10 Huge Movie Moments That Didn't Matter At All
3. Ant-Man & The Wasp Kills Its Own Ending In The Post-Credits Scene (2018)
Whether you like the Ant-Man movies or not, there’s no denying their USP. Out of all the Marvel properties brought to the MCU by Kevin Feige and crew, Ant-Man is the most good-natured, the most upbeat, and the most unpretentious.
That’s why that killer ending to Ant-Man & The Wasp hit as hard as it did. The film was released following Avengers: Infinity War, which had climaxed with the bleakest cliffhanger imaginable. However, since it was set before the events of that film, initially Ant-Man & The Wasp cheerfully ignored it.
That is, until Thanos finally caught up to the narrative, the godlike snap of his fingers wiping out Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne and Hope Van Dyne in one fell swoop, stranding Ant-Man in the quantum realm.
The thing is, that took place in the post-credits sequence. The ending to the actual movie had seen former antagonist Ghost promised a cure for her terminally phased condition using energies mined from the quantum realm, where Janet had been marooned for the last two decades or so. That’s what Scott Lang was doing when the snap caught up with the others.
Ant-Man & The Wasp didn’t just have a killer ending, it killed its own ending. Without access to Pym’s technology or the quantum realm’s energies, that promise of a cure for Ghost was immediately invalidated. She’d barely held it together during the events of the film itself: there’s no way she’d have survived another five years.