@@AllenHanPRwell yeah cuz Tony doesn't have shrinking tech like that and I'm sure if he could make it he wouldn't have thought about doing it so it makes sense as to why Scott was the one to explain it but Tony did half of the process
To me, Ant-Man has always been the most objectively relatable hero in the MCU. He never has amazing powers, training, or lineage. Simply put, he really is the archetypal “everyman” you see in so many stories. The fact that he played such a crucial role in undoing what was essentially a mini apocalypse shows how underestimated people like that can be.
@@spud4785 He has a Master’s in engineering, yes, but I’m talking in terms of actual superhuman abilities or specialized training to be a fighter or other hero-adjacent type of figure. Yes, he’s clearly smart, and yes, Hope trained him in combat, but these are still fairly generic abilities that, in theory, many people could do/learn.
The throwaway line about studying Quantum Physics just make conversation is so brilliant, because it's not a joke. Being around Rocket/Iron Man/Bruce etc, learning about QP would be a realistic way for her to make conversation.
Exactly! Black Widow doesn't know enough to build anything herself, but probably knows just enough not to be completely lost when Rocket, Iron Man, or Hulk talks about the science stuff. Kind of like Scott did to at least begin to keep up with Hank.
Don't forget that she was a spy by profession and had to impersonate a whole host of different characters on her missions. It makes sense that she would know about a wide range of topics, not in depth but enough to not blow her cover.
She probably originally studied QP to make conversation with important scientists that she’s trying to seduce for her agency and country, whether that is America or Russia.
IIRC it's a callback to the first avengers movie with the scene where Stark first appears on their flying fortress. Maria Hill asks Stark when he became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics and he says he read the packet with Selvig's notes and asks if anyone else did the reading, which I have to assume Natasha did because she was employed by SHIELD.
The bizarre thing is that Rocket doesn't even know what a raccoon is. When he was one, he didn't know what the word meant, and after he was modified to be what he is now, no one told him the name of what he used to be. He doesn't find out until he's back on the High Evolutionary's ship in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and sees the plaque on the cage where he used to be kept, which says "Procyon Lotor. North American Raccoon." Which then ties back into the "Guardians' Inferno" music video, where interstellar pop star Zardu Hasselfrau (who bears an uncanny resemblance to David Hasselhoff) sings the lines "Getting down and dirty with a Procyon Lotor: got no people skills, but he's good with motors. That weird thing by his side's an infantilized sequoiya; see them walking by, people say, "Oh, boy-a". They ask me why I'm bringing a baby into battle, that's really irresponsible, and getting them rattled. I say, "Give me a break, get offa my back, damnit! I didn't learn parenting: my Daddy was a planet!"" Zardu Hasselfrau, strange visitor from another planet, with musical abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Able to change the course of mighty nations and break the Berlin Wall with his bare . . . hands. Disguised as human singer David Hasselhoff, he fights a never-ending battle for Tunes, Justice, and the Watch of the Bay.
The crazy thing is I was laughing so hard I was farting in the movie theater like I was just ripping it up baby. Oh my God people were starting to give me looks because I was tearing it up in that movie theater. You know what I'm saying you know when you put that extra butter on that popcorn and you're just like oh this is real good and then you just start blowing it out man. I was blowing it out in there baby it was real gassy if you know what I'm saying real gassy but it felt good. It felt good baby slurping down an excellent lemonade. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to bless. I'm going to bust right now.
“Scott, I get emails from a raccoon, so…” The thing is, it get more weird from there. Reality-warping witches, green-furred minotaurs, Arishem showing up in Earth's orbit...
Bro, every single character except Hank was so rude to Scott. Ita like, why save everyone if they are just going round be ungrateful and rude to you later
@@NA1c158 Well, keep in mind that for them, everything was instant. So they didn't have time to change and grow. Hank was already swinging up on Scott for saving his wife.
@@NA1c158I know right? Why did Cassie have to be so mean to Scott, she acts like her father hasn’t been a big hero recently, when it’s thanks to him that the avengers knew how to save everyone
She was so broken, for five long years, she still dedicated herself to what was... to "ghosts" it was no surprise, she wanted to be the one to sacrifice herself.
@@BasketOfPuppies You're telling me that they could've just yeeted an old soft toy that they had kept since they were small to get the soul stone? or like their lunch that they're saving for tomorrow because it tastes too good? God dammit
@@tommydoez No, now hang on, no... Red Skull ALSO said explictly, "a soul for a soul". So it's gotta be a living being. Could it have been Thanos' dog? I don't know: do dogs have souls in the Marvel universe? And why is this the question I'm asking myself on a Sunday afternoon?
I have a headcanon that during the night where Ultron appeared, when they were drinking and seeing who can lift Thor's hammer. In my mind, Steve wasn't the only one that night that could lift it aside from Thor, Natasha would have been able to if she tried, or at least inch it. She didn't because she didn't want to know the answer to that. Also yes, headcanon. Not saying anyone should agree, just what I believe. She had done some bad things in the past but that's not how the spell on the hammer works. She is the type to do anything for others/her team, even sacrificing herself without much hesitation. She and Steve (Atleast in the MCU storyline, not talking about the comics) are very pure and dedicated good people trying to do what is right at all times. Even during Civil War she played on both teams because she was always trying to do what was right, initially joining Tony because she thought that was right but also helping out Steve on the airport when she thought that was the right move. I love her story arc and would have loved seeing more from her, she is fantastically written and deserves to be an avenger, even without powers. She's one of the best!
Scott was a genius. He basically came up with a whole plan to save/bring back EVERYONE. Ant-Man doesn't get enough credit as one of the greatest super heroes. Ant-Man 3 didn't do his character justice
I wouldn’t say genius. He had an idea, but certainly not a plan or a schematic for how to do what he imagined. Hank Pym, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are all geniuses in their own ways, but not Scott.
@@spencergsmith He's street smart genius. Same goes for Steve, a genius when it comes to combat, one of reasons he can't be beat. Scott is a genius in a sense because ideas have to come from some kind of knowledge and reality. In their entire lives, not even Hank Pym ever thought of what Scott did? You don't have know math, science and literature in order to be a genius. There's many levels and fields of intelligence. Idea is just as important as execution.
@@believeintheshield1896 Yeah scott is intelligent when it comes to robbing stuff and the time heist is more like a bank heist robbing jewels or stones.
@@believeintheshield1896he’s street smart, but genius level? Nah. Steve I agree with, he is a tactical genius, but while Scott is clever, I certainly would not put him at the level of “genius.”
I just love her trajectory across the series. She goes from slightly more than eye candy in Iron Man 2, to holding her own as an Avenger, to holding the team together at their lowest point, then goes out saving the universe.
I can't imagine the 'portals scene' with only 20 people in a theater all with stupid masks on. This film NEEDED to be seen in a packed theater. It was SO MAGICAL.
1:29 that look on nat's face , dude that's some seriously good acting, like a hope that people can come back, that something can be reversed. All this well understood in those few seconds of expression 🙌
When he showed up on that camera feed he wasn't just an Avenger that finally checked in again, he was the first person in history to have been recorded as being snapped and actually returned.
@@BradiKal61 Yes, but no-one knew that, as the people who did know were actually snapped. As there was no-one left to actually say where scott was, people just assumed that he *was* snapped. So he was recorded as being snapped, despite not being snapped since anyone who knew different was snapped.
Scott wasn't snapped away. I like the idea that, instead of surviving because he wasn't "chosen" by the Snap, he entered a Time Vortex and *left the present moment,* allowing him to avoid the effects of the Snap entirely
Well, he spent five condensed years in the Quantum Realm, had a heartbreaking reunion with his daughter and got a ride from someone (San Francisco - Atlanta, GA) to the Avenger's HQ. Talk about tiring! XD
@@aaronkenyon7112true, and he could have exited the quantum realm 50 years before Thanos snapped. It could have been anything, but luckily it was only 5 hours for him 5 years for everyone else.
The insane thing is that he got out due to a rat. Even if Doctor Strange saw a future where they defeat Thanos and find out that Tony created and used time travel to do it, how could the same or similar rat trigger things? It would have been better if his stuff had been sent to a lab, and Dr. Foster, Lawrence Fishbourne's character from _Ant-Man and the Wasp_ got him out by playing around with it.
Scott Lang: "Have either of you ever studied quantum physics?" Steve "It appears to run on some sort of electricity" Rogers: Natasha Romanoff: "Only to make conversation." (which probably means only to allow her to maintain a cover identity).
“maybe it doesn’t need to be done”. Gone are the days of MCU when we used to see such mature dialogues in movies which were already a hit based on their action sequences alone.
The way Paul acts as Scott with the rambling makes sense in a way. Even though it for him felt like 5 hours, only to realize actually were 5 years, might have had a pretty strong psychological effect on him, with the whole being cut off from human contact.
I always figured that when Bran randomly warged in the Game of Thrones episode with the Night King in 2019, he actually Warged into the Rat and freed Antman from the Quantum Realm. It makes more sense than whatever season 8 was.
Star lord was responsible for the Avengers not getting the Gauntlet off, if he had not been so focused on Gamora, they could have won. Ant man had the idea with the quantum realm. Scott Lang is the unsung hero of endgame.
This the thing, in endgame we got the timeline where they win what does this mean? It mean in the timeline where they taken off the gauntlet from Thanos they still didn't and he managed to get it back
They need an absolute victory Taking off thanos's gauntlet would still make him be there He would just take it back Not to mention his army Strange definetly chose the lowest possible sacrifice with the highest possible gain
The film series up to ENDGAME was just so magical. I can't remember any film series where I loved the characters and their journeys so much, all over the course of a Decade (plus one year). Thank God this part of the MCU ended before all that Covid lockdown bs. It will always be a magical time, when hundreds of fans were cheering (and crying) in packed theaters.
It should have been him, Strange, Thor and the new Captain America. Hawkeye should be like an instructor and Carol Denvers is always the outside force of help.
In a buncha years, these movies are going to be the classics that everybody has memories of and all the people that hate them because of... I don't know, some reason or another, they'll be forgotten. This was lightning in a bottle and I'm glad I had to wait for each one.
I thought Waterworld (1995 with Kevin Cosner) was a good film, but even 30 years later people still think it was garbage. The haters may age out, but the flaws in a film (or series, or universe) will always be there. We are currently in an era where quality story writing is being neglected in favor of agendas, and the industry hopes that expensive special effects and big name actors will make up for it. I think both Marvel and Star Wars are like a person with 5x the lethal dose of radiation. They are a dead man walking, it is just a matter of time before it sets in.
I’m not a diehard MCUer. But I’ve been a big fan of RDJ going back to my childhood in the 80s. I remember when the first Avengers movie came out and everybody was talking about it. I saw it, and even without having seen any of the other Marvel movies, the movie stood on its own and was very enjoyable. Then many years later when everybody was talking about Infinity War and Endgame, when we were all stuck in our homes during the pandemic, I watched them both. Infinity War blew me away by how great it was! I was eager to watch Endgame after. And those two remain my absolute favorite MCU movies of all time. After having seen those, I started to watch some of the other Marvel movies. But, sadly, I don’t think any of the others come close to how great those 2 are. (With the exception of Spider Man: No Way Home). Just my $0.02
I think they kind of did recognize it with awards. Robert Downey Jr winning the Oscar for Oppenheimer was kind of deserved on that performance alone, but it felt more like a career win where the Academy was recognizing him for his career achievements which include Iron Man.
I hate that actors get their Oscars only for drama. I mean like actors in superhero movies have to pretend like they are seeing something that doesn't exist in real life
I got the point of Scott where hes thinking that he entered the quatum realm and exited at a different point in time in 5 years to the future, it just a delayed exit that goes for 5 hours....
Right, this makes the whole idea of time travel stupid. He didn't time travel, he was basically stuck in suspended animation. Jus like Captain America was in the ice.
Except thats the point, the quantum realm has time dilation, if going there means time moves faster outside of it, then that could mean with the right setup you could go back, blackholes have time dilation with them as well, the only real difference is that you'll get spaghettified, this provides a safe method to test time travel.
This is the writers realizing they’ve painted themselves into such a impossible corner, that the only way out of it is just to create a time machine and go back in time and change it.
@@TheSpecialPlumsEveryoneKnows To be fair, she had another movie for herself, and she probably wanted to quit the role after almost 10 years of doing the same character. Even Dave Bautista wanted to stop being Drax because it was hard to stay in shape. Same goes for Scarlett. Too much expectation for women to look like she does.
I really thought her death was a master stroke in story telling. She knew her past and knew she couldn't make up for it. Her sacrifice was a fine and worthy death.
@@thebookofdaniel5837 lol I guess that's possible. I'm sure they knew it didn't work timewise but they had get him there. I mean it's a movie with superheroes. Belief has to be suspended anyways.
Basically Marvel should have got the two guys who wrote this on permanent contract to write all their movies. Think how great Marvel could still be if they had.
Problem with that is that the two had been around since Captain America First Avenger so had the same burn out that the Russo brothers had. So them needing a break after both Infinity War and Endgame was completely justified.
I really hate how Scott came up with the idea of the "Time heist" and provided the equipment to do so, but spends most of the time treated like an errand boy and humiliated by his own family.
It's too bad they kept having him play Scott as a dumbass. He was an engineer who became a whistleblower and went to prison for it. He became a goofball to survive there. They should have shown him in at least one movie becoming an engineer again and using his mind. I was so upset with Paul Rudd's portrayal of Scott in _Quantumania_ that when I saw the trailer with him in _Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,_ I wasn't happy. But they took out the scene from the trailer of his maniacal laughter for some reason.
I don't think Scarlett Johannson ever really gets the credit she deserves for the MCU. Yeah, she was hired as eye candy I am sure. Still, you can tell that she was really serious about giving a good performance and you can often see the weight of the situations just in her face without saying a word.
Telling her "no one has to do this" is kind of silly, it's not like all the bad guys that the Avengers were set up to fight don't exist anymore, on average there's 50% less sure, but there absolutely does need to be someone to run it all.
Steve: Scott, don’t you have an amazing genius way for us to beat Thanos? Scott: Uh, I dunno. Maybe if I wasn’t under house arrest after the airport battle I could tell ya! Steve: Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Scott: I couldn’t see Luis for months you a-hole.
I thought about that too (bc I dye my hair a lot), and I guess she kept up with the blonde for two or three years after the snap, and then just decided to hell with it and let it grow. I did that during the pandemic. I was considered an essential employee, and I was so damn busy and everything was shut down, I just gave up on keeping up with it after a while.
It's not ruined by a joke, but the humor is still there. "We need to get a life." "You first." That's funny, but it's the subdued humor between friends when the truth is too painful to admit it openly.
Something I don't think many people talk about in this scene, is the tone that Steve and Natasha have when Scott comes up on the feed. This isn't just a case of "someone who was considered dead is now alive" this is someone that Steve and Natasha both recognized who they haven't seen in OVER 5 years. Like Scott said, the last time they encountered each other was in Civil War at the airport, and typically every person in the Avengers has contact with each other, they use space holograms, phones, text messages, and even emails from a raccoon as Natasha says in order to communicate stay up to date and everything. But Scott is one of the few they've never had full contact with, I don't even remember how Sam got in contact with "mr tic-tac". So for Steve and Natasha to be shocked that the guy- who the last time they saw him he was giant and throwing a wing of an airplane at them. Was considered dead and now be alive must've been an extreme joyful emotion from them for someone that they barely even know.
When Tony initially turns Steve down and Steve has to find another smart scientist, I thought that would be a great opportunity to introduce Rick Richard
DAMN.... When I argue with people who say "the MCU isn't as good as it was"....and then I go back and re-watch the old stuff... I realize I'M WRONG!!! I miss when MCU was great!!
Since the release of Endgame, the only movie that was actually decent was GoG Vol. 3. but that's not a bad thing. "A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts"
Shoutout to Scott lang for giving the avengers another shot
And everyone except "Cap" picked on him afterwards. 😢
Iron man solved the problem as in , ant man wasn't needed .
@@westsidepeanut3301 Without Scott introducing the quantum realm, They would have no foundation to start the time travel process.
@@AllenHanPRwell yeah cuz Tony doesn't have shrinking tech like that and I'm sure if he could make it he wouldn't have thought about doing it so it makes sense as to why Scott was the one to explain it but Tony did half of the process
At the cost of Tony and Natasha's lives, two lives for trillions.
That's why Paul Rudd ages slower than everyone else.
"Huh. Paul Rudd finally aged." -- Deadpool
stem cell treatment from baby blood
@@wrisq jewish ones
@@Backroad_Junkie wtf how'd you do it
Because he went to quantum realm
To me, Ant-Man has always been the most objectively relatable hero in the MCU. He never has amazing powers, training, or lineage. Simply put, he really is the archetypal “everyman” you see in so many stories. The fact that he played such a crucial role in undoing what was essentially a mini apocalypse shows how underestimated people like that can be.
I swear he has a masters degree from MIT, bro is not just some ordinary guy
@@spud4785 He has a Master’s in engineering, yes, but I’m talking in terms of actual superhuman abilities or specialized training to be a fighter or other hero-adjacent type of figure. Yes, he’s clearly smart, and yes, Hope trained him in combat, but these are still fairly generic abilities that, in theory, many people could do/learn.
Yes because every everyman is an expert thief, hacker and a criminal
Mini apocalypse?
@@izzad777 Do you not consider Thanos wiping out half of all life to be apocalyptic, or is “mini” not a strong enough word?
Scott essentially didn't just give the world a second chance, he gave Captain America a second chance. by sending him back to live his old life.
But he took Iron Man’s second chance
@@Hothiboi The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few?
@@pobvic. ... or the one.
@@HothiboiA single sacrifice which helped billions of people
He died with dignity and honour.
No, it was the rat.
The throwaway line about studying Quantum Physics just make conversation is so brilliant, because it's not a joke. Being around Rocket/Iron Man/Bruce etc, learning about QP would be a realistic way for her to make conversation.
Exactly! Black Widow doesn't know enough to build anything herself, but probably knows just enough not to be completely lost when Rocket, Iron Man, or Hulk talks about the science stuff. Kind of like Scott did to at least begin to keep up with Hank.
Don't forget that she was a spy by profession and had to impersonate a whole host of different characters on her missions. It makes sense that she would know about a wide range of topics, not in depth but enough to not blow her cover.
She probably originally studied QP to make conversation with important scientists that she’s trying to seduce for her agency and country, whether that is America or Russia.
IIRC it's a callback to the first avengers movie with the scene where Stark first appears on their flying fortress. Maria Hill asks Stark when he became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics and he says he read the packet with Selvig's notes and asks if anyone else did the reading, which I have to assume Natasha did because she was employed by SHIELD.
Wow, I never thought of that, I always assumed it was a simple joke and just let it go. Nice. Man, these films were well-written and well-connected.
“Scott, I get emails from a raccoon, so…” 🤣 Such a great line!
The bizarre thing is that Rocket doesn't even know what a raccoon is. When he was one, he didn't know what the word meant, and after he was modified to be what he is now, no one told him the name of what he used to be. He doesn't find out until he's back on the High Evolutionary's ship in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and sees the plaque on the cage where he used to be kept, which says "Procyon Lotor. North American Raccoon."
Which then ties back into the "Guardians' Inferno" music video, where interstellar pop star Zardu Hasselfrau (who bears an uncanny resemblance to David Hasselhoff) sings the lines "Getting down and dirty with a Procyon Lotor: got no people skills, but he's good with motors. That weird thing by his side's an infantilized sequoiya; see them walking by, people say, "Oh, boy-a". They ask me why I'm bringing a baby into battle, that's really irresponsible, and getting them rattled. I say, "Give me a break, get offa my back, damnit! I didn't learn parenting: my Daddy was a planet!""
Zardu Hasselfrau, strange visitor from another planet, with musical abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Able to change the course of mighty nations and break the Berlin Wall with his bare . . . hands. Disguised as human singer David Hasselhoff, he fights a never-ending battle for Tunes, Justice, and the Watch of the Bay.
@@woodrobinWell, you have to remember,up until then,he was only ever referred to as a RABBIT‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The crazy thing is I was laughing so hard I was farting in the movie theater like I was just ripping it up baby. Oh my God people were starting to give me looks because I was tearing it up in that movie theater. You know what I'm saying you know when you put that extra butter on that popcorn and you're just like oh this is real good and then you just start blowing it out man. I was blowing it out in there baby it was real gassy if you know what I'm saying real gassy but it felt good. It felt good baby slurping down an excellent lemonade. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to bless. I'm going to bust right now.
Now I’m just curious what kind of e-mails Rocket sends to her. Generic chatting, updates, maybe something funny he saw?
“Scott, I get emails from a raccoon, so…”
The thing is, it get more weird from there. Reality-warping witches, green-furred minotaurs, Arishem showing up in Earth's orbit...
A rat saved Scott and Scott saved everyone. Kudos to that rat.
You think there's a rat variant who decided to jump over the button that got pruned by the TVA?
@@RaxengunRat is Loki
Master splinter!!!
Hail Rat!
Literally, it was Disney that saved him. You guys know mickey mouse right?
The guy who had the idea to save half of all known life had to endure Quantumania. Not fair
Bro, every single character except Hank was so rude to Scott. Ita like, why save everyone if they are just going round be ungrateful and rude to you later
@@NA1c158because scott's a prick
@@NA1c158 Well, keep in mind that for them, everything was instant. So they didn't have time to change and grow. Hank was already swinging up on Scott for saving his wife.
@@NA1c158I know right? Why did Cassie have to be so mean to Scott, she acts like her father hasn’t been a big hero recently, when it’s thanks to him that the avengers knew how to save everyone
@NA1c158 Welcome to Marvel comics. Spider-Man saves all of new York on a daily basis and everyone still shits on him, including the writers
She was so broken, for five long years, she still dedicated herself to what was... to "ghosts" it was no surprise, she wanted to be the one to sacrifice herself.
See , that sacrifice scene is bullshit. It's supposed to be the one U love most, not the one that's available.
@@theneet9528 Just checked: in both Endgame and Infinity War, Red Skull says you must lose "that which you love" and says nothing about most.
@@BasketOfPuppies You're telling me that they could've just yeeted an old soft toy that they had kept since they were small to get the soul stone? or like their lunch that they're saving for tomorrow because it tastes too good? God dammit
@@tommydoez No, now hang on, no... Red Skull ALSO said explictly, "a soul for a soul". So it's gotta be a living being. Could it have been Thanos' dog? I don't know: do dogs have souls in the Marvel universe? And why is this the question I'm asking myself on a Sunday afternoon?
I have a headcanon that during the night where Ultron appeared, when they were drinking and seeing who can lift Thor's hammer. In my mind, Steve wasn't the only one that night that could lift it aside from Thor, Natasha would have been able to if she tried, or at least inch it. She didn't because she didn't want to know the answer to that.
Also yes, headcanon. Not saying anyone should agree, just what I believe. She had done some bad things in the past but that's not how the spell on the hammer works. She is the type to do anything for others/her team, even sacrificing herself without much hesitation. She and Steve (Atleast in the MCU storyline, not talking about the comics) are very pure and dedicated good people trying to do what is right at all times.
Even during Civil War she played on both teams because she was always trying to do what was right, initially joining Tony because she thought that was right but also helping out Steve on the airport when she thought that was the right move.
I love her story arc and would have loved seeing more from her, she is fantastically written and deserves to be an avenger, even without powers. She's one of the best!
Scott was a genius. He basically came up with a whole plan to save/bring back EVERYONE. Ant-Man doesn't get enough credit as one of the greatest super heroes. Ant-Man 3 didn't do his character justice
I wouldn’t say genius. He had an idea, but certainly not a plan or a schematic for how to do what he imagined. Hank Pym, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are all geniuses in their own ways, but not Scott.
@@spencergsmith He's street smart genius. Same goes for Steve, a genius when it comes to combat, one of reasons he can't be beat. Scott is a genius in a sense because ideas have to come from some kind of knowledge and reality. In their entire lives, not even Hank Pym ever thought of what Scott did? You don't have know math, science and literature in order to be a genius. There's many levels and fields of intelligence. Idea is just as important as execution.
@@believeintheshield1896 Yeah scott is intelligent when it comes to robbing stuff and the time heist is more like a bank heist robbing jewels or stones.
@@believeintheshield1896he’s street smart, but genius level? Nah. Steve I agree with, he is a tactical genius, but while Scott is clever, I certainly would not put him at the level of “genius.”
@@believeintheshield1896and while ideas might be as important as execution, that doesn’t mean they require as much intelligence or skill.
I think this scene is Johansen's best acting and look in the MCU
I agree! I've always loved her as an actress! ❤
I just love her trajectory across the series. She goes from slightly more than eye candy in Iron Man 2, to holding her own as an Avenger, to holding the team together at their lowest point, then goes out saving the universe.
Perhaps best acting in the MCU, not overall. Watch Lost in Translation.
@@MrErizid Oh for sure. She's definitely got better acting roles in movies outside the MCU.
Yeah, her toned down homey appearance is high key the most beautiful and attractive.
Natasha: “Scott I get emails from a raccoon, so nothing sounds crazy anymore” 😆 love that
0:11 Bananas
😭😭
Bruh🤣
I cant unhear it now lol
lol 🍌
For scale
Glad this movie was released before covid, and I can experience the awesome cinema reaction
I can't imagine the 'portals scene' with only 20 people in a theater all with stupid masks on. This film NEEDED to be seen in a packed theater. It was SO MAGICAL.
Marvel genuinely got lucky after all, but so did cinema in 2019. what a year to close off the decade really.
@@Frankie2012channel Why would the masks matter
1:29 that look on nat's face , dude that's some seriously good acting, like a hope that people can come back, that something can be reversed. All this well understood in those few seconds of expression 🙌
When he showed up on that camera feed he wasn't just an Avenger that finally checked in again, he was the first person in history to have been recorded as being snapped and actually returned.
Scott didn't get snapped
@@masterwhopper414We know, the oh commenter essentially meant that he was “recorded” as having been snapped.
He wasnt snapped away. He just happened to be in the Q Realm.
@@BradiKal61 Yes, but no-one knew that, as the people who did know were actually snapped. As there was no-one left to actually say where scott was, people just assumed that he *was* snapped. So he was recorded as being snapped, despite not being snapped since anyone who knew different was snapped.
Scott wasn't snapped away. I like the idea that, instead of surviving because he wasn't "chosen" by the Snap, he entered a Time Vortex and *left the present moment,* allowing him to avoid the effects of the Snap entirely
Scott Lang: Is that anybody’s sandwich?
😆
Guy's starved😂
Well, he spent five condensed years in the Quantum Realm, had a heartbreaking reunion with his daughter and got a ride from someone (San Francisco - Atlanta, GA) to the Avenger's HQ.
Talk about tiring! XD
Nah, go right ahead. This guy is definitely starving to death.
@@TheSpecialPlumsEveryoneKnows didn't eat anything for 5 hours
This is the most beautiful I've seen Black Widow. ❤
That speech, her emotion, I miss her in the MCU . . .
she was finally getting good too. they should have gave her another movie
Oh yes
Amazing presence, especially with Steve... it's that human touch that is so important
Thanks for pointing this out
I didn't miss her, I don't miss any of them, because the MCU gets garbage after Endgame.
Still watch the previous movies dgmr
Yeah, wanna see her in TV shows at least
Same
He trapped in the Quantum realm for 5 hours, that’s totally insane 😮
The insane thing is his time in there could've been shorter. It could've been minutes if something like that happened again. That's how random it is
@@aaronkenyon7112true, and he could have exited the quantum realm 50 years before Thanos snapped. It could have been anything, but luckily it was only 5 hours for him 5 years for everyone else.
The insane thing is that he got out due to a rat. Even if Doctor Strange saw a future where they defeat Thanos and find out that Tony created and used time travel to do it, how could the same or similar rat trigger things? It would have been better if his stuff had been sent to a lab, and Dr. Foster, Lawrence Fishbourne's character from _Ant-Man and the Wasp_ got him out by playing around with it.
@@sandal_thong8631 true
I'd be dying for a sandwich after that too
Scott Lang: "Have either of you ever studied quantum physics?"
Steve "It appears to run on some sort of electricity" Rogers:
Natasha Romanoff: "Only to make conversation." (which probably means only to allow her to maintain a cover identity).
Or chatting with Bruce?
Dude later talked with a genius who is capable of becoming an expert in everything overnight.
Scott became the most very important person in the avengers. Without him, they wouldn't be able to undo Thanos work and brought back everyone.
nah the rat saved everyone
@@fartpeepooshart So?
@@AH-is5yg so the rat saved everyone
The rat did so much YALL
@@jasenator1323 so?
“maybe it doesn’t need to be done”. Gone are the days of MCU when we used to see such mature dialogues in movies which were already a hit based on their action sequences alone.
Steve has so many of the most meaningful lines in the MCU.
The way Paul acts as Scott with the rambling makes sense in a way. Even though it for him felt like 5 hours, only to realize actually were 5 years, might have had a pretty strong psychological effect on him, with the whole being cut off from human contact.
5 years later and half the Universe gone, including his girlfriend and her family. Scott really got lucky that Cassie wasn't one of the Vanished.
He saw the world in crisis plus he is daughter in her teens.
I always figured that when Bran randomly warged in the Game of Thrones episode with the Night King in 2019, he actually Warged into the Rat and freed Antman from the Quantum Realm. It makes more sense than whatever season 8 was.
Lmao, it’s a possibility
Star lord was responsible for the Avengers not getting the Gauntlet off, if he had not been so focused on Gamora, they could have won.
Ant man had the idea with the quantum realm.
Scott Lang is the unsung hero of endgame.
Strange saw the timeline where Peter kept his composure. They still lost.
This the thing, in endgame we got the timeline where they win what does this mean? It mean in the timeline where they taken off the gauntlet from Thanos they still didn't and he managed to get it back
They need an absolute victory
Taking off thanos's gauntlet would still make him be there
He would just take it back
Not to mention his army
Strange definetly chose the lowest possible sacrifice with the highest possible gain
Yeah Ant Man is the MVP or star of the show. Star Lord is a piece of sh*t.
@@PureGarbageWithCheese You trust Strange too much. There were plenty of other ways for them to win. Strange just wanted Iron Man dead.
Scott’s inability to refer to Hope in past tense is absolutely heartbreaking.
Some people move on from Avengers movies
Some do... But not us
The film series up to ENDGAME was just so magical. I can't remember any film series where I loved the characters and their journeys so much, all over the course of a Decade (plus one year). Thank God this part of the MCU ended before all that Covid lockdown bs. It will always be a magical time, when hundreds of fans were cheering (and crying) in packed theaters.
@@Frankie2012channel R.I.P. REAL MCU (2008-2019). We'll miss you 3000!
Bananas ❤
I like how the clip starts off by Steve saying that people should grow… like Ant-Man does
that rat saved everyone
Scott should lead The Avengers alongside Thor in Doomsday and Secretwars. He's incredibly underrated
Agreed Scott, Hulk, Thor and maybe Yelena should lead the avengers
It should have been him, Strange, Thor and the new Captain America. Hawkeye should be like an instructor and Carol Denvers is always the outside force of help.
@HumanRider-ys6ld Easy, dude, your masculinity is not going to be threatened just because a team is lead by a woman.
@@varric you mean to say that your womanhood was hurt when the male members led the team in Infinity War and Endgame?
@@hero-rj9zu What, are you projecting your issues in other men?
In a buncha years, these movies are going to be the classics that everybody has memories of and all the people that hate them because of... I don't know, some reason or another, they'll be forgotten. This was lightning in a bottle and I'm glad I had to wait for each one.
Same
I thought Waterworld (1995 with Kevin Cosner) was a good film, but even 30 years later people still think it was garbage. The haters may age out, but the flaws in a film (or series, or universe) will always be there.
We are currently in an era where quality story writing is being neglected in favor of agendas, and the industry hopes that expensive special effects and big name actors will make up for it.
I think both Marvel and Star Wars are like a person with 5x the lethal dose of radiation. They are a dead man walking, it is just a matter of time before it sets in.
@@TwilightMysts No. Story writing is at a high and it's the people who hate reality whining about agendas.
I’m not a diehard MCUer. But I’ve been a big fan of RDJ going back to my childhood in the 80s. I remember when the first Avengers movie came out and everybody was talking about it. I saw it, and even without having seen any of the other Marvel movies, the movie stood on its own and was very enjoyable. Then many years later when everybody was talking about Infinity War and Endgame, when we were all stuck in our homes during the pandemic, I watched them both. Infinity War blew me away by how great it was! I was eager to watch Endgame after. And those two remain my absolute favorite MCU movies of all time. After having seen those, I started to watch some of the other Marvel movies. But, sadly, I don’t think any of the others come close to how great those 2 are. (With the exception of Spider Man: No Way Home).
Just my $0.02
@lkohan75 - have you seen Black Panther? I thought that one was quite good, though a very different take on things.
him casually eating while explaining time travel was great 😂
Just because its a superhero movie, this acting should havr been recognised.
I think they kind of did recognize it with awards. Robert Downey Jr winning the Oscar for Oppenheimer was kind of deserved on that performance alone, but it felt more like a career win where the Academy was recognizing him for his career achievements which include Iron Man.
I hate that actors get their Oscars only for drama. I mean like actors in superhero movies have to pretend like they are seeing something that doesn't exist in real life
Love how Marvel pays attention to Black widow's hair. She dyed her hair blonde. And in time her natural red hair shows... 👌👌👌
You'd think that getting emails from a raccoon would at least get a double take from Scott. Nope. He doesn't say a word about it.
Would have made the scene worse
Keep in mind that he has a lot of experience riding and working with ants.
Endgame was pretty much THE master piece of Marvel. They have yet to top it so far.
In fact the recent outings just show how far Marvel has fallen.
Infinity War was better, not to say end game wasn’t good though
They never will. It was lightening in bottle.
I think the two together made _Endgame_ a great finale for the MCU. They should have stopped there and done a reboot.
Infinity War was the masterpiece
I got the point of Scott where hes thinking that he entered the quatum realm and exited at a different point in time in 5 years to the future, it just a delayed exit that goes for 5 hours....
Right, this makes the whole idea of time travel stupid. He didn't time travel, he was basically stuck in suspended animation. Jus like Captain America was in the ice.
Except thats the point, the quantum realm has time dilation, if going there means time moves faster outside of it, then that could mean with the right setup you could go back, blackholes have time dilation with them as well, the only real difference is that you'll get spaghettified, this provides a safe method to test time travel.
Man, Thanos really did mess up after sparing Stark. He and Ant-Man were the only ones that could make a time machine.
Certainly explained why Dr. Strange made the bargain with the stone.
Him talking about Hope 2:11 😞
I like how ant man was able to help figure out the time travel by using the quantum realm but he needed bulk and iron man’s help.
This is the writers realizing they’ve painted themselves into such a impossible corner, that the only way out of it is just to create a time machine and go back in time and change it.
"I get e-mails from a raccoon."
Scott has never heard of Rocket at this point. That must have sounded so random.
"Scott, I get emails from a raccoon.... Nothing's Crazy."
Trying to imagine Rocket typing on a keyboard is fucking hilarious😂😂😂
2:02 the bow on the wall is strung backwards
I love Natasha and it was a shame they killed her character, she had so much potential
In kicking?
Yeah, blame Disney for that! 😤
Nah everything was done with her
@@TheSpecialPlumsEveryoneKnows To be fair, she had another movie for herself, and she probably wanted to quit the role after almost 10 years of doing the same character. Even Dave Bautista wanted to stop being Drax because it was hard to stay in shape. Same goes for Scarlett. Too much expectation for women to look like she does.
I really thought her death was a master stroke in story telling. She knew her past and knew she couldn't make up for it. Her sacrifice was a fine and worthy death.
1:01 you gave your life for everyone in the universe.
We haven't forgotten.
So Scott drove that shitty van from San Francisco to the Avengers compound in upstate NY?
Wait, I just realised that he could’ve shrunk the van and boarded a bird/plane (assuming airport services were running)
@@thebookofdaniel5837 lol I guess that's possible. I'm sure they knew it didn't work timewise but they had get him there. I mean it's a movie with superheroes. Belief has to be suspended anyways.
@@tmoore4075 Yh, that’s true lol
@@thebookofdaniel5837 I doubt it, he would be keenly aware of their limited amount of PYM particles.
The story of a Super Hero, a van and 3000 miles, Ant Man: Road Trip is coming to theaters in 2026
Basically Marvel should have got the two guys who wrote this on permanent contract to write all their movies. Think how great Marvel could still be if they had.
Problem with that is that the two had been around since Captain America First Avenger so had the same burn out that the Russo brothers had. So them needing a break after both Infinity War and Endgame was completely justified.
I really hate how Scott came up with the idea of the "Time heist" and provided the equipment to do so, but spends most of the time treated like an errand boy and humiliated by his own family.
I love it how down to earth things are.
It's too bad they kept having him play Scott as a dumbass. He was an engineer who became a whistleblower and went to prison for it. He became a goofball to survive there. They should have shown him in at least one movie becoming an engineer again and using his mind. I was so upset with Paul Rudd's portrayal of Scott in _Quantumania_ that when I saw the trailer with him in _Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,_ I wasn't happy. But they took out the scene from the trailer of his maniacal laughter for some reason.
If there is something important like time travel you have to talk with the right guy and this guy is always the farmer guy.
I don't think Scarlett Johannson ever really gets the credit she deserves for the MCU. Yeah, she was hired as eye candy I am sure. Still, you can tell that she was really serious about giving a good performance and you can often see the weight of the situations just in her face without saying a word.
Telling her "no one has to do this" is kind of silly, it's not like all the bad guys that the Avengers were set up to fight don't exist anymore, on average there's 50% less sure, but there absolutely does need to be someone to run it all.
Cap : Boring philosophy class
Antman : intriguing quantumn physics class
Scott, I told you not to eat Mr. Peart's sandwich!
The look on Captain Americas face classic ,like damn a small glimpse of hope 😂😂😂😂😂
People make light of these films but some of them are excellent.
I don't know if marvel films will ever be as great again as they were at this time. Then the pandemic came and everything changed for the worse.
That subtle change in black widow’s facial expression when Antman mentions the 5 hour time dilation.
Behold the Real Hero.
I adore that Paul Rudd saved the universe. Not antman but Paul Rudd
“So who do we talk to about this?” The man himself
0:12 "Some do... Bananas."
Steve: Scott, don’t you have an amazing genius way for us to beat Thanos?
Scott: Uh, I dunno. Maybe if I wasn’t under house arrest after the airport battle I could tell ya!
Steve: Oh, yeah. Sorry about that.
Scott: I couldn’t see Luis for months you a-hole.
Still love the, "Hi I'm Scott"... oh wait... uh... Antman.
It still bothers me how this two (Cap and Natasha) are gifted so much time together by fate and still not a couple😂
The rat that got Scott out is the GOAT of the film
Scott been trap inside the Quantum Realm 5 years
Ultimate X-Spanse:"You don't know that! Says Stewie Griffin!"
nah to him it's five hours
Ant man is definitely one of my favorite mcu characters he got the best humor too!
It was over… it was all over… and then Antman gave them hope… “Heroes don’t come any bigger”
The personality shines through and keeps viewers coming back.
Music in this movie doesn't get enough praise. I think is the best soundtrack in all Marvel movies. Most are very generic or dull.
The reminder that Scott Lang is actually smart, and went to MIT.
I like the suttle joke that to Paul Rudd aging 5 years is just aging 5 hours
It's been 5 years, and Widow still hasn't completely grown out the blonde hair from Infinity War?
I thought about that too (bc I dye my hair a lot), and I guess she kept up with the blonde for two or three years after the snap, and then just decided to hell with it and let it grow. I did that during the pandemic. I was considered an essential employee, and I was so damn busy and everything was shut down, I just gave up on keeping up with it after a while.
It's to show she stopped caring about her looks.
The cheese sandwich had more time in the movie than Captain Marvel😅 in this movie
Scott Lang was the MVP of this movie
And Hawkeye, both were so instrumental in making it work.
Oh wow. This scene is so good.
Scott lang started the series what if. Right here!
The seriousness of the conversation Capt Rogers and widow have, not being ruined by a joke, shows you this is "classic" marvel
It's not ruined by a joke, but the humor is still there. "We need to get a life." "You first." That's funny, but it's the subdued humor between friends when the truth is too painful to admit it openly.
Paul Rudd finally aged 😂 💀
Rudd finally aged
I do this all the time at a consioness level its how i am writing over my trauma and coming out stonger also altering my physique to be younger lol
"Scott... I get emails from a Raccoon... " And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the best proof that Scott is not crazy but the universe around him is.
Something I don't think many people talk about in this scene, is the tone that Steve and Natasha have when Scott comes up on the feed.
This isn't just a case of "someone who was considered dead is now alive" this is someone that Steve and Natasha both recognized who they haven't seen in OVER 5 years.
Like Scott said, the last time they encountered each other was in Civil War at the airport, and typically every person in the Avengers has contact with each other, they use space holograms, phones, text messages, and even emails from a raccoon as Natasha says in order to communicate stay up to date and everything. But Scott is one of the few they've never had full contact with, I don't even remember how Sam got in contact with "mr tic-tac".
So for Steve and Natasha to be shocked that the guy- who the last time they saw him he was giant and throwing a wing of an airplane at them. Was considered dead and now be alive must've been an extreme joyful emotion from them for someone that they barely even know.
My suspicion is that this is Skrull Natasha.
"Are we talking about a time machine?"
"NO! No. .... Yes."
When Tony initially turns Steve down and Steve has to find another smart scientist, I thought that would be a great opportunity to introduce Rick Richard
Thank you, Scott. Without you, I wouldnt be here..,
Steve's had experience with loss.
What a magical scene, the avengers compound is such a magical place, who would not want to hang out there with all those superheroes😊
It was Scott to save the Avengers, thanks to his idea
great scene
The pitch meetings were right people love to see superheroes e mail I just can’t enough of it
DAMN.... When I argue with people who say "the MCU isn't as good as it was"....and then I go back and re-watch the old stuff... I realize I'M WRONG!!! I miss when MCU was great!!
Since the release of Endgame, the only movie that was actually decent was GoG Vol. 3.
but that's not a bad thing.
"A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts"
Back to the future :)
Oh! When finds his daughter 🥺🥹
If you notice the people in this scene have the initials, A, B, C,
Ant-Man
Black Widow
Captain America 😂😅
Scott Lang was the long awaited hope not only for the Avengers but for the entire universe