We always
love doing the Unexpected with Scott Lang,
Ant-Man is arguably the character that is the most underestimated.
Man became the key to saving the universe in Avengers Endgame.
So carrying that tradition, we thought, Well, let's use
this film to kick off Phase five.
It's been almost a decade now and I've been playing this part.
I've loved it and I feel protective of Scott Lang and Ant-Man.
It's really nice coming back.
I still can't believe that I'm sitting there and it's like,
Wow, there's Michelle Pfeiffer and there's Michael Douglas.
I just saved eight books. God, I admire you.
It's really nice not to get used to working with legends.
You're sending a signal down
to the quantum realm
where
there's a secret universe beneath ours.
Janet has been very quiet about her time in the quantum realm.
Maybe would have made different choices.
There's someone I never told you about.
This place isn't what you think.
Kang the Conqueror is terrifying.
And if there ever was a maniac loose in the quantum realm, it's him
playing Kang the Conqueror.
It's such a gift. Your reality.
Everything you're holding on to.
I know how it ends.
This is the beginning.
And he cannot be contained.
Something like this, which is so transportive and visually striking.
People should really see it in movie theaters.
You want it to be as big
and as visceral and consuming as possible.
Audiences are going to watch this and go, I can't believe this is happening.
It's going to be bonkers.
It's like we're camping.
We never been camping, but we've always talked about it.
Welcome back, everyone.
It's Charlie Marvel dropped the new Ant-Man
and the Wasp Quantumania trailer video
with all the characters talking about what's happening during the movie.
Bunch of big Easter eggs.
Obviously this is meant to set up a bunch of stuff.
It's the beginning of Marvel Phase five in Avengers five, Qing Dynasty.
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What are the biggest things during this?
Is Kevin V explaining why they took such a left turn with the Ant-Man
franchise for this film in the way that Paul Rudd talked about it.
He actually used a lot of Thor Ragnarok references in the way that Thor
Ragnarok was like a dramatic left turn for the Thor franchise.
After Thor, The Dark World was like such a serious, dark movie.
He and Kevin Zeigler basically saying they wanted to essentially
do the exact same thing with Ant-Man, but in the opposite direction.
Like normally you think of Ant-Man, movies
typically is comedies first with some action in them.
But because this was the third film in the franchise, they wanted to take
a dramatic turn with it and make it way more hardcore than people were expecting,
which is why it seems that they're rolling so hard on Ant-Man in this.
Like, even though I think that he'll wind up
surviving the end of the movie, they really, really want you to think
that Kang is going to kill him during the film, or he's
going to sacrifice himself to stop Kang But I don't think he's going to kill him.
And I don't think that Ant-Man
is going to be successful in stopping Kang from escaping the quantum realm.
Like, literally the word dynasty is across all of these last couple of trailers.
They really want you to think that this is going to be
the version of Kang the Conqueror, the variant of Kang the Conqueror.
That will be the one.
The Avengers phase during Avengers five, Kang Dynasty.
There's also a lot of unreleased footage where they have even more references
to Avengers five Qing Dynasty in a lot of the actors,
not just Paul Rudd, not just Kevin Feige, have said that they really wanted
to kick things into high gear during Marvel Phase five,
even though this is melees during Marvel phase.
For a lot of them trying out new things, they really wanted Marvel Phase
five to be them actually pushing the overarching plot forward.
Like here's where things really get started.
And because things are rolling so hard in Ant-Man,
they were taking such a dramatic turn
with things, surprising people in such a big way.
That's why they chose to make it the first Marvel Phase five movie.
Also, because the whole idea that Kang the Conqueror
was going to be the main villain just line things up
so they could set up Avengers five, Qing Dynasty and Marvel Phase six.
It would have been a dramatically different movie
if Kang had not been in this,
and they just made Modok the ruler down here in the quantum realm.
What are the interesting Easter eggs too?
Like we talk about all the Kang variants
that we're going to see during Marvel Phase five.
We'll see a bunch of them during Loki Season two,
like a bunch of the other versions of Kang, but done as different variants
is the way they're explaining Kang getting the conquer name during this movie.
Now he remains in the Loki finale.
Use the term conquer.
So like they already tease Kang the Conqueror, some of us
new worlds
meant only one thing new lands to be conquered.
But in all Marvel movies, they try to explain how villains or heroes
get the actual name. Like somebody
at some point gives them the name or they come up with it themselves.
All the different variants,
real names are Nathaniel Richards, like they were born Nathaniel Richards,
and then became different variants
of the character calling themselves different things.
Why did this one start calling himself Kang and why did they start calling him
Kang the Conqueror?
And it turns out the way they're explaining his name during
this movie is that when he was stranded in the quantum realm,
like he was a traveler of the multiverse and got stranded
and then was trying to get Janet Van Dyne help in escaping
so that he could continue winning the Kang Multiverse War
when she stranded him in the quantum realm.
The second time
by disabling his time ship, he went on to conquer the quantum realm.
He is the conqueror of the quantum realm, and that's why they call him Kang
the Conqueror.
He didn't get the conqueror name until he crashed in the quantum realm.
But one of my early theories, too, because they're setting him up to be such
a big overarching villain in Marvel Phase five and Marvel Phase six is that
this will be the variant of Kang who actually started the Kang Multiverse War
because when he remains was talking about his back story
and how the Kang Multiverse War basically led to this all out war,
destroying all timelines everywhere until he was able to stop it with a life
he never actually said which Kang was the one that actually started the war.
Like at some point, one of them had to conquer one of the other timelines.
And then it started all out war.
And I think what they're trying to explain in this movie
is that the person that started it all was this variant of Kang.
And I love the way Michelle Pfeiffer jokes about what she was up to
while she was stuck in the quantum realm for 20, 30 plus years.
Like, it would have been helpful if she had told everyone else
about what had happened with Kang the Conqueror,
because it seems like a lot of them are finding out for the first time
when they get sucked into the quantum realm by Kang himself in the whole thing
with this dark past of hers that they're teasing is just her
inadvertently helping him continue his quest to win the Kang Multiverse War
and ultimately, theoretically destroy all of reality.
It seems like what happened between the two of them in the past,
like this untold story that you saw, we find out through the course of the film
is that she landed there. They're both scientists.
They tried to find a way to escape.
Like Kang gave her the same deal that he offers to me.
And I can help you get more time with your family, get time back.
But at the time, Kang found her and he was stranded trying to find a way out.
He lied to her
about what he was truly trying to do, what his true intentions were in Y.
She was busy trying to help him find a way getting out of the quantum realm.
She learned his secret and then disabled his time ship.
A lot of people also asking about this device too.
Like they posted a new picture.
This almost seems like a flashback of Kang because he's not wearing his suit
like he's just wearing a normal tunic here.
It still looks like the trademark green and purple, though.
This is the engine for his time ship that allows him to cross
between realities, between timelines.
They haven't fully explained what exactly powers it, what it was
that Janet Van Dyne stole, like the power source in where she hid it.
A lot of people asking about the Forever Crystal
because that was a big part of the Avengers Forever storyline.
It was like a big MacGuffin in They are basing
some of what happens in Marvel Phase
five Marvel, Phase six in the Qing Dynasty on the Avengers Forever storyline.
I might do a separate video about that at some point
because it is a really interesting story, but they did explain the place
where Kang brings Ant-Man to look for the device that Jenny
Van Dyne had is a quantum nexus, so to speak.
Like this place is the quantum nexus,
and part of the idea with some of these other characters
that you've seen,
like you see a couple of familiar actors here is that there is a resistance
to Kang Building in the Quantum realm, like he conquered
the quantum realm, meaning that he killed a whole bunch of people.
And all these people are meant to be like the grassroots inhabitants
of the quantum realm who lived here before he came along.
They're trying to get rid of him,
and they wind up working with Ant-Man and the others to try and stop Kang.
But the whole idea is
that he's trying to escape and take the army that he built with him.
The funny thing, too, and I think they explain
this is some of the earlier trailers,
is that the army that you see like his dynasty as they tease it,
he actually didn't create that
until Janet Van Dyne stranded him and he was stuck there.
Time moves a little bit differently in the quantum realm,
so it might have actually been longer.
But part of the idea is that when Janet Van Dyne
was still trying to help him
before she learned his secret and she was able to escape, he didn't
have this giant army like it was just him in his time ship.
Really cool here. And Jonathan Majors talk about the character, too.
I love the hype around the character.
You should have seen them the last couple of conventions that they took him to.
He's going to be like the new version of the Thanos was right.
Meme Kang was right.
One of the biggest things
they haven't revealed yet is why he started the Kang Multiverse War.
Like, why even begin it in the first place?
Because the way that he who remains talked about their collective backstory,
like all the Kang variants, is that they were mostly scientists
trying to help each other, enhance each other's universes, each other's timelines.
The group of Kang's he talked about coming together was a teaser
for the counsel of Kang's in the way that he talked about, at least at first,
made it sound like it was actually a good thing.
Like for a time there was peace in the multiverse
and we all worked for the betterment of our realities.
But as he goes on, he says, eventually other Kang's came along
the only other realities to conquer, quote unquote.
And that's when he's talking about this Kang the Conqueror variant.
There've been a lot of rumors
about another variant of Kang being a version of the Beyond
and being even more powerful like the Beyond.
Her was in the comics
then Kang the Conqueror and being the true villain of Avengers Secret Wars.
That's part of the early theory that the New Avengers
will not be strong enough to stop Kang the Conqueror.
Like nobody can stop Kang except for another Kang.
And when we get to the end of Avengers five Qing Dynasty, The Avengers will lose,
but another Kang variant will come along.
Kill this Kang the Conqueror and then collapse the multiverse
into the one reality like the battle world reality for a comic
book version of Secret Wars, where Doctor Strange looks amongst
the surviving people from other realities to assemble a multiverse avengers.
And they use that as sort of like a big send off
for all the Fox Marvel actors, All the Fox Fantastic Four people,
the people who they're going to recast in new MCU movies.
Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield.
Spider-Man are supposed to come back for that too.
Like Secret Wars will be everyone else's movie, all these legacy actors.
And then when we go forward and Marvel Phase seven,
then they'll start recasting some of the X-Men characters.
I think that's why they're waiting,
particularly to recast a new version of Wolverine.
There's also some rumors that there's some contractual reasons why Kevin Feige
has to wait till like 20, 25, 2026 to recast some of those roles.
So we just made sense practically for him to bring a lot
of those actors back for one big sendoff movie.
And that's going to be Secret Wars.
I know there's still a bunch of questions about what's happening with Kang
and the other variants during Loki Season two,
because those episodes will also be coming later this year.
But the next big Marvel series is going to be Secret Invasion.
We'll probably see a teaser or a trailer for that at the Super Bowl in a couple
other big Marvel trailers in addition to other people's trailers.
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