Kang Conquered the Marvel Wiki Multiverse After His Quantumania Debut

Warning: SPOILERS for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania follow…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – the first movie from Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – dominated not only the domestic and international box office this past weekend but also the wikis here at Fandom. Both the overall Marvel Wiki and the MCU Wiki saw big surges thanks to the third Ant-Man film, with the latter notably soaring up 66%.

Meanwhile, the Marvel Wiki spiked 20% thanks to Quantumania’s release, with both wikis finding much higher bumps this time than after the last Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp. In fact, the MCU Wiki instant increase in traffic in relation to a new movie opening was larger than any release from Phase Four caused, with the exception of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Yes, even more than Spider-Man: No Way Home, despite how huge that movie was.

The Big Kang Theory

Naturally, when it comes to the Top 10 specific pages visited — excluding the wiki home pages themselves — Kang was leader of the pack on both the Marvel and MCU wikis. And this wasn’t even the first time this complex, time-warping warlord was in demand. With anticipation running high for what he would be up to through Phase Five and Phase Six, including in, eventually, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, Kang’s character page was the second most popular for the MCU Wiki for the entirety of 2022, second only to Loki – even though neither of those characters actually appeared in anything last year!

Let’s check out the Top 10 most visited Marvel-ous pages following Quantumania‘s release. It’s mainly made up of pages from the MCU Wiki but you’ll note a few from the Marvel Wiki in there as well, focused on the comic book versions of these characters:

That’s 60% Kang, in one form or the other! Kang to the Max. The number one spot is Kang the Conqueror, who serves as Quantumania‘s main villain, but you’ll also see people went to the comics-based pages for Kang’s alter-ego, Nathanial Richards, plus the Council of Kangs and the version of Kang known as Immortus. And then there’s the MCU listings for He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors‘ Kang variant from Loki Season 1) and Quantumania‘s MCU version of the Council of Kangs, the latter of which fans were introduced to during the mid-credit scene, and was filled with an abundance of Kang Easter eggs.

That was clearly leaving an impression on people coming out of the film, because just outside of the Top 10 are pages for… Yup, more Kangs, including some of those aforementioned Easter eggs from the mid-credit scene, like the comic book versions of notable Kang variants Scarlet Centurion, Rama-Tut, and Immortus.

Fans have gone Kang krazy! Oh, and yes, the MCU’s Scott Lang/Ant-Man did get some attention too, with the eleventh most viewed page. It is his movie, after all. Sort of.

A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.

Quantumania’s take on M.O.D.O.K. is silly and divisive (for being silly), though one could argue there’s no way to do a live-action M.O.D.O.K. that isn’t tongue in cheek. Regardless, the movie’s M.O.D.O.K., look and name aside, has no real connection to his comics counterpart at all and is, instead, its own truly bizarre thing. Enough to make fans want to check out the M.O.D.O.K. page and drive it up to third place.

The Marvel Wiki’s page for the original version of M.O.D.O.K. also was the #17 most viewed page across the two Wikis, as folks read up on George Tarleton and pondered if we might ever see that particular version of the character make it into the MCU.

Either way, it’s interesting to see the most popular searches dominated by the villains, whether they be Kangs, M.O.D.O.K.s, or Bill Murray’s Krylar.

Peanut Grows Up

The hero who did manage to take a stand in the midst of all the Kang madness in the Top 10 was Cassie Lang, now played by Kathryn Newton. Even though Team Ant-Man is formidable, with it having two official Ant-Men and two official Wasps, it was a blast to see Scott’s daughter come into her own, with her own suit, and kick some Quantum Realm butt.

Cassie, who doesn’t have a hero moniker yet in the MCU – though in the comics she’s gone by both Stature and Stinger – spent the film encouraging fighting the good fight against the likes of Kang, M.O.D.O.K., and legions of Conqueror goons and stepping up to join the battle herself while also displaying a genius level acumen for quantum science (including inventing a Quantum Realm mapper-beacon). A lot of Phase Four was about introducing us to new faces, many of whom will succeed previous Avengers so it makes sense that Cassie now represents the next generation of Ant-ics.