The Marvel Comics villain MODOK is about to debut within the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a job in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and the film’s scribe, Jeff Loveness, reveals an intriguing connection between the villain and a personality from The Simpsons. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will shut out the Ant-Man trilogy with a bang, because the film presents the largest stakes the franchise has ever had. Ant-Man, The Wasp, and the remainder of the crew will go toe-to-toe with Kang the Conqueror — within the new overarching villain of the MCU’s first look.
Speaking with GamesRadar+, Loveness revealed that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s tackle MODOK attracts inspiration from two characters — one in all them being a useless character from The Simpsons. Corey Stoll performs MODOK within the film, who returns as his Ant-Man character Darren Cross, aka Yellowjacket. Cross was final seen getting crushed to subatomic dimension, which can doubtless issue into his transformation to MODOK. Loveness reveals that Stoll’s efficiency as MODOK might be partly knowledgeable by the deceased Simpsons character Frank Grimes, explaining his reasoning within the following quote:
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania has the lofty goal of establishing the MCU’s new overarching villain Kang, who will take over the universe’s large dangerous reigns from Thanos when he debuts within the movie. The Ant-Man franchise has dealt mainly with small-stakes tales and villains, in comparison with some greater heroes like Captain America and Thor. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania modifications all that by establishing Kang, the subsequent Avengers film, and probably giving the jump-start to the Young Avengers. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’s author Loveness is confirmed to be the scribe for Kang’s large battle with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
That film is about to incorporate a brand new formation of the Avengers after the unique crew led to Avengers: Endgame, with each Iron Man and Black Widow useless, in addition to an previous Steve Rogers. Kang making an attempt to flee the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania might be straight linked to Loveness’ Avengers film, with the villain’s Kang Dynasty plan doubtless getting a tease within the new Ant-Man. The different large set-up Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is poised to do, pertains to the Young Avengers. Cassie Lang might be a big a part of the film, venturing into the Quantum Realm along with her personal super-suit. Rumors surrounding the film trace at Cassie trying into constructing an Avengers crew — the Young Avengers — by the top of the film. This risk is definitely believable with many crew members already within the MCU.
Stoll confirmed shades of how enjoyable his Darren Cross could possibly be when the actor was lower free within the first Ant-Man. Loveness’ feedback about his strategy to writing MODOK point out that Stoll’s villain will share a variety of similarities to Patton Oswalt’s model of MODOK from the character’s Hulu grownup animated collection of the identical title. That present introduced a darkly comedic tackle the character, which ought to work on Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, given Stoll’s glorious comedic timing and the film’s darker tone.