Thread:Nausiated/@comment-2112031-20141019133048/@comment-61022-20141026173248

Actually no Kang and Immortus are no longer the same guy. Kang was destined to become Immortus until the end of events that occurred in Avengers Forever where their destines were separated.

Immortus is unique in the multiverse because he exists in Limbo and can travel to any point in history without creating a divergence. This has been somewhat of an established point since the Council of Kangs story line in Avengers #268 & 269 when (Prior to his destiny and Kang's being separated) he was manipulating the Council of Kangs to ensure that there was only one Kang who became Immortus.

This was further established in Avengers: Forever.

If you read the actual Immortus profile that I have written it pretty well explains everything, pay particular attention to the footnotes.

The reason why there are alternate Kangs, Iron Lads, Rama-Tuts, and Scarlet Centurions is because for the most part they time travel technology from the 30th century, not from the Time-Keepers who exist at the end of time, and they do not utilize the properties of Limbo either.

Another thing I should point out that for the most part, alternate versions of Kang are quite "rare" so to speak. The general rule about Kang himself is that the one that interacts with Earth-616 is considered the "Prime Kang" since they tied up all the weird alternate Kangs in Avengers #268-269. Pretty much all of the other ones that exist these days are from cartoons and various titles that are "modernized", or child friendly versions of old Marvel comics (Marvel Adventures, the Power Pack universe) or one off stories of the future. One could assume that these other Kangs could have been the many Kangs who were killed by the Council of Kangs sometime behind the scenes before Avengers #268.

The thing to keep in mind is to not think of these alternate versions of characters as operating in linear time. All these alternate Kangs who have appeared since Avengers #268-269 could have been killed prior to Avengers #268 (They are time travelers of course) So you could have all these alternate Kangs that "are" out there in terms of when a story is published (IE: After the death of all the alternate Kangs in Avengers #269) But to their own timelines their deaths at the hands of the Council of Kangs would happen AFTER they appeared in whatever comic or series they appeared in.

The thing about alternate versions of Iron Lad, Rama-Tut, Kid Immortus, and the Scarlet Centurion is that we can assume that eventually they become Kang in the future, and eventually killed by the Council of Kangs.