Despite some worries that Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania would abandon the laid-back attitude of the previous two movies starring Scott Lang, the latest MCU entry managed to be a pretty light adventure. Until the mid-credit scene, that is. That’s where we learn that Kang isn’t really gone and that the heroes of Earth will need to assemble a lot more than an army of ants.
The Kang that battles Ant-Man and the Wasp comes to the Quantum Realm after being exiled by some mysterious group who he only refers to as “they.” Kang is far more forthcoming about his motivation for conquering the Quantum Realm: he needs to assemble an army and escape to defend reality from his worst enemy, himself.
In the mid-credit scene, we learn that those two parts are connected. It was a trio of Kang Variants — namely Immortus, Rama-Tut, and the Scarlet Centurion (maybe) — who dispatched the Kang who conquered the Quantum Realm. More importantly, the fact that this Conquerer could be beaten by a pair of Ant-Men and Wasps worries the trio, who decide to call in reinforcements to take over Earth 616, in the form of thousands of Kangs, all played by Jonathan Majors.
Confused? Don’t worry, we’ll sort it all out — the best we can, anyway.