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Nobody but me remembers the absolute coolest thing about Kang: he spent the 20th century introducing future tech from his company "Timely Industries" (under the name Victor Timely), thus shaping the Earth-616 20th century to his liking. Ever wonder how they were building artificial men in 1940, when on our world we hadn't even created transistors? That's Kang. Every implausibly futuristic scientific advancement in the Marvel 20th century, Kang supplied at least some of the materials. This came up in the "Citizen Kang" storyline in the early 90s.
There’s also the fact that his time as Rama-Tut coincided with the original emergence of Apocalypse and that he was responsible for Apocalypse enhancing himself with Celestial technology. Apocalypse rampage on receiving his powers, bringing down much of his seat of power, was part of what caused Kang/Rama-tut to flee after he encountered a time-travelling fantastic four
You mentioned the biggest, but didn’t include him…Nathaniel Essex aka Mr Sinister He spent over a century manipulating people to create what he believed was the perfect bloodline, partly to free him from Apocalypse’s control, partly as the (then) ultimate culmination of his work When he lost one of his penultimate pawns, Jean Grey, in 616, he created a clone of her - Madelyn Pryor He ensured he got Scott and Alex Summers assigned to his ‘orphanage’ (secretly housing a lab he used to manipulate his potentially powerful charges), identified Scott as the optimum candidate to father his ‘ultimate mutant’ and sent Alex to a foster home, manipulating Scott with mental blocks and stories (or manipulation - depends on the writer) of brain damage from his fall from the plane for years before ‘allowing’ him to meet Xavier & become his student to ensure he met Jean Even in AoA, he manipulated and experimented other mutants to allow him to create Nate Grey using genetic material from Scott & Jean He cloned every mutant he worked with, and gathered genetic material on any others he could, just to allow him to keep experimenting He arranged the death of the Morlocks in order to remove undesirable mutants from the gene pool (and remove Dark Beast’s rival experiments in later retcons), manipulating Gambit over many years so that he could call in a ‘favour’ when needed He set up the Black Womb project meant to enable him to monitor bloodlines and provide him with test subjects. He also uses this as a chance to genetically manipulate his ‘colleagues’ so that their bloodlines can become host bodies for his consciousness if needed He uses Celestial power to take control of a city, turning it into his Utopia in a disguised attempt to get them to wipe out humanity so he can start again and populate earth with his ‘perfect’ mutants He creates clones of Moura Mactaggart which he uses to reset the timeline after any errors, allowing to repeatedly attempt courses of action which would be ‘problematic’ and, along with corrupting Ressirection, allows him to control other mutants and, eventually, the wider populace In one future, he manipulated the quiet council on Krakoa to allow him to build his breeding pits, helped orchestrate the need for his Chimera then used them to destroy most of the mutants on Krakoa, all to ensure his own survival
@@amanzeihedioha What are you saying to me? I was agreeing with your detailed comment that was spot on! I can't win anymore and at this point am glad I'm terminally ill. Sick to death of people and this fucked up planet. Thanks for the tears tonight and congrats on being "the smartest asshole in the room."
He was a major player in Hickman's early restructuring of the entire mutant society around Krakoa... so much so, they ended up writing him out pretty much completely around 2 years ago.
I'd love to call out Moonstone. She's a sadistic psychiatrist with some Superman level powers. I love the multiple scenes where she would of won if she just came in fists swinging, but she prefers to try to be the manipulator on the battlefield, which often gets her in more trouble
I mean, I'd personally switch Lex and Darkseid. Lex is brilliant and is always looking to get ahead. But Darkseid rarely loses entirely, his foes always losing something when in conflict.
No. 2, hopefully he will done a lot better in James Gunn's DCU as the big bad since we were originally suppose to get him in the DCEU with Zack Snyder's Justice League before Joss Whedon came in and instead release he's cut of the film in theaters instead
No mention of the -21 Batman/The Batman Who Laughs granted during his time he was oversaturated to death, but he killed everyone on his earth manipulated dozens of evil Batmen to fight with him with the goal being the death of Prime Earth, forced Batman and Joker to work together, manipulated Prime Batman into nearly becoming another Batman who Laughs just so he could use him for a bigger plan, infected several heroes incognito even into jokerized versions of themselves while imprisoned, got one over on Preputua (probably butchered the name) the goddess that created the big bang, and became for a time the strongest being in all of the multiverse by bodyjacking BatManhattan.
