Immortus

IMMORTUS [Nathaniel Richards]

a.k.a Pharaoh Rama-Tut, Kang, Scarlet Centurion, Iron Lad

First Appearance: Avengers V1 #10 (Nov 1964)

First Avengers Appearance: Avengers V1 #10 (Nov 1964)

Other Appearances of note: Avengers V1 #131, 132, 141-143; Giant-Sized Avengers #3, 4;  Avengers West Coast V2 #48, 53, 55, 59, 61-62; Avengers Forever limited series.

If Loki is the prince of lies, Immortus must be first in line for the throne. Having wearied of a life of conflict and conquest, Kang accepted the invitation of the Time Keepers to become their guardian of the time stream. In the same way that Richards had become first Rama-Tut, the Scarlet Centurion and later Kang, it is believed that in at least one reality he once again reinvented himself as Immortus, ruler of Limbo.

Where Kang attempted to defeat The Avengers through battle and force, Immortus used cunning, guile, duplicity and deceit combining these traits with the technology to manipulate and travel through time.

In his first encounter with the Avengers as Immortus, he allies himself with Zemo, the Executioner and the Enchantress and attempted the destruction of the Avengers through the use of beings posing as mythological figures.

Immortus is also partially responsible for the creation of the Vision by creating a temporal copy of the original Human Torch that the android Ultron used to create the Vision.

While Immortus appeared benevolent in officiating at the wedding of the Vision to the Scarlet Witch, and Mantis to the Cotati his darker plans have involved using the Scarlet Witch to become the absolute master of time, deleting various alternate time-line universes, and driving Iron Man insane so that he turned on The Avengers murdering a number of Avengers before his own death.

Immortus conflict with his younger self was also the basis for the "Destiny War" detailed in the Avengers Forever limited series.