Let’s Talk About the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania End Credit Scenes

When it was introduced that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania wouldn’t solely star Kang the Conquerer however kick off Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you needed to imagine not solely would it not have finish credit score scenes, however that these scenes can be bangers. And the movie doesn’t disappoint.

Quantumania is now in theaters and, as you’ve in all probability heard, it’s received Marvel’s conventional two finish credit score scenes—one in the center and one at the very finish. But what units Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania aside is that its finish credit score scenes are in all probability the most important in a really, very very long time. So let’s discuss them. Obviously, main spoilers to comply with.

To totally admire the first finish credit scene, you need to return to the film itself. In the movie, Kang says a number of instances that he’s been exiled to the Quantum Realm. It’s a spot indifferent from all area and time, so as a result of he can see and journey by means of all of time, it’s the solely place that may maintain him. That opens up just a few questions. Who despatched him there? Why? The “why” is answered in the movie. Kang skipped to the finish of time and noticed how all the pieces ends. He doesn’t go into specifics however he says it ends with “a lot of me.” This Kang, apparently, didn’t like that. He’s a singular drive and needs to be the strongest Kang so, with the information of what the future holds, he started touring the multiverse, destroying Empires, Avengers, and timelines by way of incursions. Exactly what he hoped to attain besides simply inflicting chaos is unclear however we all know what occurred subsequent. It pissed off the different Kangs who’ve a bigger plan he was making an attempt to mess up.

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That information is essential to the first finish credit scene. That’s after we see three completely different Kang variants assembly up: Rama-Tut, Centurion, and Immortus—all references to alternate variations of Nathaniel Richards, the man who grew to become Kang, in the comics. They’re assembly to debate the reality Kang the Conquerer, who they banished to the Quantum Realm, is useless. This is a large deal. Kangs don’t die simply, particularly not ones these very highly effective Kangs wished gone. However, the larger deal is the one who killed him. A human being. An Avenger. And with the information that humanity and the Avengers are starting to find out about and use to journey the multiverse these Kangs imagine they management, they are saying they should velocity up their timeline. Again, we don’t know for what precisely however we all know that the trio calls each Kang that exists throughout the multiverse for a gathering. These are the “a lot of me’s” that Kang the Conquerer referred to earlier, and from the comics, it’s known as the Council of Kangs—beings who’re coming to take over the remainder of the universe to begin, we predict, a “Kang Dynasty.” It’s our first and finest look but at the menace the MCU is going through in the Multiverse Saga.

What’s so cool about this scene, apart from seeing Jonathan Majors as so many various Kangs, is that it solutions one among the movie’s greatest questions (who banished Kang) and provides some extra context to Scott Lang’s confused mindset at the finish of the film. He’s undecided that beating Kang actually solved all the issues and he’s proper. Something unhealthy is occurring and right here we get a style of it. It’s a sensible tease along with being a superb punctuation to finish the film.

Scene two is extra simple but additionally associated to all of this. At an undisclosed time and place, a person named Victor Timely is performing in entrance of an viewers. Timely is, appropriately, speaking about time. He says it’s based mostly on lies and believes he can form it. In the viewers watching that is none apart from Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who’s with Mobius (Owen Wilson). Loki tells Mobius that Timely is “him,” referencing a being he met as one other Kang variant, He Who Remains. Mobius doesn’t assume Timely is as scary as Loki has described however, the truth is, Loki—and we—know he’s.

This scene is from season two of Loki, although it’s unclear when in the season that is (in all probability the center since Mobius and Loki appear to be buddy-buddy once more, regardless of Mobius not understanding him at the finish of final season). The larger query although is that in the comics, Timely was a secret disguise of Kang Prime, the mayor of a self-established and self-named city in 1901 who used the persona to reside on Earth and develop into a titan of trade. Is this Timely like that? A time traveler from throughout the galaxy? Or simply one other variant? Hopefully, we discover out later this yr on Loki.

Check again quickly for extra spoiler discussions of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It’s in theaters now.

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