Potential Major Spoiler About ANT-MAN's Villain
A few months ago some new details for Marvel's Ant-Man was revealed thanks to a playset for the film coming from LEGO. Toy sets like this have proven to let some plot points of the Marvel films slip out, such as the twist in Iron Man 3 that involved Aldrich Killian. They also gave us a look at Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron before his poster was revealed.
The LEGO playset for Ant-Man that was released is called "Finale Battle," and it presumably focuses on the final battle between Paul Rudd's Scott Lang and Corey Stoll's Yellowjacket. But there's another character here, and from this point on I'm going into possible SPOILER territory, so you've been warned.
There's another character in the playset that is wearing a darker, more menacing version of the Ant-Man suit, and we previously speculated that Michael Douglas' Hank Pym could be suiting up in this costume and that he would be fighting alongside Lang to help defeat Corey Stoll's villainous Yellowjacket.
Turns out his involvement might be the exact opposite scenario. There's a rumor going around that Hank Pym is actually the real villain in the movie. It wouldn't surprise me if this was true, especially after what Marvel did with S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra in Captain America: The Winter Solider.
One of the things that adds validity to this rumor is that when it was first reported by Variety that Douglas was cast as Hank Pym in Ant-Man, they originally said that the character would be a villain. They ended up editing that after Marvel issued an official press release on the casting.
Maybe fans are reading too much into this, but Marvel does like to surprise its audience with twists we didn't see coming. There's no official confirmation of this. It's just a rumor at the moment, but there's always a chance that it could turn out to be true.
The movie opens up on July 17th. What do you think about this latest rumor about Ant-Man?
Via: CBR and CinemaBlend