What Really Happened At The End Of Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania

just when you thought Ant-Man couldn't get any smaller he disappears with his whole family into the quantum realm this small world is home to a huge threat and a mechanical organism designed only for you know what let's just get into it for the first half of quantumania the villainous ruler Kang's name isn't actually spoken characters refer to him as the Conqueror or simply him Janet offers frustratingly little explanation for the villain until the middle of the story because well the plot demands some Intrigue but we do finally get a full backstory in our end during Janet's many years spent stranded in the quantum realm she came across a marooned King he claimed that he was a scientist and that his ship had malfunctioned Janet helped him repair it only to discover his true identity a violent Tyrant who is exiled by his brother into the one place he couldn't escape Through Time Travel she disabled this multiversal engine and fled spending the ensuing years fighting him with the other denizens of the quantum realm since then Kang has only wanted to escape his prison and return to take Vengeance on his variants but in the film's Final Act we learned that he's not planning to go alone after recapturing Janet he reveals that he's planning to take the whole empire he built in the quantum realm with him a massive futuristic sprawl that evokes his comic book headquarters chronopolis whether he intends to take the Citadel directly to his variants hiding place or somewhere else continue building strength is unclear unfortunately for him the time needed to transport such a massive Fortress gives Scott and his allies time to strike we learned from Janet that Kang has wiped out entire timelines in his quest for power killing countless Innocents in the process quantumania gives us a more tangible look at what life under his rule is like via the residence of the quantum realm holy that guy looks like broccoli when the crew is pulled in at the start of the film they're separated with Scott and Cassie Landing in one place and hope Hank and Janet in another Scott and Cassie are quickly found by a group of Freedom Fighters led by the Pierce gen Torah who explains that their home was decimated by King's Army so it makes sense that when Cassie rescues gentura in the film's Final Act they're quickly able to draw Legions of rebels to their aid all it takes is a corny speech from Cassie projected throughout the quantum realm and the knowledge that Kang's Fortress is indeed penetrable from there the Warriors just keep coming gang is a few villainous lines flexing over how many rebellions he's put down and how many Avengers he's killed in alternate timelines but he ultimately fails to squash this one the whole final battle is a massive computer animated reminder of one of the film's core messages the fighting for what's right even against impossible odds is worth it Cassie emphasizes this point throughout the film so it fits that she's the one to Rally the rebels at the end the combined bravery of the quantum realm Rebels deals a heavy blow against Kang but it's not enough to finish him late in the battle the Conqueror enters The Fray himself and begins wiping people clean out of existence with an impressive Display of Power for a moment it looks like he might be able to ward off the attacker single-handedly but then Hank shows up with an army of ants while these futuristic super ants are explained earlier on they're still one of the more confusing parts of the movie we first see them during the scene in which Cassie demonstrates her Quantum realm satellite for a moment it looks like the two science fair projects might be connected but that doesn't seem to be the case the Techno answered just the latest iteration of Hank's obsession with the Little Critters one that has apparently resulted in them being smarter good at computers it's all a bit rushed dance ants his answer then pulled into the quantum realm with the others and encounter a temporal anomaly this causes them to enter a separate timeline or perhaps location it's not entirely clear either way it's where they live and build a new Society for a thousand years eventually they're able to work their way back to Hank and help him in his hour of need needless to say there are a lot of questions here doesn't the quantum realm exist outside of time why didn't the human characters hit any temporal anomalies unfortunately or perhaps for the better the whole thing is played for comedic effect and Dodges a lot of questions about how it all actually works quantumania is filled with kooky moments but perhaps the film's most baffling bit is it's handling a fan favorite comic book Baddie Modoc the mechanized organism designed only for killing and a truly bizarre twist quantumania makes Darren cross the villain from the original Ant-Man into Modoc which has never been the case in any comic to be fair it's hard to do Modoc in a way that isn't totally ridiculous but this still feels like a bridge too far through the Final Act Darren has a character turn so sudden that it can hardly be called an arc leading to him making a noble sacrifice his death is played for Laughs with him demanding the title of Avenger right before his death thanks to Hank's sci-fi ant Army Kang is defeated and Janet somehow manages to create a portal back to Earth presumably she reverses the signal that first pulled them in during act 1 and uses Kang's rebuilt Multiverse engine to create a portal they can actually walk through but it all happened so fast and the technology is so poorly explained that it's hard to say for sure it's really dangerous Tech I know it's dangerous regardless everyone besides Scott steps through before King turns working another last-ditch duel between him and Ant-Man hope jumps back through to help Scott and after slapping his smattering of pimparticle discs on Kang's engine core they appear to finish the villain hall for good it's not entirely clear what actually happens to the drive however or to Kang who appears to be sucked into it as it overloads the result is that the portal closes and Scott and hope look out over the liberated Quantum realm that could now be their permanent home they're not stranded for long though as Cassie does some quick keyboard smashing and reactivates her own device opening the portal back up and reuniting the whole family this is again not really explained the Multiverse core seems to have been destroyed so how is Cassie able to reopen the portal if that was possible without using the core couldn't Kang have Simply Built a similar device to hers and gotten out of the quantum realm long ago stare too hard at the subatomic Tech in this movie and it starts to fall apart a bit the important thing is that Kang is defeated and the whole family gets home safe thanks to Scott and the Gang the quantum realm is finally freed from Kang's tyrannical grip at least for the moment the ambiguity of the conqueror's Fate leaves things a bit up in the air but even if he managed to survive he'd likely have little interest in returning to the side of such an embarrassing defeat that raises the question what's next for the realm gentura tells Cassie that there was a whole society in her land that Kang destroyed presumably it looked a lot like the places farther from King's reach that we see Star Wars cantina's bustling open markets and weird living buildings erected in more rural areas perhaps now that Kang is gone that lifestyle will return gentura herself would make a great leader of course this only accounts for one small corner of the quantum realm the whole story of quantumania seems to take place in a relatively small area the equivalent of a small country which Kang has conquered Janet describes the realm as being much bigger than that saying that it has worlds within worlds but these other levels be explored in future films could the Freedom Fighters become allies to the Avengers and future MCU stories only time will tell the first of two post-credit scenes an Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania shows a meeting of the other Kang variants who banished the film's main villain to the quantum realm and a Coliseum positioned in what could be the mcu's actual chronopolis we see a huge number of Kings apparently all of them assembling and cheering like crazed Fanatics preparing for war however the main action of the scene takes place with just three variants that we don't get names in the scene at least two of these kangs should be recognizable to fans of the comics the one driving the conversation and who apparently called the Gathering in the first place wears Regal robes in a tall hat that immediately evokes immortus arguably the most powerful version of Kang is joined by another variant clad in the Garb of an Egyptian pharaoh evoking Kang's very first comic Incarnation Rama tut the third variant of this core Trio is much more sci-fi in style almost appearing cybernetic it's possible that his design is connected to Kang's kitamortis Incarnation from the comics but that would bring up some other big questions all three of these comic book Kings have diverse and specific roles in the Marvel story so it should be interesting to see how they mesh in the MCU you their mission however seems clear the Avengers of the primary timeline have become too powerful and the Kang Dynasty wants to wipe them out in the mid-credits scene featuring the Council of kangs it's said that the variant Ant-Man fights in the quantum realm is dead the Kanga resembles immortus claims this is true and rejects the other's doubts you'd think that an assembled Legion of such powerful beings would know definitively one way or the other and it's hard to say for sure if the exiled King is actually gone for good for starters we don't really know what happened to him when Scott douses the Multiverse drive and pin particles it appears to overload and then Kang simply vanishes into it it's possible that the energy emitted by the device vaporized him on the spots or that he's pulled apart into a million different universes and rent asunder for all time however it's also possible that he simply teleported somewhere else somewhere he can wait in secret for the perfect moment to strike the second post-credits scene in Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania sets up Loki season 2 bringing back the Asgardian master of mischief and his time variance Authority friend Mobius the scene opens with a Kang variant giving an old-timey Expo on his wacky time technology were then shown that Loki and Mobius are in the audience and that they've traveled here specifically to find him we don't know exactly when this moment occurs and what timeline or with what version of Kang however it does reveal a few things at the end of Loki season 1 Mobius loses all memory of Loki after Sylvie unleashes the Multiverse and rewrites the time stream [Music] when Loki returns to the TVA afterwards it has a giant statue of Kang in the middle of it the fact that Mobius has accompanied him on his mission to find Kang shows that Loki's re-established some trust however this scene presents as many questions as answers Mobius seems to not know Kane here but Loki reassuring him just how dangerous the villain is but if there's a giant King statue in the TBA wouldn't Mobius have some idea of the conqueror's nature Loki season 2 will surely shed more light on this it can't come soon enough rumors have circulated for years at a Young Avengers project could be coming down the line in the MCU with characters like Kate Bishop America Chavez and Joaquin Torres all entering the story in phase four there are certainly enough Heroes to fill out such a roster wait yo you forgot the wings cable speaking with inverse prior to the release of Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania producer Steven brassard claimed that no such film is currently in the works but he did acknowledge that passing the torch was a major theme of phase four Cassie Lang would fit perfectly into a young Avenger story she and Kate's are close friends in the comics and joined the team together Catherine Newton is great as Cassie in quantumania and it would be fun to see her become even more important as the franchise moves forward Cassie Lang seems like a shoe-in for future MCU projects or her dad though that's a little harder to predict Paul Rudd has been playing Ant-Man for close to a decade now and many of his peers have been phased out at the MCU prior to the quantumania premiere the actor told Insider I have no idea what my future in the MCU or in Marvel is at all none of this is my call so I try not to think about it too much in the comics Scott Lang meets somewhat of a gruesome man which prompts Cassie to follow in his footsteps as an Avenger he seems headed for a happier ending in the MCU the quantumania certainly doesn't rule out a return to action for the character if the exiled Kang variant ends up being right and Scott's actions and the quantum realm do endanger the Earth you might feel an obligation to suit up once again and he'd surely have something to say about it if his daughter starts fighting crime on the regular though much is still unknown quantumania does its job in planting the seeds of the king threat for Phase 5 and Beyond the council now tipped off to Our Hero's growing Fame and power it's inevitable that they'll all cross paths soon Loki season 2 looks like the next logical place for the Kang storyline to continue but fans can also look forward to at least one more big screen feature for the villain down the line the next proper Avengers movie and the first sense end game in 2019 is titled Avengers the King Dynasty the film is set to be released on May 2nd 2025 preceding Avengers Secret Wars by just the year the last time two Avengers movies came out that close together things turned out pretty well and as the first of the two the Kang Dynasty could Venture into more emotional and mature narrative territory similar to how Infinity war did given how spectacular Jonathan Majors is in quantumania that's an exciting prospect it will also be interesting to see how closely the film adheres to the comic book storyline of the same title before then Kang also has a good chance of appearing in the mcu's long-awaited Fantastic Four movie he's a frequent enemy to the team in the comics and has some interesting connections to Richards in particular so it would make sense for him to play a substantial goal the Kang Dynasty is coming and hopefully it'll be a blast to watch [Music]

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Length: 12min 12sec (732 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2023