Highlights

  • LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 featured Kang the Conqueror as the main antagonist long before he joined the MCU.
  • The game showcases Kang's potential as a villain and delivers an absurd and fun crossover story by blending tons of Marvel characters and locations.
  • Kang's future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is uncertain, but LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 offers fans an immersive experience with the character.

Generally speaking, Marvel is actually a fairly new license in LEGO's wheelhouse, with the first sets based on the comic book franchise dropping in 2012. While that's still over a decade ago, there are quite a few popular licenses that LEGO was working with long before Marvel, with the first LEGO Star Wars set appearing all the way back in 1999, the first LEGO Harry Potter set hitting store shelves in 2001, and even the first LEGO DC set launching in 2006. So, in the grand scheme of things, the LEGO Marvel wave is actually quite new.

That hasn't stopped it from receiving a total of three large-scale LEGO video games -- LEGO Marvel Superheroes, LEGO Marvel's Avengers, and LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 -- with the first releasing in 2013, and the latter releasing in 2017. While every fan has their own favorite entry, it's LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 that offers the biggest experience, and it's also the one that's somehow become even more relevant all these years later.

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LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 Brought Kang to Life Before the MCU

LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 Focuses on Kang The Conqueror

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a pretty major villain problem right now. First teased back in Loki Season 1, Kang the Conqueror was set to be the new big bad of the MCU following Thanos. Technically an alternate version of Kang, Loki's He Who Remains briefly mentions a never-ending war between his multiverse variants, one that wreaked havoc on the entirety of time and space, and Sylvie killing the man at the edge of time is said to bring about this war all over again.

Kang made his first proper debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where he's banished to the Quantum Realm by some of his fellow variants after attempting to conquer the multiverse. Ant-Man, Wasp, and company eventually defeat Kang, but Quantumania's post-credits scene teases the Council of Kangs, including two well-known comic book variants, Rama-Tut and Immortus. All of these teases would presumably lead into Avengers: Kang Dynasty, but the status of that movie, and Kang's future, is a little up in the air right now.

Following some real-life crimes, Kang's actor, Jonathan Majors, is no longer working with Marvel and Disney. It's currently unclear just what the MCU is going to do with Kang, and there's a real possibility that it might just move on from him completely. While that would make sense, it would be a real shame, as the character of Kang the Conqueror has so much potential that the MCU still hasn't tapped, potential that LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 delivers on in spades.

As the main antagonist of the entire game, LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 puts Kang the Conqueror front and center throughout the game's surprisingly lengthy story. Fully realizing the villain's potential, LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2's story revolves around Kang manipulating time, space, and the multiverse to bring together hundreds of iconic Marvel heroes, villains, and variants. Kang also forces together iconic locations from across the Marvel universe to create one massive, nonsensical map that sees Wakanda being located directly next to New York and Medieval England. Absurd, epic, and just genuinely fun, LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 offers everything that fans could possibly want from a Kang the Conqueror crossover story.