10 MCU Storylines We’ll Never Get Closure On
6. Ghost Is Probably A Cloud Of Floating Atoms
In Ant-Man And The Wasp, ruthless thief Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) is revealed to be Ava Starr, a desperate woman trying to obtain sufficient quantum energy to stabilise her disintegrating physical condition.
Ghost finally fails in simply taking what she needs from the titular tinies, and our heroes are successful in restoring Janet Van Dyne to the physical universe: whereupon the original Wasp demonstrates her true heroism by lending Starr some of the quantum energy she’s absorbed to temporarily solve the problem, ease her near-constant pain and grant her a reprieve.
At the end of the film, the gang having promised Ghost that they’ll find a permanent cure for her condition, Scott Lang is sent back to the quantum realm to gather more energy. Cut to Africa, and Thor choosing taunting his enemy instead of going for the head. Pym and two generations of Wasps collapse into dust, Ant-Man is stranded for five years, and Ghost…
...hey, Ghost is toast, isn’t she? Pym’s equipment goes into a lock-up, the big brains are in a dustbuster somewhere, Lang’s floating in a cosmic netherworld rethinking his life choices. Five years later, all four are back and Pym can pick up where he left off, but that doesn’t do our Ava any good. Just another bit of collateral damage. What a shame.