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One of the most dangerous versions of Kang the Conqueror ever introduced was powerful enough to kill Galactus and take his power for himself.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe recently offered its first look at Kang the Conqueror in Loki. But as one of the Avengers’ most powerful and frequent villains, Kang has utilized plenty of dangerous plans and schemes over the years that have almost brought about the end of the world. However, one variant of the villain came close to wiping out the entire multiverse.
One variant of Kang — introduced in Exiles #2 by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Rodriguez — was able to kill and weaponize Galactus to become Kang the Time-Eater.
Earth-18854 was the home of Nathaniel Richards, aka Kang the Conqueror. Like most incarnations of that character, Kang was a dangerous and deadly time-traveling threat. However, this version of Kang became one of the most powerful in the multiverse after coming to the conclusion that the only way for him to truly transcend his place in the universe as just a man was to become a god. To that end, he found a way to kill the Galactus of his reality, taking his Power Cosmic and modifying his corpse into a weapon. With it, Kang became the Time-Eater and used his power to target the Galactuses of other worlds and claim their power for his own.
The Time-Eater soon began making its way across the multiverse, consuming entire realities and gaining more power with each universe it destroyed — moving faster than the multiverse could regrow new realities to sustain itself. To counter this, the Unseen — Nick Fury during a period when he was cursed to take the place of Uatu the Watcher — broke his oath of non-interference and helped give guidance to Blink after she was reunited with the Tallus (a mysterious device that helps the user and her allies in the Exiles rescue broken realities). Reaching the base of the Time-Eater, Iron Lad — another variant of Kang who was a heroic member of the Exiles — learned the truth about his alternate reality self.
With the multiverse largely wiped out by the time the Exiles had the chance to face him in his own sanctum, the Time-Eater tried to prolong the battle out of a sadistic love for combat. The Exiles also gain an unexpected edge thanks to a variant of Nick Fury that’s younger and fresh from a battle with Kang in 1972 in his reality. The Exiles come up with a desperate plan — half of the team keeps him distracted while the others ventured across the multiverse’s remaining worlds to reach a point where they can give the Unseen the Tallus and restore the lost worlds. Despite creating an armada of Kangs, the Time-Eater wasn’t able to kill the Exiles due to the interference of the Tallus — allowing Blink to rally an army of variants of herself and other Marvel heroes to overwhelm him.
The sheer force of the fight — and the Unseen being able to interact with the Tallus — proved too much, and Kang was forced to retreat without his Power Cosmic. The multiverse is saved in the process, and the Exiles remained a team to protect and repair broken worlds across creation. But the Time-Eater is a good reminder of just how dangerous Kang can be — especially when he starts to be creative with his abilities and takes them from others. He was almost able to wipe out the multiverse and become the only thing in all of existence, and step one of that plan involved killed one of Marvel’s most powerful forces, Galactus — something he did on his own. Any fight with Kang could easily take such a turn.
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