Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantumania Ending Explained: What Happened To Kang? - OtakuKart (2024)

The Ant-Man and the Wasp is the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a sequel to Phase 3 of the Ant-Man movie series.

The film was released in the theatres on February 17, 2023, in India and is receiving mixed reactions from the audience. The film is directed by Peyton Reed, and the story for the film is written by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.

The character is based on a comic with a similar name written by Stan Lee. The film has a run time of 117 minutes and is distributed by Walt Disney. The film is produced under the Marvel banner.

The lead cast of the film consists of Paul Rudd as Antman, despite being the lead, he doesn’t stand out in the film, and Evangeline Lily as Hope van Dye; despite being the lead, she doesn’t get a lot of screen time in the film.

Abby Rider Forston as Cassie, who plays the Ant-Man’s daughter, Michael Douglas as Hank, and Jonathan Major as Kang, the main antagonist of the film. His performance as Kang was commendable. He appeared to overshadow Paul Rudd as Ant-Man.

Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantumania Ending Explained

The movie plot follows the new venture of Scott, a.k.a. Antman living a successful life as an author and memoirist. Scott is a former thief who’s turned into a superhero saving the world.

Scott now resides happily with his girlfriend and daughter, but peace is never an option when you have a teenager who has politically different views than yours. Scott’s daughter Cassie resents her father due to him being absent from most of her life.

Cassie reveals to Scott and Hope a device she’s working on that can establish contact with Quantum Realm while they visit Hope’s parents, Hank and Janet. Scott is proud of his daughter for her development.

Janet panics and forcefully shuts the device after hearing about the device, as she had been previously entrapped in the Quantum Realm for thirty years. Her efforts go in vain as the message is received, and the portal opens and sucks all five of them into the Quantum Realm.

The group splits in two, one consisting of Scott and Cassie while the other includes Hope, Hank, and Janet. Scott and Hope are found by a local rebellious group who are rebelling against their ruler Kang.

Kang is revealed to be an exiled traveler Janet encountered during her time in the Quantum Realm. Hope, Janet, and Hank meet Lord Kylar, an old acquaintance of Janet from her previous entrapment in the Realm.

It is revealed Kylar has started working for Kang, and things have drastically changed from the time Janet was last there. On the other side, Cassie is kidnapped by M.O.D.O.K. after the rebellious group comes under attack by Kang’s forces.

The M.O.D.O.K. gets revealed to be Darren Cross, a former enemy of Scott, who has survived his apparent death. Janet revealed the reason behind her not liking anything to do with Quantum Realm.

Janet tells how she paired with Kang to escape the Realm, but once she rebuilt the multiversal power core, she saw a different side of Kang. Janet gets visions of Kang conquering different timelines, and she decides to turn against him.

Kang regains his powers and conquers the Quantum Realm after Janet escapes. Elsewhere Scott is blackmailed by Kang to return his power core, or he’ll kill Cassie. The rest of the film follows the struggle of Janet and Scott to stop Kang and his evil intentions.

Everyone can successfully escape the Realm once Janet fixes the power core. Scott remains stuck in the Realm as Kang attacks him. Hope returns to rescue Scott, and they leave the Realm together. They destroy the power core together after knocking Kang out.

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Is Kang Really Dead?

The movie’s end didn’t satisfy the audience and was weak compared to other Marvel movies. Janet rebuilds the power core that helps them in opening the portal again.

Ant-Man is left behind in the Quantum Realm while his family returns through the rebuilt portal as he is attacked by Kang, the conqueror, at the last moment. Cassie returns to save her dad through a portal Janet opened from her end.

Kang is presumed dead in the end credit scene after Scott returns to his world. Pym gifts Hope, the new wasp costume. In the mid-credit scene, Steve Rogers and Wilson have held Bucky Barnes captive and are seen trying to contact other Avengers.

Scott is celebrating Cassie’s birthday with the family while questioning Kang’s death. Scott keeps thinking about whether Kang died or not. The scene where Bucky is held captive indicates a new beginning.

The movie’s ending didn’t make much sense as Kang is introduced to be the next big villain after Thanos, and he still ends up getting defeated by Ant-man and the wasp so easily.

The pair is considered to be the weakest members of the Avengers unit. It is speculated that Kang has shrunk further in size and gone down in the realm. Overall, the ending didn’t make an impact on the audience, which is one of the reasons for it not receiving higher reviews from critics.

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Will There Be A Sequel Of Antman

The Marvel film has been the talk of the town since the day of its release. It has received a mixed reaction from the audience. Some have applauded the movie’s direction, while others have thought the film had severe plot holes. The audience loved the role of Jonathan Major as Kang. He overshadowed Paul Rudd as the lead of the film.

There are speculations about there being a sequel of the film that’ll be released as in the Quantumania, and it is hinted that Kang has survived and will return to cause a bigger disaster than before. The audience is anticipating the next phase of the film to redeem Quantumania’s disaster. At the moment, there is no official announcement by the team about there being a sequel.

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