How The 2015 Ant-Man Storyline Should Go

How the Ant-Man Film's Storyline Should Go

(Caution towards inevitable future spoilers)

Without sounding cocky, the most logical storyline of the 2015 Ant-Man film adaptation, directed by Edgar Wright, will feature a lovable, semi-comedic anti-hero, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), who sees stealing the Ant-Man suit from S.H.I.E.L.D for use of thievery as his only viable solution for saving his sick daughter (Cassie, who eventually turns into Stature [Young Avengers]). After being caught by S.H.I.E.L.D in the process of some generic, high-payout heist and sent to secret S.H.I.E.L.D holding, he meets Henry Pym, the original Ant-Man (played by Michael Douglas), who is currently going through a court martial and was kicked out of S.H.I.E.L.D. for unmentioned and story-irrelevant actions conducted as Yellowjacket (the alter-ego he adopted after he hung up the Ant-Man costume). Here Henry Pym "mentors" Scott Lang as S.H.I.E.L.D discusses what to do with Scott. 

I know this slightly (well, maybe more than slightly) deviates off of cannon as Scott Lang's Ant-Man and Yellowjacket didn't really exist at the same time, but Marvel Films has already deviated from comic book cannon by saying that Henry Pym was not the creator of Ultron (when in fact, in the comics, he was), and instead Marvel is probably giving that title to Tony Stark (which is BS). What's one more creative deviation?

Later, when Henry Pym is being transported from his lockup to his court martial hearing, his original arch nemesis previously thought dead, Egghead attacks the convoy, breaking Henry/Yellowjacket out. Egghead "manipulates" Pym into helping him with the heist of a national reserve of adamantium. This is actual comic book cannon, and also a great tongue-in-cheek wink to X-Men. Unbeknownst to Egghead, Yellowjacket really isn't being manipulated, but is in actuality planning on following through with the heist, but instead of stealing the adamantium, he purposely fails in his heist in an attempt to throw Egghead under the bus and show S.H.I.E.L.D. that Egghead is still alive and just as evil as ever, only to find out that Egghead saw this coming and set Yellowjacket up for failure! Egghead had already cleared out of his makeshift hideout, taking everything that pointed to his existence with him, implying to S.H.I.E.L.D. that Yellowjacket acted alone in the heist.

Here Scott Lang's Ant-Man shows up, tussling with Yellowjacket who is driven mad by the fact that he was duped by his nemesis. Yellowjacket fights back angrily, in a psychotic rage, knowing full well that no one will believe him in his claims that he was trying to set up a previously believed dead villain. Eventually defeated by Ant-Man, Yellowjacket is taken back into S.H.I.E.L.D custody and his part of the movie ends with him in S.H.I.E.L.D. prison as a sad and semi-psychotic Henry Pym.

As a thank you for his help, S.H.I.E.L.D funds an experimental procedure that cures Scott Lang's daughter's heart disease. Scott Lang meets Tony Stark and David Banner because they're all geniuses and need to hang out within the Marvel universe for the enjoyment of the viewers.

After everything is said and done between Ant Man and Yellowjacket, S.H.I.E.L.D. takes over the adamantium loot, turning it into a crime scene, but since Yellowjacket is no longer a threat, they have minimal security on it. Egghead kills the few guards protecting the loot, and walks away with the adamantium. And since no one knows he still alive, Scott Lang raises an eyebrow at the idea that the culprit was Herny Pym's old arch-enemy because of a conversation they previously had together in jail that I forgot to mention earlier. Who knows what Egghead wants to do with the adamantium...

<Insert Thanos tie-in Involving the adamantium?...>

In a future post, I'll explain why introducing a character like Ant-Man, that hardly anyone from my generation knows about, into the Marvel film universe is an absolutely brilliant idea.