58 Fun Facts About Ant-Man Movies

In Ant-Man, which ice cream chain fires Scott Lang once it learns about his prison record?

Baskin-Robbins: his manager sacks him with the words "Baskin-Robbins always finds out". With no honest work open to an ex-convict, Scott agrees to one more burglary, the job that leads him to the suit.

Who plays Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man?

Michael Douglas had just surprised audiences as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra and saw a superhero film the same way: sometimes, he said, "you've got to shake them up a little bit and have some fun."

In Ant-Man, which kind of ant does Scott Lang ride through the air on his missions?

Carpenter ant: Hank Pym calls the species ideal for ground and air transport, and Scott gives his favourite mount a pet name. Crazy ants, which conduct electricity, get the job of frying the servers.

Why was Scott Lang in prison before the events of the first Ant-Man film?

He stole from his crooked employer: Scott blew the whistle on VistaCorp for overcharging its customers and was fired, so he hacked in, sent the millions back and posted the bank records online.

In the first Ant-Man film, what is the shrinking suit built by Hank Pym's former protégé called?

Yellowjacket is Pym's own shrinking technology turned into a weapon. Its maker means to sell the armed suits by the army, to the horror of the man who had kept the original hidden for decades.

During a burglary early in Ant-Man, where does Scott Lang find the shrinking suit?

In a safe in Hank Pym's house: Scott cracks it expecting cash and finds only what looks like an old motorcycle suit. Pym had fed the tip to an unwitting Luis in order to test him.

Who plays Luis, Scott Lang's former cellmate and storyteller-in-chief, in Ant-Man?

Michael Peña based Luis's cadence and sunny outlook on a friend of a friend, a man who would answer "What did you do this weekend?" with "I went to jail, dawg" and a grin.

In Ant-Man, Janet van Dyne vanished into the Quantum Realm in 1987 while stopping what?

A hijacked Soviet missile: separatists had seized a silo and fired it at the United States. Hank's regulator was too damaged to get him inside, so Janet went in his place and never came back.

In Ant-Man, which Avenger does Scott Lang fight when he breaks into the Avengers' headquarters?

Falcon was a late addition: co-writer Adam McKay wanted the heist-film beat of one last thing to steal, and having just seen The Winter Soldier, the writers picked its winged hero to guard it.

In the first Ant-Man film, which organisation sends agents to buy the weaponised shrinking suit?

Hydra: its agents are brought to the sale by Mitchell Carson, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. man, and although Scott and Hope break up the deal, one of the buyers escapes with a vial of the shrinking formula.

How does Scott Lang finally defeat the villain of the first Ant-Man film?

Goes subatomic to wreck his armour: Scott overrides his regulator, the one thing Hank Pym had told him never to do, and nearly shrinks for all eternity before clawing his way back.

Ant-Man's post-credits scene was lifted from footage shot for which later Marvel film?

Captain America: Civil War: Kevin Feige confirmed the scene was material shot for that film and said it would reappear there, perhaps in different takes, much as a scene filmed for Thor once closed Iron Man 2.

In the first Ant-Man film, what name does Scott Lang give the winged ant he rides into action?

Ant-thony carries Scott through training and the heist until a bullet from the villain brings him down. Asked whether the ant might have survived, director Peyton Reed replied: "I'm here to report that Antony is dead."

Which comedian, who played the hero in a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch, cameos as a cab driver in Ant-Man?

Garrett Morris's Ant-Man gets no respect in that sketch: at a superheroes' party, two fellow heroes crack up when he explains that he shrinks to the size of an ant and keeps the strength of a human.

In Ant-Man, which actor plays Paxton, the police officer engaged to Scott Lang's ex-wife?

Bobby Cannavale signed on after Paul Rudd and Adam McKay, who had "pumped the part up" in their rewrite, both rang him before Marvel did. Patrick Wilson, first cast as Paxton, had left when the shoot was delayed.

Ant-Man was the final film of which MCU era?

Phase Two ends with Ant-Man, not Age of Ultron: Kevin Feige called it "a different kind of culmination", another story of Avengers coming from unexpected places, in Scott Lang's case prison.

Ant-Man had the smallest US opening weekend of any Marvel Studios film since which earlier release?

The Incredible Hulk opened to $55.4 million in 2008, and Ant-Man's $57.2 million seven years later was the studio's weakest start since. It still went on to gross $519 million worldwide.

Ant-Man composer Christophe Beck first worked with director Peyton Reed on which earlier film of Reed's?

Bring It On, the 2000 cheerleading comedy, was Beck's first hit film credit. The Ant-Man job reached him only after Edgar Wright quit and Wright's chosen composer, Steven Price, followed him out.

Why is Scott Lang under house arrest at the start of Ant-Man and the Wasp?

He broke the Sokovia Accords by going to Germany to fight alongside renegade Avengers. His plea deal: two years of house arrest, three of probation and no contact with anyone else who had broken them.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, what do Hope and Hank leave wearing Scott's ankle monitor as a decoy?

A giant ant, programmed to copy Scott's daily routine, which is put at nine hours in bed and five in front of the TV. It keeps FBI agent Jimmy Woo from suspecting that his prisoner has left the house.

Who plays Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Michelle Pfeiffer was Peyton Reed's dream Janet long before she signed: for the masked flashback in the first film he cast a double with what he called "saucer-like, Michelle Pfeiffer eyes".

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ava Starr, the masked woman after Hank Pym's technology, goes by which alias?

Ghost was rewritten from the comics' male hacker into Ava Starr, so her story could echo the series' theme of fathers and daughters. Hannah John-Kamen arrived with a letter of recommendation from Steven Spielberg.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, what caused Ava Starr's molecular instability?

An experiment that killed her parents: her father, a former colleague whom Hank Pym had got fired, pressed on with his quantum research alone and took too many risks. Ava survived it, in constant pain.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, who plays Bill Foster, Hank Pym's estranged former partner?

Laurence Fishburne, already Perry White in DC's Superman films, went to Marvel himself and pitched a few ideas before it offered him Foster. He had been a Marvel reader since his New York childhood.

Who plays black-market dealer Sonny Burch in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Walton Goggins plays Burch, who insists his interrogation drug is no truth serum and then ends the film under arrest, confessing everything to the police after a dose of it.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, how does the lost Janet van Dyne send Hank her location?

Through Scott's body: his earlier trip to the Quantum Realm left the two entangled, so Janet uses him as an antenna and Paul Rudd plays her for a scene. Peyton Reed's model was the body-sharing comedy All of Me.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, what is the name of the business Scott Lang runs with Luis, Dave and Kurt?

X-Con Security, the ex-convicts' new venture, is closer to collapse than Luis lets on: dosed with Burch's drug, he blurts out that the firm is broke and that winning one client is its last hope.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp's mid-credits scene, what happens to Hank, Hope and Janet?

They turn to dust, three more victims of the snap that ends Avengers: Infinity War, at the moment Scott is collecting particles in the Quantum Realm. It leaves him stranded there with nobody to pull him out.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, which skill does Scott Lang teach himself online while under house arrest?

Close-up magic, learned from an online course, becomes a running gag: FBI agent Jimmy Woo is so taken with one card trick that he has to ask how it is done, and the home release adds a spoof advert for the course.

What happens to Stan Lee's character during his cameo in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

His car is shrunk by accident in the middle of the chase, and Stan Lee, co-creator of both title heroes, gets the punchline: "Well, the '60s were fun, but now I'm paying for it."

Who plays Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

Jonathan Majors got the part without an audition, and because he would first appear in Loki as He Who Remains, that show's director helped to choose him.

Who plays Scott Lang's grown-up daughter in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

Kathryn Newton, who had auditioned to play Hawkeye's Kate Bishop, replaced Emma Fuhrmann, the teenager of Avengers: Endgame. Fuhrmann wrote that she was as sad as her fans to hear the news.

What is the title of Scott Lang's memoir in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

Look Out for the Little Guy gives Scott's own version of how he helped to beat Thanos. After the film, Marvel published the memoir for real, as a book of more than 20 short pieces told in his voice.

In Quantumania, whose device accidentally pulls the whole family into the Quantum Realm?

Cassie's: she built it as a kind of satellite, so the realm could be mapped without anyone ever having to go. Janet, who knows what is down there, shuts it off in a panic, but its signal has already been received.

In Quantumania, which returning Ant-Man villain is revealed to have become M.O.D.O.K.?

Darren Cross did not die in the first film: he was found by Kang and rebuilt as an oversized floating head, a "mechanized organism designed only for killing".

In Quantumania, who plays Lord Krylar, Janet's old ally in the Quantum Realm?

Bill Murray plays Krylar, a comrade from Janet's freedom-fighter days whom she trusts to help. He has since become a lord in Kang's service, and the family has to steal his ship to get away from him.

In Quantumania, what had Janet done to Kang's power core to keep him trapped?

Enlarged it beyond use: Janet had helped Kang to repair the core until a vision showed her the timelines he meant to destroy, so she turned her Pym Particles on it and stranded them both.

In Quantumania, what inside Kang's power core splits Scott Lang into countless copies of himself?

A probability storm makes every choice Scott could make exist at once, each as another Scott. As he is told amid the chaos, he is inside Schrödinger's box, and he is the cat.

Which character does David Dastmalchian play in Quantumania, after Kurt in the first two films?

Veb, a slime creature, makes first contact possible: drink his ooze and you understand everyone in the Quantum Realm. His real obsession is holes, of which he has none and Scott, he learns, has seven.

Quantumania was the first film of which MCU era?

Phase Five opens with Quantumania, which Kevin Feige called "a direct line" into the phase and into a planned Avengers film about Kang. It reached that slot after swapping release dates with The Marvels.

In Quantumania, what does Kang ask when Scott Lang warns him that he is an Avenger?

"Have I killed you before?" Kang means it as an honest question: he has killed Avengers across the timelines so often that he admits he can no longer tell one from another.

Quantumania used StageCraft, the virtual-set technology Peyton Reed had worked with while directing which Star Wars series?

The Mandalorian: Reed had directed episodes of it this way. For some scenes of his own film he surrounded the cast with LED screens showing the Quantum Realm, so they could see and react to their surroundings.

In Quantumania's opening, a coffee shop attendant gives Scott Lang free coffee and thanks him by which other hero's name?

Spider-Man: the attendant waves Scott's money away, sure he is serving the web-slinger. By the closing scene he has worked out that Scott is the other "bug man", and the coffee costs twelve dollars.

A Quantumania cameo goes to musician Mark Oliver Everett, whose physicist father proposed which theory?

Many-worlds theory, the physics behind every parallel-universe story, was proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1957. His son, the Eels frontman known as E, is the jogger who asks Scott to pose with his dog.

Which radio host claims to have tried to buy the Ant-Man film rights from Marvel around 2000?

Howard Stern told Paul Rudd on air in 2015 that he had been a huge Ant-Man fan and had met Marvel's people to try to buy the rights, years before the studio began making films of its own.

Which Disney comedy is blamed for sinking the Ant-Man film that Stan Lee pitched in the late 1980s?

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Disney's 1989 shrinking comedy, got in the way of the Ant-Man film Lee had pitched to Marvel's then owner. Disney went on to buy Marvel and release Ant-Man itself.

Which crime writer's style did Edgar Wright have in mind when he wrote his first Ant-Man treatment?

Elmore Leonard was the model, Wright said, with Scott as the crook in a crime caper, but the rights holder at the time, Artisan, wanted "a family thing". He doubted the treatment was ever sent on to Marvel.

Marvel let Edgar Wright delay Ant-Man so that he could first make which of his own films?

The World's End came first because its producer, Eric Fellner, had been diagnosed with cancer and Wright wanted to make it for him.

Who plays Hope van Dyne, Hank Pym's daughter, in the Ant-Man films?

Evangeline Lilly has to wait: Hope spends the first film asking for the suit and being refused. In its mid-credits scene her father finally unveils a Wasp suit for her, and she gets the last word: "It's about damn time."

Which children's character, in toy form, is caught in the middle of the first Ant-Man film's final fight?

Thomas the Tank Engine needed his owners' blessing: Peyton Reed had to pitch them the scene, and they agreed on condition that nobody was tied to the tracks and that Thomas stayed neutral in the battle.

Ant-Man opens in 1989 with a young Hank Pym quitting S.H.I.E.L.D. in front of which Avenger's father?

Tony Stark's father Howard is among the S.H.I.E.L.D. chiefs who tried to copy Pym's formula. It is why Hank, decades on, will not call the Avengers: he has spent half his life keeping his work out of the hands of a Stark.

In Ant-Man, when the villain vows to disintegrate Scott, a phone's voice assistant starts playing which band?

The Cure: the phone hears the threat as a request for the album Disintegration, so the band's Plainsong swells up in the middle of a fight that is going on inside a briefcase.

In which city do Scott Lang and his family live throughout the Ant-Man films?

San Francisco gives the sequel its best set piece: a car chase that Peyton Reed modelled on the city's screen classics, Bullitt and What's Up, Doc? among them, with a run down Lombard Street.

Which returning Iron Man character fronted Ant-Man's viral 'WHIH Newsfront' campaign?

Christine Everhart, the reporter from the Iron Man films, anchors the spoof bulletins, and in the last of them she interviews Scott Lang by video link from San Quentin prison shortly before his release.

Which Hitchcock film did The New Yorker's Richard Brody compare Ant-Man to?

To Catch a Thief was Richard Brody's touchstone: he called Ant-Man a neoclassical comedy and "the non-bombastic superhero movie", closer to Hitchcock's caper and to skimpy B-movies than to its Marvel siblings.

Who plays FBI agent Jimmy Woo, Scott Lang's parole officer, in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Randall Park made the earnest agent a keeper: in the later series WandaVision it is Woo who first notices that something is wrong in the town of Westview and calls in the agency S.W.O.R.D.

Quantumania's screenwriter Jeff Loveness wrote for which animated series before Marvel hired him?

Rick and Morty had made him a writer and co-producer before Marvel hired him in 2020; he had started out on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The studio handed him its planned Avengers film about Kang before Quantumania was even out.

In Quantumania, who is revealed to have exiled Kang to the Quantum Realm in the first place?

His own variants banished him out of fear, and he swears to burn them out of time for it. In the mid-credits scene they call him "the exiled one" and gather in great numbers now that someone has managed to kill him.