a.k.a Pharaoh
Rama-Tut, Immortus, Scarlet Centurion, Iron Lad
First
Appearance:
(As Rama-Tut) Fantastic Four V1 #19 (1963);
(as Kang) Avengers V1
#8 (Sep 1964)
First Avengers
Appearance: Avengers V1 #8 (Sep 1964)
Nathaniel
Richards was born in the year 3000 of Earth-6311. He discovered his ancestor's
time travel technology and travelled to Egypt circa 2950 BC where he became
Pharaoh Rama-Tut, and ruled the natives. During this time he encountered the
Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange and the Avengers all on their own respective time
travel adventures.
Forced
to flee that time period Rama-tut passes through a time storm leading to a
meeting with Dr. Doom. Inspired by Doom’s armour and weaponry Richards adopts
the armored identity of the Scarlet Centurion. He travels to Earth-689 and
fools the Avengers of that reality
into apprehending all other contemporary heroes of that world. The Centurion’s
scheme to then use the Earth 616 Avengers to neutralize the Avengers of his
adopted reality fails and Richards is escapes into the time-stream
Attempting
to return to his native time and reality Richards overshoots and is hurled into
the 40th century of Earth 6311. Refining his armour and weaponry Richards
becomes Kang and conquers the entire world. Bored, Kang seeks to challenge
himself by conquering the more demanding 20th century world of his ancestor and
this brings him into regular conflict with The Avengers.
When
Kang attempts to kidnap the Celestial Madonna he is thwarted by The Avengers
and yet another future version of himself as Rama-tut. As the pair battled they
were drawn to Limbo by Immortus who was later revealed as another potential
version of Richards / Kang / Rama-Tut.
Kang
has repeatedly attempted to engineer an heir worthy of replacing him. Each
christened Marcus, at least one of these individuals has also adopted the
Scarlet Centurion identity.
Kang
also once visited his younger teenage pre-Kang self. Repulsed at the idea of
becoming a tyrant this young Richards travelled to the past and invoked an
Avengers failsafe program leading to him becoming Iron Lad and the formation of
a group that the press and the world called the Young Avengers.
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