Kang Fact — November 4, 2026

Today's Fact

One Kang got cut off from his own century, so he did the most Kang thing possible: he incorporated.

A SPLINTERED KANG GOT TRAPPED IN THE 21ST CENTURY — SO HE BECAME CEO 'MISTER GRYPHON,' BOUGHT AVENGERS TOWER AND BUILT THE QENG DYNASTY!

The Featured Fact

A glitch in the timestream split Kang into divergent counterparts, and one splinter found himself stranded in the modern era, cut off by a firewall of time with no road back to the future. Sleeping for two thousand years to catch up with his own century did not appeal to him. He needed an empire he could start immediately.

So the conqueror put on a suit and became Mister Gryphon, chief executive of Qeng Enterprises. As revealed across Avengers Vol. 6 #0 and All-New, All-Different Avengers Vol. 1 #1 (2015–2016), Gryphon's company bought the former Avengers Tower from a cash-strapped Tony Stark, and the new landlord supervised the cleanout of the heroes' own headquarters.

The real estate was never the point. Before the sale closed, Gryphon secretly planted loyalty protocols inside the Vision during the synthezoid's last visit to the Tower, and he set out to recover three pieces of a Chitauri amulet that could restore his time travel. A Kang who cannot conquer the future will happily settle for buying the present.

Why It's Obscure

Conquest, rebranded as a corporate acquisition.

The glitch

Split in the stream — a timestream accident divides Kang, and the Gryphon splinter wakes as a separate being from the Conqueror.

The firewall

No way home — trapped behind a barrier in time, Gryphon cannot return to his native era, so he founds the Qeng Dynasty in the present instead.

2015

The purchase — Qeng Enterprises buys Avengers Tower from Tony Stark, who needs the money and never suspects the buyer's true identity.

The mole

Vision, compromised — Gryphon uses the Tower handover to slip control protocols into the Vision, planting his agent inside the Avengers themselves.

Gallery

The corporate era: the panel where Kang splits into Gryphon, the Conqueror in classic armour, and the Vision, the Avenger Gryphon quietly reprogrammed.

Comic panel of Kang splitting into Mister Gryphon, who says he is trapped behind a firewall of time — **The split**The moment itself: Kang tears loose from his suited Gryphon self and admits on-panel that a glitch divided them and left him trapped in a backwater century.

Kang the Conqueror in green and purple armour, Marvel art — **The Conqueror himself**Kang in his familiar green-and-purple battle dress, the identity the Gryphon splinter kept hidden under a tailored suit and a corporate title.

The Vision comic art — **The inside man**The Vision, whose final walkthrough of the old Tower let Gryphon plant the protocols that made an Avenger into a Qeng asset.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

Mister Gryphon — Marvel.com Marvel's official profile: a splinter Kang trapped in the modern age behind a firewall of time becomes businessman Mister Gryphon, CEO of Qeng Enterprises, purchases Stark Tower and secretly controls the Vision.
Qeng Enterprises — Marvel Appendix Appendix history of the Qeng Dynasty and Qeng Enterprises, including the timestream glitch that stranded Gryphon and the arranged sale of Avengers Tower.
Mister Gryphon — Marvel Appendix Full profile of the divergent Kang counterpart, his modern-era base in the former Avengers Tower and his first full appearance in All-New, All-Different Avengers #1 (2016).