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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Ant-Man is a 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay and Paul Rudd, based on the comic book property of the same name. It marks the twelfth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the last entry in the MCU's Phase 2 slate.Its story follows Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), a recently-released burglar who is struggling to make an honest living when he is recruited by retired inventor Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) for One Last Job: steal Pym's research from his former company, before it can be abused by the firm's new owner Darren Cross (Corey Stoll). To accomplish this, Pym outfits Lang with the "Ant-Man" suit, a piece of technology with the ability to both increase the wearer's strength and shrink them down to the size of an ant.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Other cast members include Michael Peña as Luis, T.I. as Dave, David Dastmalchian as Kurt, Judy Greer as Scott's ex-wife Maggie, Wood Harris as Gale, John Slattery as Howard Stark, and Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter.The sequel to the film, Ant-Man and the Wasp, was released on July 6, 2018. Peyton Reed returned to direct, while Rudd, Douglas, Lilly, and Peña also return. Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Hannah John-Kamen also appear as Bill Foster, Janet Van Dyne, and Ghost respectively.Previews: Ant-Sized Teaser, Human-Sized Teaser, Trailer 1, Trailer 2 | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Pym had one: it was not just his identity as Ant-Man which was a secret, but also Ant-Man's very existence. Same goes for Janet van Dyne, the Wasp. Scott Lang has one as well, but does not play it straight. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: Hank Pym is now a retired superhero who operated in The '60s up until The '80s. | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: Most of the supporting cast, including Scott's prison cellmates. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: Hank Pym's scientific discovery, the "Pym Particles", are what allows Ant-Man and Yellowjacket to change their sizes and somehow alter their weight and mass separately from one another. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Hank's action of lending the mantle "Ant-Man" to Scott is from his Earth-616 counterpart, but his age, the fact that he has a daughter named Hope who had a Face–Heel Turn and his missing wife is Janet instead of Maria is astonishingly similar to his Marvel Comics 2 counterpart. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Stan Lee, creator of Ant-Man and the Wasp, cameos as a bartender Luis's cousin Ignacio met while on a date. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Darren Cross is pretty much an evil, unstable parody of Steve Jobs, complete with him doing meditation and making sleek promo videos. | |
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Literal Surveillance Bug | |
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Literal Surveillance Bug: Unsurprisingly, Hank Pym uses ants carrying micro-cameras to spy on Scott (before recruiting him as Ant-Man) and to follow him on missions (afterward). | |
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I Will Show You X! | |
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I Will Show You X: | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: A LEGO set that was leaked before the release of the movie revealed that Hank Pym dons the original Ant-Man suit. This only happens in flashbacks. A more concrete one was the Freeze-Frame Bonus from one of the TV spots which confirmed that Falcon does appear in the movie. | |
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Season Finale | |
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Season Finale: The film is the final film of the MCU's Phase Two, instead of Age of Ultron, despite the first Avengers being the finale to Phase One. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: It's only for one scene, but Sam Wilson — a.k.a. The Falcon, a.k.a. one of Captain America's closest friends — plays the antagonist to Ant-Man for the sole reason that Scott needs to steal something kept at Avengers HQ, which Wilson is guarding. Both are still unambiguously heroic characters but they happen to be at cross-purposes in this film. | |
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This Is What the Building Will Look Like | |
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This Is What the Building Will Look Like: A model of the future Cross Technologies plaza is prominently featured in Darren Cross's presentations. It gets destroyed by gunfire when Ant-Man tries fleeing through it. | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech: Pym gives Scott one: | |
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Clothes Make the Superman | |
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Clothes Make the Superman: Both Ant-Men, Yellowjacket, and both Wasps get their powers from special suits that dispense Pym Particles. Falcon wears his updated wing suit from Age of Ultron. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: The ants in the movie were deliberately designed to appear less menacing and disgusting than actual ants do up-close. Ants have no lungs, only hollow breathing holes, so in real life a dog-sized ant would immediately suffocate. For the sake of comedy, "Ant-thony"'s wings sound almost exactly like helicopter propellers. "Ant-thony" is clearly a winged queen, yet everyone refers to Ant-thony with male pronouns.note Male carpenter ants, which are rare and exist primarily for breeding purposes, have small heads relative to their thoraxes, and long narrow abdomens. Ant-thony has a large head with prominent mandibles and a plump abdomen more similar to a female's. Compare top (female) with bottom (male)◊. However, according to this◊, Ant-thony is indeed female. | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: Played with; in the second stinger, set some time after his encounter with Ant-Man, Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers find the whereabouts of Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier. When Steve claims that Tony Stark can't help them and that they are on their own, Sam answers, "Maybe not. I know a guy..." | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Hank is very good at doing this, both with his protégé Darren and the suit technology. He says that he chose Darren because they were Not So Different, and pushed him away for the same reason; Darren as a result is an embittered "Well Done, Son!" Guy. The suit technology in the meantime is viable as a weapon but it killed Janet due to a Heroic Sacrifice, takes a toll on the body, and threatens to destroy the world. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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People constantly being underwhelmed by the name "Ant-Man" in the trailers. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: At the end of the scene where Scott first dons the Ant-Man suit, he crashes onto the car of comedian Garrett Morris. Morris was the first live-action actor to play Ant-Man, during a 1979 Saturday Night Live sketch called "Superhero Party". Anna Akana appears in the ending scene where the Falcon is looking for Scott to recruit him. Stan Lee gets his traditional cameo: He's one of the people seen lip-synching to Luis's story at the end of the film. Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan, as Steve Rogers and Bucky respectively, appear in The Stinger (well, the second one anyway), setting up the next film. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Order Cut comes in traditional heist flick style because they run into complications at the last minute... | |
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Astronomic Zoom | |
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Astronomic Zoom: The Creative Closing Credits features such a zoom (although we only see bright red 3D outlines) starting from low Earth orbit, zooming toward San Francisco, reaching the ground, going to various microscopic levels, and finally ending sub-atomic. | |
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Shooting the Swarm | |
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Shooting the Swarm: When Ant-Man and his swarm of flying ants attack Dr. Darren Cross and his henchmen, who are about to escape in a helicopter, Cross grabs a gun and fires at the approaching swarm. He only manages to hit a few ants, including Anthony, the ant that Ant-Man was riding. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Stealing the money back wasn't enough for Scott; he got the bright idea to rub things in by taking the boss's car and driving it into his pool. Taking the time to do this is what gets him caught. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: The film takes advantage of the hero and villain's literal smaller scale to good-naturedly poke fun at standard superhero movie tropes. Such as the climactic bedroom fight showing how epic-scale destructive battles between good and evil ultimately don't have much of an impact on the world at large. | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: As explained under Foreshadowing, the thousands of Ultron drones left after the Battle of Sokovia are being taken in and resold on the black market for their highly advanced technology similar to that of an Iron Man suit. Similarly, said battle and its preceding conflicts' damage and loss of life are being blamed on the Avengers, rather than giving them Hero Insurance. | |
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PapaWolf | |
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Papa Wolf: You do NOT threaten Cassie without Scott kicking the crap out of you. Turns out, Paxton is one to Cassie too, albeit as a stepdad. Hank is a lot more protective of Hope than you might think. It's the main reason why he refuses to let her use the Ant-Man/Wasp suit. He's none too thrilled with how Hope has ultimately warmed up to Scott, either. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The events in Sokovia are called "earth-shattering". | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Regarding Janet van Dyne, the movie doesn't make it completely clear if she actually died or if she's simply missing, although she's out of the picture for almost all of the movie's plot beyond the flashback sequence. Hank mentions that time and space don't work the same in the Quantum Realm and Scott says he can't remember what happened, which seems to push the idea that if Janet does come back she will be the exact same age as when she left. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: Hank Pym does this to Scott Lang when they first meet for real, and during his training when Scott doubts himself: | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Played with. You really don't want to shrink down too far and get stuck in the Quantum Realm. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In most adaptations, Yellowjacket is one of Hank Pym's many identities, although it tends to be used when he's being a big jerkass. Here, it's the identity of the film's villain. | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang: The shrink/grow throwing disks. Scott uses a grow disk to break out of the Yellowjacket display, and then uses another grow disk to reverse his unregulated shrinking to the quantum world. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: The "La Cucaracha" novelty horn in Luis's van is used in the beginning to make Cassie laugh, within Paxton's hearing. It gets honked at the worst possible time near the end when Paxton goes to Pym Technologies during the climatic heist, searching for Scott after the latter's "prison break." He's about to leave when one of Scott's friends accidentally honks the horn, alerting Paxton to Scott's presence. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The T-34/85 medium tank key chain. It wasn't always that small... Note that in the Cold War film clips when Hank is wreaking havoc in Communist-bloc countries, there's a T-34 in the foreground of one shot. It'd be just like Hank to miniaturize it so he could have it around if he ever needed a tank. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Anthony Mackie as the Falcon, serving a semi-major role, and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, only appearing in The Stinger. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Paxton and Scott strongly dislike each other due to the former being a cop (and the new man in the latter's family), while the latter is an ex-con, but they quickly put all of that aside and work together to protect Cassie from Cross/Yellowjacket. Afterward, Paxton pulls some strings to get Scott's charges cleared so he can have a decent life while supporting his daughter. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: In a first for the MCU, the Ant-Man has been around for quite a while at the time the film starts and we're only seeing a new person take up the mantle. Hank and Hope also know full well about Cross' villainy right from the start and Hope has already infiltrated his operation. | |
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Bastardly Speech | |
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Bastardly Speech: The narrator on the company promo for the Yellowjacket pontificates on how their product will make the world safe for peace and democracy through warfare, espionage and assassination. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Hope van Dyne sports a short bob hairstyle, much like the one her mother Janet wore in the comics. The Yellowjacket suit looks similar to the G.I. Ant-Man armor from the short-lived Irredeemable Ant-Man series. Lang suggests changing the "Ant-Man" name. Pym is prone to changing his superhero name a lot. Ant-Man deals with a couple of mooks in a similar manner to the 2012 Edgar Wright test footage. Scott mentions that Hank should try calling the Avengers for help. Well, he was one of the founding members of the team in the comics... Scott lives at the Milgrom Hotel, named for Marvel artist Al Milgrom. Hank's past exploits are jokingly called "Tales to Astonish" after the comic where Ant-Man first debuted. In the ending, the journalist Luis's cousin went on a date with mentions "We got a guy who jumps. We got a guy who swings. We got a guy who crawls up the walls. You gotta be more specific!" The "Quantum Realm". In the comics, as far back as Fantastic Four #16 in 1963 it was established that if one shrinks down enough, one can enter a realm variously known as Sub-Atomica or the Microverse, with myriad adventures set there. Hank says he saw too much of himself in Darren Cross, who later adopts the Yellowjacket identity. Yellowjacket is one of Hank's many superhero identities in the comics. Janet's Wasp costume resembles a female version of the Ant-Man suit, which could be a reference to her original red outfit from the comics. Hank claims Janet "was born to it" when describing their superhero career together. In the Ultimate Marvel line of comics, Janet was a mutant and her powers greatly helped Hank expand on the Pym Particle's capabilities. The new Wasp costume from the end looks very similar to the one from Uncanny Avengers, while the mask and lenses recall the Wasp's helmet from The Avengers: United They Stand. Ant-thony is initially called "Ant 247," a nod to Marvel Premier #47, the issue that introduced Scott Lang, and Tales to Astonish #27, the issue that introduced Hank Pym. Janet's Heroic Sacrifice is one to Captain America and Bucky from the comics, oddly enough. Two heroes on a bomb, with one hero dying while it goes down (although for Bucky it blew up as it was meant to kill the pair), and the survivor being haunted with guilt over the loss of a partner. The shrinking pistol that Darren Cross uses to kill Frank is very similar to the one wielded by Yellowjacket in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!. Scott's method of escaping the Quantum Realm (attaching an enlarging disk to the suit's belt and activating it to make himself bigger) resembles the mechanism that Pym uses to become Giant-Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!. During Scott's fight with Falcon, Scott's opponent is able to easily spot him right away, thanks to his specialized goggles; in the comics, the character has a mask granting him telescopic, night, and infrared vision. Hank is a retired superhero who is mostly around as an inventor and Mission Control. He also has a shrunken tank in his pocket, which he can use in a pinch as a weapon by growing it out. This status reflects a similar status while in the West Coast Avengers. He was retired during this period, acted as the team's Smart Guy, and often contained items and weapons in his pocket which were infused with Pym particles, allowing him to grow and shrink them depending on what he needed. He even had a tank. Among the other Shrunken things, in Hank's House, is a small Scarlet Chair which looks like it comes from a Doll House. In Tales to Astonish #27, Hank first tests his Size Changing Potion on a Scarlet Chair. While working at Baskin-Robbins, Scott uses the name "Jack", which could either be a reference to Jack Kirby or a visual reference to the Marvel hero Jack of Hearts (as the "Jack" nametag is placed roughly over Scott's heart), who, in the comics, accidentally killed Scott Lang. Merchandising example, but the action figure line for the movie that was released by Hasbro featured Ultron as a Build-A-Figure, even though Ultron doesn't appear in the film. In the comics, Hank Pym is the one who built Ultron. Scott isn't the first hero in the MCU to be taken down by a Taser. Scott is in jail, and Hank helps him to escape and clear his name by providing access to the size reduction items. A similar event took place, with the roles reversed, in Avengers #244; but Pym refused the help. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: Darren Cross has a shaved head. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Hope goes from actively despising Scott, to reluctantly liking him to necking with him by the end of the film... | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Hank became this to Hope in his grief and guilt over what happened to Janet. He was so absent from her life for so long that it took him getting shot for her to call him Dad instead of "Hank". | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Scott towards his daughter, due to his incarceration. He's regretful and still clearly loves her very much. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: While the Ant-Man suit does give the wearer the ability to knock out regular people with ease, the key to Ant-Man — and the quality that Hank saw in Scott — is the ability to fight smarter and with ingenuity, not necessarily force. We see this early on when Scott dismantles Hank's various safes and locks, and it really shows when, in Scott's fights with Falcon and Yellowjacket, he ultimately fails in fighting directly and succeeds when infiltrating and dismantling their weapons. | |
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Trespassing to Talk | |
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Trespassing to Talk: Darren Cross surprises Hank Pym at his home to talk with him. He was going to commit murder but Hope was there and he didn't want to do it in front of her at the time. | |
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Nom de Mom | |
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Nom de Mom: Hank Pym's daughter Hope van Dyne goes by her mother's maiden name instead of her birth surname, due to her estrangement from her father. | |
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Just Like Robin Hood | |
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Just Like Robin Hood: With access to Vistacorp's bank accounts, Scott decides a little redistribution of wealth is in order. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Hope and everybody else at Pym Tech is horrified by the fact that Cross is horribly killing absurdly adorable lambs in his experiments to successfully shrink live subjects, but they apparently wouldn't have a problem if he was using mice. The film itself has no problem showing several ants (which have, by now, been portrayed as loyal and almost doglike in their personality) being disintegrated onscreen. Inverted with Ant-thony, who's the only ant that Scott's shown to form a distinct bond with, and receives an onscreen demise, complete with sad music. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: The Yellowjacket promotional video is dripping with these, as it makes it clear that Cross sees the suit as perfect for assassination, amongst other unsavory things, while using the most neutral language possible for it. Which also foreshadows his dealings with HYDRA. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Luis knocks out a security guard near the end of the film, and when the building is about to explode, he goes out of his way to make sure said security guard gets out and receives medical attention. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: "Baskin-Robbins always finds out." | |
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Ramming Always Works | |
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Ramming Always Works: Especially when you have a real tank on a keychain you can unshrink at moment's notice. | |
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Apologetic Attacker | |
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Apologetic Attacker: Scott when his opponent is Avenger Sam Wilson, the Falcon. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Scott's training as Ant-Man takes place in one. | |
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Disposing of a Body | |
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Disposing of a Body: Cross figured out real fast that his lethal-to-organics knockoff of Pym Particles is great for this — one shot will reduce a target to what's basically a booger, enabling him to do it with toilet paper. | |
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Not Helping Your Case | |
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Not Helping Your Case: When the police detains Scott, after he broke into Pym's house to return the suit. | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: Perhaps due to the relative obscurity of the character, a large part of the marketing push for the movie has involved playing up Ant-Man's connections to The Avengers. The members of the team appear in one of the TV spots, reusing footage from The Avengers and their various solo films. A trio of humorous posters for the movie show Ant-Man standing on Captain America's shield, Thor's hammer, and Iron Man's shoulder. The synopsis for the film also makes sure to mention that Ant-Man was a founding member of the Avengers in the comics. One of the official taglines for the movie is "No shield. No armor. No hammer. No problem." Falcon, one of the Avengers, actually makes an appearance. Captain America and Bucky then appear alongside Falcon in one of the Stingers. Not only did they spoil the above appearance, but they later released another TV spot which shows the character again, as well as a scene of Luis excitedly saying "He works for the Avengers!" | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: Although mocked by many (including in-universe), the movie scratches the surface of what a truly menacing and revolutionary power size-shrinking is. Hank Pym dismisses Tony Stark's armors as being tame in comparison. Summoning ants can also be very helpful, with different breeds of ants serving useful functions from debilitating opponents to forming constructs, even frying of electronics. As Hank notes, he can put a hidden camera anywhere by shrinking it down and having an ant carry it — and those aren't the only things they can carry. | |
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KickTheDog | |
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Kick the Dog: In the prologue, Mitchell Carson mocks Hank's dead wife, which causes Howard Stark to close his eyes in disgust and leads Hank to smash his head on the table before being restrained by Peggy. Darren Cross decides to start using adorable little white lambs as the test subjects for his lethal Pym Particle experiments for no good reason, instead of adult mice or rabbits. Everybody in the lab is utterly disturbed, and it serves to make Cross look like an even bigger bastard then we already knew he was. For good measure, when he finally succeeds in shrinking a lamb without killing it, he knocks it over by flicking the jar it's in just because he can. | |
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Off on a Technicality | |
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Off on a Technicality: At the end of the film, the police "lose" some of the paperwork connected to Scott's most recent arrest, tainting the case against him and making him once again a free man. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Either justified or averted. Hank Pym has only one Ant-Man suit, but this is because he only trusts himself and Scott to use it. Cross manages to build his own suit based on partial Pym blueprints that were locked away. The Stinger reveals Hank has a second more advanced Wasp suit in storage as well. There is only one Yellowjacket suit currently made, but the plans for it are backed up on Pym Technologies' servers. Part of the heist involves damaging these servers too badly to let info be recovered from them and imploding the entire facility into nothing to boot, so that Cross can't just build another Yellowjacket after his suit is stolen. Cross himself has his own motive for not making too many Yellowjackets at once: he wants to monopolize the tech so that HYDRA can't just kill him to build their own but instead keep buying from him. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Suit designer Ivo Coveney admits that the tubes on the helmet are Awesome, but Impractical, since it'd be easy for an enemy to tear them off and kill Scott instantly (since the outside air molecules would be too big for his lungs). Despite this, he said the design team opted to leave them in, since they felt the tubes made the suit look cooler. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: A common complaint in the fanbase for Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier was "Why doesn't the hero call in the Avengers to deal with that big of a problem?" This time, when the big problem is explained and Pym and Lang discuss how to solve it, Lang finally asks why they don't call the Avengers. It's a bit of a pride thing for Pym (he hated Howard and doesn't trust Tony), and a bit of a "Avengers have bigger problems" thing. | |
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Heist Episode | |
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Heist Episode: For the MCU as a whole. Unlike other films in the series, this one is a straight-up caper, involving ex-con Scott Lang trying to steal back the Pyms' research. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Hank's plan for recruiting Scott relies entirely on Scott sticking to form by flaking under pressure and reverting to crime as a way out. Scott also has to successfully infiltrate Pym's home, locate the suit, take the suit home with him, try it on, and activate the shrinking technology. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: One of the main themes of the film is in 7/4. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Hank Pym's first line in the modern day is a sardonic, "Yes, I'm still alive." This feels like a nod to Michael Douglas's terminal cancer diagnosis and his amazing survival years after he was expected to succumb. Garrett Morris is the man in the car that Scott lands on in his initial test. Morris also played Ant-Man in the "Superman's Birthday" sketch on Saturday Night Live, making him the first person to ever play the character in live-action. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Since inventing the Pym Particle, Hank refuses to let anybody research it, including S.H.I.E.L.D., as he fears the technology would fall into the wrong hands. As Winter Soldier proves, Hank was entirely justified in his paranoia, considering that the S.H.I.E.L.D. official who wanted the Pym Particle is actually a HYDRA agent. Despite constant denials from Hank that the Ant-Man suit even exists, Cross has security measures designed to thwart it. Averted when Cross simply walks into Hank's house because he left the door unlocked. Scott is also able to just get into Hope's car because she left the door unlocked. Apparently it runs in the family. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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This little piece of Double Meaning dialogue. | |
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Weapons That Suck | |
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Weapons That Suck: A combination of C4 explosive and the compression technology is used to utterly destroy the Pym Industries building and any research material that might be inside, without collateral damage to the staff that've just been evacuated. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Hank Pym's lab is a mix of modern technology and vintage Cold War equipment more reminiscent of The '70s and The '80s, as well as a turn-of-the-20th-century safe that wouldn't be out of place on the Titanic. Which give away Hank's more action-oriented past. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: When Scott confronts Falcon at what used to be the old Stark warehouse, Hank has a moment of panic because Scott is in danger of losing... the suit. Hope snaps back that he's in rather more danger of losing his life. Hank at least has the decency to look suitably chided. | |
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ParentalSubstitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Darren saw Hank as one, until Hank pushed him away. Paxton towards Scott's daughter, Cassie. Despite being an antagonist (until his Heel–Face Turn at the end of the film), he appears to be an excellent caregiver for Cassie. He even acts civil towards Scott when she's around even though he absolutely hates Scott's guts. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: In the Marvel Comics 2 comics, Hope Pym/Hope van Dyne was an Ax-Crazy villain called Red Queen. Although she has strained relations with her father in the film due to her mother's death years ago, she's on the side of good here. Thanks to the restructuring of the timeline, Hank Pym in the MCU was not responsible for creating Ultron. Without that burden he seems to have avoided the more serious psychoses of his comic book counterpart. He never became a supervillain or accidentally struck his wife Janet. At worst he's paranoid and arrogant. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Hope refers to her father as "Hank." Near the end of the film (and after they've "Broken down walls" as Scott said), when he's shot, she starts to call him "Dad." | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: When Hank catches Hope and Scott kissing, Scott tries to claim that Hope came on to him, and that he'd had nothing to do with said kissing. Hank doesn't buy it. | |
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Fluffy the Terrible | |
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Fluffy the Terrible: "Peaches," a burly, intimidating fellow convict at San Quentin that Scott has to land a punch on as part of an ex-con hazing ritual. Peachy is quickly shown to be good-natured and a fair sport when Scott actually does land a hit, but that punch still required medical attention. | |
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Do-Anything Robot | |
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Do-Anything Robot: Much like Groot, the ants resemble a biological version of this trope. Seeing them in action is akin to watching a nanite swarm. | |
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The Only One I Trust | |
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The Only One I Trust: With the technology of the Pym Particle, Hank only trusts himself to prevent it falling into the wrong hands, so he won't let any other S.H.I.E.L.D. agent wear his suit. Which means he has to go out into the field if it's absolutely required. | |
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Overprotective Dad | |
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Scott has to spell it out to Hope that the reason her dad doesn't want her to wear the suit is because he doesn't want to lose her, and Scott is expendable. Scott knows how Hank feels because he has a daughter, and he would likely be an Overprotective Dad as well. | |
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Who Watches the Watchmen? | |
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Similarly, the abovementioned newspaper headline "Who Is Responsible For Sokovia" foreshadows the premise of Civil War. | |
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Adult Fear | |
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Adult Fear: Your wife dies a hero, and as a result you shut out your daughter, pack her off to boarding school when she's seven, and cause an estrangement that leads to her booting you out of your company. Although she comes to you for help when it turns out her boss is crazy, she thinks that she ought to be the one to wear the suit that takes its toll on the human body, and you think that telling her what happened to her mother would be dangerous. On the other side of the coin, your father sends you to boarding school while you're grieving for your mother, and doesn't take notice of you for years and lies about how your mother died. It's a small wonder that Hope holds a grudge, though she mellows after Scott explains to her that Hank is being an Overprotective Dad and Hank tells her how her mother died. There's an armed lunatic with a grudge against you in your daughter's bedroom, and you can't get to her. Alternately, there's an armed lunatic with a grudge against your stepdaughter's biological father in her room, despite your best efforts to keep her safe. Or still worse, there's an armed lunatic with a grudge against your ex in your daughter's bedroom, both the men you care about are in there desperately fighting said lunatic, and all you can see of what's happening to all three of them is that weird giant junk and laser beams keep bursting out of the walls. | |
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You Dirty Rat! | |
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Hope and everybody else at Pym Tech is horrified by the fact that Cross is horribly killing absurdly adorable lambs in his experiments to successfully shrink live subjects, but they apparently wouldn't have a problem if he was using mice. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: In the first stinger, Hope is given an updated model of her mother's suit, becoming the new Wasp. In the second, Captain America and Falcon have tracked down an incapacitated Winter Soldier. Falcon then mentions he knows a guy who can help them move Bucky, setting up Ant-Man's involvement in Captain America: Civil War. | |
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The Beastmaster | |
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The Beastmaster: Leading and controlling various species of ants is one of Hank's developments as the first Ant-Man, and Hope and (naturally) Scott also use the technology. It consists of mentally projecting the task the wielder wants the ants to accomplish. | |
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Traintop Battle | |
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Traintop Battle: Befitting with the size-changing gimmick, part of a battle between Ant-Man and Yellowjacket is a toy traintop battle. On Thomas the Tank Engine, no less. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Ant-Man / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Hope says "It's about damn time" after being presented with the Wasp suit. Marvel fans have long been complaining about the lack of the Wasp in the MCU, with the closest she'd come to appearing previously being Joss Whedon's early plans to include her in The Avengers. In the trailers (but not in the final film), a lot of characters don't take the name "Ant-Man" seriously, just like most audiences would. In one of the trailers Scott even asks if they can change the name, which has happened a little too excessively in the comics. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Ant-Man / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: To close out the film too: "It was never just a heist!" Hank Pym gets a good one with "It's not a keychain," revealing the tiny tank on his key ring to be the real deal, just revert to its original size, keyring and all. | |
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Time-Passage Beard | |
| Ant-Man / int_5036c7d4 | comment |
Time-Passage Beard: A realistic version. Hank Pym has a beard in most of the film, but is clean-shaven in the prologue set twenty-five years earlier. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Cross's failed attempts to replicate Hank's success generally result in living subjects being turned into blobs of pinkish tissue, albeit miniscule ones. Cross's demise is no treat to think about too hard, either. What does happen to a human body when parts of it aren't the right relative size any more? | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Cross kills a potential investor for questioning if the Yellowjacket project is safe. | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs: Although he acquires an assault rifle from a guard, Luis spends the final action scene punching people. He discards the gun as soon as the action starts. He's one of "the good guys" after all, so he can't go killing innocent bystanders. | |
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What Measure Is a Mook? | |
| Ant-Man / int_52b36340 | comment |
What Measure Is a Mook?: Generally played straight, but in one scene Luis specifically goes out of his way to rescue a knocked out henchman they'd left locked in a room. | |
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Bookends | |
| Ant-Man / int_53224e46 | comment |
Bookends: After an interlude with Baskin-Robbins and daughter's birthdays, the actual story begins with a convoluted chain of "I know someone who knows someone" that leads to the theft of the Ant-Man suit. At the end of the film, we have another convoluted chain of "I know someone who knows someone" that leads to the reveal that the Falcon is trying to locate Ant-Man. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
| Ant-Man / int_53a7089a | comment |
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Scott gains super-human strength when he shrinks down to the size of an ant, as in the comics. Although here its ambiguous as whether he really does gain super-human strength, or he maintains his strength and it's relatively super, since he's so small. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
| Ant-Man / int_53b6ab6a | comment |
Scott eagerly takes up Pym on his offer to become Ant-Man because he's tired of being a thief and wants to keep his freedom. Pym then reveals that his new "job" will involve him stealing stuff. He winds up spending a good portion of the film planning and committing acts of thievery under Pym's employ and very nearly gets re-incarcerated for it. | |
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Flashback | |
| Ant-Man / int_53c9fc92 | comment |
Flashback: A portion of the film takes place when Hank Pym was the Ant-Man, Janet van Dyne was the Wasp, and when S.H.I.E.L.D. was still run by Howard Stark and Peggy Carter. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
| Ant-Man / int_54367e5d | comment |
Mathematician's Answer: Scott asks Hank how he makes the ants carry sugar cubes to him. Instead of explaining how he controls the ants, he goes over the well-known fact that ants can carry heavy objects relative to their weight. | |
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Le Parkour | |
| Ant-Man / int_54cc6b24 | comment |
Le Parkour: It's part of Scott's skill set as a thief, and why he is chosen to don the Ant-Man suit. | |
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Just Think of the Potential! | |
| Ant-Man / int_5517f7a5 | comment |
Just Think of the Potential: Cross markets the Pym Particles' military applications as such. Hank had previously quit S.H.I.E.L.D. because they had this attitude towards his research. | |
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Digital Deaging | |
| Ant-Man / int_55ad39e8 | comment |
Digital De Aging: A particularly striking example in the opening scene, where Michael Douglas is seamlessly de-aged into how he appeared to be in Wall Street. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
| Ant-Man / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: Only the last minute of Hank and Janet's career as Ant-Man and Wasp is shown, leaving many adventures (and the rest of that particular one, specifically what wrecked Hank's regulator) left to the imagination. | |
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Genius Ditz | |
| Ant-Man / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Luis at first appears to be an adorkable ex-con with a penchant for making waffles, but it turns out he's surprisingly cultured as well. He likes to go wine-tasting with his cousin (complaining that the tasting was dominated by reds when he prefers whites, but saying that a rosé saved the day for him), and also spends time at the art museum (he confesses to being more into Neo-Cubism than the abstract expressionist pieces which were being exhibited at the time, but found himself intrigued by a Rothko). He still remains a Bumbling Sidekick throughout the film. | |
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Failure Montage | |
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Failure Montage: Scott training to jump through a keyhole and interact with ants. | |
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Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy | |
| Ant-Man / int_5980fb61 | comment |
Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: Luis gives out tips which inevitably play out in this fashion. All the characters in question are voiced by him for added hilarity. | |
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Everything Is an iPod in the Future | |
| Ant-Man / int_598b59a4 | comment |
Everything Is An Ipod In The Future: The Ant-Man suit was invented decades ago and looks rather rough. In contrast, the Yellowjacket suit has been described as looking like "Apple made an Ant-Man suit." | |
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Police Are Useless | |
| Ant-Man / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police are Useless: Played with the SFPD along with Paxton and his partner Gale, as they mostly appear as Inspector Javert Hero Antagonists trying to arrest Scott Lang while being mostly oblivious to Darren Cross's crooked dealings that threatens the world which Scott and the gang are trying to put a stop to. The only time they play a role in stopping Cross is in the climax when Cross attempts to harm Cassie at Paxton's home, resulting in Paxton and Scott, whom he just arrested in the back of his squad car, arriving in time to stop Cross and save Cassie. | |
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Scale Model Destruction | |
| Ant-Man / int_59ef66e | comment |
Scale Model Destruction: The model plaza gets destroyed in an Outrunning the Fireball parody. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
| Ant-Man / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: In the comics, Hank Pym's history is... complex, with various name and power changes. Like other MCU films, Ant-Man cherry-picks elements from various comics, changes others, and creates completely new ones, in order to build a streamlined backstory that's easy to comprehend and fits in with the rest of the canon. The movie itself is a loose modern retelling of Scott's debut storyline, To Steal an Ant-Man. Like the comic, Darren Cross is the villain, Scott is an ex-criminal tasked with stealing the Ant-Man suit, and Cassie Lang is a major motivation for him becoming a hero (though she's not an Ill Girl here). However, like many things, the story is expanded, changed, and as mentioned, modernized to fit the MCU. | |
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I'm Taking Her Home with Me! | |
| Ant-Man / int_5b04b205 | comment |
I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: What happens to the accidentally enlarged ant at the end of the film. Cassie keeps it as a pet! | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
| Ant-Man / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: A bit more practical when you can shrink down to the size of an ant. | |
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Required Secondary Powers | |
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Required Secondary Powers: The Ant-Man suit is sealed to prevent the user from breathing unshrunk oxygen molecules, as well as preventing the user from imploding during the shrinking itself. Its helmet also protects the user from the radiation of the Pym Particles, which can cause permanent brain damage. Finally, the suit's belt has a shrinking regulator which prevents the user from accidentally shrinking themselves past a certain size. | |
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Big Brother Is Watching | |
| Ant-Man / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Played for Laughs when Scott's boss at his retail job uncovers his criminal record. | |
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Spot of Tea | |
| Ant-Man / int_5fb5be92 | comment |
Spot of Tea: Tea is the go-to drink for the film's characters. Scott even says that he's going to go make a pot after realizing that he ruined a tender father-daughter moment between Hank and Hope. | |
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Bumbling Sidekick | |
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Bumbling Sidekick: Luis helps Scott out later on in the film, but is always an adorkable ditz. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Paxton towards Scott's daughter, Cassie. Despite being an antagonist (until his Heel–Face Turn at the end of the film), he appears to be an excellent caregiver for Cassie. He even acts civil towards Scott when she's around even though he absolutely hates Scott's guts. | |
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Sacrificial Lamb | |
| Ant-Man / int_61996785 | comment |
Adorable Little White Lamb #1. Once again, Cross gives no fucks whatsoever, while Hope is horrified. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: Cross grabs Cassie at her house after his battle with Scott is interrupted by the cops, reasoning it would bring Scott to him. It works, but Scott is quick to hit him with a shrink disc so the fighting is between them. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Darren Cross becomes increasingly unhinged after overexposure to Pym Particles without the protective helmet. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: The two stingers set up Hope becoming the new Wasp in future Marvel movies, and Scott appearing as Ant-Man in Captain America: Civil War. HYDRA agent Mitchell Carson manages to escape with a tube of the Yellowjacket shrinking particle (but not the suit itself). Since Scott just proved that it is possible to get back from the quantum abyss alive, Hank wonders briefly if it's still possible that Janet might still be out there. | |
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Mid-Season Upgrade | |
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Mid-Season Upgrade: Sam's Falcon gear has received some minor updates. Aside from the new armor and additional red highlights seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Sam now has goggles that integrate a heads up display (with a zoom function that lets him track a shrunken Scott) and secondary thrusters added to the calf sections of his leg armor. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The news segments' credits show that WHiH World News is a property of Vistacorp, Scott Lang's former employer; before Christine flat-out states it in the interest of full disclosure when she interviews Lang. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: The super-science behind Hank's ability is described as manipulating the space between atoms. This establishes two things: 1) mass is conserved (the only change is density) and 2) there is an absolute lower limit to his shrinking ability. The movie forgets these facts when it's convenient, allowing Scott Lang to punch people without shredding flesh and bone when he should be hitting like a bullet, ride ants when he should still have his normal weight, and shrink down to near Planck length at the climax of the film when he explicitly should not. The ant and Thomas the Tank Engine toy that get hit with size-increasing weapons should have floated away, having become far lighter than air, and Hank Pym walks around with a T-34 on his keychain like it doesn't still weigh twenty-five tons. | |
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Gang Initiation Fight | |
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Gang Initiation Fight: The opening shows Scott's getting the crap kicked out him in prison. The ending reveals it's early in his stay and this is an arranged fight by Scott's cellmate, Luis. | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Zig-zagged. Hank Pym tells Scott that he needs him to "become the Ant-Man," but everyone still refers to him as Scott, even when suited up. When Scott is discovered attempting to break into Avengers HQ, he introduces himself to Falcon (who Scott does refer to by his codename) by saying "Hi, I'm Scott" (much to Hope and Hank's disbelief). Seconds later, however, Falcon asks him who he is, and his reply is "I'm Ant-Man." Darren Cross is never referred to as "Yellowjacket," either — only the suit itself has that name. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Janet's Heroic Sacrifice is one to Captain America and Bucky from the comics, oddly enough. Two heroes on a bomb, with one hero dying while it goes down (although for Bucky it blew up as it was meant to kill the pair), and the survivor being haunted with guilt over the loss of a partner. | |
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Synchronized Swarming | |
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Synchronized Swarming: Hank uses his ants to form swarms shaped like numbers to alert Scott of how long he has to change into the suit. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Janet stopped a missile from reaching its target by cranking up her suit's ability to shrink, allowing her to get into the missile and disable it from inside, but causing her to irreversibly shrink to subatomic size in the process. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Janet Van Dyne. Made worse by Hope being well aware that "she died in a car crash" is a lie. | |
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Teleport Spam | |
| Ant-Man / int_67e9f779 | comment |
Teleport Spam: In a close-quarters room, Hank can effectively do this, appearing at full-size, then shrinking out of view, back and forth very quickly. It's very unsettling. | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin: When Cross is giving the pitch for the Yellowjacket to the government, one man objects that given what has already happened in the MCU, the weapon could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Cross shuts him down and promises to talk about it later. In true Bond villain fashion, Cross then follows him into a restroom and uses an unstable shrinking ray to do away with him. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: Both types! The Contrary Cut after Scott is released from prison. The Order Cut comes in traditional heist flick style because they run into complications at the last minute... | |
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Eating the Eye Candy | |
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Eating the Eye Candy: During their training, Hope briefly glances at Scott's abs while he treats an injury. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: In relation to his Kick the Dog moment mentioned below. As douchey as it is for Cross to experiment on lambs, what is the difference between experimenting on them and mice? They're both feeling creatures. | |
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You No Take Candle | |
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You No Take Candle: The Eastern-European Kurt speaks like this, starting with his first line: | |
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Superman Stays Out of Gotham | |
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Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Parodied. Scott suggests that Hank should try calling the Avengers to deal with the problem at hand, possibly jokingly, but Hank refuses, primarily to keep his shrinking technology out of Tony Stark's hands. It is also implied in later dialogue that the film is taking place very shortly after the events of Age of Ultron, going by Hank mentioning the Avengers being busy with a "falling city." | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: The mouse Scott encounters during his perilous first experience being shrunken is normal-sized, but it certainly looks like this trope to him. The moreso when it chases him, apparently mistaking him for an edible bug. | |
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Good Feels Good | |
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Good Feels Good: Luis realizes he and his crew are on the side of good, and he likes it. | |
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Godzilla Threshold | |
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Godzilla Threshold: Scott goes subatomic to finish off Cross because it's the only way to save his daughter. | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
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Unwitting Pawn: Scott. Hank Pym allowed him and his team to break into the safe that contained the Ant-Man suit. Dave tries to claim otherwise: | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: The Yellowjacket costume is often thought to look rather silly in the comics, especially with the shoulder fins. The film redesign looks more modern and threatening, with a number of fans commenting that they were surprised someone had managed to make Yellowjacket look badass. It's played for laughs with Baskin-Robbins, which is elevated to a Big Brother level organization. "Baskin-Robbins always finds out." | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Ant-Man / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Shrinking Pym Particles are red, and growth Pym Particles are blue. Yellowjacket's knockoff Pym Particles are yellow, and don't seem to make a distinction between growth and shrinking. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: A wink and a nod to the heist nature of the film. Also "become the hero that she already thinks you are." "Go Subatomic." | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: During Scott's interview, he gets so worked up that the nearby guard tasers him, ending the interview then and there. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Part of Hank's mission is crossing the infamous "Death Strip" of the Berlin Wall undetected. | |
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Shooting Superman | |
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Shooting Superman: While not quite as impractical as shooting a man who is literally impervious to bullets, trying to shoot a man the size of an insect would be a poor use of ammo anyway. Shockingly, it's surprisingly effective because the first time it's attempted, it kicks up enough debris to menace Scott, and the second time, it nearly works by taking out the exact ant he was riding on (which was out of a swarm of hundreds). | |
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So Much for Stealth | |
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So Much for Stealth: Dave creates a diversion by stealing an undercover police car, then retreats back to his getaway van and celebrates, but accidentally activates the "La cucaracha" car horn, alerting the officers who owned the stolen cruiser. | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend: Said nearly verbatim by Scott when Luis refers to Hope as such. At the end of the movie it's revealed they are in a relationship, and it's rather ambiguous as to exactly when it started. | |
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Boxed Crook | |
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Boxed Crook: Scott Lang, former burglar, is offered by Hank a means of making child support to see his daughter again; become Ant-Man and use his thieving talents to steal technology that poses a threat to world peace. | |
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Animal-Themed Superbeing | |
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Animal-Themed Superbeing: Ant-Man wears a costume that looks a bit like a red ant and has the power to shrink to the size of an ant. Another of Pym's inventions allows him to communicate with ants, which Hope says is his greatest power. Yellowjacket wears a black and yellow variant designed to evoke the image of a wasp. Janet van Dyne as the Wasp. In the mid-credits stinger, Hope van Dyne is presented with a prototype version of the Wasp suit. Falcon wears a winged suit that allows him to fly like his namesake animal. | |
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Job Title | |
| Ant-Man / int_7aba8180 | comment |
Job Title: Well, the film emphasizes that being Ant-Man (and also a Legacy Character to it) is a "job" — both as a profession and The Caper. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: An episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. referred to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which stars Paul Rudd (Scott Lang) as Brian Fantana. Scott's friends discussed Leonardo DiCaprio and his film Titanic during the initial heist on Pym's house. Bill Paxton, who played the Big Bad of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1, played a key character in that film. Additionally, Ant-Man and Titanic share a cinematographer — Russell Carpenter. Tony's Legolas quip manages to reach as far as this movie, now that Evangeline Lilly (who plays Legolas's ex-girlfriend!) plays Hope. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
| Ant-Man / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Cross basically oozes callousness from his second onscreen appearance where he casually murders a skeptical investor with an imperfect miniaturizer and tosses what little remains of him in the toilet. | |
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Reckless Gun Usage | |
| Ant-Man / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: In the middle of his Villainous Breakdown, Darren Cross is so desperate to kill Scott that he starts firing a gun inside of a helicopter while it's in flight. This is even called out on by the guards he's with, who are yelling at him to stop shooting the entire time he's trying to shoot Scott. This continues after he puts on the Yellowjacket suit, to the point that he's firing his lasers so wildly that he kills the pilots and causes the helicopter to start spiraling out of control. | |
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Let Us Never Speak of This Again | |
| Ant-Man / int_7d4a47d1 | comment |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: After a rather unexpected defeat to a man who can inexplicably change size, Falcon insists that Captain America never be told of the incident. | |
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I Can't Hear You | |
| Ant-Man / int_7d6cda49 | comment |
I Can't Hear You: Luis uses this excuse to avoid complying with Paxton's demand that he and his cohorts stop trying to escape. | |
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WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds | |
| Ant-Man / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Darren Cross was Hank Pym's protegé, and clearly looked up to him as a father figure. Even when he visits Hank with murderous intentions, he is still obviously emotional and upset by the rejection he feels from his once-trusted mentor. And his ultimate expression of this angst? He sells HYDRA a technology that could actually destroy the world, purely to spite Hank Pym. | |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero | |
| Ant-Man / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: When Scott storms Avengers HQ for Stark tech, he accidentally runs into Falcon and what should've been a covert theft turns into a superhero battle. When he gets back, Hank lays into him for ruining the operation, but Scott counters that since he got the technology it doesn't matter. However, we later learn that news of the break-in and fight is what clued Cross into Hank's plan and allowed him to prepare for it, for which Cross mockingly rubs Scott's lack of carefulness in his face. Not only that, but it served as a demonstration of what a suit like that could do for HYDRA. Dave accidentally hits Luis's novelty "La Cucaracha" car horn, while Paxton is looking for Lang, alerting Paxton to Lang's presence at Pym Technologies. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| Ant-Man / int_7febc23b | comment |
Frank's. Not only is he literally turned into a red goo on screen, Cross cleans him off with a paper wipe and flushes him down the toilet afterwards. It works surprisingly well at showing how unhinged Cross really is. | |
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How We Got Here | |
| Ant-Man / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: Scott's already in prison at San Quentin when the story opens. The rest of the comic is about what happened to lead him there. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: For the MCU, being a Lighter and Softer movie coming in between the more serious films Age of Ultron and Civil War. | |
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What Is Going On? | |
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What Is Going On?: Scott's very understandable reaction when he finally meets Hank and Hope face-to-face. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Luis loves to tell rapid-fire convoluted stories about his friends' friends' friends who know something that may potentially possibly lead to a heist/score. | |
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Pun | |
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Janet van Dyne as the Wasp. In the mid-credits stinger, Hope van Dyne is presented with a prototype version of the Wasp suit. | |
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Mexican Standoff | |
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Mexican Standoff: Near the end of the film when Hope, Cross and his guards are all training guns at each other. Lamp Shaded by Carson who moves backwards out of the firing line. | |
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Your Door Was Open | |
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Your Door Was Open: Cross uses this exact excuse while Trespassing to Talk. It's rather unlikely. | |
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Second Love | |
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Second Love: After her and Scott's divorce, Maggie settles down with Paxton. Scott himself moves on with his life with Hope at the end of the film. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The damaged helicopter is never mentioned again after Scott and Darren fall out of it while in the briefcase. | |
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Stating the Simple Solution | |
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Stating the Simple Solution: Scott asks Hank why not go to the Avengers for help. Hank says that it's because he doesn't trust any Starks, father or son, and quips that the Avengers are probably too busy dropping cities out of the sky. Plus, the whole operation would be outside the law. Hope asks why she can't wear the suit, since she has the know-how and combat training that Scott is gaining over weeks. Hank says it's because she needs to be The Mole to Darren Cross, and he doesn't want to lose her the way he lost her mother. When confronting Falcon, Scott attempts Politeness Judo to obtain the gadget Hank needs, unmasking himself and being completely honest. Falcon doesn't believe him and tries to take Scott into custody. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The prison fight at the start. Scott punches Peaches with a good hit in the face... and instead of getting beaten up, it's revealed that it's a ritual for anyone getting out of prison and all the other inmates hug him for it. | |
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Backpack Cannon | |
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Backpack Cannon: The Yellowjacket suit can fire powerful laser beams from the stingers that are mounted on the back. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Hank Pym and Darren Cross. Cross prefers sharp cuts that emphasize his height and physique, implying that he is concerned with projecting a strong impression, whereas Pym favors a softer style with bright colors that shows that he's stylish and comfortable in his own skin. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: When Scott tries to reveal his company is illegally overcharging customers, they run a smear campaign that they're just a hardworking company and he's just a disgruntled "former employee" trying to extort them. | |
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Cool Pet | |
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Cool Pet: The ant that gets enlarged ends up becoming Cassie's pet. | |
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Deconstructed Trope | |
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Deconstructed Trope: A lot of the film's action comes from demonstrating what would actually happen if a human were able to shrink in size while retaining their original strength and speed. It also shows all the Required Secondary Powers that someone with shrinking ability would need; these are provided by the suit. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: The Pym particle, with this power to shrink or enlarge things, would have the potential to make an unprecedented revolution at almost all the scientific and industrial fields. Pym would deserve the Nobel Prize, just to begin with. The manipulation of insects, although not so amazing in comparison, would also be a huge scientific achievement. Yet, Pym keeps all that in a superhero suit getting dust inside his safe: he thinks that it would be too dangerous if that science falls into the wrong hands. Cross also works in it and may be more willing to exploit it, but he's too focused on being better than Pym and getting a functional reduction of living things to notice the advantages of what he had already achieved. | |
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Confronting Your Imposter | |
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Confronting Your Imposter: A variation; when Luis tries to convince a security guard to leave because the boss said so, the guard replies he is the boss. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: Scott gives his daughter a stuffed rabbit doll for her birthday, one that looks as if it devours souls instead of carrots. Surprisingly, she proclaims her love for it while commenting on how ugly it is, and all attempts to dissuade her from keeping it fail. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: As part of their plan to steal the Yellowjacket suit, Pym needs Lang to steal a piece of Stark tech which is housed in one of Howard Stark's old storage facilities about 20 years ago. Pym didn't think about getting current photos of the facilities, and this becomes a problem because Lang finds out it's now the new Avengers HQ. | |
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Safecracking | |
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Safecracking: Hank Pym keeps the Ant-Man suit in a very old safe, one that Scott knows how to break into. | |
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The Lopsided Arm of the Law | |
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The Lopsided Arm of the Law: When Scott meets Maggie's new fiancé, a cop named Paxton, he presents himself as a reasonable man who's reasonably annoyed that his girlfriend's ex-con-ex is unreasonably hanging around his house. However, once the comic-book science starts flying around, one could be forgiven for believing he's on Cross' payroll; despite non-stop weirdness involving malfunctioning cameras, disappearing inmates, oddly-behaving ants, and finally a building first hatching a WWII-era Soviet tank and then imploding to nothing, his first thought upon seeing Scott is to tase him and call him a lunatic fantasizing he's a superhero rather than further investigate a poolside barbecue that was apparently blasted with Frickin' Laser Beams. He even leaves Scott handcuffed in his cruiser while Yellowjacket breaks into his house to assault Cassie. Though in the end, he does acknowledge that Scott isn't the waste of space he thought he was, and decides to just sweep the whole thing under the rug as a computer malfunction. | |
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique | |
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Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Removing the regulator and going subatomic. It's a one-way trip unless you have something to replace it. | |
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Dénouement Episode | |
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Dénouement Episode: In addition to being a Breather Episode, this is the last film of "Phase Two". Following the big crossover in Age of Ultron, this a fairly low-stakes heist movie that both introduces a new cast of characters and fills in more of the setting's backstory. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: Unintentional variation: a man being stung by bullet ants would react with a lot more than a startled "Ah!" | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: The segments star Christine Everhart, the intrepid reporter who hasn't been seen since Iron Man 3. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
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Back for the Finale: The finale, in this case, referring to the end of Phase 2. Peggy Carter returns after her previous cameos in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron, and her starring role in Agent Carter. This gives Peggy the unique distinction of being in five MCU works in just over a year: The Winter Soldier, two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Age of Ultron, Agent Carter and Ant-Man. In other words, the only MCU live-action media she hasn't been in between April 2014 and July 2015 are Daredevil and Guardians of the Galaxy, and the latter isn't even set on Earth. John Slattery also returns as Howard Stark from Iron Man 2. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Cross has one, a long time coming. He feels not appreciated by his mentor, and apparently being exposed to Pym Particles for a longer period of time has an effect, which in Cross' case seems to be worsened due to the Pym Particles that he uses being an imperfect knock-off. He nearly goes full Bond villain before Pym Technologies gets blown up. Then he puts on the Yellowjacket suit and he just goes full vengeance on Scott for being the nearest proximity for his rage. | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way: During a Mexican standoff, several characters can be heard cocking the hammer of their handguns... all of which are Glocks (which have no hammer). Extra egregious: One of the Glocks in this scene is used to threaten Ant-Man. A CGI shot shows ants blocking the hammer of a gun, stopping it from firing. The hammer then ceases to exist immediately afterwards. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Corrupt Corporate Executive Darren Cross is the reason that Scott is recruited to steal the prototype Yellowjacket armor. The world will be a darker place if anyone with enough money can purchase tiny flying assassins. | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!" | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": The secondary MacGuffin is, as Pym calls it, "currently collecting dust in one of Howard Stark's old storage facilities in upstate New York." Hank thinks retrieving it "Should be a piece of cake", and thus declares it the final phase of Scott's training. Cue a cool little sequence of Scott "parachuting" from a passing plane on the backs of flying ants, but then everyone has a reason to panic. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: Scott knows Luis, who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone (etc, etc) who knows about a retired millionaire that is out of home and had a safe at his house. Thus, Scott Lang goes into that millionaire's house, to steal the content of the safe. That way, he got the Ant-Man suit. Yet, Hank Pym claims that he had all that chain of "know someone" under control, specifically meant to reach Scott Lang and lead him to the suit. | |
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Not So Different | |
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Not So Different: In the past, Hope and Darren teamed up to kick Hank out of his company because of how they disregarded him; Darren saw him as a Parental Substitute and Hope was his blood daughter that he treated with Parental Neglect. In the present, Hope silently accepts Darren's acknowledgement of her help with Your Approval Fills Me with Shame. Scott has to spell it out to Hope that the reason her dad doesn't want her to wear the suit is because he doesn't want to lose her, and Scott is expendable. Scott knows how Hank feels because he has a daughter, and he would likely be an Overprotective Dad as well. | |
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The Knights Who Say "Squee!" | |
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The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Ant-Man reacts in this way, along with Oh, Crap!, when Falcon spots him on the roof of the new Avengers headquarters. Sam's reaction shows that he is getting used to being an Avenger. | |
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Atrocious Alias | |
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Atrocious Alias: Although none of the gags from the trailers make it into the finished product, Darren Cross has a laugh at the name when he first introduces the technology to his team early in the film. Scott himself pokes fun at it numerous times throughout the aforementioned trailers. | |
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Character Tics | |
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Character Tics: If Darren Cross gets uncomfortably close to you and affectionately puts his hand on your shoulder during a conversation, chances are you're doomed. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Frank's. Not only is he literally turned into a red goo on screen, Cross cleans him off with a paper wipe and flushes him down the toilet afterwards. It works surprisingly well at showing how unhinged Cross really is. Adorable Little White Lamb #1. Once again, Cross gives no fucks whatsoever, while Hope is horrified. Darren Cross' death, where he is agonizingly crushed inside his own suit as it uncontrollably shrinks down to subatomic level thanks to Scott sabotaging its regulator. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: While Cross is the main antagonist of the film, he turns out to be working with HYDRA, specifically Mitchell Carson. | |
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EvilCounterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: Yellowjacket, to Ant-Man. Something of a Phase 1 throwback, in that, like Hulk and Iron Man, Ant-Man must fight a newer and more powerful enemy with the same powers as he has. | |
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Eldritch Location | |
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Eldritch Location: The Quantum Realm, where concepts like time and space become meaningless. Anyone unlucky enough to get caught in there will spend all eternity shrinking into increasingly smaller sizes as they become nonexistent. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: This string is played pretty heavily when Ant-thony, Scott's personal favorite carpenter ant, gets shot dead in the final battle. The camera takes time to linger on its fallen wing. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: There is a brief bit in the news crawl that mentions that the countries attacked by Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron are now demanding accountability from the Avengers. More ominously, there's mention of parties trying to recover the remains of Ultron's various bodies, and that components from the destroyed robots are already fetching huge sums on the black market. An earthquake in Wakanda has also been mentioned. Even if the quake never never plays into the movies, the mere mention of Wakanda helps set up Black Panther. | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: When the Ant-Man suit is brought to Scott's cell, the ants signal that he has 10 seconds to wear it before the guard comes back. He manages to get fully dressed in six. Also nearing the climax, Cross, who was wearing his suit (albeit without the coat) dons the full Yellowjacket suit at a moment's notice while Scott is busy pulling himself into the helicopter where he is. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Christine mentions that she reported on Tony Stark in Gulmira, which occurred in Iron Man. | |
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Acid-Trip Dimension | |
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Acid-Trip Dimension: The Quantum Realm. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Hope to Scott after Darren shoots Hank and escapes with the Yellow Jacket suit: | |
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Three-Point Landing | |
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Three-Point Landing: When Scott jumps from his flying ant mount, he lands on his legs and one arm. | |
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Forensic Accounting | |
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Forensic Accounting: By accident, Scott stumbled on the glaring over-charging of customers his former employers were involved in. Beware the IT guy with access to everything. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Ant-Man / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Even without the ability to shrink organic matter, the Yellowjacket suit is basically a discount Iron Man suit without needing an Arc Reactor, and Cross's incomplete Pym particles could revolutionize just about any industry you could name, from transport to medicine to space travel, but he is mentally unstable and obsessed with surpassing Hank. Hell, HYDRA would pay him a fortune for his incomplete version, given how it makes Disposing of a Body a snap. | |
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High-Tech Hexagons | |
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High-Tech Hexagons: In keeping with Yellowjacket's honeycomb/wasp nest motif, there are yellow hexagonal patterns on the suit as well as hexagons all over the walls of the lab where Cross tests his shrinking technology. (Perhaps also a Shout-Out to Fantastic Voyage?) | |
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Token Trio | |
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Token Trio: Luis (hispanic), Kurt (white/Eastern European) and Dave (black), Scott's friends from prison. | |
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She's a Man in Japan | |
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She's a Man in Japan: The French dub changes all references to the ants as female (guys to girls, Ant-thony to Antoinette) since the word for ant is feminine, and in real life, nearly all ants are female. | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
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More Expendable Than You: Hank's reason for wanting Scott, a professional criminal they have to train, to use the suit, rather than Hope, who knows how to use the suit, is an equal-if-not-superior fighter, knows the facility, and has an in with Cross. After what happened to Janet, there's no way Hank would put his daughter in that kind of danger. The fact that this isn't obvious to Hope speaks volumes about their estrangement. Scott, to his credit, picked it up right away, which makes sense as he's a father himself. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: After Cross kills Ant-thony by shooting him, and, even though he doesn't say it, even more so when he goes for Cassie. | |
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Odd Name Out | |
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Odd Name Out: Scott, Janet and Paxton all do not fit to the aforementioned Family Theme Naming (see above). This makes it doubly true for Scott when he started working with Hank and his daughter Hope. | |
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Secret Test of Thieving Skill | |
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Secret Test of Thieving Skill: After Scott breaks into Pym's mansion and the safe containing the Ant-Man suit, Pym reveals he planted the rumor that led Scott to the safe so that he could see Scott in action. | |
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Magic Countdown | |
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Magic Countdown: When Scott awaits in a jail cell, Hank sends in his ants to deliver the Ant-Man suit while miniaturized to him. The ants use their bodies to form the numbers of a ten-second countdown, signifying how long he has before the cop arrives. We see it at nine before he stands up to get changed, yet somehow has the entire suit zipped up and on with only the helmet needed by the time four seconds are left. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Scott's daughter Cassie is a brunette rather than a blonde. Lang himself is a redhead in the comic, and black-haired in the film. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: Hope bitterly recounts how her dad sent her to boarding school after her mother died when she was seven, and shut himself up in his lab. She says she had to deal with the grief alone, as a child. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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For the sake of comedy, "Ant-thony"'s wings sound almost exactly like helicopter propellers. | |
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Toxic Phlebotinum | |
| Ant-Man / int_a6c02661 | comment |
Toxic Phlebotinum: Exposure to Pym Particles damages the brain without proper protection. Hank Pym also notes that he can no longer use the suit despite wanting to, suggesting that prolonged exposure even with a proper suit has its drawbacks. Either that or earlier versions of the suit lacked proper protection and now Hank is too sensitive to Pym Particles for the protection to work for him anymore. Though Captain America: Civil War implies that modern technology finally let them step around it (and then some!) | |
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Recycled Premise | |
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Recycled Premise: Once more, a Marvel superhero in his first MCU movie must fight an enemy that has a newer, more powerful version of his own powers, like in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Anyone who turns off the suit's regulator and goes to sub-atomic levels will continue to shrink and shrink until they reach a state of existence that is beyond the boundaries of time and space, and are doomed to remain there forever — though Scott manages to find a way out of this. | |
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Men Are Generic, Women Are Special | |
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"Ant-thony" is clearly a winged queen, yet everyone refers to Ant-thony with male pronouns.note Male carpenter ants, which are rare and exist primarily for breeding purposes, have small heads relative to their thoraxes, and long narrow abdomens. Ant-thony has a large head with prominent mandibles and a plump abdomen more similar to a female's. Compare top (female) with bottom (male)◊. However, according to this◊, Ant-thony is indeed female. | |
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Destroy the Product Placement | |
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Destroy the Product Placement: Averted when Ant-Man is fighting Yellowjacket by throwing toy train cars at him but only throws generic, off-brand ones rather than Thomas the Tank Engine's actual coaches Annie and Clarabelle. Inverted when Thomas gets enlarged to the size of a real train, causing a lot of destruction in the process. There's also the Lifesaver hard candies. When Ant-Man and Yellowjacket fight inside the briefcase falling through the sky one of the green candies gets obliterated by Yellowjacket's lasers. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Luis mentions that he's the only guy who ever managed to knock out "Peaches" in the San Quentin departure ritual. He's not kidding; his right cross later turns out to be devastating. Scott's inventiveness is showcased during the burglary of the Pym household as he improvises methods for getting past both a fingerprint scanner and a Carbondale safe using household tools. He also does some tinkering with the Ant-Man suit before Hank warns him off. Towards the end he figures a way out of the Quantum Realm using a spare enlarging disk he had in his pocket. During the Training Montage, Hope frequently uses an Sankaku Jime (a Judo choke more popularly known as a Triangle choke) on Scott. He uses that technique himself on The Falcon (much to Hope's pride) and some mook during the climatic heist.note Technically a strangle. Judo permits "strangling" (which it defines as occluding the carotid arteries) but not "choking" (which it defines as occluding the trachea). Outside of martial arts, choking happens from within the trachea while strangling happens from without. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Cross gloating that the Yellowjacket suit is made of titanium (as Lang is struggling to get into the Yellowjacket suit) turned out to his undoing. Lang then shrinks to subatomic (knowing full well how Pym's wife was lost) in order to save his daughter, killing Cross in the process. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Moments after the Mass "Oh, Crap!" mentioned above, our hero finds himself up against Falcon, who has goggles enabling him to see Ant-Man even when he's small. | |
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DestructionPorn | |
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Destruction Porn: Thoroughly skewered in the final battle. While fighting aboard Cassie's Thomas the Tank Engine train set, Ant-Man and Yellowjacket are flinging train cars at one another in the sort of spectacularly destructive display one would expect from a superhero movie. And then the camera pulls out to show a bunch of toy train pieces clattering impotently across the room, no danger to anyone. | |
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The Missus and the Ex | |
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The Missus and the Ex: Scott's relationship and interactions with his ex-wife's new fiancee Paxton is integral to the plot. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Paxton combines this with Deadpan Snarker when referring to Scott: | |
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Shrink Ray | |
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Shrink Ray: Cross hasn't perfected the technology to successfully shrink a person and survive the process, so he uses a handgun-like prototype to commit murder and dispose of the body, now a small puddle of Ludicrous Gibs which he flushes down the toilet. The Ant-Man suit doesn't have weapons, but Hank develops small devices that can shrink objects or enlarge them to enormous size. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: What awaits anyone who turns off the suit's regulator and goes to subatomic. The presumed fate of the original Wasp. This almost happens to Scott himself. | |
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Talk to the Fist | |
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People getting suckerpunched. | |
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Megaton Punch | |
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Megaton Punch: One of Ant-Man's powers put to full effect. Sneak up beside somebody's face and deck 'em with full-sized human strength... but focused at a pinpoint spot. Ouch. | |
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The Anticipator | |
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The Anticipator: Ant-Man gets all the way to his target only to find the Yellowjacket snatched away and himself Lured into a Trap by a smug Cross, who's not only figured that Hank had a suit stashed away, but also that Scott Lang is the man he recruited to wear it. However Cross assumes they're just intending to steal the suit, and the destruction of his entire research facility takes him by surprise. | |
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Alien Geometries | |
| Ant-Man / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Alien Geometries: The sub-atomic Quantum Realm has to be seen to be believed. The closest comparison is that it is akin to a reality that looks like a kaleidoscope. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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In the prologue, Mitchell Carson mocks Hank's dead wife, which causes Howard Stark to close his eyes in disgust and leads Hank to smash his head on the table before being restrained by Peggy. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: | |
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Politeness Judo | |
| Ant-Man / int_b6b6355f | comment |
When confronting Falcon, Scott attempts Politeness Judo to obtain the gadget Hank needs, unmasking himself and being completely honest. Falcon doesn't believe him and tries to take Scott into custody. | |
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Not-So-Innocent Whistle | |
| Ant-Man / int_b82017fa | comment |
Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Invoked by Luis, who asks if he can whistle when he has to infiltrate Pym Technologies as a security guard. Despite being told not to, he does it anyway. It ends up not mattering in the slightest. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Ant-Man / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Hank Pym, the first Ant-Man in the comics, is a supporting character. The movie focuses on Scott Lang instead. Though Pym is still the first Ant-Man, he only dons the suit in flashbacks. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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There's also the Lifesaver hard candies. When Ant-Man and Yellowjacket fight inside the briefcase falling through the sky one of the green candies gets obliterated by Yellowjacket's lasers. | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man: Ant-Man's superpower is shrinking to the size of an ant. | |
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Unscientific Science | |
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Hank claims in a moment of Unscientific Science Pym Particles are meant to shrink the distance between atoms, yet they can also be used to shrink a macro sized object down to the Quantum Realm, which is smaller than atoms. However, if this was true, not only should atomic fission occur at some point, Scott should've eventually approached the density of a highly unstable black hole and released enough energy in the form of Hawking Radiation to utterly annihilate planet Earth. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Ant-Man / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Once Scott sees the supposedly abandoned building Hank ordered him to raid is the new Avengers HQ, his reaction is "You son of a bitch!" When Hank catches Scott and Hope making out, and Scott is quickly trying to explain it, Hank simply says "Scott, you're full of shit." | |
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Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight | |
| Ant-Man / int_bc0346e2 | comment |
Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Scott Lang in the original, 50+ year old Ant-Man suit, versus Darren Cross in the brand new, top-of-the-line Yellowjacket suit. It's downplayed however, if not even averted, since the years in between were spent trying to replicate the technology that made the original suit work (the only effective innovation added on it being the lasers). It's been shown that the Ant-Man suit was at least taken care of and repaired (at least by Scott) after it was dusted off and Hank developed two new weapons to use with the suit (one of which is used against Yellowjacket effectively), and the Yellowjacket suit is a prototype that was never even tested before the fight, while the Ant-Man suit went through a lot of testing and Scott took his time training himself to properly use it. | |
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Sizeshifter | |
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Size Shifter: The Ant-Man suit allows its wearer to shrink in size, yet gain far more strength than they have at normal size. | |
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Distant Prologue | |
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Distant Prologue: The movie opens in 1989, with Hank Pym breaking with S.H.I.E.L.D. after they try to duplicate his work behind his back. It then skips forward about twenty-five years, to what a caption informs us is "The Present Day". | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Everyone that takes a shot at Scott while he's ant-sized gets really, really, really close to hitting him. Darren actually gets so close he manages to hit the ant Scott was riding, but still miss him. | |
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter | |
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Hope van Dyne, who is estranged from her father Hank after the death of her mother. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Scott is a former thief trying to go straight by helping Hank Pym. This, of course, turns out to involve committing another heist, albeit one that will save lives. Although he has his record, several people admire him for robbing a company that robbed others, including Hank. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Hank is a retired superhero who is mostly around as an inventor and Mission Control. He also has a shrunken tank in his pocket, which he can use in a pinch as a weapon by growing it out. This status reflects a similar status while in the West Coast Avengers. He was retired during this period, acted as the team's Smart Guy, and often contained items and weapons in his pocket which were infused with Pym particles, allowing him to grow and shrink them depending on what he needed. He even had a tank. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: In contrast to the comics, where their relationship is all kinds of messed up, Hank and Janet were very happy and loving together. | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name: Hope calls her father Hank throughout, stemming from her long-seated resentment toward him. | |
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Wrong Restaurant | |
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Wrong Restaurant: In one scene, a guy is at a Baskin-Robbins (which serves ice cream) and tries to order a burger, then a pretzel, and finally, "whatever's hot and fresh." | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: The intro, which takes place in 1989 and featuring both an aging Peggy Carter and Howard Stark. As well as Hank's last mission with his wife in 1987. | |
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Ill Girl | |
| Ant-Man / int_c235ac60 | comment |
The movie itself is a loose modern retelling of Scott's debut storyline, To Steal an Ant-Man. Like the comic, Darren Cross is the villain, Scott is an ex-criminal tasked with stealing the Ant-Man suit, and Cassie Lang is a major motivation for him becoming a hero (though she's not an Ill Girl here). However, like many things, the story is expanded, changed, and as mentioned, modernized to fit the MCU. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: WHiH acts as this, as a news broadcast within a film about events within the film universe. | |
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Crawl | |
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There is a brief bit in the news crawl that mentions that the countries attacked by Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron are now demanding accountability from the Avengers. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Scott got fired from Baskin-Robbins for omitting his criminal background. In real life, Baskin-Robbins does accept ex-criminals for hiring, provided that they reveal it during their application or run the risk of losing their job for lying. Scott eagerly takes up Pym on his offer to become Ant-Man because he's tired of being a thief and wants to keep his freedom. Pym then reveals that his new "job" will involve him stealing stuff. He winds up spending a good portion of the film planning and committing acts of thievery under Pym's employ and very nearly gets re-incarcerated for it. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Scott Lang has a Master's in Electrical Engineering and beats people up as the superhero Ant-Man. Hope van Dyne is the daughter of a genius scientist, senior board member of Pym Technologies, and trains Scott in martial arts. Hank Pym is the aforementioned genius scientist and was a Cold-War-era superhero. Darren Cross was Hank's protégé, successfully recreates Hank's technology with only incomplete blueprints of a prototype to start from, and becomes Yellowjacket. | |
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Let's You and Him Fight | |
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Let's You and Him Fight: Ant-Man gets into an unexpected fight with the Falcon, and wins. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: "And Michael Douglas as Hank Pym." | |
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Heroic Willpower | |
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In the Sub-Atomic Realm, Scott shouldn't be able to hear his daughter's cries for him, and yet he does. He might have heard her cry out earlier and remembered it later when summoning up the Heroic Willpower to reverse the sub-atomic shrinking. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Ant-Man / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Collected in their own subpage for this movie. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The reason why Hope is so good at martial arts and is overly-violent when training Scott; she resented how her father pushed her away in the wake of her mother's death and turned to fighting as an outlet for her grief and anger and is currently resentful of how she was passed over in putting on the Ant-Man suit. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: The trailer contains this line in reference to the Ant-Man moniker: | |
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Last-Minute Hookup | |
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Last Minute Hookup: Scott and Hope, much to Hank's shock and dismay. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: Scott Lang is the second person to take the role of Ant-Man, following Hank Pym. Hope becomes the new Wasp in the first stinger (no pun intended). | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman: Scott has a suit that not only shrinks but gives him superhuman strength and speed, but Hope still has to teach him how to punch. The explanation given is that it's more about controlling his punches (too hard and he can kill a person, too soft and nothing happens). | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Carried over from the Small Time comic, a video showing security footage of Scott's robbery shows that the boss's car has a "ONEPR¢R" ("one-percenter") Vanity License Plate. | |
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Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness | |
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Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness: Darren Cross clearly isn't a nice person (see Obviously Evil above), but for what it's worth, it's mentioned numerous times that at least part of the reason for his villainy may be exposure to the Pym Particles damaging his brain. Hope even mentions at the end that Cross is "sick" (as in unwell) and that she can help him. | |
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BeyondTheImpossible | |
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Beyond the Impossible: Pym warned Lang that if he ever goes subatomic, he would shrink forever, and would never be able to grow back to full size. At one point, he took the risk anyway, to save his daughter. Yet, he managed to grow up again thanks to one of the growing disks he was given by Pym himself. | |
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The Aesthetics of Technology | |
| Ant-Man / int_cd52fd56 | comment |
The Aesthetics of Technology: The Yellowjacket suit is designed to look more modern than the Ant-Man suit with gratuitous hexagonal designs on the yellow parts. | |
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Seen It All | |
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Seen It All: Falcon reacts to a man the size of an ant growing back to full size like it's an everyday occurance. | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: the T-34/85 tank on Hank's keychain isn't just a novelty, it's actually a shrunk-down fully functional tank that Hank can un-shrink at a moment's notice. | |
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No Sense of Personal Space | |
| Ant-Man / int_cdb45c07 | comment |
No Sense of Personal Space: Darren Cross has a disturbing tendency to get very close to people he's dealing with, especially Hank and Hope. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
| Ant-Man / int_ce27dc3f | comment |
Protagonist Title: Ant-Man. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Ant-Man / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: This movie has a lot more humor and comedy than most of the MCU films (though all of them have plenty of comedic moments), similarly to Guardians of the Galaxy. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: The S.H.I.E.L.D. footage Darren Cross shows early on of Hank killing communists and other threats to US national security during the Cold War is handwaved by Hank (and initially believed by Cross himself) as being tall tales and propaganda. Except it all happened, and then some. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Ant-Man / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The first trailer takes the "My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over" line (as well as Pym's echoing response) and replaces the word "shit" with "stuff." | |
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MundaneMadeAwesome | |
| Ant-Man / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: Given it deals with really small perspectives, many things seem awesome and/or menacing when you're insect-sized. For instance, Ant-Man running through a building model that is being shot seems on the same class as the Avengers on a crumbling building. Ant-Man and Yellowjacket have what appears to them to be an epic miniature battle on a train set, which at normal size just looks like a bunch of plastic toys being knocked over. Not that Pym Particles are mundane, but what do you do when you're trapped in a building that is locked down, surrounded by cops and about to explode? Embiggen the tank you shrank down and disguised as a key chain to bulldoze through the walls. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
| Ant-Man / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Done quite literally between Hope and Scott who slap each other during sparing and kiss at the end. | |
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Gypsy Curse | |
| Ant-Man / int_d2c125f3 | comment |
Gypsy Curse: When Scott demonstrates the Ant-Man suit to his friends, Kurt panics and exclaims it's the work of gypsies. | |
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Square-Cube Law | |
| Ant-Man / int_d4055b8b | comment |
Square-Cube Law: Zig-zagged. Pym Particles can turn a normal-sized human into the size of an ant while retaining his original strength and his mass drops accordingly, however they don't die from heat loss or their increased metabolism making them starve to death or asphyxiate from having too little oxygen (the oxygen part is visually handwaved by making the helmet look like it has attached breathing equipment). Likewise, an ant gets enlarged to dog-sized proportions and seems to gain mass, but it isn't crushed under its own weight the way an enlarged ant really would be. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
| Ant-Man / int_d5d976dd | comment |
Lang suggests changing the "Ant-Man" name. Pym is prone to changing his superhero name a lot. | |
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UnusuallyUninterestingSight | |
| Ant-Man / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Almost all the fight scenes done in microscopic scale have the entire dramatic nature of them sucked out of them the moment it pans out, and the real-world scale of the fight is literally infinitesimal. Even the dramatic showdown between Ant-Man and Yellowjacket has several moments where you see a dramatic heave... then it pans out to show the real distance of that dramatic throw. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Ant-Man / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Luis shows up to help Scott in his final battle against the Yellowjacket...and then backs the van up and leaves when he sees the house is surrounded by cops. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Ant-Man / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Hope, to the point that she's actually the one who teaches Scott how to fight. Hank Pym's wife Janet used to be the Wasp, before she sacrificed herself by going sub-atomic to stop a Soviet ICBM. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
| Ant-Man / int_daef39ee | comment |
Elaborate Underground Base: Although his house is by no means small, Hank Pym's basement is repeatedly revealed to be larger than it appears, containing multiple safes, vaults, a research and monitoring station, and a decent-sized personal gym. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
| Ant-Man / int_db33bc7e | comment |
Cross hasn't perfected the technology to successfully shrink a person and survive the process, so he uses a handgun-like prototype to commit murder and dispose of the body, now a small puddle of Ludicrous Gibs which he flushes down the toilet. | |
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Battle Couple | |
| Ant-Man / int_db39ccfd | comment |
Battle Couple: Hank and Janet were this back in the day. Their successors, Scott and Hope, will be this in the upcoming films. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
| Ant-Man / int_db4b76d1 | comment |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Trust them to put this overused line in the one movie where it'd make sense. | |
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Off to Boarding School | |
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Off to Boarding School: Part of the estrangement between Hank and Hope comes from the fact he sent her to a boarding school after her mother died. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Lang's wife is called "Peggy" in the comics and "Maggie" in the film, probably to avoid confusion with Peggy Carter. Justifiable though since both names are derived from "Margaret". Maggie Lang's new husband is named Paxton. In the comics, his name is Blake Burdick. | |
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Something We Forgot | |
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Something We Forgot: So, the big fight is over. Do you remember about the enlarged Thomas The Tank Engine that destroyed some cop cars? Or the ant that was enlarged to the size of a dog? Don't worry, they are still there. | |
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Continuity Cameo | |
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Continuity Cameo: Peggy Carter and Howard Stark appear in the prologue. The Falcon appears in two scenes, while Captain America and Bucky Barnes both appear in The Stinger. | |
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Distant Reaction Shot | |
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Distant Reaction Shot: Repeatedly played for laughs, especially in the climax, where the small-scale action is revealed to look pretty unremarkable at normal size. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: The young customer in Baskin-Robbins who keeps ordering things impossible to find in the store seemingly has no idea what Baskin-Robbins is.note Baskin-Robbins is an ice cream store, in case you aren't familiar with it, either. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: Peggy's best advice for the ill-experienced lab tech on his first solo mission in the field? When in doubt of what to do, improvise. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Hope for Darren Cross. He treats her with courtesy and listens to her opinions, especially in how they're Not So Different over how Hank has treated them and teamed up to kick Hank out of the company. If she hadn't been at Hank's house, albeit hidden, Darren would have killed her father. By the end of this movie Darren stops thinking of her this way when she pulls a gun on him to save Hank. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: Dave provides one for Hank Pym by stealing a police car and doing donuts to distract the police who are about to arrest Pym. | |
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Composite Character | |
| Ant-Man / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Janet disappeared after helping invent the Ant-Man gear, making her a mix of comics Janet and Pym's first wife, Maria. In a combo of Composite and Decomposite Character, film Yellowjacket is Darren Cross, a completely separate character in the comics. The Yellowjacket suit also has mechanical legs like the Ant-Man suit worn by Eric O'Grady. And while Ultron already exists as a separate character in the MCU, Cross takes on many traits of Ultron's comic counterpart, being a "son" of sorts to Pym with serious daddy issues. Hope sports her mother Janet's trademark bob hairstyle, and by the end of the movie fulfills her mother's role as both Ant-Man's love interest and the new Wasp. Hank's action of lending the mantle "Ant-Man" to Scott is from his Earth-616 counterpart, but his age, the fact that he has a daughter named Hope who had a Face–Heel Turn and his missing wife is Janet instead of Maria is astonishingly similar to his Marvel Comics 2 counterpart. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: Hank and his daughter Hope. Scott's ex-wife Maggie and their daughter Cassie. For additional bonus, both ladies have same letters before their similar ones. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Scott is a former burglar, fresh out of prison. He's trying to turn over a new leaf and leave his old life behind. It turns out, however, that the skills he perfected as a thief are exactly what Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, needs to stop a powerful villain. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Scott doesn't remember any specific details from his visit in the Microverse. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| Ant-Man / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: Played with. One battle between Scott and Cross has a miniaturized Scott rushing a normal-sized Cross as he fires lasers at Scott in his mechanized Yellowjacket suit. | |
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The Mole | |
| Ant-Man / int_e70127 | comment |
Hope asks why she can't wear the suit, since she has the know-how and combat training that Scott is gaining over weeks. Hank says it's because she needs to be The Mole to Darren Cross, and he doesn't want to lose her the way he lost her mother. | |
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All Animals Are Dogs | |
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All Animals Are Dogs: The ant that gets enlarged to nearly human size is mistaken for a really ugly dog by the bystanders (it's dark out) and later it's seen hiding under the dinner table while Cassie feeds it scraps from her plate when her parents aren't looking. There's also the crazy ant that Scott first encounters the first time he trains his ant-control powers, that appears to sniff his hand like a dog, then happily tackles him and starts cuddling. It's actually adorable, then the rest of the crazy ants want to cuddle too. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: Hank, mission oriented (Superego, bordering on Ego). Scott, mission oriented like Hank but not afraid to speak his mind like Hope (Ego, bordering on Id). Hope, assertive and blunt (Id, bordering on Superego). | |
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Adaptation Origin Connection | |
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Adaptation Origin Connection: In the film, Darren Cross is made the former protégé of Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man), and later becomes Yellowjacket, the Evil Counterpart of Scott Lang (the new Ant-Man). Edgar Wright cited the use of this trope in Iron Man as a major inspiration, arguing that the hero and villain getting their powers from the same source makes for a simpler and more coherent story. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Try to whistleblow on a corrupt executive? Fired. (This with a "Whistleblower: Know Your Rights" poster in the background.) | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: Almost immediately after Hank reveals the truth about his wife's death/disappearance to Hope and they reconcile, Scott has to open his big fat mouth. Happens a second time when Hank walks in on Hope and Scott making out. | |
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Wall Crawl | |
| Ant-Man / int_ed98f038 | comment |
An unintentional onenote The line was written before the announcement that Spider-Man would have a place in the MCU: In the ending, a journalist mentions "We got a guy who jumps. We got a guy who swings. We got a guy who crawls up the walls. You gotta be more specific!", referencing the appearance of Marvel's resident wall-crawler in Captain America: Civil War. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One Steve Limit: With Peggy Carter having become such a popular character in the MCU, Scott's ex-wife Margaret is instead known as Maggie. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Hank and Hope make liberal use of the ant-controlling tech for things like putting sugar in tea. Scott uses his superpowers to sneak into his daughter's bedroom to see her one last time before the big heist. | |
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Friend on the Force | |
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Friend on the Force: Paxton becomes this toward the end. After Scott helps save Cassie from Yellowjacket, Paxton fudges the records regarding Scott's escape from custody so he won't face jail time, and invites him to dinner with Cassie. | |
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Decomposite Character | |
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Decomposite Character: Yellowjacket is the villain of the film, though he is Darren Cross instead of Hank Pym. | |
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Last Episode, New Character | |
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Last Episode, New Character: Since this film is the Season Finale for Phase 2, then technically everyone in this film sans Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Stan Lee, the Falcon, Captain America and Bucky Barnes are this. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Hope doesn't like Scott much in the beginning. That doesn't stop her from checking out his abs though. | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual: Falcon's goggles have magnification technology powerful enough to enable him to see Ant-Man. | |
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Underhanded Hero | |
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Underhanded Hero: Scott is a former burglar, fresh out of prison. He's trying to turn over a new leaf and leave his old life behind. It turns out, however, that the skills he perfected as a thief are exactly what Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, needs to stop a powerful villain. In his second appearance (Captain America: Civil War), Scott acts as a booby-trap when Spidey steal Cap's shield, spends most of the fight messing with the insides of Tony's suit, and provides an enormous distraction so that Cap and Bucky can get away. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: Averted. Luis's dilapidated old van looks like a setup for this trope, but it goes through the film without giving the team a lick of trouble, especially since wheelman Dave is shown tuning up the van in preparation for the Pym safe heist. (If only he had done something about that distinctive car horn, though...) | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: When Luis starts saying that he Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy, he usually falls into this territory, instead of keeping focused on the actual stuff he should be telling. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Upon getting out of jail, Scott gets a job at Baskin-Robbins. An iPod and Siri pop up in the climax for a gag. Thomas the Tank Engine features prominently—and hilariously—in the climax. A police officer drops an empty container of Yakult when he sees Scott is gone. Which explains the very confusing ads Yakult had. | |
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Tagline | |
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Tagline: "Heroes don't get any bigger." | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
| Ant-Man / int_f5b7b990 | comment |
Verbal Backspace: When Scott is discovered by Sam Wilson (The Falcon): | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: When a security guard demands to know what Luis (dressed as a security guard) is doing in the pump room, Luis says that his boss sent him to secure the area. Unfortunately he's talking to the security chief. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: Emily the housekeeper, who provides generous Male Gaze during Luis's storytelling and how Luis mentions that her breasts being the first Luis ever touched. | |
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Movie Superheroes Wear Black | |
| Ant-Man / int_f8ba8ea8 | comment |
Movie Superheroes Wear Black: The Ant-Man costume is a lot darker than the one from the comics, but still has red in the chest area. The black leather is so prominent that Lang initially mistakes the costume for motorcycle gear. The Yellowjacket suit is primarily black, but with bright yellow highlights. Makes sense, since this is the exact coloration of its namesake, both in the comics and real life. The Wasp costume is black and yellow. | |
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RunningGag | |
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Running Gag: People constantly being underwhelmed by the name "Ant-Man" in the trailers. People getting suckerpunched. | |
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Car Cushion | |
| Ant-Man / int_fb933192 | comment |
Car Cushion: Played with. Scott lands on a taxi at the end of his first outing with the Ant-Man suit, but since he's miniaturized at the time it only causes a small dent. And then he returns to normal size, puzzling the driver. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
| Ant-Man / int_fbba5e98 | comment |
Gadgeteer Genius: Scott builds his own tools for his heists, and was jailed after breaking into a company with impossible-to-bypass security. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
| Ant-Man / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Pym Particles are somehow able to alter mass and energy transfer properties separate from weight, shrink multiple atoms down to smaller than a single atom can even be, and other things completely impossible in the real-world — sometimes for drama, sometimes for comedy. In the final battle, Scott throws what appears to be a massive train at Yellowjacket, only to zoom way back to show that he's getting a toy train thrown at him, which in no way affects the rest of the table despite Yellowjacket being afraid it'll crush him. Hank claims in a moment of Unscientific Science Pym Particles are meant to shrink the distance between atoms, yet they can also be used to shrink a macro sized object down to the Quantum Realm, which is smaller than atoms. However, if this was true, not only should atomic fission occur at some point, Scott should've eventually approached the density of a highly unstable black hole and released enough energy in the form of Hawking Radiation to utterly annihilate planet Earth. Hope claims Scott retains his mass when he's ant-sized, hence why his punches still hurt. Normally however, this would mean that he would still weigh as much as a human, and thus crush any ant he'd try to ride on. And yet Scott clearly becomes lighter. Similarly instead of losing density when they grow, which would make the giant Thomas the Tank Engine too light to crush a police car, things that Scott uses his size increasing discs on seem to gain additional mass entirely from some effect of the Pym Particles. Even the first scene where Scott shrinks is inconsistent. He smashes tiles, break through ceilings and dent cars when he jumps or falls, and yet is also light enough that he is thrown around by water droplets and can be knocked onto a vinyl record without breaking it. Hank and Hope grow a T-34/85 tank that Hank had disguised as a charm on a keychain, which similar to Scott lost weight when shrunk, weighing the same as a normal keychain charm. In the Sub-Atomic Realm, Scott shouldn't be able to hear his daughter's cries for him, and yet he does. He might have heard her cry out earlier and remembered it later when summoning up the Heroic Willpower to reverse the sub-atomic shrinking. It is never explained why titanium should be so problematic for Ant-Man to deal with — more likely this is a case of the writers making use of the common misconception that titanium is a supermetal with amazing properties. Fortunately, this gets addressed in Ant-Man and the Wasp, where instead of pointing out that certain objects are built with titanium, they are simply too thick for Ant-Man and Wasp's wrist lasers to cut through while shrunk. | |
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WellIntentionedExtremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Daren Cross believes he's advancing scientific progress by spreading the Pym Particle technology. Though the "well-intentioned" part slips away along with his sanity from prolonged unprotected exposure to Pym Particles. | |
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MacGyvering: When breaking into Hank Pym's house, Scott gets past two very different security systems from two different centuries with some basic appliances and materials. | |
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Hope screaming "DAD!" when Hank is shot by Cross counts, given that by her and his earlier admissions, Hope hasn't referred to her father by that word since she was a child. | |
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Strawman News Media | |
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Strawman News Media: As revealed during the interview with Scott (or earlier if you noticed the Freeze-Frame Bonus), WHiH is owned by Scott's former employers. Scott assumes they're out to continue slandering him and makes sarcastic remarks about it at every opportunity. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: After firing him from Baskin-Robbins, Scott's now-former boss says he'll look the other way if he wants to help himself to a smoothie on his way out. Scott takes him up on that offer. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: In the Quantum Realm, when Scott tries to replace the now broken regulator on his belt with an enlarger disc, he loses grasp of said disc and it floats a short distance away from him, where he has to try several times (despite it still being well within reach and he being trained in martial arts at this point) to grab it. From a physics point of view, this makes perfect sense — at the quantum level, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is in full effect. Where you see an object may not actually be where it is. | |
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Fauxshadow | |
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Fauxshadow: In the opening flashback, Pym says S.H.I.E.L.D. can get his Pym Particles over his dead body, and acts as the mentor to Scott though the film. In the climax he gets shot and it seems like he's going to be trapped when a bomb that's planted goes off, but he ends up living though the film. | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You: What Scott learns when he shrinks for the first time and is not ready for the environment: he is almost drowned by a bathtub and chased by a rat, literally falls through the cracks of his apartment floor, almost gets cut in half by the needle of a rotating phonograph, and has to dodge the feet of dancers on a dance floor. | |
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