‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Director on If Kang the Conqueror Is Really [SPOILER] (Video)
24.02.2023 - 20:21
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WARNING: MAJOR spoilers ahead for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”Kang the Conqueror made his official debut in the MCU with “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” but, as it turns out, it might’ve been a one-and-done situation — at least for that variant. Then again, Marvel fans have come to know the “no body, no certainty” rule at this point, so it’s hard not to wonder if he’s actually gone.
And director Peyton Reed won’t tell you for sure.“Well, I think that’s the real question. I think you see Scott Lang struggling with that question.
And I think it’s, you know, I didn’t actually know that that was a hard, fast rule that if you don’t see the body that doesn’t mean — ” Reed told TheWrap with a laugh.The film, now in theaters, follows Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and his family through the Quantum Realm, after they’re sucked in by a device his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) created with the help of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly). There, they meet Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors).Kang, as we learned in the first season of “Loki,” is one of many, MANY variants of a mysterious being.
He’s nearly unstoppable, and this particular version of him was banished to the Quantum Realm, after annihilating multiple worlds. But nearly unstoppable doesn’t mean he can’t be beaten by a team.
And that’s exactly what Scott and Hope do.In keeping him from escaping the Quantum Realm, Scott seemingly destroys Kang by overloading his ship’s energy core, and forcing Kang himself to get sucked into the ensuing Pym Particle reaction. He disappears, and in the mid-credits scene, we see some of Kang’s variants discussing what happened to him.Of course, like viewers, one of those variants questions whether the
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