Warning: This text accommodates SPOILERS for X-Males ’97 Season 2, episode 3. Within the second episode of X-Males ’97 Season 2, after displaying the X-Males’s battle with the fully-powered Apocalypse and the defeat of his nightmarish Horsemen, the story jumps again to the distant previous (after a quick journey to the current the place we meet X-Issue and Cable’s X-Power), to indicate how En Sabah Nur turned Apocalypse. And simply as he was within the comics, one other God-tier Marvel villain performs a serious half in that journey, and he’s one who very briefly appeared within the MCU – and will have performed a fair greater position.
Within the historic Egyptian timeline of X-Males ’97 Season 2, it’s revealed that Rama-Tut guidelines the dominion as a despotic overlord, and En Sabah Nur has grown to despise the ruler for his remedy of his individuals. He vows revenge, placing him on a collision course with the villain, who’s, in fact, revealed in comics lore to be Kang the Conqueror. In impact, X-Males ’97 establishes {that a} multiverse variant of Kang was liable for Apocalypse’s rise, mirroring – although not precisely – how his origin performs out within the comics. And given the MCU’s historical past with Kang, it’s a very notable determination given much more weight by what didn’t occur.
Rama-Tut Was Imagined to be A Main A part of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
He could not have been named on display, however Rama-Tut appeared in Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania‘s mid-credits scene. Carrying the immediately recognizable outfit of an Egyptian pharaoh, he was launched as one of many three leaders of the Council of Kangs, alongside Immortus and Centurion. All three, in fact, had been performed by Jonathan Majors, whose sacking led to Marvel’s retooling of Avengers 5 and the beginning of the trail we at the moment are on to Avengers: Doomsday. However earlier than that, The Kang Dynasty would have constructed on the Quantumania stinger, wherein Rama-Tut (AKA Victory Well timed) and the opposite Kang Council leaders summoned each out there Kang variant to mount an invasion on Earth to take out the Avengers, who’re considered as a risk to their multiversal dynasty. In the end, The Kang Dynasty was cancelled in July 2024 as Majors was fired, and Robert Downey Jr’s return as Physician Doom was introduced.
Surprisingly little of The Kang Dynasty‘s plot has truly leaked, however Quantumania’s credit scene positions Rama-Tut as a key participant, and it’s doubtless these three would have been essentially the most outstanding Kangs to provide the Council extra depth than would have been potential with a mob of hundreds. In the end, with The Kang Dynasty‘s cancellation and Marvel Studios’ obvious determination to desert the storyline altogether, MCU followers have now been robbed of a number of nice Marvel villains without delay. However a minimum of X-Males ’97 Season 2 presents some perception into the character and the devastation he induced to En Sabah Nur’s timeline. It’s unlikely this is similar Rama-Tut variant, given Marvel Animation considerably correctly selected to not use Majors’ likeness, but it surely’s nonetheless an fascinating footnote in Kang’s misplaced MCU journey. And creating Apocalypse continues to be a formidable legacy to assert.
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