Screenwriter of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Jeff Loveness recently singled out Kang the Conqueror's "humanity" as the main difference between him and Thanos.
Emotions compared Kang to the previous overarching Marvel Cinematic Universe's famous villain Thanos in an interview with SFX Magazine. "To me, it's all about humanity," he said. "Obviously Thanos is a great, iconic villain, but he's also a big purple CGI guy. He's an alien from outer space. The thing I really wanted to lean into is that Kang is a human being... Kang's also a very lonely character. We're going to be seeing a lot of him in a lot of different ways going forward, but I really wanted to introduce the humanity and even the vulnerability of this character before he gets to such apocalyptic, Avengers-scale heights."