Respect Kang The Conqueror (Complete Respect Thread)
By ProfessorRespect 73 Comments
Greater men than you have trembled at my name -- Lesser men have fainted at its mention!
Introduction
Kang's one of the main big Avengers villains, running all the way to their eighth issue way back in 1963. As a villain, he's likely got one of the most confusing chronological histories around, due to it being consistently changed and modified due to his time travel nonsense that he got up to over the years. As such, this RT will only focus specifically on the main incarnation of Kang and his capabilities.
This RT will likely be mega long, and I've estimated I'm going to need two parts to finish going through it. This is one of the bigger ones, through, surprisingly, not the biggest.
Databook Entry
Stats n stuff Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe- Avengers 2005)
Durability (No Force Field)
Tanks a strike from Hulking and responds with a backflip and counterstrike while depowered (Young Avengers #5)
Force Fields
Scan 1/2- A alternative universe Kang tanks a nuke at ground zero using it (The Avengers #267)
Scan 3- What's even better is that the real Kang outright murders the dude with a single blast almost immediately afterwards.
Absorbs Iron Man's blast to charge up his suit (Fantastic Four #338)
Blocks a bullrush by Quicksliver (The Avengers #23)
Blocks energy blasts by Final Form Ultron (Avengers #4)
Even Thor's hammer can't get through his shield (The Avengers #8)
Scan 1/2- Kang takes a few enraged strikes from the Magus, who is a teambuster in his own right (Infinity War #5)
No sells a energy blast from Sliver Surfer (Fantastic Four #325)
Takes a shot from the Ebony Blade, a sword capable of slicing through almost anything (The Avengers #269)
Tanks a enraged shot by Hercules (The Avengers #269)
Scan 1/2- Tanks crashing to Earth in a badly damaged spaceship (Avengers #53/4)
Scan 1/2- Tanks multiple enraged strikes by Thor (Avengers Giant Size #3)
Thor's hammer bounces off again (Avengers #129)
Scan 1- Uses a Tachyon device to suspend bullets to the future so they don't tag him (Moon Knight Annual #1)
Scan 2- Kang then reverts this mid fight to kill the guy who shot them in the first place.
Gear
Scan 1/2/3- Dumps a small bomb powerful enough to blow up a entire city (Fantastic Four #323)
Has a gun that reduces the will of those shot to basically none (this however did not work on Doom.....because he's Doom.) (Doctor Doom #6)
Scan 1/2- Kang can literally pull any weapon out of his temporal collection, allowing him to mow through hundreds of soldiers summoned to fight him (Avengers Forever #1)
Scan 1- Kang's collection includes stuff like Sliver Surfer's board, Iron Man suits, Ultron, The Destroyer Armor, etc. (Hulk #5)
Scan 2/3- This also includes stuff like the Eye of Agamotto as well. Should be noted that Kang killed all of these guys with his bare hands, apparently.
Scan 1/2- Kang has a 3 second recall button that he can use to get out of tricky situations, he's basically Tracer (Avengers-The Terminatrix Objective #4)
Kang uses a energy deflector to bounce back Merlin's full magic and knock him out (impressive because Merlin is pretty op, having trained Morgan Le Fey and fought her for about a week with no rest) (Strange Tales #134)
Scan 1/2- Kang uses Cobalt energy to weigh Thor down with the force of half a planet on him (Thor #140)
Scan 1/2- Kang's ray gun slices through Surfer Sliver's skin and hurts him to the point that he can't fight back (Fantastic Four #325)
Scan 1- Kang's suit fires out lasers that one shot Spider-Man and Iron Man at once (Marvel Team Up #9)
Scan 2- This also completely drains Iron Man suit for a good while.
Kang's suit fires out tons of radiation potent enough to kill people close to him (The Avengers #8)
Scan 1/2- Kang's suit has enough energy within it to kill Thor outright, even a Kang confirms it when it is used against him (The Avengers #297)
Kang's suit tells him of danger before it occurs, almost like a Spider Sense (The Avengers #24)
One shots Tempus (who is potent enough to knock around Thor and even Sliver Surfer) (Avengers Forever #1)
Scan 1/2- Pulls out a experimental dark matter bomb made by Iron Man out of time (Avengers #1)
Uses a Anti Matter shield to block Thor's hammer, would have melted it if not for the unique properties of the hammer (The Avengers #8)
Uses a electrical gun that disables Captain America and Iron Man (Young Avengers #4)
Uses a Molecule Expander to enlarge Captain America's shield large enough to crush him (The Avengers #23)
When Kang dies, his mind goes into a identical body, escaping death itself (Kang doesn't use this anymore as his pride prevents him from giving himself second chances) (Avengers Forever #9)
Intellect
Built his infamous battle suit in just a few hours (The Avengers #269)
Creates a empire spanning a million worlds (Thor Annual #17)
Doctor Doom himself envies his technology (Infinity Quest)
Kang is the greatest military genius ever known (The Avengers #24)
Scan 1/2- Earth actually gives up to him after a prolonged battle (Avengers #49)
Kang uses technology from the Middle Ages to create a unstoppable army that could not be defeated by any army in existence (Strange Tales #134)
Most of Kang's losses were actually intended so that he may slowly influence and change modern society to his liking (The Avengers Annual #21)
Kang's Spaceships
Commanded the Damocles, a giant cloaked ship with futuristic tech (Avengers #41)
Scan 1/2- Damocles busts the United Nations building with a death ray (Avengers #41)
Damocles comes with screens viewing all of Earth's activities, as well as identifying superheroes, injuries, etc (Avengers #46)
Damocles creates a hologram that busts cities with big lasers (Avengers #49)
Damocles uses a status ray to disable a spaceship and multiple heroes (Avengers #48)
Is full of soldiers with tech potent enough to take down guys like Iron Man, Wonder Man and Spectrum with one shot (Avengers #53)
Nukes do nothing to his ship (Avengers #42)
Scan 1/2- Under Damocles, Kang creates a bomb that nukes the crap out of Washington DC, destroying all living life there outside of Thor and Wonder Man. (Avengers #49)
Scan 3- This bomb was particularly designed to not target non living targets, which explains how it didn't cause that much collateral damage. (Avengers #50)
Scan 1/2- Hits the Thing's as well as Mantis and Human Torch first with a vibration beam and then a paralysis ray, both of which badly hurt them (Fantastic Four #323)
Scan 1/2- Kang captures the Avengers and overpowers them using a magnetic pull, keeping them in place. (The Avengers #8)
Scan 1/2- Kang's spaceship transmutes a mile long area into glass and vibrates tanks to pieces (The Avengers #8)
Scan 1/2/3- Survives Human Torch's powers going uncontrollably powerful and laughs it off, despite Johnny being the heat of a actual star at high levels (Fantastic Four #323)
Scan 1/2- Takes Human Torch 120 million miles from Earth to Mercury within five minutes, showcasing insane speeds (Fantastic Four #324)
Travels through time to escape the Avengers (The Avengers #8)
Space Manipulation
Scan 1- Phases Thor's hammer out of space mid throw and then phases it back again (The Avengers #8)
Scan 2- What's more impressive about this is that Kang used the time between this and the throw to accelerate the speed of the throw to the point that it would spilt a moon if it tagged properly.
Speed
Catches Captain America's shield mid throw (Young Avengers #4)
Catches Patrot's strike and responds with a backhand. (Young Avengers #5)
END OF PART 1.
Part 2 will cover more advanced tech as well as his time manipulation capabilities.