It Looks Like There's a Surprise Villain in ANT-MAN AND THE WASP
A recent cast list has found its way online for Marvel's Ant-Man and The Wasp and it looks like Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ghost won't be the only villain in the film. Another villainous character was revealed in a cast list and it's an old nemesis of Hank Pym. If you want to keep it a surprise, you don't want to read any further.
Here's the cast list and then we'll talk about the recently revealed villainous character below:
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Elihas Starr is the Marvel villain that is also known as Egghead. This is the first time that I've heard anything about Egghead being in the movie. I have no idea how big of a role he'll have in the story but he is a corrupt scientist who quickly became an enemy of Hank Pym.
Egghead doesn't have any superpowers but he is a genius. Egghead was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby, and he makes his first appears in Tales To Astonish #38 which was released in 1962.
Here's some background information on the character to give you an idea of how he might fit into the story:
Elihas Starr was a government scientist who was caught and jailed after smuggling blueprints out of work, presumably to sell on the black market. The media dubbed him "Egghead," and he was soon contacted and freed by a high-placed crime lord, who gave him the charge of proving his worth by defeating the original Ant-Man. Although using his technological expertise, Egghead failed and narrowly avoided capture.
Time and again, he would try to defeat Hank Pym, such as trying to use Ant-Man’s new partner, the Wasp, as bait, or trying to trick Ant-Man into fighting against Spider-Man. Egghead regarded Pym as his arch-nemesis and grew desperate to prove Pym’s genius was inferior to his own.
Egghead's incredible intellect is his greatest issue and the criminal mastermind possesses a great deal of knowledge and expertise in the field of robotics and engineering which makes him a tough enemy. He can grasp ideas at a seemingly superhuman rate. Egghead holds a degree in atomic science and possesses knowledge and expertise in many other scientific arenas. Eggman is able to produce and create many sophisticated weapons to aid his goals. Some of Egghead's inventions include a device to communicate with insects, a sonic vibration gun, a size increasing ray, and an Earth orbiting ray gun station. Egghead also employs various trick egg projectile weapons, that can paralyze, trap, ensnare, contain and otherwise neutralize foes.
I have no idea how much of this they will use in the film, but the character is being played by Michael Cerveris and I'm curious to see how he'll be utilized in the story that the movie will tell. How do you think the character will be utilized?
Peyton Reed is directing Ant-Man and the Wasp and it stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, Michael Pena as Luis, David Dastmalchian as Kurt, T.I. as Dave, Randall Park as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Jimmy Woo, Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Bill Foster and Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne.
Ant-Man and The Wasp will be released in theaters on July 6th, 2018.
Via: Stitch Kingdom