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'''The Kang War''' War''', otherwise known by it's actual title of 'The Kang Dynasty', is a storyline of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', by Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis.
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'''The Kang War''' is a storyline of TheAvengers, ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', by Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis.
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After defeating Immortus during [[ComicBook/AvengersForever the Destiny War]], the ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang thought it was the moment to finally conquer the XX century planet Earth once and for all. Along with his son and heir Marcus, he appeared at the XX Century with the "Damocles" base, a giant space station with the shape of a sword. To display their power, a death ray from the sky obliterated the United Nations, but also generated forcefields that saved everybody who was inside. Then, he declared his intentions: Earth was filled of many potential [[BadFuture bad futures]], and he intended to conquer it to prevent them. With his XXX century technology, he may crush all resistance in a few weeks; and even allowed himself the luxury of announcing the place and date of his first strike. He promised as well that, in the meantime, anyone who conquers some land in his name would be favored in his future regime... and several fifth-columnists (Attuma, the Deviants, mutinied military forces) began to attack.
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After defeating Immortus during [[ComicBook/AvengersForever the Destiny War]], the ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang thought it was the moment to finally conquer the XX 20th century planet Earth once and for all. Along with his son and heir Marcus, he appeared at in the XX 20th Century with the "Damocles" base, a giant space station with the shape of a sword. To display their power, a death ray from the sky obliterated the United Nations, but also generated forcefields that saved everybody who was inside. Then, he declared his intentions: Earth was filled of many potential [[BadFuture bad futures]], and he intended to conquer it to prevent them. With his XXX 30th century technology, he may crush all resistance in a few weeks; and even allowed himself the luxury of announcing the place and date of his first strike. He promised as well that, in the meantime, anyone who conquers some land in his name would be favored in his future regime... and several fifth-columnists (Attuma, the Deviants, mutinied military forces) began to attack.
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those XX century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as OneManArmy, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those XX 20th century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as OneManArmy, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
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* WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins, and for the first time in Marvel history, without the aid of mind control, ''conquers the world.''
** Just for the record, it was revealed in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' that the one in "The Crossing" was not Kang, but Immortus disguised as Kang. And Kang is not a stranger for victory: he failed to conquer Earth at the XX century, but in his own time he has conquered ''Earth and everything else''
** Just for the record, it was revealed in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' that the one in "The Crossing" was not Kang, but Immortus disguised as Kang. And Kang is not a stranger for victory: he failed to conquer Earth at the XX century, but in his own time he has conquered ''Earth and everything else''
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* WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins, wins and for the first time in Marvel history, without the aid of mind control, ''conquers the world.''
** Just for'' This is the record, it was revealed first time in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' all of Marvel history that the one in "The Crossing" was not Kang, but Immortus disguised as Kang. And Kang is not a stranger for victory: he failed to conquer mainstream, present-day Earth at the XX century, was conquered, not by [[DoctorDoom mind control]], but in his own time he has conquered ''Earth and everything else''sheer military strategy.
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** Just for the record, it was revealed in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' that the one in "The Crossing" was not Kang, but Immortus disguised as Kang. And Kang is not a stranger for victory: he failed to conquer Earth at the XX century, but in his own time he has conquered ''Earth and everything else''
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** Just for the record, it was revealed in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' that the one in "The Crossing" was not Kang, but Immortus disguised as Kang.
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* InternalHomage: The scene of Warbird stepping to the Avengers martial court (for killing the Master of the World) is similar to the previous martial court she had at the begining of Kurt Busiek's run in the title.
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*WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins, and for the first time in Marvel history, without the aid of mind control, ''conquers the world.''
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* SadisticChoice: Kangs knows fully well that, when jailing superheroes, any prison will be a CardboardPrison, no matter how futuristic. So, any time someone someone is trying to escape, he s given an option: surrender and be executed, or escape and two other unrelated prisoners will be executed. Of course, ''if'' they manage to escape at all: if they are killed during the escape, the two others must be executed anyway. Only a very selfish man (and certainly not a KnightInShiningArmor hero) would try to escape under those conditions.
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* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
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* YearOutsideHourInside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were ''weeks'' in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
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* YearOutsideHourInside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were ''weeks'' in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)Earth.
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
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* YearOutsideHourInside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were ''weeks'' in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.Earth.
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
* IdenticalStranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, they are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell Marcus that)
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* CrazyPrepared: Before launching his invasion, Kang had made up his military strategy, that involved all possible factors: national armies, superheroes, hidden races, alien technologies, possible "cavalries", everything. But his masterplan failed because there was a single power he forgot to consider: [[Spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].
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* CrazyPrepared: Before launching his invasion, Kang had made up his military strategy, that involved all possible factors: national armies, superheroes, hidden races, alien technologies, possible "cavalries", everything. But his masterplan failed because there was a single power he forgot to consider: [[Spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].[[spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].
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* CrazyPrepared: Before launching his invasion, Kang had made up his military strategy, that involved all possible factors: national armies, superheroes, hidden races, alien technologies, possible "cavalries", everything. But his masterplan failed because there was a single power he forgot to consider: [[Spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Thor had a brief crisis over this issue, realizing that he has very strong ties with people who will die some day. Firebird made him realize that, if the time he will share with specific mortals is limited, that's a reason to treasure every second of it while it lasts. [[ComicBookTime Wich is much longer than she suspects, anyway]].
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Thor had a brief crisis over this issue, realizing that he has very strong ties with people who will die some day. Firebird made him realize that, if the time he will share with specific mortals is limited, that's a reason to treasure every second of it while it lasts. [[ComicBookTime Wich is much longer than she suspects, anyway]].anyway]].
* YearOutsideHourInside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were ''weeks'' in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.
* YearOutsideHourInside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were ''weeks'' in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.
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* CavalryBetrayal: The government sent an army of Sentinels against the Damocles base. Kang simply used his futuristic technology to hack the sentinels, and turn them into his own army.
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* [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Target]]: Thor had to interrupt the fight to save George Bush, teleporting him with the deviants (a race of monsters that had recently swore loyalty to Warbird... long story). Go with the friendly monsters, or stay in WWIII being fought right outside the White House? Friendly monsters!
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* NoDialogueEpisode: Avengers #49, when Kang finally conquers Earth.
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* MeaningfulName: The Damocles base, a space station shaped as a sword, floating undetected over earth... the futuristic Sword of Damocles.
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* LegacyCharacter: Marcus as the Scarlet Centurion: that's a former identity his father briefly had.
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* EyeTake: When Warbird killed the Master of the World. Even his beasts were included in the scene.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Kang does not cheat: he ''may'' use time travel to escape, reestablish his forces and return at the same moment in time, but he refuses that path. If, despite his superior forces, the Avengers managed to destroy his base, he'll go down with it.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Stolen. When he realized that he was defeated, he accepted going down with the orbital base that was falling to Earth, and did not attempt to escape from it. But he survived. Then, the next option: he's held prisoner, he will surely be sentenced to death, and he will die with his warrior honour intact... and Marcus stole that glory from him, by rescuing him.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Stolen. When he realized that he was defeated, he accepted going down with the orbital base that was falling to Earth, and did not attempt to escape from it. But he survived. Then, the next option: he's held prisoner, he will surely be sentenced to death, and he will die with his warrior honour intact... and Marcus stole that glory from him, by rescuing him.
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* ColonyDrop: The fall of the Damocles base.
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* BadassGrandpa: Tremont made the attack that finally broke the shields of the Damocles base.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: During the fight, Captain America had a dilemma. The aliens souls trapped in the pyramid were meant to fight against the Triple Evil, not against Kang, and were crying to be liberated now that the Triple Evil had been defeated. By using them this way, the Avengers were enslaving those souls. A dilemma for Captain America... but not for Tremont. "Earth is at stake, you can't have mercy! They are aliens, who cares about their souls!?"
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* ContinuityNod: Kang uses the floating chair he had used in Avengers 8, his first issue by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Thor had a brief crisis over this issue, realizing that he has very strong ties with people who will die some day. Firebird made him realize that, if the time he will share with specific mortals is limited, that's a reason to treasure every second of it while it lasts. [[ComicBookTime Wich is much longer than she suspects, anyway]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Thor had a brief crisis over this issue, realizing that he has very strong ties with people who will die some day. Firebird made him realize that, if the time he will share with specific mortals is limited, that's a reason to treasure every second of it while it lasts. [[ComicBookTime Wich is much longer than she suspects, anyway]].
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those XX century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as OneManArmy, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
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* ContinuityNod: Kang uses the floating chair he had used in Avengers 8, his first issue by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
* ContinuityNod: Kang uses the floating chair he had used in Avengers 8, his first issue by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
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* AnimatedAdaptation: The storyline was adapted in the episodes "Come the Conqueror" and "The Kang Dinasty" of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''
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'''The Kang War''' is a storyline of TheAvengers, by Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis.
After defeating Immortus during [[ComicBook/AvengersForever the Destiny War]], the ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang thought it was the moment to finally conquer the XX century planet Earth once and for all. Along with his son and heir Marcus, he appeared at the XX Century with the "Damocles" base, a giant space station with the shape of a sword. To display their power, a death ray from the sky obliterated the United Nations, but also generated forcefields that saved everybody who was inside. Then, he declared his intentions: Earth was filled of many potential [[BadFuture bad futures]], and he intended to conquer it to prevent them. With his XXX century technology, he may crush all resistance in a few weeks; and even allowed himself the luxury of announcing the place and date of his first strike. He promised as well that, in the meantime, anyone who conquers some land in his name would be favored in his future regime... and several fifth-columnists (Attuma, the Deviants, mutinied military forces) began to attack.
Despite all the military preparations, the invasion of Europe proceed without problems for Kang. There was a little hope spot for North America: the Master of the World, a villain who controlled alien fortifications that protected the cities and may counter Kang's technology. But the Avengers did not want a civil war between villains, so they sent two teams: one to defeat the master and capture his base, and another to attack the Damocles base itself. Warbird killed the Master of the World, but the controls of his base were too alien and difficult to understand. Kang destroyed the Avenger's ship in the space, and attacked Washington DC in retaliation. He destroyed the city with a futuristic weapon (more or less like an atomic bomb that only kills people, but without radiation and without destroying buildings). Earth surrendered.
In the meantime, the Trine Understanding (a religious group that had a pair of conflicts with the Avengers) launched a ship to attack the Triple Evil, a threat that would attack Earth someday, and rescued the Avengers floating in space. This Triple Evil was a giant pyramid, that they managed to seize and control. The Avengers at the base of the Master of World finally understood how to operate it, and began to attack the Damocles base once more. Kang announced that, in retaliation for this attack, he would destroy Denver and Atlanta... and then, the pyramid appeared, and joined the fight. All the Avengers in the space, the pyramid and a russian villain fired their many powers to the shield, and the attack of Tremont finally broke it. Warbird destroyed the core, and the base began to fall to the planet. Kang sent his son bak to the XXX century, and accepted his own fate.
With his base destroyed and his armour broken, it all came down to a hand-to-hand combat between Kang and Captain America. Kang was defeated and jailed... and rescued by his son Marcus. Still, Kang was very dissapointed of him: for robbing him a glorious death, for using time-travel to undo an honourable victory of their enemies, for helping Warbird and not confessing it, etc. But before killing him, a reveal to make him suffer: [[spoiler:Actually, he was just one of several clones of the original Marcus, and he will share the fate all the previous Marcus clones that disappointed him]].
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those XX century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as OneManArmy, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
After defeating Immortus during [[ComicBook/AvengersForever the Destiny War]], the ConquerorFromTheFuture Kang thought it was the moment to finally conquer the XX century planet Earth once and for all. Along with his son and heir Marcus, he appeared at the XX Century with the "Damocles" base, a giant space station with the shape of a sword. To display their power, a death ray from the sky obliterated the United Nations, but also generated forcefields that saved everybody who was inside. Then, he declared his intentions: Earth was filled of many potential [[BadFuture bad futures]], and he intended to conquer it to prevent them. With his XXX century technology, he may crush all resistance in a few weeks; and even allowed himself the luxury of announcing the place and date of his first strike. He promised as well that, in the meantime, anyone who conquers some land in his name would be favored in his future regime... and several fifth-columnists (Attuma, the Deviants, mutinied military forces) began to attack.
Despite all the military preparations, the invasion of Europe proceed without problems for Kang. There was a little hope spot for North America: the Master of the World, a villain who controlled alien fortifications that protected the cities and may counter Kang's technology. But the Avengers did not want a civil war between villains, so they sent two teams: one to defeat the master and capture his base, and another to attack the Damocles base itself. Warbird killed the Master of the World, but the controls of his base were too alien and difficult to understand. Kang destroyed the Avenger's ship in the space, and attacked Washington DC in retaliation. He destroyed the city with a futuristic weapon (more or less like an atomic bomb that only kills people, but without radiation and without destroying buildings). Earth surrendered.
In the meantime, the Trine Understanding (a religious group that had a pair of conflicts with the Avengers) launched a ship to attack the Triple Evil, a threat that would attack Earth someday, and rescued the Avengers floating in space. This Triple Evil was a giant pyramid, that they managed to seize and control. The Avengers at the base of the Master of World finally understood how to operate it, and began to attack the Damocles base once more. Kang announced that, in retaliation for this attack, he would destroy Denver and Atlanta... and then, the pyramid appeared, and joined the fight. All the Avengers in the space, the pyramid and a russian villain fired their many powers to the shield, and the attack of Tremont finally broke it. Warbird destroyed the core, and the base began to fall to the planet. Kang sent his son bak to the XXX century, and accepted his own fate.
With his base destroyed and his armour broken, it all came down to a hand-to-hand combat between Kang and Captain America. Kang was defeated and jailed... and rescued by his son Marcus. Still, Kang was very dissapointed of him: for robbing him a glorious death, for using time-travel to undo an honourable victory of their enemies, for helping Warbird and not confessing it, etc. But before killing him, a reveal to make him suffer: [[spoiler:Actually, he was just one of several clones of the original Marcus, and he will share the fate all the previous Marcus clones that disappointed him]].
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those XX century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as OneManArmy, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
