The Single Biggest Mistake Each MCU Film And TV Show Has Made

Ant-Man and the Wasp, despite its fun action scenes and often-funny comedy, was the start of the MCU's decline, as many of the problems that would plague subsequent films are very much in evidence - most prominently, a poorly-constructed and low-stakes story that doesn't move the franchise or its characters forward. The only thing in this sequel that feels consequential is the credits scene, which ties into Infinity War.

It feels more like half of a narrative, and it's hard to get invested in the group's attempts to rescue Janet van Dyne (a wasted Michelle Pfeiffer) from the Quantum Realm, as viewers didn't have any emotional connection to that character at this point.

Also, something else needs to be addressed. One of the antagonists of the film is Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), a sympathetic villain who is quantumly unstable and slowly, painfully dying thanks to a quantum realm experiment gone wrong that killed her parents. She need quantum energy to stabilise herself for good, but at no point does Hank Pym show any interest in helping her. All he seems to care about is himself, and instead he and the title characters make every effort to stop her getting what she needs.

Honestly, it's hard to think of many other times where the so-called heroes of an MCU film were this unlikable.