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[Loki] The logistics of the show's central problem

I didn't want to give anything any in the title so I kept it the spoilers as vague as possible in the title.

Anyways, in Loki, Nathaniel Richards invents a way to travel to alternate realities and claims that some versions of himself wanted to be conquerors and take over other realities.

My question is, how would he do this? What does it mean to "take over" another reality? How would the inhabitants of these other realities live under Kang's rule and what would change in their day-to-day lives?

Similarly, the whole reason for Kang to destroy other realities is to prevent the Multiversal War, but again, what are the logistics of this war? It seems to me that the universe in the MCU is smaller than ours in size but still unbelievably gigantic. Wouldn't this Multiversal War take place light years away from like 99.99999999% of the universe's inhabitants? Because if that's the case, wouldn't it be better to have an on going Multiversal War than to destroy ENTIRE realities to prevent it?

I'm just wondering if there are any Marvel stories that go into the logistics of super villains conquering universes or entire realities - like how do they do that?
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Imagine being smart enough to not only discover alternate realities, but also cross over from your own into this new universe at will. Gotta be pretty damn smart eh? Smarter than anything Tony Stark has ever demonstrated at least. Tony's greatest scientific achievement was being able to travel within the 4th dimension of his own reality. Kang is effectively 5th dimensional. He can not only design tech to move him through time, but through alternate possible times.

Now take your "order of magnitude more genius than Iron Man" genius and make copies. Lots and lots of copies. Not quite 1 per reality but close to that. Some percentage of these Kangs are not only giga-geniuses, but also criminally, homicidally insane. Some are upright, valiant heroes. And some are somewhere in between the two. But virtually ALL of them are capable of engineering and technological advancement that makes Tony look like the slow kid.

Now imagine what fighting that guy would be like. You can't know where or when he'll show up in your reality. If you're lucky he won't show until after your dead but what if he shows up before you were born? What if the first humans in your reality to climb down from the trees and walk the plains were immediately greeted by a god who told them to obey him? Hard to stop an invasion from a guy who invaded before civilization was founded.

But even if he takes it easy on you and shows up to your reality roughly right now. You can't know how many of him will show, or whether they'll be on Kang's side or yours (because some of him are good and do fight to protect the multiverse.) But all of them can build doomsday weapons out of scrap metal and chewing gum and no matter how many you kill, more keep coming. How do you stop that?

Sure the universe is huge but once you have time travel, space travel is trivial. Just step one dimension up from the 3rd and come back in wherever you want.  


Kang is essentially Rick Sanchez but with ambition. He can go anywhere, any time, and is smarter than basically anyone ever. If he finds your reality, he CAN dominate it.