Ant-Man and the Wasp
Despite being portrayed as level-headed in the original film , Ant - Man & The Waspsees Scott Lang fall back quite a few I.Q. points . This past weekend saw Marvel Studios free its 20th film , Ant - Man & The Wasp , carbon monoxide gas - starring Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly as the titulary heroic brace . A sequel to 2015’sAnt - Man , the film marks the third appearance of the size - shifting champion within the MCU , after Scott opted to help Captain America ’s side duringCaptain America : Civil War . Of naturally , he ’s paying for that mistake whenAnt - Man & The Waspstarts .
Since Scott chose to side with a man now look at an international fleer - and he already had a anterior felonious record - he ’s been sentenced to a long term of house arrest , and were he to be caught attempt to circumvent that deal , Scott would face a 20 - year prison house stint . He ’s also become estranged from former ally Hank Pym and Hope Van Dyne , as his reckless exercise of their technology turned them into fugitives as well . Naturally , this is a time when Scott could have benefited from the intelligence he displayed in the first film . Sadly , he seems to have left his brain behind in theQuantum Realm .
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While MCU heroes all often show a knack for comedy and deadpan snarkiness , Scott Lang seems to have drop since the originalAnt - Manfilm . He ’s the bottom of the gag more often than not inAnt - Man & The Wasp , struggle to grasp the concepts thrown at him by Hank and Hope , and seems to be nearly incompetent of coming up with a right plan to accomplish his / their goal . Scott may not be a " science bro " the caliber of Tony Stark or Bruce Banner , but there ’s no reason he should be depict as this inept .
While it ’s hard to get a grip on how voguish Scott was inCivil War- he ’s only in the flick a brief time , and clearly only accepts Cap ’s invite to the team due to being a starstruck buff - in the originalAnt - Manfilm , Scott is by no means presented as a cretin . A comedic pattern sure , but as mentioned above , all Marvel ’s zep indulge in comedy from time to time . As revealed by his backstory , Scott not only holds a master ’s degree in electrical engineering , he also cater his trade as a systems engineer for VistaCorp , before discovering they were con guest . His response to this was to hack their systems and return the stolen money , which of grade take to his prison stop . These are not the actions of a moron , these are the actions of someone both educated and capable , if burdened by the desire to do trade good even when it might not be the smart move to make .
Additionally , Scott Lang as portrayed inAnt - Manis a " master stealer , " which - combine with his kindness - is the primary intellect given by Hank Pym for recruiting Scott to put on the Ant - Man suit , and stop the dastardlyDarren Cross ( a.k.a . Yellowjacket)from harnessing Pym ’s engineering for evil purposes . In the canonAnt - Manprequel comic " Small Time , " Scott is also said to have successfully gotten away with multiple burglaries prior to his time at VistaCorp , often steal from criminals and returning their badly - gotten amplification to those they had originally stolen from .
Yet , inAnt - Man & The Wasp , Scott often come up off like a bumbling idiot , while Hope is portrayed as the savvy " adult " of the duo , and in most cases the sassy and more capable paladin . One wonders if Scott ’s decline in intelligence was done simply to make Hope wait all the right as audiences witness her official ascension to The Wasp drape . If that ’s the case though , it was an unnecessary move , as Hope was already shown to be very subject in the first film , and it ’s did n’t require Scott to bug out incessantly fall away on story banana tree Robert Peel . Hopefully something closer to the original Scott Lang characterisation appears in next year’sAvengers 4,provided he cansomehow give from the Quantum Realm again .
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