Memes / Ant-Man

Scott: "My days of troping and meme-ing are done. What do you want me to do?"
Hank: "I want you to edit this page and add more memes."

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• The meme. ^Explanation The explanation behind the meme.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• "Is that Paul Rudd?"^note In an interview with Rudd at SDCC 2014, Mark Ruffalo can be seen fanboying over him in the background. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when in the actual film, there's a character who says "Is that Hank Pym?"
• A still of Scott in Ant-Man gear with his thumb raised and about to press the shrinking button became popular as a viral reaction image to giving people the thumbs up.
• "Bobby Newport IS Ant-Man"^note A popular fan Actor Allusion to Paul Rudd's role in Parks And Recreation as a childish politician who runs against the protagonists.
• After Trailer 1, numerous jokes about Thomas the Tank Engine being evil started popping up, due to Scott and Yellowjacket's climactic battle taking place largely on Cassie's toy train set. It's cooler than it sounds.
• "I will bathe the railways in your blood!"^note As an extension of the above, people immediately started making parodic connections between the train scene and Thanos's threat from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
• A popular half-joking theory is to claim that Ant-Man was in every previous MCU movie, but was simply too small for everyone to notice.
• Ant-Man is a flop.^note While Ant-Man performed about $3–5 million below expectations, it still made its budget back in less than a week and gained more favorable reviews than The Incredible Hulk (2008). This is quite impressive, as even with the Marvel label, not everyone was won over, due to Ant-Man's power set and the troubled production, so expect fans to triumphantly make this claim with heavy Sarcasm Mode on. Became more popular in the wake of the controversial Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was also described by analysts as a flop (despite making over a billion dollars and almost as much as the first Avengers film) due to its exorbitant marketing budget compared to the lower-key Ant-Man.
• There have been various gifs of Scott meeting Ant-thony again, some of which "borrow" a certain exchange from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.^note "Who the hell is—?" You get the idea.
• ANTS^note From a rather bizarre trailer for the movie which Makes Just as Much Sense in Context. Often accompanied by screencaps of Michael Douglas's particularly terrifying face.
• "You tried to hide your X from me, now, it's gonna blow up in your face, and destroy everyone you care about."^note From Darren Cross' Badass Boast to Hank Pym before attempting to kill the latter became a Snowclone.
• Scott commenting that he'll find a job easily (He's got a Masters in Engineering!) followed by him working at Baskin-Robbins has been "hailed" as the most realistic moment in an MCU movie.
• "Baskin-Robbins always finds out." ^Explanation  This line, said by Scott's manager Dale before he's fired, and later echoed by his friends has turned the ordinary ice cream parlor into a Memetic Badass capable of uncovering any secret.
• Luis's lengthy monologues, which often have fanmade versions for other characters and scenes. It even got to the point that people made a petition to have Luis become The Narrator of the MCU.
• Judy Greer appearing in this, Jurassic World and Tomorrowland in the same summer playing the small role of someone's mother spawned an article titled 'The Judy Greer Effect' - about how Hollywood treats actresses once they reach a certain age.
• "Can we just talk about the fact that Scott fought Captain America and won?"^Explanation The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ends with Sam taking up the Captain America moniker. Given how easily Scott defeated Sam here in their fight, many fans noted Scott has quite the accomplishment to boast about.
• "He's so ugly. I love him!"^Explanation  Cassie joyfully says this line after Scott gets her a really weird-looking stuffed bunny as a birthday present for her. Her reaction is often used in the context of someone knowing something is of poor quality, but genuinely loving it regardless.
• The “I want my daddy!”, “I want your daddy too.” exchange was used for a popular edit audio on TikTok.

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