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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Who Will Be in the MCU Movie?


Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Who Will Be in the MCU Movie?
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Yes, everyone, Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in full swing and it all starts with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania where the big bad of the Multiverse Saga is finally making himself known! Check out all the characters that would appear in the movie though this guide!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Who Will Be in the Marvel Movie?

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Who Will Be in the Marvel Movie?
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Who Will Be in the Marvel Movie?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe remains packed, locked, and loaded for the next few years as Phases Five and Six are in full swing, there's no backing down now, and it all starts with one pivotal movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be taking everyone into the depths of the Quantum Realm as Scott and Cassie Lang, Hope and Janet Van Dyne, and Hank Pym goes all the way down into a dangerous turf where they will encounter the big bad villain of the Multiverse Saga, Kang the Conqueror.

Not only that, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania marks the start of a new era, it brings the whole multiverse into a different light and there will be new characters arriving as well. Here are all the cast appearing on Marvel's 2023 opener!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will not be complete without Ant-Man, of course, and after his heroic return in Endgame that saved everyone to being blipped back in existence, Scott Lang faces some personal crisis that could lead to the demise of the universe he once saved.

See, Scott Lang is just a simple man: he just wants to get back all those lost years and spend it with his daughter, Cassie, who was left behind when everyone was blipped. With a dangerous offer in his hands, will he still emerge as a hero or be the cause of the destruction of the multiverse as we know it?

Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man and he has a deep roster of movies he previously appeared in, he even has the "2021's Sexiest Man Alive" title under his belt! He appeared in Clueless, This is 40, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife among others.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/ The Wasp

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/ The Wasp
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/ The Wasp

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania comes as a package, the title itself says so. Where there is Ant-Man, there's The Wasp, too, and she will finally get to explore the place where her mother has been trapped for decades before their heart-stopping save on Janet in Ant-Man 2.

Hope Van Dyne will be joining her parents, Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym, into the Quantum Realm where they would be trying to save Ant-Man from making a huge mistake, and they would be helping him save the universe once more, hopefully, not the last time.

Evangeline Lilly reprises her role as Hope Van Dyne/ The Wasp and she is an award-winning actress and author with accolades latched to her name. She appeared in The Desolation of Smaug, The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hurt Locker, Real Steel, and more!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror

The big bad of the Multiverse Saga first appeared as his own variant in Loki as He Who Remains and he warned what would happen if alternate realities would come into existence because he knows some variants of him are much more sinister in many ways like that of Kang the Conqueror.

Kang the Conqueror seems to personally reach out to Ant-Man to get something only Scott Lang could do, and he may have already done the same for Janet Van Dyne because she knows how sinister the villain is, how deceptive he could get.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will see the return of Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror and he previously appeared in The Last Black Man in San Francistco, Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall, and Devotion. He's fairly new to the industry but boy, his acting prowess is superb!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang

Don't get it wrong, there is really a change in actors for Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. To start, it was Abby Ryder Fortson that was first replaced by Emma Fuhrmann for the simple reason: there was a five-year time jump in the narrative when Endgame came into existence and Ryder was too young to play Cassie Lang.

For Emma Fuhrmann, she was replaced by Kathryn Newton to play the role of Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The decision of Marvel Studios was unveiled in 2020 when Kevin Feige officially confirmed the title of the movie for Phase Four of the MCU.

Cassie Lang sends all of them down the drain with her Quantum Beacon after she sends signals to the Quantum Realm and she will now be played by Kathryn Newton who has Detective Pikachu, Freaky, and Big Little Lies under her name.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michael Douglas as Hank Pym

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michael Douglas as Hank Pym
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michael Douglas as Hank Pym

Hank Pym is one of the first people to get to the Quantum Realm and he even has the Pym Particles named after him, the ones that became the key to saving the universe after half of it gets blipped, and he was already working on in the 50s as seen in Endgame.

Hank Pym was the first to wear and don the title of Ant-Man but as he gets old, his only goal was to get his wife back from the Quantum Realm, which they did in Ant-Man 2. But now, they will be getting back there as a family, facing the dangerous place together.

Michael Douglas is a veteran actor with tons of accolades under his name. He appeared in The China Syndrome, Romancing The Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, A Chorus Line, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Black Rain, The Game, and Behind the Candelabra among many others.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne

If there's someone completely familiar with the dangers of the Quantum Realm, it's Janet Van Dyne. After being trapped there for decades, she navigated through it on her own and possibly made some friends and foes along the way.

Janet Van Dyne was the first to don the title of The Wasp, opposite to her husband who was Ant-Man, and she was sent to the Quantum Realm when she saved him decades ago. Thankfully, Hank never gave up on finding her but as they come back to the Quantum Realm, together, how could her knowledge save them?

Michelle Pfeiffer is one of Hollywood's biggest names and she comes back as Janet Van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. She is best known for her roles in Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, Married to the Mob, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Batman Returns, among others.

READ MORE: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Star Details How Cassie Faces Kang the Conqueror

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Bill Murray as Lord Krylar

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Bill Murray as Lord Krylar
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Bill Murray as Lord Krylar

From the comics, Krylar is a scientist with green skin from the Micro-Verse and he only appeared a few times, notably in The Incredible Hulk #156 in 1972. There, he was killed immediately in the same issue he was introduced in, quite a small character to be on Ant-Man 3, right?

Marvel Studios could easily make the role matter in the story especially with a veteran actor playing it. Not only will it give the studio flexibility on the character, it would also give Murray his own touch on it and own the role as to how he would want it to be.

What makes it even interesting is that Bill Murray will play the character Krylar, a veteran actor with tons of accolades under his belt known for his roles in Ghostbusters, Charlie's Angels, Meatballs, Tootsie, Kingpin, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Hyde Park on Hudson, and many more.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K.

In the comics, MODOK is best known known for his freakishly huge head and hover chair given his small body. He's an intelligent villain with psionic powers and would likely be a huge threat in the film as well. His appearance on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that Kang isn't the only villain.

With the casting of Corey Stoll as MODOK, this leads to the theories of many that MODOK became the distorted freakishly-looking villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania through the help of Kang the Conqueror after Scott Lang banished him from existence in Ant-Man.

Corey Stoll first appeared in the MCU as Yellowjacket in Ant-Man, and with his return as MODOK, it only goes to show how the MCU could literally pick anyone from their previous roster to reprise a different role. Stoll is known in his roles from House of Cars, The Train, Billions, and Law & Order: LA.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Returning Characters From The MCU

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Returning Characters From The MCU
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: Returning Characters From The MCU

With the MCU being a huge bubble of interconnected movies and series, familiar faces are set to return in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania like that of Randall Park as Jimmy Woo, Michael Peña as Luis, and possibly even an appearance for Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: New Characters in the Movie

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Guide: New Characters in the Movie

New faces are also set to appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania like Katy M. O'Brien as Jentorra, William Jackson Harper as Quaz, and a familiar face is back on a different role with David Dastmalchian as Veb. Dastmalchian first appeared as Kurt in Ant-Man.

Are you excited to see all these characters in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in theaters? It comes out on February 17, 2023!

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