Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and today I'm gonna be breaking down Ant-Man and Wasp
Quantumania and yes I have titled the video 0.25x speed, even though I can't watch it
in slow-motion until the Blu-Ray releases However I did end up watching the film 5 times
in theaters, so if you do the maths, I actually spent more time watching this film in regular
speed than I would have if I watched it at 0.25x speed.
So this is not really clickbait and I promise you lads the details I'm gonna give you in
this video will live up to its title.
Now this video will have a 2nd part.
In this one, I'm only gonna give you the hidden details and easter eggs I found and then in
the next video, I will tell you my review and what I really think went wrong with this
film.
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Number 1: He Who Remains from Loki season 1 now appears in the Marvel intro instead
of War Machine.
Now, this is the first time that a Marvel villain actually appeared in a Marvel intro.
Until this film, it only had clips of our superheroes.
But I think Marvel is trying to tell us something here.
I think He Who Remains was in fact a good character.
Perhaps he was telling the truth that his variants are worse than him and killing him
wasn't a good idea!
And that's why the VFX team has put his character right at the intro.
And this brings me to another detail Number 2: This film began with a reference to Loki
season 1 and ended with giving us a glimpse into Loki season 2.
Now that's a full circle innit!
Number 3: When we see Scott and Hope both suiting up using nano-tech, notice Hope's
reflection in the background!
As soon as Hope's suit materializes, the shadow changes as well.
So the VFX team made sure to CGI the shadow to reflect Hope's suit accurately.
Marvel did something similar even in Spider-Man: No Way Home as well and I'm glad the VFX team
continues to pay such attention to detail.
Also notice when Scott suits up, this guy working at his desk gets surprised looking
at Scott's suit.
Number 4: The first time we ever saw Scott Lang in the MCU, he was serving time in jail.
And now the first time we see a grown up Cassie Lang, she's being held in a police station!
So right off the bat they established that Cassie is gonna follow the same footsteps
as her father.
Number 5: When Janet, Hank and Hope fly through the Quantum Realm, they come across an outpost
with a lot of soldiers!
But notice there's a mural of Kang The Conqueror in this giant wall.
Janet of course sees this and immediately understands Kang is ruling this realm.
Number 6: Inside the Probability Storm, Scott Lang meets a variant of himself who still
works at Baskin Robbins.
Meaning this is how Scott's life would look had he not got fired from Baskin Robbins.
However, there is one big issue with this scene and I can't help but talk about it.
MODOK said Scott is looking at every possible choice he could make existing all at once!
And if that's the case, Baskin Robbins Scott couldn't be here, because if Scott doesn't
get fired from Baskin Robbins, he doesn't become an Avenger, meaning this variant will
never even end up in Quantum Realm in the first place.
So him being here actually goes against the laws of physics.
Scott should only see the choices he will make from that moment on, not his whole general
life.
And if they really meant to show every possibility of Scott Lang's life, they should have added
a few more variants who worked at some place other than Baskin Robbins.
I understand this whole thing was done to use as a comic-relief but if you go against
physics that hard, my mind can't take it.
Number 7: In this same scene where Scott sees every possible outcome, I noticed something
very interesting here.
Notice when Scott was standing here alone talking to MODOK over the com, we didn't see
any other variants yet.
But notice as soon as our Scott takes a step forward, we start seeing the variants coming
out.
Because this step is a choice Scott made and that immediately gave birth to another possibility.
So the point I'm trying to make is, Scott was all alone here in this probability storm.
But as soon as he made a choice aka stepped forward, he also created another alternate
timeline.
This has to be intended and I really appreciate this detail.
Because unlike the previous detail, here Marvel did follow the laws of physics.
Number 8: Now I am a bit unhappy with how this film turned out to be, but there's one
moment in this film that literally gave me chills!
And I'm pretty sure as soon as I tell you what it is, you will also appreciate that
moment.
And yes it again has to do with this scene.
So our Scott Lang with the help of all of his variants was trying to shrink the Multiversal
Core back to it's regular size, but he failed because one Pym Disc isn't enough to shrink
it down.
As a result the pile of variants starts falling down.
And while all these are going on, Hope has also entered the Probability Storm and saves
our Scott.
And here's the moment that gave me goosebumps!
Notice what happens as soon as Hope holds Scott's hand.
All of their possible choices get sucked into one.
Meaning up until Hope showed up and held Scott's hand, they both had an infinite number of
possibilities where things could go wrong.
But as soon as they hold each other's hand, there's just one possibility ahead of them
and that's their own future.
I didn't think of it the first time I watched it, but on my 2nd time I was like "Okay, this
is amazing!"
Number 9: Now there is an ongoing theory that Scott may have returned to an alternate timeline
and not his own at the end of the film.
But there are some big reasons why I don't support this theory, so lemme explain it to
you.
Some people on reddit are saying that there's graffiti of Ant-Man's helmet on the wall at
the end of the movie which previously wasn't there.
And the proof they use is that when Scott walked on the same sidewalk in the beginning
of the movie, it wasn't there.
But how do we know it's not there?
It's not the same camera angle.
And then the theory says this coffee shop guy aka Ruben charging Scott 12$ whereas at
the beginning of the movie he gave him coffee for free also goes to show that this is an
alternate timeline.
But this is really silly because this coffee shop guy literally admitted that he mistook
Scott for Spider-Man and says "I was wrong, you're the other bug, you get big and small"
So this scene quite clearly establishes that this is a continuation of what happened before
and of course it's the same timeline!
Now as far as the NPCs are concerned, I mean the bystanders, them doing a "double take"
when they see Scott is literally what happened in the beginning of the film as well!
If the beginning wasn't weird, why are we saying the ending is a different timeline?
We have to understand that Scott is now a celebrity, he saved the entire world, he's
an Avenger and he has a book out.
So people taking a double look shouldn't be a clue of it being an alternate timeline.
Number 10: And this is by far my favorite detail of the movie.
It's not a visual detail but it's something to think about, something that will make us
go "Woah!
Now I see it" But before I tell you what it is, lemme ask
you a question: Why do you think Kang didn't use the pym particle
from Scott Lang and just steal the Multiversal Core himself?
And here's the answer: Kang is totally capable of using Pym Particles
to shrink down and steal the Multiversal Core himself but it's the Probability Storm that
he's afraid of.
Because Kang does fear his own variants.
He cannot risk creating more variants of himself because he fears they will turn on him the
same way other variants of himself did.
Plus, he's on a mission to literally kill all his variants, so why would he create more
variants in the process?
Whereas Scott and his variants have that ant mentality of helping each and that is one
of key reasons he’s one of the few people that can pull off this heist and not get killed
by his own variants.
If I had written this film, I would have made sure to make this point loud and clear and
not let the audience figure it out themselves.
Because most people won't realize this.
And that's it, this would be my breakdown of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
My review on the overall film will be in the 2nd part of this video.
Until then, please comment below if you noticed a hidden detail or an easter egg that I missed.
Having said that, I will say that I deliberately didn't mention a lot of the obvious hidden
details, because I don't wanna waste your valuable time.
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