Was MODOK Ruined? (And Other Quantumania Questions)

Ant Man and the Wasp Quantumania was amazing! Nah, okay you got me. It was very much not amazing. It is altogether exhausting for these movies to keep being relentlessly mid, but this one is actually just truly awful. I had about as much fun with this as I did with Eternals; so to be exact, no fun at all.

Scott’s relationship with Cassie was one of the sweetest and most endearing thing about the previous movies, and the time jump in endgame promised to give us a new dimension to that relationship. Instead this father / daughter dynamic is devoid of chemistry and feels like it runs through all the tired cliches. Scott isn’t an attentive father, he's too stuck into his life as a superhero to notice his teen daughter going down the same roads he went down. Of course they’ve gone from having a well built relationship to her complaining that he’s letting her down constantly.

Modok is such a humungous belly flop its insane. I don’t mind the idea to make him Darren Cross, deformed from the shrinking that occurred in the first movie, as it gives him a pre-existing dynamic with Scott, Hope and Hank. Marvel notoriously kills its villains off too quickly, so this was a chance to change that up. And this is where this movie supersedes being an Ant-Man movie for being a kinda of Kang Dynasty movie instead. Surely, given the dynamic, it would have been better for Modok to have been the main villain in the quantum realm. That opening scene where Janet finds Kang crashing landing at the start of the movie? That could easily be Darren. She could have been the one that fixed him up and saved his life, maybe he's even angry at the fact that hank saved her from the realm and left him for fend for himself… again.

Ant-Man. 2015. Directed by Peyton Reed.
Ant-Man and the Wasp. 2018. Directed by Peyton Reed.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. 2023. Directed by Peyton Reed.

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