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The Ant-Man family

Scott Lang

Ant-Man

  • Ant-Man · 2015 onwards (also Hank Pym, the original, 1980s)
AliveDoomsdayPlayed by Paul Rudd

Who they arebeyond the guide

A burglar with an electrical engineering degree, handed a suit that changes his size and mass through Pym particles. He is the least self-important person in the franchise and the reason the time heist is possible at all.

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Premiered in
Ant-Man
(2015)
Appearances
5

Along the chronological spine

A life, in order

Every appearance in chronological order. Tap an entry to read what happens there.

5 entries
  1. Scott Lang, a burglar fresh out of prison, is recruited by Hank Pym to steal a shrinking suit before Pym's protégé Darren Cross can weaponise the technology. The heist is a heist: Lang, Hank, Hope and a crew of Scott's former cellmates break into Pym Technologies to steal the suit and destroy the research.
    Open Ant-Man →
  2. Recruited by Wilson for the airport fight, where he goes giant for the first time and enjoys it enormously.
    Open Captain America: Civil War →
  3. In the mid-credits scene, Scott goes into the Quantum Realm to collect healing particles for Ghost, with Hank, Janet, and Hope operating the tunnel from a van on the surface. Hank and Scott are never Ant-Man simultaneously. Hank was the original in the 1980s, retired, and handed the suit to Scott in 2015.
    Open Ant-Man and the Wasp →
  4. The survivors are: Rogers, Stark, Thor, Banner, Romanoff, Barton, Rhodey, Nebula, Rocket, Carol Danvers, Okoye, Pepper Potts, M'Baku, Wong, Happy Hogan — and Scott Lang, stranded and unaccounted for. Scott Lang escapes the Quantum Realm — five hours for him, five years for everyone else — and realises time works differently down there.
    Open Avengers: Endgame →
  5. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (FILM, 2023) — The Lang and Pym families are pulled into the Quantum Realm, revealed to contain an entire hidden civilisation.
    Open Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania →