History ComicBook / TheKangWar

** When Wonder Man makes a successful escape attempt, Kang 'generously' decrees that, since he came back to help the Scarlet Witch against Kang's guards and was subsequently recaptured, Kang will 'only' kill Wonder Man rather than the aforementioned innocents (which [[spoiler:was the real purpose of the whole attempt, as Simon and Wanda use the execution to fake Simon's death so he can get away for real]]).

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.

* ContinuityNod: Kang uses the floating chair he had used in Avengers 8, his first issue by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: The subplot about the Trune understanding ends with the Avengers finding out that the organization itself was not corrupt, only their leader Tremont. But, by that time, Duane had already died alongside all the people in Washington DC. Iron Man was deeply troubled, because now he can never tell him that he's sorry.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: The storyline was adapted in the episodes "Come the Conqueror" and "The Kang Dinasty" of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''

* TheGlovesComeOff: Shown when Warbird aka Ms. Marvel outright kills the Master of the World by stabbing him through the abdomen with a piece of the floor after blasting in much to the shock of her allies and the Master's own minions.

* TheGlovesComeOff
--> '''Warbird:''' You're making a mistake, master. You are expecting us to act like nice-nice super heroes... to treat you like a bank robber, or your average megalomaniacal lunatic. But the world's at war, big shot! At war! And that means that the rules have changed!

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.

* 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.

* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Very weakened for being unconcious for a long time in the cold artic, Warbird is escaping from the Master's beasts. She is suddenly helped by Marcus, who fell in love with her, and forgot that he's supposed to be his enemy.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: It was about time that Kang finally showed those 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.

* 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]].

* 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.

* HopeSpot: The walls and weaponry of the Master of the World. It seems that Europe is doomed, but North America is well protected. But when Kang turns his attention to Washington DC, those walls only delay him for some seconds.
* 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, both Marcus are brothers (but don't ''ever'' tell him that).

* [[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!

* 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.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Firebird gave one of those to Thor, who suddenly started to view the mortal lives as short and meaningless. She told him that, even if she's immortal as well, she would always care about the others. That her god notices even the death of an insect, and ''that's'' her role model, not Thor.

* WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins and ''conquers the world.'' This is the first time in all of Marvel history that mainstream, present-day Earth was conquered, not by mind control, but sheer military strategy.
* 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!?"
* 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]].

** First, Kang warned that if the Damocles base was attacked, there would be retribution. The Avengers attacked it and failed. Why did you force Kang to obliterate Washington DC?

'''The Kang War''', otherwise known by it's actual title of 'The Kang Dynasty', is a storyline of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', by Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis.

* AnimatedAdaptation: The storyline was adapted in the episodes "Come the Conqueror" and "The Kang Dinasty" of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''

* WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins and ''conquers the world.'' This is the first time in all of Marvel history that mainstream, present-day Earth was conquered, not by [[SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom mind control]], but sheer military strategy.

* WhamEpisode: Issue 49; Kang wins and ''conquers the world.'' This is the first time in all of Marvel history that mainstream, present-day Earth was conquered, not by [[DoctorDoom mind control]], but sheer military strategy.

* 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)