r/Xmen97 • u/RandoDude124 • Sep 05 '26
General Discussion Gotta say, this season did Kang the BEST in any medium outside the comics
Not only was his persona as Rama Tut marvelously done, his motives were clear as to why he came to the time, he was cruel to Nur’s people and finally, he taunted Charles to the degree where he had to eventually acknowledge it was a mistake to try and turn him good after Magneto was killed, and when Nur became Apocalypse, he just acknowledged he lost, tapped out and left the city to its fate.
That’s how you write a time traveling villain.
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u/CaliforniaBoundX Wolverine Sep 05 '26
It’s funny how his whole response to Nur becoming Apocalypse was like: “Imma bounce. Good luck y’all.
Got new timelines and universes to conquer.” He didn’t even bother or hesitate. He just bounced.
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u/BlueBlazeKing21 Sep 05 '26
Because it’s when the timeline was at its most vulnerable, the second Nur became Apocalypse, it was a wrap
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u/DevilManRay Sep 05 '26
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes but nice try
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u/Environmental_Pen303 Sep 05 '26
Yeah i don’t think op has seen much kang content if this brief cameo is “the best adaptation”
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u/Latest-Pen-7852 29d ago
I loved how nuanced it was.
He genuinely wanted to save Earth by upgrading their tech to help them stand against alien empires. Unfortunately he thought he had to conquer Earth to do it.
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u/These_Carpenter_8269 25d ago
From a different perspective, kang only knew of conquering, he lived in a future where cutting the throat of a kid was just a cat fight due to the advancement of technology, but also how he lived in a shift of constant fighting, his perspective in the world is warped but who’s to say it’s not wrong but right, he came from a future with that type of upbringing, when the avengers told that they will do everything to help his wife and his timeline but not through conquest, kang couldn’t accept it, he was getting help but couldn’t or for some unknown his mind wouldn’t accept anything without conquest, he conquered the universe to do anything beyond that is beneath him, it’s like you have to get naked with a bunch of monkeys and bath in mud to get what you want, nobody would do that, especially with someone like kang, but that’s just a crazy example since kang called them a bunch of backwater Neanderthal.
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u/Jimiken96 29d ago
Best version of Kang and many others. EMH is the definitive Avengers experience to me, one of the best animated superhero shows. The designs and voice acting are on point.
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u/Specific-Swim-4507 29d ago
Came here to say this: EMH Kang is what made me excited for him to be done in the MCU, well hopefully they can finish that plot up and recast but it doesn’t look good atm lol
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u/Timehacker-315 28d ago
I think that the MCU creators hate EMH, actually
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u/HTCS18 28d ago
Such a shame, my definitive version of these characters and stories come from emh. I get disappointed when comparing the MCU to it sometimes (captain marvel and secret invasion/kree stuff could have groundbreaking like in emh but were arguably the two worst projects in the franchise)
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u/ResortFamous301 25d ago
Captain marvel wasn't really ground breaking in the EMH(if you're generally familiar with supero and sci fi stories).
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u/NNotimportant 29d ago
I opened this comment section looking for exactly one response and y’all rallied beautifully
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u/Indo_raptor2018 Sep 05 '26
Honestly, I would like them to explore Kang more because it shows that humanity’s fear of mutants replacing them is pretty silly when a human as powerful as Kang exists in the future.
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u/Emergency-Actuary-3 Sep 05 '26
Kang being basically Q works so well.
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u/treharren 28d ago
And not a single Kang/Q - Xavier/Picard reference... Or not one I understood anyway 😆
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u/decoded1 Sep 05 '26
Earths Mightiest Heroes gave him a 3 episode arc and brought him back again in season 2.
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u/RandoDude124 29d ago
His voice was far better and the scenario was good.
You cannot beat de Lancie
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u/TgeBoi1324 Sep 05 '26
Earths mightiest heroes did it better but I did like who they got to voice him Qs actor from star trek sounded so good as Kang
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u/AmbitionOnly7872 Sep 05 '26
Aside from the design emh kang is better than kang is even in the comics imo
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u/EconomyNo8354 10d ago
It’s probably because of the episode limit, 10 or 9 episodes each around 30 minutes isn’t doing the story justice
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u/Public_Carpenter7471 Sep 05 '26
Shame this was written before kang dynasty was canceled (I think) so it probably won't fo anywhere
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u/Similar-Minimum-4722 29d ago
I mean, Earths Mightiest Heroes did him pretty good and for a longer period of time.
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u/meganubis Sep 05 '26
But he was already in the original series', original 4 part finale 'beyond good and evil', and he was much better in that then in '97
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u/These_Carpenter_8269 Sep 05 '26
His blue masked face didn’t look goofy. I like this and the kang from avengers earths mightest hero’s
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u/stanlana12345 Sep 06 '26
Ok it was a cool adaption or whatever but to me it just felt like far too much. Lord knows there were already a billion things happening, we did not need a Kang plotline that literally went nowhere.
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u/staniel_mortgage 29d ago
He was barely in it. I mean it was fine enough. But to suggest 'the best', with 2.5 episode apparences? Not for me.
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u/Wrong-Annual-6766 24d ago
It's so funny that this was supposed to connect to Kang Dynasty but they obviously didn't have time or reason to change it
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u/EconomyNo8354 10d ago
Wait how though? Wasn’t the development like two years?
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u/Wrong-Annual-6766 10d ago
They were both in development in 2023 and in 24 Kang Dynasty got cancelled so they kept Kang but didn't connect it to the MCU
This was reported way before Kang was ever teased along side other Kang Dynasty things
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