On Twitter, @WR42TH responded to the trailer by saying, “CGI is on point. Also, Kang looks sick, can’t wait to see him pulverize Ant-Man!” Charmingly hopeful, @Cameron1nk also responded, saying, “Kang is gonna be the best marvel villain.” Less hopeful, @LukePrime_ retweeted the new poster for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which depicts Kang presumably holding the two titular heroes atop his middle finger like bread crumbs, saying, “I’ve got a horrible feeling Kang is going to K-word Scott.” We shouldn’t have to elaborate on what was meant by “K-word,” right?
That’s actually a pretty common theory, by the way. The notion that Kang will be this brutally merciless killer is so prevalent that Screen Rant and CBR have practically pre-written obituaries for Scott Lang. It doesn’t help that Jonathon Majors has recently received a great deal of press for the results of his workout regime (for the curious, some of those pics can be found over at Men’s Health). Structurally it makes sense, as every time a new major villain is introduced they have to make a noticeable first impression somehow. For comparison, the mad titan Thanos (Josh Brolin) killed Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Heimdall (Idris Elba) in his first bout against the Avengers. There’s just no way that everyone in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is making it out alive.
Conversely, Twitter user @younityyy offered a different form of depression in regards to Kang’s presence, saying, “I can see every movie Kang is in, ending with some sort of defeat, and then another Kang variant just [pops] in and they[‘re] back to square one … a never ending cycle.”
