Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Since then , the MCU has continued research its multiverse and the danger and pandemonium it can let loose , butKang and his variantshave been localise aside . Kang will take the center phase inAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania , in which Scott Lang / Ant - Man ( Paul Rudd ) and Hope van Dyne ( Evangeline Lilly ) , along with Hope ’s parent Hank Pym ( Michael Douglas ) and Janet van Dyne ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) , will go on an dangerous undertaking through the Quantum Realm . Kang ’s appearing and the tease of more of his variants being bring in in the MCU have take to speculation about Iron Lad joining this universe , butAnt - Man 3makes this not possible any longer due to Cassie Lang ( Kathryn Newton ) .
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Ant-Man 3 Could Permanently Prevent Iron Lad’s Comics Storyline In The MCU
Kang ’s veridical name is Nathaniel Richards , and he ’s a thirty-first - century scholar and descendent of Reed Richards ' father , Nathaniel . Ivor Armstrong Richards became fascinated with history and after distinguish the time travel technology create by Victor von Doom , ( another possible ancestor of his ) , he traveled to different places and points in sentence , creating dissimilar identities for himself , such as Scarlet Centurion and the Pharaoh Rama - Tut . During one of those travels through time and space , Kang make unnecessary his 16 - year - onetime self before a traumatic event that lead to his villainous course happened . After showing Nathaniel what he has accomplished as Kang , Nathaniel was horrified and traveled to the past to avoid that dark fortune , and eventuallyassembled the Young Avengers , take the name of “ Iron Lad ” .
In the comic , Iron Lad was in a amorous family relationship with Cassie Lang , who was also a phallus of the Young Avengers . While this storyline could make its agency to the MCU in the not - so - distant future in fiat to put in the Young Avengers , Ant - Man 3makes it very hard for it to work due to Kang ’s involvement . Ant - Man 3will see Cassie step up as a sub , just like her father , and she will face Kang as well , so it ’s improbable she would date someone who try on to down her and her sire , even if it ’s a discrepancy of him . Although it would be interesting to see Scott Lang care about his daughter dating a potential supervillain who is actually trying to avoid that fate , it would be hard to make it come about in a believable way afterAnt - Man 3 .
How Iron Lad Could Still Appear In The MCU
WhileAnt - Man 3makes it very difficult for the MCU to adapt an important part of Iron Lad ’s history , that does n’t think of it ’s now unimaginable for this specific Kang variant to make it to the MCU . Marvel has been preparing the ground ( intentionally or not ) forthe shaping of the Young Avengers , and if it does go on , it would be unknown to have the team without Iron Lad . Now , the MCU is no unknown to making major changes to its lineament and their stories , so Iron Lad could still show up but in a different agency ( and , perhaps , without go steady Cassie Lang ) . Iron Lad could have already form the Young Avengers in his own universe and could now be front to form another one in the MCU ’s main timeline , more so after learning what Kang has been doing across the multiverse . For now , it ’s unknown which Kang variance will appear in the MCU afterAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania , but Iron Lad continues to be a warm contender .
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