Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania delivers various shocking reveals that affect Scott Lang's family and the MCU as a whole. Kicking off Phase 5, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania sets up the rest of the Multiverse Saga with the help of Jonathan Majors' debut as Kang the Conqueror. Ant-Man's fight against the Multiverse Saga's main villain is only the beginning of Kang's war on the Avengers, which will reach an epic climax in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
Ant-Man and his allies have fought the Avengers' next big villain after Thanos, and none of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes realize it. Given that both Kang the Conqueror and Ant-Man are expected to play a big role in future movies, the result of their first battle was always destined to be a surprising one. But the final installment in the MCU's Ant-Man trilogy brings more than one surprise. These are the ten biggest spoilers from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, including the movie's two post-credits scenes.
10 Kang Has Already Destroyed Multiple Timelines
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania reveals that Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet Van Dyne helped Kang the Conqueror fix his Multiversal ship after he crashed inside the Quantum Realm. While finishing their repairs, Janet Van Dyne accidentally connects her mind to Kang's ship, which shows her Kang's previous trips across the MCU Multiverse. Before their encounter, Kang had destroyed an unknown number of universes, convinced that his fate is "to win" in the most violent sense of the word. Not only has Kang ravaged countless worlds — and killed myriad Avengers variants, including a Kang-killed Thor — but he has also erased whole timelines from existence.
9 Kang Was Exiled To The Quantum Realm By His Variants
Kang's genocidal streak earned him an exile into the Quantum Realm. Since then, Kang has sworn vengeance on the people who cast him out. It's only until Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's mid-credits scene that the audience gets to know exactly who banished Kang: the Council of Kangs, a committee of Kang variants who seemingly try to preserve their own corners of the multiverse. But after Ant-Man and his family defeat Kang, they unknowingly take his place as the biggest threats to the Council of Kangs.
8 Janet Van Dyne Imprisoned Kang Inside The Quantum Realm
In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's flashback scenes, Janet van Dyne forges what she believes to be a genuine friendship with the Conqueror. When Janet Van Dyne is working with Kang on fixing his ship, Kang promises Janet that if she helps him escape, he will use his machine to help her to return home as if she never left. However, their bond isn't strong enough for Janet to sacrifice her morals, so she destroys Kang's Multiversal engine in order to avoid more destruction across the multiverse. Both get stuck in the Quantum Realm, and Janet's escape during the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp infuriates Kang even more.
7 Krylar Betrayed The Freedom Fighters & Helped Kang The Conqueror
At some point within the 30 years Janet Van Dyne spent in the Quantum Realm, she had a fling with another inhabitant of the microscopic universe, Bill Murray's Lord Krylar. Unbeknownst to Janet, the former Freedom Fighter acquired influence in the Quantum Realm by betraying his fellow rebels and selling out to Kang. Despite their shared past, Krylar attempts to hand Janet over to Kang, but his shameless acknowledgment of a fling with Janet gets on Hank Pym's nerves and incites the older Ant-Man to enlarge an octopus and leave Krylar behind to be eaten by the animal he often likes to eat alive.
6 Multiversal Variants Are Living Probabilities
Kang the Conqueror needs Ant-Man to shrink and fix his multiversal engine in order to escape the Quantum Realm. When Scott Lang attempts it, the engine's multiversal properties cause Scott to split into infinite variants, each of them being a probability of his immediate future. This reveal might become key to understanding the nature of the MCU's Multiversal variants, as it suggests that every character in the Multiverse has a shared origin. Ant-Man's variants evolve so fast that they spawn a variant who kept working at Baskin-Robbins, so it makes sense that there are Doctor Strange variants who become evil and a Wanda Maximoff who doesn't become the Scarlet Witch.
5 MODOK Helps Defeat Kang (& Dies)
At some point before Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Kang the Conqueror turned Corey Stoll's Darren Cross, previously known as Ant-Man's villain Yellowjacket, into MODOK. Kang helped Darren recover after Scott Lang shrunk him, giving him a mechanical exoskeleton and a wide array of weapons. Despite turning him into "the perfect killing machine," Kang abused MODOK, which allows Kathryn Newton's Cassie Lang to convince MODOK to rebel and help the heroes break Kang's shield, blowing himself up in the process. MODOK makes peace with Scott and his family, declares himself an Avenger, and dies. However, MODOK can never be trusted, so it's still possible that he faked his death.
4 Wasp Apparently Kills Kang The Conqueror
Every member of the Ant-Family plays a part in Kang the Conqueror's defeat. While Janet van Dyne breaks free from Kang, Cassie Lang leads the Freedom Fighters to fight against Kang's army, Hank Pym orders his army of ants to break Kang's shields, and Scott Lang beats up Kang with brute force. After Ant-Man and Kang's brutal hand-to-hand fight, Scott Lang destroys the Multiversal engine, and Wasp returns to keep Kang from leaving by shooting at him and pushing him into his breaking ship. Whether Quantumania's Kang the Conqueror variant actually dies in that moment is yet to be confirmed.
3 Every Hero Survives The Events Of Quantumania
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has extremely high stakes, as letting Kang the Conqueror escape the Quantum Realm would likely doom the entire MCU Multiverse. With the odds stacked against them, the possibility of a casualty in the Ant-Family was high. Fortunately, every hero makes it to the end credits alive. Hank Pym survives crashing his ship, Janet van Dyne escapes after being captured, Cassie Lang rallies the Freedom Fighters all by herself, and both Ant-Man and the Wasp manage to escape the Quantum Realm in the nick of time. Even most of the main Freedom Fighters survive as well — even David Dastmalchian's Veb after being shot multiple times by Kang's soldiers.
2 Kang's Defeat Awakens The Council Of Kangs
Kang the Conqueror is the Council of Kangs' biggest threat, so they decided to exile him to the MCU's Quantum Realm. But even though Kang's defeat would seem like a positive contribution to their mission, the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania mid-credits scene shows that the Council of Kangs deems Kang's possible death an even bigger threat to their vision for the multiverse. Led by Immortus, Rama-Tut, and a variant who may or may not be the Scarlet Centurion, the Council of Kangs gets ready to intervene directly in the MCU Multiverse by gathering hundreds or perhaps thousands of Kangs of all different shapes and sizes.
1 Loki Finds Kang's Variant, Victor Timely
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's post-credits scene introduces yet another Kang variant. On Earth, Victor Timely is located by none other than Tom Hiddleston's Loki and Owen Wilson's Mobius M. Mobius, who appear to be tracking down any Kang variant they can find after He Who Remains' death. In Marvel Comics, Victor Timely is a Kang variant who becomes a successful scientist and businessman. The Loki season 2 may pit Loki against this version of Kang, who may be backed up by the Council of Kangs.
