“I grew up a true Marvel comic nerd and there are a handful of antagonists in the Marvel comic universe that are classics,” explains director Peyton Reed, who completes the character’s individual trilogy with this new installment. Loki, obviously. Doctor Doom from the Fantastic Four. And Kang the Conqueror. In conversations with Kevin Feige and Marvel, it was like, I want to put Ant-Man and the Wasp up against a really formidable villain in this movie, so we’re doing Kang the Conqueror. […]. I found it interesting to take the smaller Avengers, in some people’s minds maybe the less powerful Avengers, and pit them against the most powerful force in the multiverse.”
New alliances of good and evil
It’s worth remembering: the character introduced as the One Who Remains in the Loki series is not Kang. Or at least, he’s not the Kang we fear, just one of the many versions of him. the one of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania It is another variant, it has been speculated that it will not be the final one, but what we are sure of is that it is a more powerful, fearsome and enraged one. One eager to get out of that nano-prison known as the quantum realm, whose alterations in time and space have prevented her from taking control.
“In the comics, Kang has mastery over time, he’s a time traveler,” explains the director. This mastery is not to be taken lightly, as it allows him to travel through time at will to gain incredibly powerful technology from the future or, failing that, to go to times when his rivals are weakest. “His situation is a little different from him in this movie, which I won’t spoil for you, but he is someone who, [mientras] We live very linear lives, from childhood to death, Kang doesn’t exist that way.”
It doesn’t come alone. Next to him will be the fearsome MODOK, an acronym in English for Mobile / Mechanized Organism Designed Only to Kill, and who is endowed with psionic powers and superhuman intellect. We’ll see how his incarnation changes on the tape, where he seems to be an alteration of Darren Cross / Yellowjacket, a villain from the first installment who was violently thrown into the multiverse. In any case, his presence is another serious problem for Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Scott Lang’s consolation is that he won’t be alone either. He will have the eternal support of the brave Wasp, who can also boast a wide career in individual and collective films. Not to mention the veterans Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, whose intellects combined with the quantum experience of the latter will be of great help to get out alive from the erratic microuniverse that on this occasion will be thoroughly explored. Finally Cassie Lang, whose youthful rebellion has become a headache for the hero, but whose adoration for the father puts him in the front line to succeed him on the throne of ants.