It’s very onerous to inform from one trailer simply how bizarre Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is going to get. What the film’s first look does give us, nevertheless, is promising: a complete secret universe stuffed with Star Wars-ass stuff that features a number of the weirdest concepts in Marvel Comics lore.
What’s enjoyable about Quantumania is that, whereas the Quantum Realm has been featured a number of instances at this level (first in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, obliquely in Doctor Strange, and as a way of time journey in Avengers: Endgame), what it truly is has been type of a clean slate. Now that this film is lastly diving in, the implications are a lot cooler than what we’ve seen earlier than, and what was as soon as a kaleidoscopic wasteland is revealed as a complete different universe with cities that really feel lifted proper out of the Star Wars prequels.
Invented for the MCU motion pictures, the Quantum Realm is an amalgamation of a number of Marvel Comics concepts: the Microverse, the Negative Zone, and to a point, time journey. This implies that there’s all types of potential for comic-lore surprises in Quantumania — with the primary and largest trace being the movie’s villain, Kang (Jonathan Majors).
After organising the broader scope of the Quantum Realm, the second aim of Quantumania’s trailer is establishing Kang as a mysterious and menacing presence in there. In the comics, Kang is very sophisticated, however two issues stay fairly constant: He is a time traveler, and he is very a lot not an Ant-Man villain.
The Disney Plus collection Loki did plenty of work to arrange the principles of time journey within the MCU whereas additionally introducing a model of Kang generally known as He Who Remains — a person pushed a little bit bit mad by the period of time touring and tinkering he had completed in his lifetime, who’s now stranded on the finish of the universe. The man we see within the Quantumania trailer is totally different, each going by the title Kang and extra carefully resembling the Conqueror we’ve seen within the comics.
So what’s a time traveler doing in Ant-Man’s bizarre secret universe? That’s a big a part of Quantumania’s intrigue, however given the versatile nature of the Quantum Realm, it could possibly be plenty of issues — together with the means by which Marvel’s heroes and villains journey the multiverse to trigger the intense bother that can result in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars. Most importantly, it is a good way for Marvel’s mind belief to drag nearly any remaining heroes off the bench and on display, from the beforehand introduced Fantastic Four to the studio’s very secretive plans for the X-Men.
