Quantumania’s Post-Credit Scenes Are More Important To The MCU Than The Whole Movie

While critics did not enjoy Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania very much, rating it as the second-worst MCU movie ever, fans have disagreed with much more forgiving audience scores.

Even though I’ve disagreed with critics in the past about the MCU, despite being one myself (Eternals was good!), I really did not like Quantumania myself this time around, outside of Jonathan Majors’ Kang.

In fact, I think you could make the argument that given how the movie ends, the two post-credits scenes are probably more consequential than anything that actually happens in the movie itself. What do I mean? Obviously spoilers are going to follow at this point.

So, Ant-Man ends with Kang the Conqueror seemingly killed, or at least…shrunk down into his own power core trapping him even deeper into the Quantum Realm, if that’s possible. As for Ant-Man and the Ant-Family, I mean, they came out the otherside wholly unscathed and with some quality bonding. But even though Scott almost died and Scott and Hope were almost trapped in the Quantum Realm, they weren’t, so no real changes with them.

Whether it’s Kang the Conqueror himself that gets out and is the “main” Kang as the baddie of the MCU, the point is that Kang is never just Kang, he’s all the Kangs, an infinite number of Kang variants, both of which populated the end credits. I will say that I would not expect the ultimate big bad of Phase 5 here to be defeated by…ants, so maybe another Kang will pick up the banner, but from what it seems like, it’s a metric ton of Kangs.

The first post-credits sequence after the flashy credits shows the Council of Kangs getting together, thousands of them teleporting in using the same teleporter thing Reed Richards showed up with in Multiverse of Madness. But the three main Kangs shown appear to be variants Rama-Tut, an ancient Egyptian Pharoah in the comics, Immortus, the oldest version of Kang, who Kang will become in the future, and what appears to be Scarlet Centurion, minus the scarlet. Or maybe Kang Prime, unclear. But it’s possible these three specifically will have a larger role in the Kang Dynasty, or other Marvel projects before then.

As for the second post-credits scene, where people who did not watch season 1 of Loki would be very confused by (why is Owen Wilson here?) that variant is Victor Timely, who goes back to the 20th century to create a robotic empire using future tech. That version seems like he may play a key role in Loki season 2 if the pair of them showed up to witness his rise here.

I would be surprised if we’d seen the last of the Conqueror variant, however. I know part of the fun of Kang is all these different versions of him, but I think Majors’ establishing the Conqueror here needs to live on past just this one movie. And a movie that his performance dramatically outshined, at that.

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