So IDC what anyone says Scott Lang was the best character in that film and has had the most consistent character progression and Paul Rudd deserves all the awards bc he’s not just the fucking comic relief look at the emotions on his face here the shock and confusion and the relief that his daughter is alive and the crushing realization that he missed five years of her life and how much that hurts him but then he reminds himself that it doesn’t matter because she’s alive and he’s holding her in his arms again and he can’t help but laugh in disbelief because his tiny Peanut is so big now thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Also, according to the MCU wiki, Cassie was born in 2007. She celebrates her birthday in Ant-Man and would have been about eight years old. She’d be eleven in Ant-Man and the Wasp (which seems a bit old for show and tell, but what do I know?) so with the five year flash forward she is about sixteen years old and probably as close as she’ll ever be to becoming Stature.
Also, I know some people were upset that Scott only mentioned Hope as someone he lost, and that we didn’t find out the fates of Luis and the rest of Scott’s friends, or Maggie and Paxton… and I get that… but at the same time it is an Avengers movie and IDK if they’d want to waste time on screen namechecking all the different Ant-Man supporting characters.
Scott mentioned that Hank was gone so they had limited particles, but he didn’t name him as a friend he had lost. He said Hope was supposed to pull him out, he didn’t say Hope and her parents…
When he was trying to convince Tony, he mentioned he lost someone close to him. Not people close to him. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about Hank, or that he doesn’t care about Luis and everyone else… but it does mean that Hope is the woman he loves. She is the someone, he he tried to relate to Tony on that level.
I like to think that offscreen, before he went to the Avengers facility (he fucking drove. He drove his brown van, from San Francsico, across the country to New York) that Cassie filled him in on everyone else’s fates. I think he mourned them, but also compartmentalizes.
He stumbles when he mentions Hope to Steve and Nat, probably because he knows he has to focus on telling them his plan. He can’t let himself break down in that moment.
It actually would have been nice if when telling him no, Tony had mentioned his daughter, and tried to relate back to Scott in that way to tell him why he couldn’t help them if it risked losing his own.
Alas. A missed oppurtunity.
And yes, this is long, but Scott fucking deserves it.
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