Film Theory: Okay Marvel, It’s Time to PANIC! (Ant Man Quantumania)

The MCU right now feels like that one assignment you submit 5 minutes before the deadline. Every script feels like it was written in an afternoon.

You know a movie must have been rough when there's no "SPOILER!" warning at the beginning of a theory about an MCU movie

I think you’re absolutely right. In the trailer from like 4 months ago the voice over has Kang say “I can get you home, I can get you more time. What’s it gonna be…Antman”. It almost seems like they are implying Scott is the one who wants more time with his daughter . The time he lost during the blip and she grew up without him. But in actuality the ‘get you home, get you time’ is talking to Janet who wants to get back to Hope. I remember thinking initially when I watched the trailer Scott makes a deal with Kang not knowing who he is. After watching the movie I thought maybe I was tricked with the deceptive marvel editing. But maybe my initial thought was right. Who knows.

The perspective on Wanda wanting to "rip the life force out of a Latina teenager to resurrect a fake version of the American dream that only existed in her imagination" is actually a super poignant take.

I love this new arc of Matpat being incredibly skeptical and critical of the things he’s talking about, it’s refreshing to know he feels the same way as the rest of us.

Quantumania is a perfect example of why Marvel needs to stop pushing unrealistic deadlines for movies to be released. The problem isn't the writers, actors, or any of the people who worked on it, but it's the deadlines and that they are rushing to finish. They also need to stop being unfair to their VFX workers!

I'd have personally loved it if the Kang we got in Quantimania was exiled by the other Kangs not for wiping out timelines, but for wiping out timelines that produced evil Kang's. And because it's the multiverse, you could have it be where he's the only good Kang left, and he took over the quantum realm not to conquer it like every other Kang, but rather to give the citizens there some form of protection, even if they don't want it. That would be an amazing twist, and a way to set up the Kang dynasty. Have it be where, with the end of the movie, this Kang could send them back willingly, but doing so sends out a signal that alerts the other Kangs that he's still alive, and so they band together to wipe out that timeline to destroy any threats to their dominance

The MCU is now like a long running TV show like Survivor or The Simpsons which peaked a while ago but superfans are keeping it alive because it's a comfort blanket. The general public have moved on.

I stand behind the Kang plot twist theory 100%. Kang's "she'll be fine without you" line made no sense to me in theaters

If even MatPat starts to doubt Marvel, you know stuff is wrong.

Think you nailed this. The last several movies felt like they were rushed or missing something. They didn't have that same confidence and character development of what came before.

My cousin is a storyboard writer and a comic consultant assistant, and she was telling me that they are basically being like children taking a multiple question/multiple answer test and our second guessing her right answers with answers that are incorrect… Long story short they’re making drunk decisions basically With tons of insecurities of how they think the public will react to it

The premise that I got from the trailer was: Cassie is in jail because she is going down the same criminal path her father went. Scott doesn't want that especially since he wasn't in her life for 5 years. So while bonding with her over tech, they both get sucked into the Quantum Realm. At some point Kang approaches Scott, sympathizes with him and makes him an offer to give him the time he lost with his daughter in exchange for getting Kang out of the Quantum Realm. Janet and the family go in to save them and Janet warns Scott about Kang's true nature. But Scott has this inner conflict with himself because he still wants that time with his daughter back. Would he go as far as to trust Kang? Sounds like a much better story what we got.

I remember there was a pretty popular theory floating around when trailers dropped about Kang initially offering Scott the ability to go back in time, didn’t miss 5 years with his daughter. But then that plot ended up being Janet’s and no such offer was given to Scott which felt off to me. Like, you could have had a good parallel between Janet and Scott of both lost out on years with their daughters and Kang offering the same deal of giving those lost years back. I almost wonder if this was initially a plan, even more generational parallels

When watching this movie I had only realized we were approaching the climax of the story when we literally arrived there. This movie has some of the weirdest pacing I’ve ever seen

They really should just take him into the Marvel writer’s headquarters and have him piece everything together for them. At this point I’m positive MatPat could really make the franchise continue to thrive better than the actual team.

I feel bad for the original actor for older cassie, she didn't even know she was getting replaced until it was announced.

This should have been a kang solo movie. It's a fresh idea that we get to follow the villian perspective as he grows, and we could have seen kang go full ham on a different universe's avengers

I think a lot of these problems could be easily fixed if the release schedule was spaced out a little more. The infinity saga took 11 years (2008-2019) and now they plan to finish the multiverse saga in 5 years (2020-2025) - that's insane!

The whole point is everyone just wants to see some good characters and how they overcome their short-comings, we literally don't want characters representing groups of people to suddenly appear and be like oh I'm this perfect character -_-