Only oneMCUvillain stands above the rest as being the all - time most powerful , and for as much trouble as this villain - in - question is for Marvel ’s live - legal action hero , he ’s proven even more so for their comic Scripture vis-a-vis , include and specially theX - Men , as the MCU ’s deadly villain secretly make the existence ’s warm sport .

After theMCU ’s Avengers defeated Thanosand write the universe inAvengers : Endgame , a villainous vacuum opened up that needed to be filled by someone even more minatory to existence . infix : Kang the Conqueror . Kang has the power - or , rather , the magnificence and technology - to not only travel to dissimilar point in the timeline and across the multiverse into alternating realities , but also the ability to destroy them . This was advert to in theLokiseries , and actually demonstrate inAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania . For this reason , he ’s the deadliest villain in the MCU , though the movies still have n’t picture perhaps the most prejudicial matter Kang ’s done in his villainous career : Kang the Conqueror produce Apocalypse ( sort of ) .

Kang the Conqueror Made Apocalypse an X-Men Villain

InRise of Apocalypse#1 by Terry Kavanagh and Adam Pollina , readers are given Apocalypse ’s unequivocal bloodline storey , and it ’s as tragic as it is brutal . En Sabah Nur ’s the great unwashed pull up stakes him to die in the desert as a child before he was establish by a tramp gang of warriors known as the Sandstormers who took him in as their own . The reason they did so is that their leader believe this small fry was take by the idol to get the better of the tyrannical rule of Pharaoh Rama - Tut . Interestingly enough , Rama - Tut had also been on the sentry for En Sabah Nur himself , as he experience this child would spring up up to be Apocalypse , and he wanted to levy Apocalypse in his adolescence to bend the mutant into his own personal pawn . However , because Apocalypse was find by this ancient gang of killers - who lived by the Darwinistic computer code ‘ survival of the fittest ’ - he was hone and shape into the iconicX - Menvillain fans were introduced to , and it was all due to the meddling ofPharaoh Rama - Tut aka Kang the Conqueror .

If Kang the Conqueror ( Rama - Tut ) never went back in meter and effectively put an alert out on Apocalypse , then the Sandstormers would have never been looking for him , as there ’d be no one prophesied for Apocalypse to vote out . Not only that , but Rama - Tut ’s presence in the past times disrupted all society , as Kang ’s technology looked like godly conjuration , which made everyone paranoid about other ‘ mystical ’ dangers that lurk all around them . It was for this reason that Apocalypse ’s original people allow him to die as a baby , as they calculate at his face and think he was a ogre , one that they believed must have ricochet up in response to Rama - Tut ’s presence . Then , when Apocalypse and Rama - Tut finally begin to get across paths , Kang take away everything En Sabah Nur holds dear , twist him into a jaded man with nothing left to oblige onto but the creed of his found - category : endurance of the fittest .

Without Kang ’s influence , Apocalypse could have grown up to be a decent mortal , who esteem public security and agreement above war and conquest . Interestingly enough , that ’s precisely how Apocalypse is being portray in the current state of Marvel Comics , though this is after the monumental retcons that took berth withinHouse of X / Powers of Xwith the universe - resetting powers of Moira MacTaggert , so who knows how that impacted Apocalypse and the paradoxical setting of his lineage . Retcons aside - and sticking with the prior 10 of show canyon and word picture - Apocalypse is perhaps the strongest sport in the world who has proven time and again that he ’s also theX - Men ’s most dangerous enemy , and that ’s all thanks to theMCU ’s newest ( and mortal ) villain , Kang the Conqueror , as he go down Apocalypse down the route of villainy .

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