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Meh. My vague memory was that of Hank Pym as Ant-Man -- that he (Hank) was a scientist/technologist, that he could shrink, control ants, and maintained his full size strength when small. Don't even know if the character had his own title, only ever remember the character mostly from crossovers as a member of the Avengers and from the assorted number of actual Avengers comics I bought.

Marvel's expectations of what the average 12 year old boy could afford to buy or collect always bordered on delusional. The endless crossover story lines in an attempt to make readers buy every issue of every title Marvel produced always ticked me off. I bought stuff sporadically as I imagine most did. Never mind the endless permutations, incarnations, alternate universes/realities/timelines, and re-imaginings, there's virtually no reliable adherence to their own established canon.

This movie is jumping ahead an entire generation to Ant-Man v2.0 Scott Lang, and Hope Van Dyne (Hope Pym in the comics) daughter of Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne... who according to her character sheet, she's a villain.

Frankly my memory of all this stuff is way too fuzzy. As Marvel releases it's movies, I Google the characters and try to stick to the two most official wikis that I'm aware of, namely the Official Marvel Universe Wiki and the Marvel Database at Wikia.

But Marvel is pretty much ignoring it's own comics in the movies. Aside from the nightmare of having signed away it's movie rights to prominent titles like Spiderman and the X-Men barring any hope of crossovers or continuity in the films, or their inability to commit to a single actor or back-story (there have been 3 recent movie incarnations of the Hulk, first Eric Bana in 2003, then Edward Norton in 2008, and now Mark Ruffalo as of 2012), but they can't even settle on powers or origins.

In the wiki, Ant-Man's powers are described as:

Has the ability to shrink to roughly the size of an ant, also can communicate telepathically with insects, and (as Ant-Man) can punch with as much force as a normal sized person.

Which supports what little I remembered.

But in the trailer they describe his powers as:

When you're small, you have super-human strength.

39 seconds in...

I was apparently due for a rant.

Did I mention Chris Evans first playing Johnny Storm in 2005's Fantastic Four (Marvel), then Jake Jensen in 2010's The Losers (Vertigo/DC), and then Captain America (Marvel) in 2011? Or Ben Afquack first playing Daredevil (Marvel) in 2003, and now Batman (DC) coming in 2016?

Last rant: Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider? REALLY?!? Argh! grumble

Okay, I'm done.

KVR said
lol, awesome review, thanks earth!

Don't annoy me, you wouldn't like me when I'm annoyed. lol

Honestly, I think some of my most humorous moments come from my annoyed rants. Just re-read the above post as performed by Lewis Black.

http://i.imgur.com/sYrAypL.jpg

Bat Afquack annoys me to heck but thankfully bastardizing his name is both easy and fun, and gives some sense of balance, and is the only justice to it. Run-on sentence much?

As far as I'm concerned, there's only 1 actor truly worthy to play live action batman. He's got the chin, the look, the arms, and the voice... literally the voice. I'm talking Kevin Conroy:

To watch him in interviews, he's one of the most humble actors I've ever seen. Great story about the origins of the voice (there's another voice origin video that would be perfect to accompany this, but not sure if I can find it again). Note the arms.

...I found it:

The only thing left for the live action would be to sub-in Scott Adkins for the fight scenes. I mean, Batman IS most complete fighter in the world!