Alright so the latest Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer dropped a couple days
ago, letting us know that size doesn’t always matter, It's more of how you use it… like
the suit.
How you use the suit.
But this is going to be a full on Theory Time….
Theory Time….Theory Time…. video, covering any of the crazy, outlandish small and big
theories we have for Ant-Man, the quantum realm, Kang, and is this all going to be a
rip-off of Spy Kids 3-D?
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With that out of the way, a huge thank you for clicking this, I’m your host Jared,
now let’s get into Quantumania.
Alright so things are going to get trippy and out there so buckle up, but the first
question is why does Kang need Ant-Man?
Obviously to steal something.
Boom done.
Next theory.
Nah it is to steal something, but I think Kang pulled some elaborate strings to get
him into the Quantum realm.
First I think Cassie was actually tricked into making the Quantum realm device shown
in the first trailer.
She talks to Scott and the other’s like they are unaware of it, trying to explain
the good it’ll do.
“People still need help, dad.
That's why we made this.
Like a satellite for deep space, but….
Quantum.”
So Kang and probably MODAK co-conspired this together, to get Scott into the quantum realm.
MODAK, wanting revenge, I’ll elaborate on him later because this is just a big headed
Darren Cross from what we’ve found out in this second trailer.
But Kang needs Ant-Man and his powers to essentially steal something.
Again the only reason he knows about him and his ability to go subatomic is because of
Darren Cross aka MODAK.
Anyway Kang wants to strike a deal with him.
Kang will send Scott back in time before he took on a life of crime, to be a better father,
and actually be there for Cassie.
Rather than setting the role model of a criminal, which Cassie appears to be following as well.
I’m pretty sure this cant happen, because then Scott will never become Ant-Man, help
the avengers discover time travel, he would never end up here, basically things get really
heavy if we go that path.
But Scott doesn’t know this, instead going along with Kang’s plan to jump into essentially
a nexus portal on a cellular level, which I’ll touch on later, to steal what is powering
it, so Kang can use this unlimited poooowwweeerrrr in his time machine.
Theoretically this battery-like artifact contains massive amounts of power needed, but also
the ability of the nexus to create any sort of reality or rather allow Kang to travel
to any sort of reality at any time.
Some have mentioned it could possibly be the MCU version of the Forever crystal, which
has similar characteristics.
We can even see the orb placed into Kang’s time machine from the first trailer, being
very similar to the glowing orb, with rings and strange writing similar to that of the
Ten Rings, that the pile of Ant-Men are trying to reach in the second trailer.
Kang’s device is even shaped like an hourglass, hence time travel baby!
So I mentioned it a little earlier, but this second trailer shows us way more of the multiple
Ant-Men from the first trailer, even showing Scott duplicating in real time.
Welp, this is because Scott has to dive into a nexus portal that is on a cellular level.
First of course, what the deuce is a Nexus portal?
Well kinda mentioned in WandaVision and Loki as Nexus events, and later expanded on in
Multiverse of Madness, this would be the equivalent to the Nexus of All Realities.
Essentially a cross-dimensional gateway, that would provide a pathway to any and all possible
realities, and would also include the element of time.
And with this being on a cellular level, this Nexus Ant-Man dives in to, is where timelines
are created, or in this case life is created.
This is why we see Ant-Man duplicate instantly, followed by thousands of himself trying to
obtain the Nexus artifact Kang is looking for.
Kang knows that Ant-man and his duplicates can work together, like ants building a tower
to reach something, sacrificing himself to save Cassie.
Now why doesn’t Kang just do this?
Pssshhhh why wait around for yeeeeaaaarrrrsss.
Welp two things, first Kang doesn’t 100% know if this is safe, therefore forcing Ant-Man
into being the lab ant.
And second, Kang can’t afford to have multiples of himself running around.
Knowing the way he works, and the backstabbing nature of his variants mentioned in the finale
of Loki, this would be the worst idea Kang could possibly do.
Now one of the biggest theories is that Kang is after the Ten Rings and Ms. Marvel’s
bangles because they are of the same tech that his time chair and chronopolis appear
to be utilizing.
That they are missing parts of his time chair that he needs.
Well that's not that case.
Instead, like I mentioned, the power artifact or maybe Forever crystal is the only thing
Kang needs to get him out of the quantum realm.
However, with “He Who Remains” mentioning the multiversal war that seems to happen again
and again, this would mean that things and even people, hint hint Fantastic Four, could
be displaced from time and reality.
So I’m saying the Ten Rings and Ms. Marvel’s bangles are objects from an upcoming multiversal
war that Kang is planning.
They were displaced, sent flying into essentially the MCU’s past, though they do not exist
until the future.
Are you following me here?
This is why they have insane amounts of power, they have similar structure and glyphs that
Kang is using in Chronopoulos, and also why Wong and Captain Marvel say they do not match
anything they’ve seen before.
It’s because they don’t quote “technically exist” yet.
That’s why no one has responded to the Ten Ring’s beacon either.
Potentially Kang is going to gather them to make himself more and more powerful, but with
that treading the same waters of collecting the infinity stones, I think the better answer
is that these weapons are going to be used to defeat Kang later.
This is going to put some of the Avengers on the same level as Kang in the upcoming
Kang Dynasty or Secret Wars.
There are even some Eternals-like writing and Glyphs used in the Quantum realm, so with
them being advanced, their tech and powers are going to tie in to all of this too.
So nope, Kang isn’t missing some hub caps to his clunky ole time machine.
Another big thing, pun intended, is our first look at MODAK with and without his helmet
on, and yeah it is Darren Cross aka Yellow Jacket from the first Ant-Man movie.
This all kinda sorta makes sense, because at the end of that film, Ant-Man messed with
his suit’s regulator, causing it to shrink in on itself, resulting in a huge head right
before disappearing.
Anyway his origins are completely different from the comics, but I’m saying he is going
to be Kang’s right hand man through most of Kang’s journey.
Kang doesn’t necessarily NEED him, because of his knowledge of timelines, but I think
this is going to be the first step in recruiting baddies to match up against Avengers in the
upcoming Secret Wars movie.
Kang will meticulously recruit all of these villains, for example Red Skull potentially
Killmonger, across time and space to aid him in the finale of the multiverse saga.
On top of that, this big quantum army Kang and MODAK have assembled is going to be the
real AIM.
AIM standing for “Advanced Idea Mechanics”.
This is something MODOK has a connection to via the comics, and is like an arms-dealing
science terrorist organization specializing in futuristic weaponry.
And nothing looks more futuristic than these dudes.
Now sure AIM was said to be the company Aldrich Killian founded in Iron Man 3, but with him
stealing the Mandarin persona, it’s not too far off that AIM was also a borrowed idea
on his part.
This now brings me to the most brutal scene from this latest trailer “You thought you
could win?”
So does Ant-Man die?
I’m really skeptical about death in the MCU because now with the introduction of variants
and multiple timelines does any of this matter?
It’s like that scene from Beerfest where Landfill’s brother shows up to his funeral,
and they just move on with the movie.
What I’m saying is it’s hard to get emotionally invested in this stuff now.
BUT yeeeaahhh, Ant-Man is NOT going to make it out of this one with his antennae intact.
Now believe me it’s not the scene we see in the trailer, that’s an entire red herring.
However Phase 5 needs to set the stage in a big way by doing two things.
First is showing how powerful, menacing, ruthless Kang is going to be in the next few phases
leading up the Secret Wars.
Like this is going to be the next Thanos level villain, so why not start with him squishing
Ant-Man…
Well like an ant?
And Second is this just proves none of our big heroes are safe from anything.
Even the upcoming Guardians volume 3, looks like there will be loss there as well.
So yeah Ant-man is done after this, essentially passing the mantle over to Cassie, to usher
in another member of the upcoming “rumored” young avengers that Kevin Fiege and Marvel
are cooking up.
Lastly the movie is going to no doubt tee up a tease of the Fantastic Four.
With Kang having a direct connection to Reed Richards, and the Quantum Realm being involved,
it only seems right to at least tease them.
My theory is the same Quantum Satellite Cassie created and used, only for Kang to locate
them, the Fantastic Four members will use as well.
Either contacting Cassie from the same Quantum Realm they were in, or one that is years in
the past theoretically.
I know time is all different, but it will be them coming from the past, knowing of Kang
already, urging them of his dangers.
It would be WILD if they revealed the cast this way, but it’s most likely just a wink
wink tease.
Anyway we are roughly a month away from the release of Kang laying the smack down on the
little ant that could, so let us know where your hype level is for this upcoming MCU movie,
and also drop any of your theories down before, we’d love to hear them.
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