that was for the safety of his people under the sea.
Agatha Harkness sought to be Wanda Maximoff's friend amid her mourning over the death of Vision, all so she could take the powers of Chaos Magic from the Scarlet Witch for herself.
Who could forget the High Evolutionary? The insanity and his obsession to perfect his invention of an entirely new civilization at the grasp of his fingertips could have had something worse prepared for the bigger MCU picture.
The Skrulls may have been easily defeated within Secret Invasion, but putting G'iah as the most overpowered MCU character doesn't exactly bring a good name to supervillains.
Perhaps the Loki series' introduction of He Who Remains wasn't the best, but if Kang and his variants' main purpose is to conquer the Multiverse for themselves, then what comes next once he does achieve this?
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The Marvel Multiverse Factor
We are never going to escape the fact that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is just too vast now to even find holes in our superheroes' limitations.
The supers that we know today are stronger, if not better, than the supervillains they have to face in their own movies and series.
And if they can defeat every single 'formidable' foe that attempts to take over Earth or the Multiverse, then what's left of the morals of these superheroes? How else could they possibly improve and quite frankly, grow stronger than they are now?
The franchise's next big bad was teased to be Kang the Conqueror. Played by Jonathan Majors, the Multiverse Saga lined up perfectly with the aftermath of Thanos' Snap or The Blip.
But seeing how the Loki series and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania treated Kang and his variants, the future of having Avengers: The Kang Dynasty come to fruition on the big screens is all too underwhelming to anticipate.
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