He objects to using Cassie to get to Scott and the Pyms, and takes an ethical stand against killing Janet (though the ability of an aging scientist to stop an Intangible Man on a practical level are somewhat negligible). Bill Foster wants to save Ghost because he's her Parental Substitute.That said, she does treat the potential casualties - specifically, Janet - as acceptable collateral. Ghost only antagonizes the heroes because she needs Pym's Quantum Tunnel to heal her phasing.Animal-Themed Superbeing: Ant-Man and the Wasp both have identities that reference insects.And the Adventure Continues: Left unclear.And Starring: "With Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym".Thankfully in Endgame, he escapes after only a five-hour stay. Oblivious of what has happened, Scott can only scream for the Pyms. And I Must Scream: During the mid-credits scene, Scott is trapped inside the Quantum Realm without a way to return as the Pyms had been disintegrated by Thanos's finger snap.At the very least the mid-credits scene overlaps with Infinity War. Anachronic Order: The film is set two years after Captain America: Civil War but before Avengers: Infinity War, despite being released after the latter.Maggie, in fact, is second only to Cassie in angrily defending Scott against the FBI. Amicable Exes: Scott and Maggie are now fully back on good terms and working together to co-parent Cassie.Ambiguous Situation: Bill Foster and Hank Pym give conflicting accounts of what Elihas Starr did that got Hank to expel him from S.H.I.E.L.D., so it's ultimately not clear what he did or how justified Hank's response was.Affectionate Nickname: Scott still calls Cassie "Peanut", and Janet calls Hope "Jellybean".It's still a far cry from his comic-book counterpart. While Ghost is willing to kill and kidnap, Bill acts as her Morality Pet, and he antagonizes Hank more out of a petty grudge than being outright evil. Adaptational Villainy: Bill Foster is helping Ghost - or so it seems.Her time in the Quantum Realm has given her additional powers that she cited as being "evolution". In the comics she is a baseline human who later got additional abilities to shoot bio-energy blasts, but here is a baseline human who derives her powers from the suit.
Janet van Dyne is a complex example of the trope.The MCU version is an enhanced human who got her powers from an accident the suit helps her manage them. Ghost was a baseline human in the comics who got his powers from the suit.Egghead, is not a good person by any stretch in the comics, but his only scene in the film is dedicated to him trying to save his wife and daughter. Likewise, her father, Elihas Starr, a.k.a. Adaptational Heroism: The Ghost isn't evil, just desperate - her powers are killing her and she just wants to survive.
Action Girl: Hope now gets to fight multiple bad guys as the superhero Wasp along with Scott, whom she shares the title with.Maggie: What does FBI even stand for? "Forever Bothering Individuals"?
But first, the group has to get through a black market tech dealer named Sonny Burch ( Walton Goggins) and an intangible thief known as "the Ghost" ( Hannah John-Kamen), who both want the pieces of tech our heroes need for their rescue for themselves. Namely, to save Janet from her decades long entrapment in the beyond microscopic Quantum Realm. Hank Pym ( Michael Douglas) - the original Ant-Man - and Pym's daughter Hope ( Evangeline Lilly), who's taken on the mantle of The Wasp, previously held by her mother Janet van Dyne ( Michelle Pfeiffer). However, Scott is soon pulled into an urgent new mission by his now fugitive mentor, Dr. Now he's just hoping to not break probation and spend some time with his daughter. Or at least he was, until he once again became a criminal for his decision to side with Captain America in Captain America: Civil War. The film once again follows Reformed Criminal and part-time Avengers ally, Scott Lang / the incredible shrinking Ant-Man (Rudd). It is the twentieth film installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the eighth installment of Phase 3, and a sequel to 2015's Ant-Man. Ant-Man and the Wasp is a 2018 film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari, Paul Rudd, and Adam McKay, based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name.