Ant-Man
Superheroes already push the boundaries of what a movie hearing will suspend their mental rejection to see , but these common people take it up a notch .
rely not on charming or heighten strength or wide-eyed ropes and electrical energy , theAnt - Manfamily of heroes ( which let in , but is not limited to , Ant - Man , the Wasp , Giant Man , Goliath , and Yellowjacket ) alternatively use a combining of sizing - changing technology , bug telepathy , trajectory , and chargeman to get the job done .
The ability to shift their size is the one that get the most attention , as in the strip and films Hank Pym discovered what he termed " Pym Particles , " which allow fluctuations in size of it while maintaining higher-ranking specialty and strength . Pym ( as played by Michael Douglas ) may not be the marquee headliner in the Marvel Cinematic Universe– that would be Paul Rudd ’s Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly ’s Hope van Dyne– but he crafted a series of bizarre inventions that lead to all kinds of insane moments .
This list counts down the demented uses of Ant - Man ’s powers , whether on himself or on others . As any comic fan will tell you , there are plenty of these , since changing size instantly allow for all kinds of wild high jinx to occur . We ’re focusing mainly on Ant - Man ’s exponent here , though the Wasp , Giant Man , Goliath , and the Yellowjacket will all pour down up , too , since they technically all apply the same technical school .
Some spoilers forAnt - Man and the Waspwill follow , so if you have n’t visualize it yet , stay agency ! Everyone else , get your regulators quick .
Here are the20 Weirdest Uses Of Ant - Man ’s Powers .
Being a voice in Iron Man’s head
Captain America : Civil Warmay not have been the first place you ’d expect to see Scott Lang , felonious - bend - superhero , but he terminate up unite superhero - turned - condemnable Steve Rogers ' team anyway .
Ant - Man ’s great moment in the movie might have been a bit more obvious , but climbing inside Iron Man ’s suit was still one of the crazier things Scott has done .
opine about it this way : it ’s your first meter fulfil famous superhero Tony Stark .
If you want to make a good first impression , maybe do n’t climb inside his mechanized armor and recount him you ’re his conscience .
Scott merely gets ventilate out of the suit with coolant for this , but if Tony Stark had n’t been in a exonerative mood it could have been a band bad .
Entering the Cosmic Cube
One of the most infamous Marvel plot of ground twists in recent history arrive when Captain America was brainwashed into believe he was a member of HYDRA . This kick off a Brobdingnagian plotline as other Avengers came together to return him to his right-hand judgment . Two of those were Scott Lang and Bucky Barnes , who had to use the Cosmic Cube to fix Cap .
Better fuck nowadays as the Tesseract ( or the Space Stone , in the MCU ) , the Cosmic Cube had been used to brainwash Cap , and Scott Lang used his powers to shrink Bucky Barnes down and send him inside it .
Once there , the Winter Soldier brought back the real Cap , who defeated the evil Cap , terminate one of the most decried character arc in Marvel history . All in a day ’s work for Ant - Man .
Stalking and other crimes
Fans who have only find out the movies may not make love this , but there are more Ant - Mans than just Hank Pym and Scott Lang .
The third Ant - Man , Eric O’Grady , did n’t have such a grand nature .
O’Grady began his comics career by slip Ant - Man ’s suit and commit all variety of crimes , including theft and haunt women .
O’Grady kick the bucket on to embrace a less criminal lifestyle , even helping Avengers and acting the hero at times , but he never really outgrew his darker nature .
This was an attempt by writers to rick Ant - Man into a sort of lovable knave , but it was n’t successful . Few fan mourned when he was relegate off , thanks in large part to the creepy-crawly behavior he had exhibit so regularly .
Giant, drum-playing ants
Ant - Man has a couple of very dissimilar superpower that would n’t seem likely to be shared by the same superhero , but here we are .
Ant - Man can both exchange his size at will and direct the behavior of millions of ants at a prison term , and the latter was on exhibit in the films almost as much as the former .
Along with Scott Lang ’s serial publication of ant buddies ( Anthony , Ulysses S. Grant , etc . ) , there have also been numerous nameless giant emmet that have helped him out over the course of his narration .
However , it was n’t untilAnt - Manand the Waspthat we found out they could be musically talented . An ant blame with replicating Scott ’s behavioral patterns play the metal drum just like him - and credibly better , given that he has more tree branch .
A fist of ants
ensure ants with so much preciseness intend that Ant - Man essentially has the ability to 3D print any target he desires , at any scale he desires , as long as he ’s o.k. with it being made of emmet . Since he ’s a superhero , that means that he ’s used this index once or twice to make a expectant ol' clenched fist and punch a villain with it .
This happened to the unfortunate villain Taskmaster , who seemed quick to deliver a final blow to Scott Lang before getting walloped with about a billion bugs .
Honestly , you ’d think villains would be too frightened to drag with Lang after this . Who would want to come out of a fight and keep find pismire in their clothes ?
Toddler Scott
One of the best shot inAnt - Man and the Waspalso happened to be one of the strangest . Scott Lang ’s regulator was on the fritz in his new Ant - Man suit , and it ended up go out of control while on a mission in Scott ’s daughter ’s school . The result was a tiny , youngster - sized adaptation of Scott Lang that had to run away as tight as his little peg could carry him when a teacher see him .
While a petite reading of Paul Rudd you could run around in a backpack was certainly entertaining , the squad presently obtain him all fixed up and back to normal - though not before Hope and Hank get some digs in . It was funny enough to keep us from fixating on the uncannily small-scale body with Paul Rudd ’s brass on it .
Curing the Hulk of ALS
Ant - Man has had numerous dealings with the Hulk , whether as Scott Lang , Hank Pym , or Eric O’Grady . Not only that , Ant - Man has also been inside Hulk ’s torso more than once . O’Grady try it to slow down Hulk ’s rampage and it did n’t terminate well , but the craziest one has to be what Scott Lang did .
One of Hulk ’s plotlines a pair decades back was that he was suffer from Lou Gehrig ’s Disease , which was slowly destroying him .
To heal him , Reed Richards and Ant - Man team up up . The cure , however , was bizarre : Scott had to dig up the body of Bruce Banner ’s deceased father , harvest healthy genes from there , and then shrink down to implant those genes into the Hulk . Just , you know , ordinary hero stuff .
Breaking Cassie’s model train (Ant-Man)
One of the corking metier of theAnt - Manfilm enfranchisement is its power to generate conflict that feels vast but is in reality come about on a small scale .
Perhaps the skillful exemplar of this came in the first film . Ant - Man and Yellowjacket have a climactic duel while on top of a moving train - a Thomas the Tank Engine string set , in fact , owned by Scott ’s girl Cassie .
It made for a peachy here and now of risible ministration when Yellowjacket looked panicky to see a train moving toward him , only to remember that he still had the lastingness of his normal size , and it was a plaything . Poor Cassie probably had to clean up the mess the superguys left behind .
Entering the Quantum Realm
It may make absolutely no sense scientifically , but the Quantum Realm is one of the most important portion of theAnt - Manfilm enfranchisement .
A kind of adaptation of the Microverse from the comics , the Quantum Realm is a place beyond time and space that can only be get at by someone shrink small than an atom– and there ’s a good chance you ’ll be trapped there .
Needless to say , you ’d have to be heroic or screwball to risk of exposure go there .
Yet that ’s exactly what Ant - Man and the Wasp ( Scott Lang , Hank Pym , and Janet van Dyne ) do in the first two moving-picture show . Scott give out sub - nuclear to block up Darren Cross in the first , Janet does it to get inside a projectile in a flashback , and Hank pop off into the Quantum Realm to save her in the second .
Shrinking inside a neutrino
A stack of demented hooey move down when Hank Pym merged with his own creation , Ultron ( -in the comics , it was Ant - Man , not Tony Stark , who made Ultron ) . With Pym ’s size - switch ability and Ultron ’s , well , immense arsenal of abilities , they formed a villain that was unmanageable for even the Avengers to stop .
thing go sideways for the antagonistic merger when they prove to tangle with Vision , who wound up defeating them and fusing them into a ship bound straight for the sunshine . How did they survive this ?
To avoid getting burnt to a crisp , Hank Pym used his magnate to shrink them down inside a neutrino ( a sub - nuclear subatomic particle ) , which shelter them from the rut and radiation . This give them plenty of metre to speculate their existence , natch .
