Kang the Conquerer in Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania might have been the good guy!!
(Or at least the least evil villain in this story... so hear me out! :))
I just went out to see Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania with my family and my father, who has never seen a single Marvel movie, just had the greatest speculation in the world!
Imagine: The first post credit scene showed three main Kang Variants disputing the matter of the exiled Kangs fate which resulted in them calling every single one of the remaining Kang Variants. Now, think about the short scene where Janet touched Kangs mind (and therefore most likely the other Kang's minds). And lastly, think of the way Kang asked her multiple times about what she saw and how they never had time to talk about what she had seen.
Now here's the thing my father pointed out:
What if the Kang in Quantumania was the Kang they SHOULD have let free? What if the other Kangs exiled that particular Kang because he wanted to STOP the other Kangs? What if Janet had seen what the other Kangs had done and what that Kang was trying to stop? This would make a lot more sense than just all the other remaining Kangs exiling that one Kang because he was following the same mindset. Maybe it was all just a big misunderstanding?
This especially makes sense if you include the ending of Quantumania in this debate, where Scott "overthinks" what has happened and guesses (right) that other Kangs will come and bring destruction upon the world.
Please give me some pieces if your mind in the comments. To me, this makes so much sense. xD
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You're the only one who matters
Summary
While investigating Kang, Mobius and Loki find themselves in a theater in the early 1900s. Victor Timely is on stage to make a presentation, and that's when Loki recognizes him and can't control the fear that grips him.
Mobius realizes that he has to take action.
Notes
I just came back from Antman 3 and after having watched the post credit scene that leaked everywhere, I couldn't help but write something of course...
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Rating 7 - 945 words
The curtain opened and the first thing he saw was a yellowed tree set, strange contraptions lined up on the stage, and a sign to the left that read, "Victor Timely and his astounding temporal marvel."
The crowd around him was fascinated as the silhouette of a man, whose face they could not immediately make out, was outlined against the light.
His voice rang out from the stage, cold and matter-of-fact: "It shakes our lives, but perhaps we can shake it.
At the end of the sentence, the man on stage was in the light, but Mobius' attention was drawn to a gasp from beside him. Then Loki whispered, "It's him."
Mobius, at first in disbelief, turned his head several times between Loki and the stage and whispered, "You made him sound like that terrifying figure..."
Then his gaze was fixed only on Loki as the God of Mischief whispered, his eyes fixed on the stage, "He is."
At that moment, Mobius had no doubt about the man on the stage. For Mobius had never seen Loki so terrified.
On Loki's face, he had seen the panic when Loki had told him what he had gone through to find him. He had seen the sadness when he mentioned Frigga or Thor. He had seen the fear when he spoke of Thanos. He had seen the defiance, the anger and all sorts of emotions on Loki's face.
But this pure, raw fear?
He had never seen it on Loki's face.
At that moment, it didn't matter who was on the stage, what they were investigating, or what their mission was.
Only Loki mattered.
Mobius did not wait to act.
He approached him and placed his hand in the God of Mischief's, squeezing it hard to get his attention. But Loki looked as if he was transfixed, so Mobius moved even closer and whispered in his ear, "Come on, we're leaving right now." Then, seeing that he didn't react, he insisted, "Loki! We're leaving! Now!"
Loki seemed to more or less come to his senses and let himself be dragged towards the exit of the theater. They went unnoticed as the people were captivated by the man on stage who had begun his presentation. Once outside, Mobius pulled Loki into a deserted alleyway next to the theater, summoned a time door and was about to go through when Loki stopped him, "No, Mobius, we have to stay, we have to stop him."
Mobius stood firm and replied, "We'll be back. That's the advantage of time travel. I don't care about this Victor, Kang and the whole thing. I don't care about the rest of the universe, I care about you. Just you. Come on, let's go home.
The last words seemed to convince Loki, who let himself be pulled through the time door that took them directly home.
Mobius took his hands and helped him to sit on the couch before kneeling down in front of him: "I'm going to call Hunter B-15 and I'll be right back."
Loki heard him make the call but did not try to understand the words. He could not shake the feeling of terror that had filled him when he had seen the man on the stage. Kang. To the end, he had hoped, but when his voice had been heard, even before he had seen him, Loki had known.
Even now, here, safe, he could not shake the terror that gripped his heart.
He put his head in his hands and tried so hard to concentrate on his breathing that he didn't hear the footsteps coming closer.
It was only when two hands rested gently on his shoulders and a familiar voice whispered in his ear that Loki realized Mobius had returned.
He was on his knees in front of him, looking at him with a worried expression. Mobius took Loki's hand and placed it on his own chest, saying, "I am here now, focus and breathe with me.
Loki obeyed, concentrating on the movement of Mobius' chest and his warm voice, which both soothed him and grounded him in reality.
"Yeah, that's good, just keep doing that. You're doing great. Continue."
Mobius didn't move and continued his encouragement over and over again until he was sure Loki had caught his breath and calmed down.
Then he sat down beside Loki and put his arm around Loki's shoulders, pulling him close.
Loki tried to smile but he couldn't and Mobius ran his thumb over his cheek and said quietly, "Don't force yourself, there's no need to pretend with me, you know that."
Loki leaned against Mobius' chest and breathed, "Please don't leave me...".
"I promise I'll stay," Mobius whispered into Loki's hair, tightening his arms around Loki's shoulders.
Loki continued, "Because you're the only one who... who..."
Mobius kissed Loki's hair and asked quietly, "I'm the only one who what...?"
Loki looked up and continued softly, "The worst part of it when I was thrown out by Sylvie, when I went through all those universes before I found you, the worst part of it was that you weren't there. Because now you are the only one who can chase the pain and fear away from me."
Mobius, moved beyond words, took Loki's face in his hands and, pressing his lips to Loki's, gave him a soft kiss.
Then he whispered, holding him close, "I'm not going to tell you not to be afraid because you can't control it. For you have a right to be afraid. So when you're afraid, remember that I'm here. Just remember that. For all time, always."
Loki nodded and whispered against Mobius' chest, "Yes, always."
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Quantumania spoilers below the cut!!!!!!!
this is going to be so messy and maybe not make that much sense but here are my thoughts
my main takeaways from this movie are 1: Scott Lang is a good dad 2: Hope is a cool stepmom 3: the Kangs are all comin and the MCU is in troubleeeeeee and 4: Cassie Lang is a sapphic. did you see the way that girl looked at Jentorra. I’m hc-ing her as either lesbian or bi.
also am I the only one absurdly happy that Hank and Janet get featured in scenes so much??? like with the MCU and I would say actually action movies in general, it’s commonly the Gen Xers and below who get all the action but Janet and Hank are older and still utter badasses and I love that honestly
KANG IS A FUCKING EPIC VILLAIN. kinda sad that he died honestly, and now everykang else is approaching our main timeline… this does not give hopeful feelings for the heroes in the near future
Veb is adorable I love him. also like that he’s played by the Baba Yaga guy.
Jentorra’s really cool! I want to be her when I grow up. She reminds me of Valkyrie.
I have this random theory that maybe Scott didn’t actually make it out of the quantum realm at the end, but maybe the ants kind of picked up on how devastated he was to never see Cassie again and made a whole version of reality like a hologram or smth inside the quantum realm to give the illusion that he’s with his family. idk that was just something I thought of that could explain the slightly cliche ending
Young Avengers movie when??????????? just off the top of my head we have Peter, Harley, Cassie, Kamala, America, Shuri and Elijah Bradley already in the MCU we just. need a reason for them all to come together and kick ass.
I know we all screamed when we saw Loki in the end credit scene but my brain malfunctioned and I just went “Tom Hiddleston is in this? Okay” before I saw Mobius and I was like “oh. oh right, Loki”
the marvel brainrot is retuning. someone help me. I just started a new fic.
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