The Ant-Man movie is AMAZING, but there were lots of people that wondered why it focused
on a guy named Scott Lang, when it’s likely that if you’ve ever heard of Ant-Man before
the movie, it’s been in reference to the original, Hank Pym.
Heck, Hank was even Ant-Man during the flashbacks in the movie!
Well don’t worry because your friendly neighborhood ComicDrake is here to give you the 4-1-1!
When electronics expert Scott Lang couldn’t support his family, he turned to a life of
crime and became a burglar which landed him a nice, warm spot in jail.
Our protagonist ladies and gentlemen!
While in the slammer, Scott’s wife divorced him, and he was let out early due to good
behavior.
Around this time, Scott’s daughter, Cassie, was diagnosed with a rare heart condition
and whose only chance of survival was to be treated by Dr. Erica Sondheim, a surgeon who
specializes in laser surgery.
There’s only one problem though…
She’s being held captive in a factory.
With high tech security and plenty of guards, Scott hatched a plan to sneak in.
First, he broke into Hank Pym’s lab and stole the Ant-Man suit.
I mean it’s not like Hank was using it since, at the time, he was assuming the role of Yellowjacket.
No… not that one.
That guy is actually this guy.
Let me explain.
Using the Ant-Man suit, Scott broke into the factory only to discover that his daughter’s
would be surgeon was taken prisoner by its owner, Darren Cross.
Okay so get this.
Cross also has a rare heart condition which, to overly simplify things, made him overuse
his heart.
To combat this, he kidnapped Dr. Sondheim (and a bunch of homeless people) so that she
can constantly replace his heart with that of another homeless person every time that
he burns through one…
That is some straight-up James Bond level villainy right there.
Scott managed to save the day and get Cassie the treatment that she needed, but guess who
shows up.
Hank freaking Pym!
Apparently Hank was there the entire time and decided not to do anything so that he
could see how Scott’s handled his suit.
When Scott tries to return it, Yellowjacket basically just says “Nah bro, that’s yours
now.”
So now with Hank’s blessing, Scott was the brand new Ant-Man and he super-heroed around
for a little bit and even joined multiple teams such as the Fantastic Four and even
the Heroes For Hire, where he met and dated Jessica Jones for a brief time after the team
disbanded, buuuuut they broke up when Scott found out that she was pregnant with Luke
Cage’s baby.
After losing custody of his daughter, Scott joined the Avengers where he butted heads
with the hero Jack of Hearts, but they slowly became friends.
In fact, when Scott’s daughter gets kidnapped, he and Jack of Hearts go save her with Jack
dying in the process.
But, because comics, Scarlet Witch brings Jack back to life as a zombie and sicks him
on the Avengers.
When Scott attempts to talk to Jack, he explodes and kills Scott.
In the wake of her father’s death, Cassie becomes the hero Stature, joins the Young
Avengers, and manages to bring her father back to life a few years later.
Well… the Young Avengers actually travel back in time to the day that Scott died and
take him back back to the present day instead.
So Scott’s alive again mainly because Marvel wanted him to be the star of the Ant-Man movie.
Oh and Cassie almost immediately gets killed by Dr. Doom.
On the bright side though, Scott gets his revenge when he joins the Future Foundation
and nearly kills Doom.
Thankfully, they’re cool again since Dr. Doom brought Cassie back to life during the
events of Axis.
Good on you Doom.
Good on you.
Nowadays, Scott is running Ant-Man Security Solutions, a private security firm which in
his own words is “Because I know a lot about how to steal your stuff, I know a lot about
how to not let your stuff get stolen”.
With his employees, the former villains Grizzly and Machinesmith, they help get all the things
not stolen…
Except for Cassie who was kidnapped…
again.
This time it’s by Augustine Cross, the son of Darren Cross, the dude from Scott’s origin
story.
Oh, and he kidnapped Dr. Sondheim too.
So in a weird deja-vu turn of events, Augustine wants Dr. Sondheim to transplant Cassie’s
heart into his father since the Pym Particles in her blood will allow her heart to grow
and shrink as needed to fight his disease.
...Okay….
Now Darren Cross is alive again and tries to kill Scott, but the Pym Particles in his
bloodstream causes him to shrink and shrink and shrink and he eventually runs away with
his son.
Thankfully, Dr. Sondheim was able to transplant a new heart into Cassie during the fight,
but it was incompatible with her body so Scott shrinks down and fights off white blood cells
since Cassie’s body thinks that the new heart is a foreign invader.
The day is saved!
Cassie is saved!
Scott pushes Cassie away emotionally so that she can have a normal life, and as of this
recording, that is the current state of Scott Lang’s life.
It is uh… confusing to say the least, but I think I did a decent job...
If you want to learn more about Scott, then I highly recommend reading the Marvel Now
run of Ant-Man, the 2012 run of Future Foundation, and Avengers: The Children’s Crusade
But as always, now it’s time for a vote.
If you want to see a video on Scott’s daughter then click on Cassie, but if you want a video
on the guy that accidentally KILLED Scott then, click on Jack of Hearts.
You can click on this video to learn more about Hank Pym or click on this one for a
super quick rundown on the lives of all of the Ant-Men!