What is I Need You To Distract Kang?

It is a catchphrase and image macro from early 2023 built around fake Avengers: Secret Wars leaks, where Tony Stark asks another hero to distract Kang the Conqueror.

Where did I Need You To Distract Kang come from?

X user @CovenofChaoss posted the first known edit on January 11th, 2023, showing Stark telling Wolverine, "Logan, I need you to distract Kang".

What does I Need You To Distract Kang mean?

Fans use it to poke fun at fake MCU leaks by presenting absurdly edited screenshots as if they were real plot details from the delayed Secret Wars film.

How do you use I Need You To Distract Kang?

People typically photoshop a non-Marvel character, such as Superman or Brendan Fraser, into an existing MCU still with a caption asking them to distract Kang.

Is I Need You To Distract Kang still popular?

It became a recognizable 2023 Marvel fan joke documented across several viral X posts that year, with later entries like the Brendan Fraser edit arriving in April 2023.

I Need You To Distract Kang

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Published November 2, 2026

In January 2023, an X user doctored a fake Avengers: Secret Wars screenshot where Tony Stark tells Wolverine to distract Kang the Conqueror. The bit snowballed through early 2023 as Marvel fans photoshopped new leaks swapping in Superman, John Krasinski's Reed Richards and even Brendan Fraser1 5.

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Overview

I Need You To Distract Kang works as both a copypasta and a template for mock Marvel leaks. A typical post looks like a grainy still from an upcoming MCU film, usually captioned as a plot leak, in which Tony Stark soberly asks another hero to pull Kang the Conqueror's attention away so the real plan can happen1. The joke lives in the gap between how dramatic the dialogue sounds and how obviously photoshopped the image is, with characters pasted into scenes they could not possibly share.

As the format caught on, X users swapped in increasingly absurd stand-ins for Wolverine. Edits featured Superman from the DC universe3, John Krasinski's Reed Richards fielding an inappropriate request from Stark5, and even Brendan Fraser's character from The Whale slotted into an Avengers huddle7. The humor hinges on fan impatience: Avengers: Secret Wars sat years away from release, so bogus leaks became the only Kang content available to riff on4.

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Origin & Background

Platform

X (Twitter)

Creator

@CovenofChaoss

Date

2023

On January 11th, 2023, X user @CovenofChaoss posted an edited image of Tony Stark gesturing at Wolverine over the caption, "Logan, I need you to distract Kang"1. The tweet, framed as a Secret Wars leak with the comment, "This movie is like 3.5 years away please stop it," pulled in over 16,000 likes within the following year1.

Know Your Meme logs this post as the earliest documented example of the format, which quickly became the template for later fake leaks4. The original edit stitched Logan into an existing Infinity Saga still, setting the visual grammar that imitators later copied: a serious MCU shot, a nonsense dialogue card, and a hero asked to run interference on Kang.

How It Spread

By early February 2023, imitators were posting their own fakes. On February 4th, X user @HailEternal shared a follow-up Avengers leak that collected close to 3,000 likes over the next year2. Six days later, @shashwatmolina flipped the gag entirely by showing Ant-Man asking "Supes," meaning Superman, to distract Logan instead of Kang, a post that also cleared 3,000 likes3.

March pushed the bit further into crossover territory. A March 2nd edit from @Fantastic4Shill planted John Krasinski's Reed Richards into a scene where Stark asks him a crude question, picking up more than 5,000 likes within 10 months5. Three days later, the account @Marvfess posted a self-insert leak dropping the fan into an Avengers scene, which gathered over 1,000 likes6.

The template kept pulling in characters from outside Marvel entirely. On April 12th, 2023, @indianloonie circulated a version starring Brendan Fraser in his Oscar-winning role from The Whale, reaching more than 600 likes over the next 10 months7. Know Your Meme documented the string of edits as part of the catchphrase's write-up later that year4.

Timeline

2023-01-11

@CovenofChaoss posts the original fake Secret Wars leak with Tony Stark telling Wolverine to distract Kang[1].

2023-02-04

@HailEternal shares a follow-up fake Avengers leak using the same format[2].

2023-02-10

@shashwatmolina inverts the joke with Ant-Man asking Superman to distract Logan[3].

2023-03-02

@Fantastic4Shill posts a leak with John Krasinski's Reed Richards fielding a crude question from Stark[5].

2023-03-05

@Marvfess inserts themselves into a mock Avengers scene using the template[6].

2023-04-12

@indianloonie posts a version featuring Brendan Fraser from The Whale[7].

How to Use This Meme

To make a version, people typically take a dramatic still from an existing Marvel film, add a caption box where one hero asks another to "distract Kang," and present it as a leak from Avengers: Secret Wars. The common convention is to swap in a character who does not belong in the MCU at all, such as Superman or a non-Marvel actor, so the fake becomes obvious at a glance3 7.