A not-so-tiny comeback. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly‘s superheroes will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time since Avengers: Endgame in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but there are a few things viewers should know first.When Scott Lang (Rudd) was last onscreen, he arrived five years after Thanos’ snap to help the Avengers bring half the universe back to life.
While Hope Van Dyne (Lilly) and her parents disappeared during The Blip, his daughter went through her teenage years.After helping save the world, Scott has been enjoying life as somewhat of a celebrity — but he’s struggling as a parent, director Peyton Reed revealed.“Cassie is now 18 years old and maybe Scott doesn’t quite know how to relate to her as an adult because he lost those five years because of the events of Endgame,” Reed told Entertainment Weekly in July.Dad life isn’t Ant-Man’s only problem. “We also knew that we wanted to put our heroes up against a very, very formidable opponent.
I grew up reading the comics and I knew the character of Kang the Conqueror, who’s one of the big, big bad characters in the comics, so to be able to put up our heroes against Kang the Conqueror was a huge thing for us.
We went big and we also went small.”Marvel fans met Kang (Jonathan Majors) in the first season of Loki on Disney+ as He Who Remains.
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