AntMan 3 Still Has To Solve A Major Scott Lang Issue After Endgame

Ant-Man 3 Still Has To Solve A Major Scott Lang Issue After Endgame

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania won’t release until 2023, but the movie will need to address the fallout from Avengers: Endgame for Scott Lang.

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AntMan 3 Still Has To Solve A Major Scott Lang Issue After Endgame

In the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will have to solve a major Scott Lang issue that arises from the Snap. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) hasn’t been seen in the main MCU timeline since his return in Avengers: Endgame. Assuming that he doesn’t cameo in any other projects in the meantime, he won’t appear again until the third Ant-Man film in 2023 and the movie will still be dealing with Avengers: Endgame fallout.

The post-credits scene for Ant-Man and the Wasp showed Scott Lang entering the Quantum Realm only for Thanos’ Avengers: Infinity War Snap to leave him without a way to return. While the time he spends in the Quantum Realm only feels like 5 hours to him, the rest of the universe has experienced 5 years. When he returns, he finds that the world has moved on and accepted the loss of so many, including memorializing Scott as one of the missing. While the heroes are eventually able to bring back those who were taken by Thanos, Scott has missed 5 years of his daughter’s life on top of coming back to a changed world in the midst of catastrophe where everyone thinks he is dead.

Avengers: Endgame is focused on fixing the very concrete problem of Thanos and the Snap, which means that Scott Lang is kept busy throughout the movie and the concluding scenes are focused on the loss of Tony Stark. This means that Ant-Man never gets a chance to work through the trauma these events would have caused for him. The MCU will need to address this in his next outing and, while the character’s attitude makes heavier topics challenging to deal with, Marvel has already explored some similar issues in the MCU.

Ant-Man Shares His Trauma With Steve Rogers

AntMan 3 Still Has To Solve A Major Scott Lang Issue After Endgame

Scott Lang’s trauma stems from returning to find that the world has moved on without him, a story that has similar dynamics to that of Steve Rogers and, to a lesser extent, Bucky Barnes. When Captain America returned from the ice, he found himself in a world that was almost entirely foreign to him. The only constant point he was able to hang on to was the now significantly-aged Peggy Carter.

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Marvel allowed Steve to work through all of this across the majority of his MCU timeline. At different points he is seen to be working to catch up on the new world that he lives in, struggling with Peggy’s eventual death, and talking through his struggles with the other Avengers who make up his support network. Having apparently made peace with his trauma his story is closed out with an opportunity to return and live through the life that he missed at the end of Avengers: Endgame.

While Scott’s story is similar, it has enough differences that it can still be interesting for the MCU audiences to see it explored. While Steve lost the time with everyone he knew, Scott has lost a significant part of seeing his daughter grow up, compounded by already having missed several of her early years while in prison before the events of Ant-Man. It will be important to show that Scott still needs to work through these issues and, having already processed similar issues for Steve Rogers, to ignore the trauma here would be a snub for Scott Lang’s character development.

The MCU Worked Through Wanda Maximoff’s Trauma

AntMan 3 Still Has To Solve A Major Scott Lang Issue After Endgame

The issues caused for characters by the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame have been a focus of the MCU ever since the films were released. The very next movie, Spider-Man: Far From Home, saw Spider-Man working through the loss of Tony Stark. Disney+’s TV shows have provided additional space for this, with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier helping Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes to process the loss of their mutual friend Steve Rogers, and Loki seeing the God of Mischief working through learning of his death in the main MCU timeline.

Most notable of these shows is WandaVision, which directly allows Wanda Maximoff to work through her grief and trauma, caused by the loss of Vision. The first of the MCU TV shows took a surreal look at characters who had often been in the background for larger events, as the Disney+ shows give additional room for Marvel to delve more deeply into the characters and adopt the necessary tone and style for the particular characters that they’re working within a new medium. No Scott Lang-focused Disney+ show has been announced, however, meaning that Scott’s trauma will have to be addressed in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

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Scott Lang’s Coping Mechanisms Can’t Last Forever

Scott Lang has appeared in a Disney+ show, however, and that appearance highlighted the aspect of the character that will make it difficult for Marvel to properly address his issues without merely bringing them up for the sake of comedy. In What If…? episode 5, “What If…Zombies!?,” Scott Lang appears as a head in a jar who has been saved (more or less) by Vision. His response to every bad thing that happens, including his own situation and the death of his friend Kurt, is to make a quip. While the episode lampshades this element of the character, it has long been Scott Lang’s main coping mechanism to respond to difficult situations with humor and avoidance of the main issue, which helps to lend his movies a comedic air but will make it a struggle to properly process his trauma.

Additionally, unlike Steve Rogers, Scott Lang’s support system is less robust and able to help him work through heavier topics like this. While he has friends, characters like Luis are as likely to respond with humor as Scott himself is. Discussing the issue with his family would likely bring up a lot of baggage. Hank Pym might be able to provide wise words, but probably not kind ones. And while Janet Van Dyne might have a useful perspective for Scott, she will likely be busy dealing with her own version of that same trauma. To properly address the struggles that Scott Lang is facing after Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania may have to drastically depart from the tone of the first two Ant-Man movies and perhaps show Scott going through therapy.

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