Ant-Man’s third outing is right here to kick off Section 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a microscopic bang. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania isn’t simply the newest within the adventures of Scott Lang, it’s additionally the primary movie within the MCU with Kang as the primary antagonist. And since he’s already set as much as be the massive dangerous of the following two Avengers motion pictures, it’s clear that Quantumania has massive plans for the Conqueror.
After all, like with most MCU motion pictures, a number of the greatest reveals in regards to the future come from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s two credit scenes. The primary scene takes place in the midst of the credit, and for the final one, you’ll have to attend till the very finish.
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.]
What occurs in Quantumania’s mid-credits scene?
Quantumania’s mid-credits scene is the extra essential of the 2, at the least so far as the MCU’s future goes. We minimize to a world that appears to be floating via house. Three variations of Kang — every styled radically in another way, with totally different know-how and costumes, although they’re all performed by Jonathan Majors — focus on the truth that “the exiled one,” Kang the Conqueror, this film’s antagonist, is lifeless. The Kangs then clarify how our world is simply beginning to uncover the multiverse, and so it’s time to debate the matter with all Kangs all over the place. Lower to an unlimited enviornment, the place hundreds of different visually numerous Kangs start to look from totally different timelines, realities, and universes.
As for what this would possibly imply, it definitely looks like Marvel is making an attempt to arrange one thing just like the Council of Kangs within the MCU. The three Kangs we see aren’t particularly recognized throughout the brief mid-credits scene, however they appear to be references to a few of Kang’s most well-known comedian e-book incarnations.
Who’re the variations of Kang on the finish of Quantumania?
Within the comics, all these characters are literally the identical particular person, not parallel variations of one another. Because of Kang’s lengthy lifetime of time-travel shenanigans, many levels of his private improvement have aided, bedeviled, or just interacted with Marvel’s superheroes. The one with streaks of neon mild down his pores and skin is probably going the MCU’s interpretation of Iron Lad, the superhero identification Kang took on when he was a teen within the far future.
The Kang in Egyptian-type gown is a transparent reference to Pharaoh Rama-Tut, the guise Kang glided by when he was in his “I wanna return in time and rule all of Egypt” section. And the man with the tall hat and the spectacular beard is undoubtedly Immortus, Kang in his oldest section of life, who’s been round so lengthy he’s type of over that conquering factor, and would reasonably restore timelines than fiddle in them the best way he did in his youth. The MCU’s model appears decidedly extra malevolent, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not precisely clear what these Kangs really need or are planning, solely that it has one thing to do with “incursions,” an ominous multiversal pure catastrophe final seen in Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.
What occurs in Quantumania’s post-credits scene?
Quantumania’s post-credits scene is simply as Kang-centric, although it additionally units up a clearer imaginative and prescient for the rapid way forward for the franchise: It’s a really brief teaser trailer for Loki season 2. The temporary clip reveals Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) watching a Victorian science presentation delivered by a stuffy, gentlemanly determine named Victor Well timed (additionally performed by Jonathan Majors). And guess what! Victor Well timed is yet one more time-travel identification of Kang.
Within the scene, Victor is explaining how time shapes everybody’s lives, nevertheless it may be attainable to form it in return. From the viewers, Loki — additionally costumed for the period — whispers to Mobius, “It’s him!” Mobius appears to be like doubtful: “You made him sound like this terrifying determine!” “He’s,” Loki says ominously, earlier than the minimize to black. Provided that Loki and his gender-swapped alternate-timeline self Sylvie confronted off towards yet one more model of Kang in season 1 of Loki — this one known as “He Who Stays,” a personality who roughly defined how his demise would set off a multiverse-wide explosion of Kangs — it’s no marvel Loki acknowledges this new iteration, and the risk he poses. We’ll discover out what half Victor has to play within the multiverse when season 2 of Loki drops this summer season.
