'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' has 2 important post-credits scenes. Here is what they mean.
Eammon Jacobs
- "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" introduces Jonathan Majors as Kang, the MCU's new big bad.
- The mid-credits scene delivers something important from the comics.
"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" puts Jonathan Majors' Kang in the spotlight, preparing audiences for future movies like "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" and "Avengers: Secret Wars," but the two post-credits scenes are incredibly exciting for Marvel fans.
The end of the film sees the Quantum Realm erupt into all-out war, as Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and his family try to stop Kang from using his Time Chair and the Multiverse Engine to escape from the microscopic universe with his entire army of drones, ships, and weaponry.
But after Kang dishes out a brutal beating to Ant-Man, the hero throws Pym particles at the Multiverse Engine's core, which destabilizes it and sucks Kang inside its probability field. It looks like the villain is killed when he's disintegrated by the energy, and it isn't long before Cassie opens up a portal to bring Scott and Hope out of the Quantum Realm.
The Ant-Family are reunited, they've defeated the time-traveling villain, and their lives are back to normal. So, it's a happy ending then? Not quite.
Jonathan Majors plays hordes of different Kang variants as the Council of Kangs is assembled.
The first post-credits scene sees three different Kang variants meet to discuss the death of the variant they banished to the Quantum Realm as they acknowledge that the MCU heroes are now well aware of the multiverse. This makes them a threat to their plans to control all of reality across time and space in every universe.
Although they berate the Kang who died, the trio also note that, clearly, the Avengers are now stronger than they thought, so they decide to bring the Council of Kangs together to plan how to destroy Earth-616 (where most of the MCU takes place).
It's important to note that the trio of Kangs that get most of the focus in the scene are pulled straight from the comics, with Majors playing ancient pharaoh Rama-Tut, the creepy cloak-wearing Immortus, and a cyborg Kang who looks like a combination of Scarlet Centurion and Iron Lad.
They're clearly the most senior members of the council, so fans should expect to see more of them in the future.
After this, hundreds of Kangs start teleporting into a giant arena from across the multiverse — with Majors playing every single one of them.
The scene is definitely setting the stage for the future "Avengers" movies. But the heroes will have a massive fight on their hands, considering Scott and his family narrowly managed to beat just one Kang variant — let alone hundreds of them.
Loki and Agent Mobius take a trip to the 1900s.
The second short scene picks up in the 1900s, as an eccentric inventor called Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) is giving a presentation to an audience about the nature of time. Meanwhile, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) look on from the crowd, and Loki fearfully says that "it's him."
Mobius is skeptical about Loki's discovery because Timely seems too odd to be a multiversal villain, but the God of Mischief assures him they've got the right person.
This is important, because at the end of "Loki" season one, Loki and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) figured out that a Kang variant called "He Who Remains" has been keeping the MCU timeline in check.
Before his death, the villain warned that if Sylvie killed him, the MCU would be overrun with other Kang variants. Well, it looks like he was right after that Council of Kangs scene.
The "Quantumania" scene gets audiences ready for "Loki" season two because it looks like Victor/Kang has set up shop in Wisconsin to try and build a base for himself in the past as a way of taking over the timeline as he does in 1992's "Avengers Annual" #21.
So, Loki will have a difficult job tracking the villain down through the timeline.
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