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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: As Giant-Man. He first (successfully) takes this form in ''Captain America: Civil War'' to provide distraction while Cap and Bucky run to the quinjet. As Giant-Man, Scott acquires SuperStrength and SuperToughness -enough to casually lift a gangway to fling it at War Machine- although the growing is very taxing on his body. According to his second movie, his personal best is ''65'' feet but later, he increases to ''80''.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: As Giant-Man. He first (successfully) takes this form in ''Captain America: Civil War'' to provide distraction while Cap and Bucky run to the quinjet. As Giant-Man, Scott acquires SuperStrength and SuperToughness -enough -- enough to casually lift a gangway to fling it at War Machine- Machine -- although the growing is very taxing on his body. According to his second movie, his personal best is ''65'' feet but later, he increases to ''80''.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. ''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. ''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - -- namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.
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** That said, in the sequel this is played with: while he still has immature ''interests'' and inclinations, his years of house arrest have grown him into a very responsible and mature person, moreso, arguably, than the abrasive Hank himself - indeed, while Hank and Hope see them as boneheaded distractions, most of his issues then come not from foolishness but from him having to balance the many legitimately important things in his own life with the new problems they thrust upon him.
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** That said, in the sequel this is played with: while he still has immature ''interests'' and inclinations, his years of house arrest have grown him into a very responsible and mature person, moreso, arguably, than the abrasive Hank himself - -- indeed, while Hank and Hope see them as boneheaded distractions, most of his issues then come not from foolishness but from him having to balance the many legitimately important things in his own life with the new problems they thrust upon him.
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-->'''Scott Lang:''' My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over. What do you want me to do?
-->'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' ...Makes sense.
-->'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' ...Makes sense.
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'''Hank:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some
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'''Scott:''' ...Makes sense.
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* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', [[spoiler:Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' is ignorant and lame]].
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* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', [[spoiler:Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' is ignorant and lame]].
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* ButtMonkey: Whether it's his suit malfunctioning and causing him to look the size of a four year old or the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers Scott is the butt of many jokes regardless of the film. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
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* ButtMonkey: Whether it's his suit malfunctioning and causing him to look the size of a four year old or the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers Avengers, Scott is the butt of many jokes regardless of the film. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
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** Within the MCU itself, he's still quite fittingly the smallest box office draw of the MCU heroes. While his movies aren't slouches, they trail the MCU's biggest properties and are smaller-scale affair. He missed the entirety of ''Infinity War'', as the movie was already juggling LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, because they didn't think he was important enough, and his role in ''Civil War'' was just a support of Cap. This makes it somewhat surprising that he has a very important role in ''Endgame'', as someone who is said to play a major part in the plan to defeat Thanos.
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** Within the MCU itself, he's still quite fittingly the smallest box office draw of the MCU heroes. While his movies aren't slouches, they trail the MCU's biggest properties and are smaller-scale affair. He missed the entirety of ''Infinity War'', as the movie was already juggling LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, because they didn't think he was important enough, and his role in ''Civil War'' was just a support of Cap. This makes it somewhat surprising that he has a very important role in ''Endgame'', as someone who is said to play where he ends up playing a major part in the plan to defeat Thanos.
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* AscendedExtra: On a broader scale, Scott fits the bill in ''Endgame''. His movies, while not slouches, have comparatively modest box office results and are relatively self-contained, his role in ''Civil War'' was minor, and he sat out ''Infinity War''. In ''Endgame'', he's one the most pivotal characters in the entire movie, being core in the plan to defeat Thanos.
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* AscendedExtra: On a broader scale, Scott fits the bill in ''Endgame''. His movies, while not slouches, have comparatively modest box office results and are relatively self-contained, his role in ''Civil War'' was minor, and he sat out ''Infinity War''. In ''Endgame'', he's one of the most pivotal characters in the entire movie, being core in the plan to defeat Thanos.
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escapes by accident from the Quantum Realm and it turns out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott himself only spent 5 hours tops in the Quantum Realm.
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escapes by accident from the Quantum Realm and it turns out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott himself [[YearOutsideHourInside only spent 5 hours tops in experienced it as five hours]] due to the strange workings of the Quantum Realm.
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** In TheStinger of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', he travels into the Quantum Realm to collect particles that would help stabilize Ghost's condition. But before he can be brought out, Thanos unleashes his finger-snap that destroys half of all life in the universe, taking the lives of Hank, Janet, and Hope, and leaving him stuck there until his currently unexplained escape by ''Avengers: Endgame''.
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** In TheStinger of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', he travels into the Quantum Realm to collect particles that would help stabilize Ghost's condition. But before he can be brought out, Thanos unleashes his finger-snap that destroys half of all life in the universe, taking the lives of Hank, Janet, and Hope, and leaving him stuck there until his currently unexplained escape by a rat fiddles with the control pad 5 years later in ''Avengers: Endgame''.
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* TheJuggernaut: As Giant-Man. In ''Civil War'', it takes the combined effort of nearly everyone on Iron Man's team to take him down. Once he goes big in ''Endgame'', ''nothing'' is shown stopping him, [[spoiler:not even Leviathans, one of which he takes down in one solid punch]].
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** Averted by ''Endgame'' as he has no problem being in his Giant-Man form for prolong period.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Scott Lang is treated as comic relief in the presence of the other Avengers, yet in ''Civil War,'' he ends up being the most formidable opponent for the Pro-Registration heroes as Giant Man, providing the critical distraction to allow Steve and Bucky to escape. In ''Endgame,'' he's the lynchplan for the entire plot and [[spoiler: comes the final battle, punches Leviathans out of the sky and crushes Cull Obsidian (the strongest of Thanos's children in the previous movie) underfoot.]]
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* ButtMonkey: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the butt of many jokes, usually centered around the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
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* ButtMonkey: In ''Endgame'', Scott is Whether it's his suit malfunctioning and causing him to look the butt size of many jokes, usually centered around a four year old or the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers.Avengers Scott is the butt of many jokes regardless of the film. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Scott gets no small amount of frustration at having superpowers yet remaining an unknown to the public. The fact that his superheroics were discreet in nature or were never revealed to the public doesn't help though. In ''Civil War'', during Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
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** Scott gets no small amount of frustration at having superpowers yet remaining an unknown to the public. The fact that his superheroics were discreet in nature or were never revealed to the public doesn't help though. In ''Civil War'', during Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
** Scott gets no small amount of frustration at having superpowers yet remaining an unknown to the public. The fact that his superheroics were discreet in nature or were never revealed to the public doesn't help though. In ''Civil War'', during Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
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** In ''Endgame'', Scott also becomes frustrated when he sees that The Hulk has become a well more liked figure than him, despite his absence for 5 years from the world.
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** In ''Endgame'', Scott also becomes frustrated when he sees that The [[spoiler:the Hulk has become a well more liked figure than him, despite his absence for 5 years from the world.him]].
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to the latter defends and even calls it an "America's ass".
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to the latter defends and even calls it an "America's ass".
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: One of his key character traits, as an ex-con whose original crime started with trying to blow the whistle on his corrupt bosses at Vistacorp and return their ill-gotten gains to their customers. During Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: One Scott gets no small amount of frustration at having superpowers yet remaining an unknown to the public. The fact that his key character traits, as an ex-con whose original crime started with trying superheroics were discreet in nature or were never revealed to blow the whistle on his corrupt bosses at Vistacorp and return their ill-gotten gains to their customers. During public doesn't help though. In ''Civil War'', during Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
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* SuperStrength: When he's shrunken he has his strength at normal size applied to a very small point; when gigantic he's capable of feats that rival the Hulk.
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* SuperStrength: When he's shrunken he has his strength at normal size applied to a very small point; when gigantic he's capable of feats that rival the Hulk. For instance, he is seen easily breaking apart a plane or swing a gangway at War Machine in ''Civil War''. In ''Endgame'', his giant form manages to dig his way out of the collapsed ruin of a building and [[spoiler:is seen sucker punching a Leviathan, one of the monsters that required the Hulk to physically match back in ''Avengers'']].
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* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Thanks to how [[YearOutsideHourInside the Quantum Realm works]], Scott returns in ''Endgame'' five years physically younger than he is chronologically.]]
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to the latter defends and even calls it an "American ass".
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to the latter defends and even calls it an "American "America's ass".
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to his defends and even calls it an "American ass".
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* StupidSexyFlanders: When Iron Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' makes fun how the [[spoiler:2012]] costume makes Captain America's ass looks terrible, Scott fully jumps to his the latter defends and even calls it an "American ass".
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Through sheer coincidence, Scott's second visit to the Quantum Realm happens the same time Thanos' Snap kills off the Pym family, leaving him trapped. His escape is also by luck when a random mouse activates the portal five years later.
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* DisappearedDad: He is missing for most of his daughter's life. First he spent an uncertain amount of time in prison, then two years under house arrest (though he could still see his daughter from time to time) and then another five years when he was trapped in the Quantum Realm.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:During ''Endgame'', his experiences in the Quantum Realm led to him being the one to come up with the idea to travel back in time and retrieve the Infinity Stones in order to undo the damage that Thanos has done to the universe, basically messing up Thanos's plans big time.]]
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** In ''Endgame'' he is the one who discovers what has happened and how the world has changed in the face of the Decimation. He's also unaware of the Infinity Stones, requiring the Avengers to explain it to him.
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** In ''Endgame'' he is the one who discovers what has happened and how the world has changed in the face of the Decimation. He's also unaware of the Infinity Stones, requiring the Avengers to explain it to him. His shock and disbelief at seeing the world change after five years is pretty in sync with what the audience is thinking at that moment.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. [[spoiler:''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.]]
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. [[spoiler:''Civil ''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.]]
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** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks to Thanos, now he can't.]]
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** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks [[spoiler:Thanks to Thanos, now he can't.]]
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* EmergencyTransformation: Turning into Giant-Man is generally this, since it's so physically taxing. [[spoiler:In the closing minutes of ''Ant-Man and The Wasp'', the toll of being giant for much of the final act causes Scott to pass out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, so that Hope has to follow him down to the seabed and manually shrink him down.]]
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* EmergencyTransformation: Turning into Giant-Man is generally this, since it's so physically taxing. [[spoiler:In In the closing minutes of ''Ant-Man and The Wasp'', the toll of being giant for much of the final act causes Scott to pass out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, so that Hope has to follow him down to the seabed and manually shrink him down.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip.]]
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight... [[spoiler:until he grows into Giant-Man. Then it takes the combined efforts of almost everyone on the pro-Accords side to take him down.]]
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight... [[spoiler:until he grows into Giant-Man. Then it takes the combined efforts of almost everyone on the pro-Accords side to take him down.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear Ultimately subverted in ''Avengers: Endgame''; while everyone else had to wait five years for him to arrive, he only had to wait five hours due to the way that Time Vortexes work in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip.Quantum Realm.]]
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight...[[spoiler:until until he grows into Giant-Man. Then it takes the combined efforts of almost everyone on the pro-Accords side to take him down.]]
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight...
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* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler:Ghost take a shine to him]], and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
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* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: Ghost: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler:Ghost Ghost take a shine to him]], him, and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking itout.]]out]].
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** Scott's first film ends with him becoming the hero Cassie worships him as, regaining Maggie's respect, and gaining a new FriendOnTheForce in Paxton, resulting in him also getting fully pardoned for prior crimes. By the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's incarcerated once more due to not abiding by the Accords and assisting in Captain America and Bucky's escape. As a result, he's placed under house arrest at the beginning of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp''.]]
** [[spoiler:Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
** [[spoiler:Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
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** Scott's first film ends with him becoming the hero Cassie worships him as, regaining Maggie's respect, and gaining a new FriendOnTheForce in Paxton, resulting in him also getting fully pardoned for prior crimes. By the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's he's incarcerated once more due to not abiding by the Accords and assisting in Captain America and Bucky's escape. As a result, he's placed under house arrest at the beginning of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp''.]]
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**[[spoiler:Gets Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he [[spoiler:he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]world. At the very least, he was only stuck in there for five hours, although five years passed in the outside world]].
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* MomentKiller: Cuts the sincere vindication of [[spoiler:Hank and Hope reconciling]] short by hanging a huge, awkward lampshade over the scene and quashes Pym's feeling of elation that [[spoiler:Janet might still be rescued from the microverse]] by [[spoiler:making out with Hope right outside his door]].
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Scott points out to Hope that this is the main reason why Hank wants him to be Ant-Man instead of Hope, [[spoiler:because Hank doesn't want to lose her like he lost his wife Janet.]]
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Scott points out to Hope that this is the main reason why Hank wants him to be Ant-Man instead of Hope, [[spoiler:because Hank doesn't want to lose her like he lost his wife Janet.]]
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* MomentKiller: Cuts the sincere vindication of [[spoiler:Hank Hank and Hope reconciling]] reconciling short by hanging a huge, awkward lampshade over the scene and quashes Pym's feeling of elation that [[spoiler:Janet Janet might still be rescued from the microverse]] microverse by [[spoiler:making making out with Hope right outside his door]].
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** Scott points out to Hope that this is the main reason why Hank wants him to be Ant-Man instead of Hope,[[spoiler:because because Hank doesn't want to lose her like he lost his wife Janet.]]
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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:A non-fatal variation between him and Spider-Man in ''Civil War''. Spider-Man takes him out by webbing around his legs and forcing him to fall as Giant-Man, but in the process he smacks Spidey hard enough to take him out of the fight as well. Effectively, this ended in a draw.]]
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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:A A non-fatal variation between him and Spider-Man in ''Civil War''. Spider-Man takes him out by webbing around his legs and forcing him to fall as Giant-Man, but in the process he smacks Spidey hard enough to take him out of the fight as well. Effectively, this ended in a draw.]]
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%% OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Last we saw Scott in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', [[spoiler: he was trapped in the Quantum Realm with no way of getting out due to the Pym family dying at the hands of the Snap]]. Yet, in the first trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', he's managed to escape, and has found the Avengers headquarters all by himself.
%% OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Last we saw Scott in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', [[spoiler: he was trapped in the Quantum Realm with no way of getting out due to the Pym family dying at the hands of the Snap]]. Yet, in the first trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', he's managed to escape, and has found the Avengers headquarters all by himself.
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* OhCrap: When Iron Man defeats him [[MundaneMadeAwesome using]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext the suit's cooling system]].
** Also starts panicking when [[spoiler: Hank, Hope, and Janet stop responding to him while he's in the Quantum Realm.]]
** Also starts panicking when [[spoiler: Hank, Hope, and Janet stop responding to him while he's in the Quantum Realm.]]
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** When Iron Man defeats him [[MundaneMadeAwesome using]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext the suit's cooling system]].
**Also Scott also starts panicking when [[spoiler: Hank, [[spoiler:Hank, Hope, and Janet stop responding to him while he's in the Quantum Realm.]]Realm]].
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* PapaWolf: Everything he has done is to help or protect his daughter in some way, and he's at his most angry when Cross attacks his home and breaks into Cassie's bedroom. [[spoiler:In fact, trying to kill Cassie might be the one thing that'll make Scott break his ThouShaltNotKill policy, as Cross learned.]]
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* PapaWolf: Everything he has done is to help or protect his daughter in some way, and he's at his most angry when Cross attacks his home and breaks into Cassie's bedroom. [[spoiler:In In fact, trying to kill Cassie might be the one thing that'll make Scott break his ThouShaltNotKill policy, as Cross learned.]]
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* ShapeshifterBaggage: Although the Pym particles keep his density from fluctuating, he expends much more energy moving and fighting as Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', becoming completely exhausted after only a short time. [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', it nearly causes his death, as he passes out while standing in the ocean and almost drowns.]]
* ShapeshifterModeLock: [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', at one point he half shrinks down to the size of a child and his gear is stuck so he can't revert back to fullsize.]]
* ShapeshifterModeLock: [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', at one point he half shrinks down to the size of a child and his gear is stuck so he can't revert back to fullsize.]]
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* ShapeshifterBaggage: Although the Pym particles keep his density from fluctuating, he expends much more energy moving and fighting as Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', becoming completely exhausted after only a short time. [[spoiler:In In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', it nearly causes his death, as he passes out while standing in the ocean and almost drowns.]]
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* ShapeshifterModeLock:[[spoiler:In In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', at one point he half shrinks down to the size of a child and his gear is stuck so he can't revert back to fullsize.]]his full size.
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* SizeShifter: He can quickly alternate between shrinking, growing and returning to his normal size. By the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's integrated the enlarging particle into his suit and can use it to grow giant, though he hasn't perfected it.]]
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* SizeShifter: He can quickly alternate between shrinking, growing and returning to his normal size. By the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's he's integrated the enlarging particle into his suit and can use it to grow giant, though he hasn't perfected it.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of the users of the Pym Particle and the carriers of the Ant-Man/Wasp legacy, due to Hank, Hope, and a newly freed Janet getting dusted by Thanos.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of By the users end of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', [[spoiler:he's the last living user of the Pym Particle and the carriers of the Ant-Man/Wasp legacy, due to Hank, Hope, and a newly freed Janet getting dusted by Thanos.]]Thanos]].
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* ThouShaltNotKill: He avoids killing whenever it's possible, but the one exception was when [[spoiler:Darren Cross was about to kill his daughter, and so Scott literally imploded him in a way that looked very painful. It should be noted that even then, it wasn't specifically out of anger but because Cassie was in danger and there was ''no other way''.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out.]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: He avoids killing whenever it's possible, but the one exception was when [[spoiler:Darren Darren Cross was about to kill his daughter, and so Scott literally imploded him in a way that looked very painful. It should be noted that even then, it wasn't specifically out of anger but because Cassie was in danger and there was ''no other way''.]]
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In[[spoiler:TheStinger TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he Wasp'', [[spoiler:he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, mission control, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out.]]out... Until circumstances in ''Avengers: Endgame'' allow him to escape]].
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** In his second appearance (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''), Scott acts as a [[spoiler:booby-trap when Spidey steal Cap's shield, spends most of the fight messing with the insides of Tony's suit, and provides an [[IncrediblyLamePun enormous]] distraction so that Cap and Bucky can get away.]]
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** In his second appearance (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''), Scott acts as a [[spoiler:booby-trap booby-trap when Spidey steal Cap's shield, spends most of the fight messing with the insides of Tony's suit, and provides an [[IncrediblyLamePun enormous]] enormous distraction so that Cap and Bucky can get away.]]
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* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from Film/BackToTheFuture is ignorant and lame.
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* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', Scott [[spoiler:Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from Film/BackToTheFuture ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' is ignorant and lame.lame]].
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* AudienceSurrogate: He talks and reacts much like how a casual viewer would, particularly during [[spoiler:his fight with Falcon]] and [[spoiler:Hope and Hank's reconciliation.]] Complete with amazingly self-aware lines about how he ruined the moment.
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** In the first ''Ant-Man'' film, he talks and reacts much like how a casual viewer would, particularly during[[spoiler:his his fight with Falcon]] Falcon and [[spoiler:Hope Hope and Hank's reconciliation.]] reconciliation. Complete with amazingly self-aware lines about how he ruined the moment.
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** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks to Thanos, now he can't]].
** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
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** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks to Thanos, now he can't]].
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** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: After defeating Falcon, far from being upset (if not a little embarrassed), Wilson was impressed enough to bring him into the Avengers as part of Captain America's team during Civil War.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: After defeating Falcon, far from being upset (if not a little embarrassed), Wilson was impressed enough to bring him into the Avengers as part of Captain America's team during Civil War.''Civil War''.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip]].TimeSkip.]]
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* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler: Ghost take a shine to him]], and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
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* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler: Ghost [[spoiler:Ghost take a shine to him]], and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]] ]]
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.
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** [[spoiler: Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
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** [[spoiler: Gets [[spoiler:Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out]].
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out]].out.]]
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escape by accident from the Quantum Realm and points out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott has only spent 5 hours tops in the quantum realm.
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escape escapes by accident from the Quantum Realm and points it turns out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott has himself only spent 5 hours tops in the quantum realm.Quantum Realm.
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!!!'''Birth Name:''' Scott Edward Harris Lang
!!!'''Known Aliases:''' Ant-Man, Giant-Man
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
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!!''Scott Lang / ComicBook/AntMan II / Giant-Man''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PaulRudd
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Sergio Bonilla (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/ClaudioSerrano (European Spanish dub), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (Japanese dub), Damien Boisseau (European French dub), Patrice Dubois (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntMan'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''
->''"My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done."''
An electrical engineer-turned-thief who seeks to make amends for his crime. He is eventually hired by the original Ant-Man, Dr. Hank Pym, to steal Hank's AppliedPhlebotinum technology from the very company Hank founded, to prevent the firm's new owners from abusing it. The Ant-Man suit Hank gives Lang as a result allows Scott to shrink and grow in size, alter his mass in [[ArtisticLicensePhysics normally impossible ways]] to greatly enhance his strength, and communicate with insects.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Ant-Man carries around a bunch of metal disks the size of coins he can throw like shurikens. However, they're not here to hurt. The discs contain Pym particles that can apply a shrinking or growing effect on any object, allowing to take advantage of surrounding things in unexpected ways.
* ActionDad: He has a daughter, Cassie Lang, and he wants to be a hero for her.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Lang has red hair in the comics, but black hair in the movie.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Scott spent much of his time as a supporting character for Tony Stark and assisted him in and out of the Avengers, as basically Stark's sidekick. Here, he doesn't even ''meet'' Stark until ''Civil War'', which put them on opposing sides no less, and, ironically, Stark doesn't even know who he is.
* AdaptedOut: Inverted in ''Civil War''. Scott didn't take part in the conflict in the comics by the account of having been dead at the time [[note]]killed off in 2004's ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', didn't come back until 2012's ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade''[[/note]], and instead it was his daughter [[ComicBook/CassieLang Stature]] who took part in the war. Because he's very much not dead during the MCU version, he took part in the conflict.
* {{Adorkable}}: Ant-Man geeks out over being deemed important enough to serve alongside ''Captain America'', stumbling over his words when telling Cap how much it means to him.
-->'''Ant-Man:''' I'm shaking your hand too long!
* AffectionateNickname: By ''Civil War'', Falcon has taken to calling him Tic-Tac. It could also be considered an InsultOfEndearment but it never had any real bite to it.
* AmicableExes: While he's initially on thin ice with his ex-wife due to his criminal past, after his heroic actions they're on much friendlier terms... along with her cop husband Paxton, who has come to be a "big brother" to Scott whom he regularly hugs and is protective of.
* AndIMustScream:
** In TheStinger of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', he travels into the Quantum Realm to collect particles that would help stabilize Ghost's condition. But before he can be brought out, Thanos unleashes his finger-snap that destroys half of all life in the universe, taking the lives of Hank, Janet, and Hope, and leaving him stuck there until his currently unexplained escape by ''Avengers: Endgame''.
** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escape by accident from the Quantum Realm and points out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott has only spent 5 hours tops in the quantum realm.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: His superhero persona is based on the ant although his powers only superficially reflect this. His shrinking ability comes from revolutionary technology and his ability to control ants comes his helmet, which stimulates olfactory nerve centers in ants to elicit specific responses from the insects.
* AntiHero: He is a former thief trying to go straight by helping Hank Pym. This, of course, turns out to involve committing another heist, albeit one that will save lives. Although he has his record, several people admire him for robbing a company that robbed others, including Hank.
* ApologeticAttacker: He repeatedly tells Falcon that he's a fan even while dismantling his suit from the inside. Given Scott's [[NiceGuy nature]] this is common in most of his fights. The only except is when Darren Cross [[PapaWolf threatens Cassie]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: His costume works through the use of Pym Particles.
* TheApprentice: Hank is the one who took Scott in and trained him to be the next Ant-Man, and [[VitriolicBestBuds while the two can trade insults a lot]], they ultimately have respect for each other.
* AscendedExtra: On a broader scale, Scott fits the bill in ''Endgame''. His movies, while not slouches, have comparatively modest box office results and are relatively self-contained, his role in ''Civil War'' was minor, and he sat out ''Infinity War''. In ''Endgame'', he's one the most pivotal characters in the entire movie, being core in the plan to defeat Thanos.
* AscendedFanboy: He quite clearly has the time of his life working with Cap and the other Avengers. Scott clearly wants to be a superhero and live out the fantasies many have, and is all-too-happy to do it.
* AsleepForDays: After his EmergencyTransformation into Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', the strain was such that he apparently had to sleep for three days to recover afterwards.
* TheAtoner: He wants to give up his life of crime, and sees becoming Ant-Man as an avenue for that opportunity.
* AtrociousAlias: What he thinks of the name "Ant-Man" in the trailers.
-->'''Scott:''' One question... Is it too late to change the name?\\
'''Scott:''' I'm Ant-Man. (''{{Beat}}'') I know, wasn't my idea.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: As Giant-Man. He first (successfully) takes this form in ''Captain America: Civil War'' to provide distraction while Cap and Bucky run to the quinjet. As Giant-Man, Scott acquires SuperStrength and SuperToughness -enough to casually lift a gangway to fling it at War Machine- although the growing is very taxing on his body. According to his second movie, his personal best is ''65'' feet but later, he increases to ''80''.
* AudienceSurrogate: He talks and reacts much like how a casual viewer would, particularly during [[spoiler:his fight with Falcon]] and [[spoiler:Hope and Hank's reconciliation.]] Complete with amazingly self-aware lines about how he ruined the moment.
** In ''Endgame'' he is the one who discovers what has happened and how the world has changed in the face of the Decimation. He's also unaware of the Infinity Stones, requiring the Avengers to explain it to him.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Giant-Man form is not as useful as it looks. He's got far more brute strength and destructive power in this form but he's reduced to a lumbering speed which means that although he has greater toughness, he couldn't really dodge an attack that would threaten him. The suit itself isn't actually designed to do that and he mentions that just doing it risks tearing him apart. The SquareCubeLaw also means that he exerts an enormous amount of energy simply to maintain the form, and just a few minutes is enough to exhaust him to the point he can't even stand. His more up-to-date suit in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' makes this ability more practical because it's been updated to do it safely, allowing it to be used in short bursts so he doesn't exhaust himself. Or at least it would be if the suit had been fully tested and worked properly.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Is able to dissemble advance security systems extremely quickly with {{MacGyver|ing}}ed tools. In the deleted scenes, Hank notes that during the Vistacorp job, he was able to guess a password that was changed every minute by picking up the greater pattern from which it was generated.
* BadassBookworm: He was an electrical engineer before being sent to prison, and came out prison a somewhat skilled fighter.
* BadassNormal: Having no superpowers, Scott's abilities come from his electrical engineer and fighting skills mentioned above, and his use of Hank Pym's Ant-Man suits. In spite of his limited devices, Scott proves to be tough enough to stand up to Black Widow for a short time, which is no easy feat even for goons with military training.
* BoxedCrook: Hank Pym basically entraps him into robbing his house as an audition for a replacement Ant-Man who can prevent the weaponization and (legal, albeit morally questionable) sale of his Pym Particles.
* BreakoutCharacter:
** Scott Lang in the comics was a rather minor character in the established universe. He was created mainly to fill the role of Ant-Man after Hank Pym abandoned it, ensuring it remained in use, as Pym is known for his [[IHaveManyNames many identities]]. Pym remained an extremely important figure in the Marvel mythos as a founding Avenger and a brilliant scientist, while Scott was relegated to supporting others. Throughout the '80s and '90s, Scott was a supporting character for Iron Man (by extension, the Avengers) and the Fantastic Four, and then in the '00s became an Avenger himself, only to [[CListFodder die unceremoniously]] to establish the threat in ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', until he [[DeathIsCheap got better]]. In the MCU, Scott was made ''the'' starring Ant-Man of the universe, which has given him far greater exposure than he ever had before, and since then has become the face of the Ant-Man brand in general, with the comics and surrounding media following suit and making him a bigger deal anyone back then could imagine.
** Within the MCU itself, he's still quite fittingly the smallest box office draw of the MCU heroes. While his movies aren't slouches, they trail the MCU's biggest properties and are smaller-scale affair. He missed the entirety of ''Infinity War'', as the movie was already juggling LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, because they didn't think he was important enough, and his role in ''Civil War'' was just a support of Cap. This makes it somewhat surprising that he has a very important role in ''Endgame'', as someone who is said to play a major part in the plan to defeat Thanos.
* ButtMonkey: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the butt of many jokes, usually centered around the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
* TheCameo: In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', he briefly appears as Giant-Man in Peter Parker's vlog of [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the airport battle]].
* CastFromCalories: When he talks to Bill Foster about growing, he mentions that after the airport battle in ''Civil War'' he slept for three straight days. He also requested orange slices immediately afterward.
* CelebrityParadox: ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' was referred to in an episode of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' -- Paul Rudd played field reporter Brian Fantana in that film. Additionally, Scott and his pals discuss Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio early in the film despite [=DiCaprio=] and Rudd having starred in ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' together.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: As in the comics, Scott has no innate powers and his ability to shrink, grow and control ants are derived entirely from his suit and Pym Particles.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. [[spoiler:''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.]]
* CombatPragmatist: He puts his shrinking powers to very inventive use to outmaneuver and outwit opponents, such as shrinking in the middle of combat to throw off Falcon and Black Widow. He's also more than willing to shrink enough to disable opponents' weaponry or gadgets.
* CompositeCharacter: In ''Captain America: Civil War'', he becomes Giant-Man, one of Hank Pym's old aliases from the comics. However, in this setting, he's the ''first'' (and so far, only) character to become Giant-Man, as Hank only dealt with shrinking during his career as a superhero.
* TheConscience: Pretends to be Tony Stark's after shrinking down to sabotage his armor in ''Civil War''. Fitting, because one of Scott's ongoing conflicts is being torn between what's legal and what his conscience tells him is right. And also because he's the size of [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] at the time.
-->'''Iron Man:''' Who's ''speaking''?\\
'''Ant-Man:''' It's... your conscience. We don't talk a lot these days.
* CowardlyLion: {{Discussed}}. When Scott insists that what he did is a burglary and not a robbery because he is a cat burglar, Dave asks Scott if he's a [[{{Pun}} pussy]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's introduced as a bumbling ManChild who has trouble holding down a job or paying child support for his daughter, but he was once an electrical engineer and demonstrates incredible intelligence when it comes to advanced security systems (see AwesomeByAnalysis). He's also a reasonably skilled hand-to-hand fighter and adapts quickly to Hope's training regimen.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks to Thanos, now he can't]].
** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
* DeadpanSnarker: He likes to snarkily hang a lampshade on all that surrounds him, like his AtrociousAlias or reaction to why Hank wants to hire him, and takes every opportunity to snark, whether [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] or [[ChewingTheScenery full-blown]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After defeating Falcon, far from being upset (if not a little embarrassed), Wilson was impressed enough to bring him into the Avengers as part of Captain America's team during Civil War.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: During the second time he breaks in Hank Pym's, the cops catch him and he tries to explain that he's not stealing anything. He's just returning something he stole before.
* DrunkWithPower: Parodied. He gives a ''very'' exaggerated laugh after he turned into Giant-Man.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: One of his key character traits, as an ex-con whose original crime started with trying to blow the whistle on his corrupt bosses at Vistacorp and return their ill-gotten gains to their customers. During Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
-->'''Scott:''' [[ItsLikeIAlwaysSay Hank Pym always said]], [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys you never can trust a Stark]].\\
'''Tony:''' [[UnknownRival Who are you?]]\\
'''Scott:''' ...Come on, man.
* EmergencyTransformation: Turning into Giant-Man is generally this, since it's so physically taxing. [[spoiler:In the closing minutes of ''Ant-Man and The Wasp'', the toll of being giant for much of the final act causes Scott to pass out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, so that Hope has to follow him down to the seabed and manually shrink him down.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** His first scene is in prison, indicating a criminal past. Immediate scenes show his friendship with Luis and how he's willing to leave behind his past for the sake of his daughter.
** His friendly goodbye to ''all'' his fellow inmates also establishes how much of a NiceGuy Scott is.
* TheEveryman: In a world filled with geniuses, super soldiers, gods, spies, and aliens, Scott is the first MCU protagonist to just be a normal guy with a relatively normal life prior to obtaining the suit. All the more apparent when Hope and Hank come out of hiding to kidnap him in the second movie, meaning he's dressed in an [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]-esque flannel housecoat, undershirt, and boxers while he's being reintroduced to their world of espionage and superscience.
* EvilLaugh: A heroic example in ''Civil War'' when he becomes Giant-Man for intimidation.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip]].
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight... [[spoiler:until he grows into Giant-Man. Then it takes the combined efforts of almost everyone on the pro-Accords side to take him down.]]
* FireForgedFriends: With Paxton. The two initially hated each other, with Scott resenting Paxton for taking his wife and daughter while he was locked up and preventing him from spending time with Cassie, and the Paxton hating Scott for being a crook. Once Scott proves himself a hero and saves Cassie, while Paxton shows his willingness to give it all to save her as well, the two become good friends. By ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', Paxton has nothing but nice things to say about him.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Scott was trapped in the Quantum Realm for five years and by the time he escaped, he has no idea what has happened to the world and was shocked to see a memorial build to those who died as a result of Thanos' Snap.
* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler: Ghost take a shine to him]], and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: For his own safety, the suit's regulator limits his size changing abilities. He can override it if the situation is serious enough to justify the risk.
** [[spoiler:Scott goes subatomic]] to finish off Cross when the guy is seconds away from murdering his daughter.
** He grows into Giant-Man, risking tearing his whole body apart, to give Cap a shot a going for the Quinjet.
* GoodParents: In a setting rife with DaddyIssues and {{Disappeared Dad}}s, Scott is, hands-down, the best father in the MCU. He adores Cassie, tries to set a good example of behavior for her, enjoys playing with her to the point that he constructed a play-fort that spans his entire house, is always available when she needs him (even if he's been captured by a villain) and while he encourages her heroic desire to help others, he doesn't make her his partner or sidekick or anything like that because it would be far too dangerous for a ten year old.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Played with. He probably would've been convicted of white-collar crimes if he hadn't broken into the house of his boss at Vistacorp and crashed the man's car into his pool, but the original theft was about blowing the whistle on Vistacorp's much larger crimes, which amounted to bilking their customers out of millions. Except the SCC couldn't find any proof, so Scott went to prison as a simple thief, came out unable to hold a job, and subsequently became an run-of-the-mill burglar just to make his child support payments.
* HappyEndingOverride:
** Scott's first film ends with him becoming the hero Cassie worships him as, regaining Maggie's respect, and gaining a new FriendOnTheForce in Paxton, resulting in him also getting fully pardoned for prior crimes. By the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's incarcerated once more due to not abiding by the Accords and assisting in Captain America and Bucky's escape. As a result, he's placed under house arrest at the beginning of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp''.]]
** [[spoiler: Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He puts himself down quite a bit, saying that he manages to "screw up" the noble goal of being a hero.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Due to his criminal past, he has a hard time convincing others (except his daughter) that he is a hero. Even aside from being a superhero, it's just plain hard for an ex-con to find a job, to the point that he has to use an alias to get a job at a ''Baskin-Robbins''.
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Scott pulls a Robin Hood heist on his former company who has been scamming people of their money. This action leads him to be arrested, divorced and his name being tainted.
** Despite receiving a happy ending in his debut movie, Scott decides to aid Captain America in his quest, violating the Sokovia Accords in the process despite having no other reason to sacrifice his happiness other than Captain America asking him for help. Though he seems guilty that it put the Pyms in trouble, his conversation with Hope suggests that he does not regret helping Captain America.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse until the seventh year.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The Ant-Man suit allows him to shrink to the size of an ant and even go subatomic. Although the shrinking isn't particularly impressive, it allows Scott to infiltrate many places, from secure vaults to pieces of technology (allowing him to sabotage fighters relying on tech), and against ordinary goons, his instant shrinking and regrowing allow him to be virtually untouchable, apply ConfusionFu to martial artists that should get the best of him, while still retaining his punch strength with the added bonus that the punch is concentrated on a much smaller area, making it even more damaging.
* IndyPloy: He is a very fast thinker, and it is one of the main qualities why Hank handpicked him to be his successor.
* InstantCostumeChange: When breaking out of his detention cell, he suits up in under ten seconds.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Ant-thony's death revved up Scott's motivation to bring down Cross, declaring that he would pay for doing so. Him taking his daughter hostage just made things deeper.]]
* JustLikeRobinHood: A self-proclaimed whistleblower, the robbery that Scott ended up doing time for was stealing back money from Vistacorp that they had been stealing for years, which he then actually funneled ''back'' to their customers.
* JustifiedCriminal: His burglary of the Pym house was out of desperation: as a felon, he couldn't hold down a job to pay child support.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee:
** He's ecstatic when he meets the Falcon, and starts acting like an excited fan.
** This happens again in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', when he's introduced to Steve Rogers, whose hand he can't stop shaking.
* LargeHam: He really hams it up during the big fight in ''Civil War''. Among other things, dramatically shouting "I believe this is yours, Captain America!" when giving Cap his shield back from Spidey and laughing like a villain when he goes into Giant-Man mode stand out.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Debuted in the final Phase Two film of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* LegacyCharacter: He succeeds Hank Pym in becoming the Ant-Man. Interestingly, this is averted with regard to the Giant-Man persona, as he's the first one to use it in this continuity (as it required his experimentation with something that Hank Pym never tried).
* LogicalWeakness: His Giant-Man form makes him huge, but it also makes him a bigger target. It also requires more energy.
* LoveableRogue: The crime that sent him to prison was merely PayEvilUntoEvil, to the point the Baskin-Robbins manager compliments his actions as [[JustifiedCriminal "cool crimes"]] before a company-mandated sendoff.
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* {{Manchild}}: He's goofy, excitable and carefree, and initially has trouble being a responsible parent to Cassie, holding down a steady job or displaying emotional maturity despite being in his 40s. Even after his CharacterDevelopment he shows shades of this. It gets hilariously lampshaded when Hank jokingly talks down to Scott [[ItMakesSenseInContext like he's four years old]], asking him if he wants a juice box or string cheese. Scott asks ''in all seriousness'' if they actually have any of those.
-->'''Hank:''' What are you, fifteen?
** That said, in the sequel this is played with: while he still has immature ''interests'' and inclinations, his years of house arrest have grown him into a very responsible and mature person, moreso, arguably, than the abrasive Hank himself - indeed, while Hank and Hope see them as boneheaded distractions, most of his issues then come not from foolishness but from him having to balance the many legitimately important things in his own life with the new problems they thrust upon him.
* MetaGuy: He regularly lampshades the wilder or illogical events in the story, such as pointing out to Hank Pym that he might want to consider calling the Avengers, or in the sequel when he lampoons the franchise's RunningGag of heroes disguising themselves with nothing but sunglasses and baseball caps.
* MightyGlacier: As Giant-Man, he can tear planes apart and easily smack aside the likes of Iron Man and War Machine, not to mention being tough enough that missiles don't even scratch him, but he is noticeably slower and clumsier than normal.
* MinionMaster: On top of his shrinking powers, he can control ants. You might think that's not useful, but then you remember just how many ants there are within a vicinity, and he can call upon ''all of them''.
* MomentKiller: Cuts the sincere vindication of [[spoiler:Hank and Hope reconciling]] short by hanging a huge, awkward lampshade over the scene and quashes Pym's feeling of elation that [[spoiler:Janet might still be rescued from the microverse]] by [[spoiler:making out with Hope right outside his door]].
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Scott points out to Hope that this is the main reason why Hank wants him to be Ant-Man instead of Hope, [[spoiler:because Hank doesn't want to lose her like he lost his wife Janet.]]
** Does this again in ''Civil War'' by committing to a dangerous action to increase his size that could potentially injure or kill him, to allow Captain America and Bucky to get to the Quinjet.
* MrFanservice: He has an obligatory shirtless scene in both of his movies.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:A non-fatal variation between him and Spider-Man in ''Civil War''. Spider-Man takes him out by webbing around his legs and forcing him to fall as Giant-Man, but in the process he smacks Spidey hard enough to take him out of the fight as well. Effectively, this ended in a draw.]]
* NiceGuy: Flaws and criminal record aside, Scott is generally a sweet guy.
* NoRespectGuy: Most people have no idea who he is, blunting a lot of his snark. See RunningGag below.
%%NotSoDifferent works only when at least one of the two similar characters directly states it InUniverse.
%% OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Last we saw Scott in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', [[spoiler: he was trapped in the Quantum Realm with no way of getting out due to the Pym family dying at the hands of the Snap]]. Yet, in the first trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', he's managed to escape, and has found the Avengers headquarters all by himself.
* OddNameOut:
** With fellow main characters, '''H'''ank and '''H'''ope.
** With his former(?) family Magg'''ie''' and Cass'''ie'''. The two having same letters before the similar last two letters of their names doesn't help his case. Then again... Scottie?
* OhCrap: When Iron Man defeats him [[MundaneMadeAwesome using]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext the suit's cooling system]].
** Also starts panicking when [[spoiler: Hank, Hope, and Janet stop responding to him while he's in the Quantum Realm.]]
* OneLastJob: He says that his days of breaking and entering and stealing things are over when he meets Hank... right before he learns he has to infiltrate a corporation and forcibly take the technology from it.
-->'''Scott:''' My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done. What do you want me to do?\\
'''Hank:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.\\
'''Scott:''' ''({{Beat}}, [[TrailersAlwaysLie only in the trailer]])'' ...Makes sense.
* OutsideContextProblem: Ant-Man is this to the pro-registration side in ''Civil War'' during the airport battle. Between Spider-Man and him, Ant-Man came on top as the most unexpected and annoying superhero reinforcement. His shrinking power allowed him to stand up to Black Widow, seriously annoy War Machine, partially sabotage Iron Man's armor and when he grew into Giant-Man, he stalled most of the pro-registration team, allowing Cap and Bucky to reach the Quinjet.
* PapaWolf: Everything he has done is to help or protect his daughter in some way, and he's at his most angry when Cross attacks his home and breaks into Cassie's bedroom. [[spoiler:In fact, trying to kill Cassie might be the one thing that'll make Scott break his ThouShaltNotKill policy, as Cross learned.]]
* LeParkour: As part of his "cat burglar" skillset. This was one of the reasons why he was selected by Hank, as any movement as Ant-Man requires parkour skills.
* PestController: He wears a special earpiece that allows him to convey commands to ants.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He retains [[SuperStrength his strength at normal size]] when he shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: His origin story -- he's recruited by Hank Pym specifically ''because'' of his criminal skillset. He manages to segue his way from just Hank's one-time BoxedCrook to being an actual superhero.
* ReformedButRejected: He has a difficult time trying to find honest work due to his criminal past, and his ex-wife and her new husband are very hostile towards him.
* ReformedCriminal: His goal is to become one, but Hank Pym has other ideas. It all works out in the end, though.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: In the trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Scott is listed as one of the casualties of the Snap. In reality, he was TrappedInAnotherWorld, with no way of getting out during the time the Snap occurred. Justified, as absolutely nobody knew he was there aside from the Pym Family, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim who couldn't exactly tell anyone about what he was doing]].
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His suit's helmet a sealed life support system, because suddenly shrinking and growing would have adverse effects on the human brain (namely the fact that they're suddenly breathing oxygen molecules several times larger than their biology will let them process). Scott's helmet seals in some atmosphere that shrinks with him, meaning he doesn't have to worry about such things.
* RunningGag: Other characters not having heard of Ant-Man, much to his annoyance.
-->'''Tony:''' Who are you?\\
'''Scott:''' ...Come on, man.
* ScienceHero: He has a Master's in electrical engineering, meaning that he can tinker with the Ant-Man suit to meet his specifications. He is confident enough to want to fiddle with the regulator before Hank warns him of the potential dangers. As a thief, he uses his scientific knowledge to use household objects to fool a fingerprint scanner and bust open a vault with ice. All of this tends to be heavily downplayed, since he has nowhere near the scientific background or espionage training of both Hank and Hope.
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Although the Pym particles keep his density from fluctuating, he expends much more energy moving and fighting as Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', becoming completely exhausted after only a short time. [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', it nearly causes his death, as he passes out while standing in the ocean and almost drowns.]]
* ShapeshifterModeLock: [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', at one point he half shrinks down to the size of a child and his gear is stuck so he can't revert back to fullsize.]]
* TheSixthRanger: Of the Anti-Accords side/"Team Cap" in Civil War, Scott's the only one not to have any previous established history with the others (unless one counts his scuffle with Falcon). The rest (Bucky, Falcon, Hawkeye, and Scarlet Witch) all have ties with Cap and will fight to the end because of their friendship for him, while Scott was there because he [[AscendedFanboy just happens to be a major fan]] who Falcon thought had the chops for it.
* SizeShifter: He can quickly alternate between shrinking, growing and returning to his normal size. By the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's integrated the enlarging particle into his suit and can use it to grow giant, though he hasn't perfected it.]]
* SquareCubeLaw: Portrayed inconsistently across his outings on screen; in the first film his density while shrunken is such that he can throw a grown man across a room with a single punch and can break through a plate glass window just by being flung at it, whereas being Giant-Man in ''Civil War'' doesn't make his density any less than a being of that size should reasonably have. Additionally, being Giant-Man takes a lot more energy out of him to utilize due to his new size, but being Ant-Man doesn't take any less energy than he would normally need (there was even a scene of him huffing and puffing as he ran across a boarding staircase in the airport while shrunken). Generally speaking the mechanics of his various sizes seem to be governed by RuleOfCool or RuleOfFunny more than any internal consistency.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of the users of the Pym Particle and the carriers of the Ant-Man/Wasp legacy, due to Hank, Hope, and a newly freed Janet getting dusted by Thanos.]]
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Hank gives him some throwing discs resembling shuriken that can grow and shrink things that they hit.
* StupidCrooks: While he himself isn't dumb overall, this is precisely how he got caught when stealing from his boss at Vistacorp, CorruptCorporateExecutive Geoff Zorick, leading to his arrest. He stole several items from him, and then took his car... and subsequently got carried away and drove the car into the mansion's pool. Despite having a Master's Degree in electrical engineering, Hope and Hank tend to view him in this light, and he frequently lives down to their expectations, if only because they're genius-level scientists with spy training.
* SuperStrength: When he's shrunken he has his strength at normal size applied to a very small point; when gigantic he's capable of feats that rival the Hulk.
* SurvivalMantra: Before enlarging himself into Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', Scott starts chanting "I'm the boss" to himself to psych himself up.
* TechnicalPacifist: He is very specific that he is not a robber, he is a burglar. Robbery involves threat of violence. He gets trained during the movie how to fight as Ant-Man, but only so that he can control his strength and not kill someone accidentally.
* ThemeNaming: He likes to use names that start with "ant" when naming his ants. Such as: Ant-ony, Ant-on, and Ant-onio Banderas.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He avoids killing whenever it's possible, but the one exception was when [[spoiler:Darren Cross was about to kill his daughter, and so Scott literally imploded him in a way that looked very painful. It should be noted that even then, it wasn't specifically out of anger but because Cassie was in danger and there was ''no other way''.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out]].
* {{Troll}}: When he miniaturizes and gets inside Iron Man's armor, he claims he's Tony's "conscience" and that they haven't spoken for a while.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He winds up trapped in the Quantum Realm after going in to procure some healing particles for Ava just as [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos]] wipes out half of all life in the universe, taking the entire Pym/Van Dyne family with it and the know-how to get him out.]]
* UnderhandedHero:
** He is a former burglar, fresh out of prison. He's trying to turn over a new leaf and leave his old life behind, but the skills he perfected as a thief are exactly what Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, needs to stop a powerful villain.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over. What do you want me to do?
-->'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' ...Makes sense.
** In his second appearance (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''), Scott acts as a [[spoiler: booby-trap when Spidey steal Cap's shield, spends most of the fight messing with the insides of Tony's suit, and provides an [[IncrediblyLamePun enormous]] distraction so that Cap and Bucky can get away.]]
* TheUnfavorite: He may be the closest thing Hank Pym had to a son outside of Darren Cross, but he's still this compared to Hope. He's less than thrilled to learn that Hank already had wings and blasters that he could've given him, but was saving for his daughter.
* UnknownRival: Long before he even meet Hank Pym, Scott really disliked Tony, probably thanks to his residual dislike for the corporate world. When interviewed by [=WHiH=] World News, he's glad when Christine Everhart says "he's no Tony Stark". Tony however doesn't even know Lang exists.
-->'''Scott:''' ...[[RunningGag Come on, man.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hank. The two trade insults back and forth, but ultimately respect each other.
* WeakButSkilled: Shrinking and controlling ants. That's it, at least to begin with. However, he can do that (and revert to normal) on command at a moment's notice. To make that useful he needed to train and learn to fight properly so that his attacks could be effective and quick. Hope puts it best when she says he needs to fight like a bullet. As a result, while he can never take on a Avenger like Black Widow in a straight fight, his SizeShifter powers let him trick his enemies and target their weak spots. This is averted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', where in addition to shrinking he can also enlarge, providing him with brute force as well.
* WouldHitAGirl: Training with Hope was full-contact.
* WrittenInAbsence: Due to being under house arrest, he does not partake in the events of ''Infinity War''. ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' specifically shows what he was up to before [[spoiler:(and during)]] the events of that film.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from Film/BackToTheFuture is ignorant and lame.
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PaulRudd
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Sergio Bonilla (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/ClaudioSerrano (European Spanish dub), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (Japanese dub), Damien Boisseau (European French dub), Patrice Dubois (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntMan'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''
->''"My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done."''
An electrical engineer-turned-thief who seeks to make amends for his crime. He is eventually hired by the original Ant-Man, Dr. Hank Pym, to steal Hank's AppliedPhlebotinum technology from the very company Hank founded, to prevent the firm's new owners from abusing it. The Ant-Man suit Hank gives Lang as a result allows Scott to shrink and grow in size, alter his mass in [[ArtisticLicensePhysics normally impossible ways]] to greatly enhance his strength, and communicate with insects.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Ant-Man carries around a bunch of metal disks the size of coins he can throw like shurikens. However, they're not here to hurt. The discs contain Pym particles that can apply a shrinking or growing effect on any object, allowing to take advantage of surrounding things in unexpected ways.
* ActionDad: He has a daughter, Cassie Lang, and he wants to be a hero for her.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Lang has red hair in the comics, but black hair in the movie.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Scott spent much of his time as a supporting character for Tony Stark and assisted him in and out of the Avengers, as basically Stark's sidekick. Here, he doesn't even ''meet'' Stark until ''Civil War'', which put them on opposing sides no less, and, ironically, Stark doesn't even know who he is.
* AdaptedOut: Inverted in ''Civil War''. Scott didn't take part in the conflict in the comics by the account of having been dead at the time [[note]]killed off in 2004's ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', didn't come back until 2012's ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade''[[/note]], and instead it was his daughter [[ComicBook/CassieLang Stature]] who took part in the war. Because he's very much not dead during the MCU version, he took part in the conflict.
* {{Adorkable}}: Ant-Man geeks out over being deemed important enough to serve alongside ''Captain America'', stumbling over his words when telling Cap how much it means to him.
-->'''Ant-Man:''' I'm shaking your hand too long!
* AffectionateNickname: By ''Civil War'', Falcon has taken to calling him Tic-Tac. It could also be considered an InsultOfEndearment but it never had any real bite to it.
* AmicableExes: While he's initially on thin ice with his ex-wife due to his criminal past, after his heroic actions they're on much friendlier terms... along with her cop husband Paxton, who has come to be a "big brother" to Scott whom he regularly hugs and is protective of.
* AndIMustScream:
** In TheStinger of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', he travels into the Quantum Realm to collect particles that would help stabilize Ghost's condition. But before he can be brought out, Thanos unleashes his finger-snap that destroys half of all life in the universe, taking the lives of Hank, Janet, and Hope, and leaving him stuck there until his currently unexplained escape by ''Avengers: Endgame''.
** Ultimately subverted in ''Endgame'' when he finally escape by accident from the Quantum Realm and points out that despite the 5 years that have passed for Earth, Scott has only spent 5 hours tops in the quantum realm.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: His superhero persona is based on the ant although his powers only superficially reflect this. His shrinking ability comes from revolutionary technology and his ability to control ants comes his helmet, which stimulates olfactory nerve centers in ants to elicit specific responses from the insects.
* AntiHero: He is a former thief trying to go straight by helping Hank Pym. This, of course, turns out to involve committing another heist, albeit one that will save lives. Although he has his record, several people admire him for robbing a company that robbed others, including Hank.
* ApologeticAttacker: He repeatedly tells Falcon that he's a fan even while dismantling his suit from the inside. Given Scott's [[NiceGuy nature]] this is common in most of his fights. The only except is when Darren Cross [[PapaWolf threatens Cassie]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: His costume works through the use of Pym Particles.
* TheApprentice: Hank is the one who took Scott in and trained him to be the next Ant-Man, and [[VitriolicBestBuds while the two can trade insults a lot]], they ultimately have respect for each other.
* AscendedExtra: On a broader scale, Scott fits the bill in ''Endgame''. His movies, while not slouches, have comparatively modest box office results and are relatively self-contained, his role in ''Civil War'' was minor, and he sat out ''Infinity War''. In ''Endgame'', he's one the most pivotal characters in the entire movie, being core in the plan to defeat Thanos.
* AscendedFanboy: He quite clearly has the time of his life working with Cap and the other Avengers. Scott clearly wants to be a superhero and live out the fantasies many have, and is all-too-happy to do it.
* AsleepForDays: After his EmergencyTransformation into Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', the strain was such that he apparently had to sleep for three days to recover afterwards.
* TheAtoner: He wants to give up his life of crime, and sees becoming Ant-Man as an avenue for that opportunity.
* AtrociousAlias: What he thinks of the name "Ant-Man" in the trailers.
-->'''Scott:''' One question... Is it too late to change the name?\\
'''Scott:''' I'm Ant-Man. (''{{Beat}}'') I know, wasn't my idea.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: As Giant-Man. He first (successfully) takes this form in ''Captain America: Civil War'' to provide distraction while Cap and Bucky run to the quinjet. As Giant-Man, Scott acquires SuperStrength and SuperToughness -enough to casually lift a gangway to fling it at War Machine- although the growing is very taxing on his body. According to his second movie, his personal best is ''65'' feet but later, he increases to ''80''.
* AudienceSurrogate: He talks and reacts much like how a casual viewer would, particularly during [[spoiler:his fight with Falcon]] and [[spoiler:Hope and Hank's reconciliation.]] Complete with amazingly self-aware lines about how he ruined the moment.
** In ''Endgame'' he is the one who discovers what has happened and how the world has changed in the face of the Decimation. He's also unaware of the Infinity Stones, requiring the Avengers to explain it to him.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Giant-Man form is not as useful as it looks. He's got far more brute strength and destructive power in this form but he's reduced to a lumbering speed which means that although he has greater toughness, he couldn't really dodge an attack that would threaten him. The suit itself isn't actually designed to do that and he mentions that just doing it risks tearing him apart. The SquareCubeLaw also means that he exerts an enormous amount of energy simply to maintain the form, and just a few minutes is enough to exhaust him to the point he can't even stand. His more up-to-date suit in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' makes this ability more practical because it's been updated to do it safely, allowing it to be used in short bursts so he doesn't exhaust himself. Or at least it would be if the suit had been fully tested and worked properly.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Is able to dissemble advance security systems extremely quickly with {{MacGyver|ing}}ed tools. In the deleted scenes, Hank notes that during the Vistacorp job, he was able to guess a password that was changed every minute by picking up the greater pattern from which it was generated.
* BadassBookworm: He was an electrical engineer before being sent to prison, and came out prison a somewhat skilled fighter.
* BadassNormal: Having no superpowers, Scott's abilities come from his electrical engineer and fighting skills mentioned above, and his use of Hank Pym's Ant-Man suits. In spite of his limited devices, Scott proves to be tough enough to stand up to Black Widow for a short time, which is no easy feat even for goons with military training.
* BoxedCrook: Hank Pym basically entraps him into robbing his house as an audition for a replacement Ant-Man who can prevent the weaponization and (legal, albeit morally questionable) sale of his Pym Particles.
* BreakoutCharacter:
** Scott Lang in the comics was a rather minor character in the established universe. He was created mainly to fill the role of Ant-Man after Hank Pym abandoned it, ensuring it remained in use, as Pym is known for his [[IHaveManyNames many identities]]. Pym remained an extremely important figure in the Marvel mythos as a founding Avenger and a brilliant scientist, while Scott was relegated to supporting others. Throughout the '80s and '90s, Scott was a supporting character for Iron Man (by extension, the Avengers) and the Fantastic Four, and then in the '00s became an Avenger himself, only to [[CListFodder die unceremoniously]] to establish the threat in ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', until he [[DeathIsCheap got better]]. In the MCU, Scott was made ''the'' starring Ant-Man of the universe, which has given him far greater exposure than he ever had before, and since then has become the face of the Ant-Man brand in general, with the comics and surrounding media following suit and making him a bigger deal anyone back then could imagine.
** Within the MCU itself, he's still quite fittingly the smallest box office draw of the MCU heroes. While his movies aren't slouches, they trail the MCU's biggest properties and are smaller-scale affair. He missed the entirety of ''Infinity War'', as the movie was already juggling LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, because they didn't think he was important enough, and his role in ''Civil War'' was just a support of Cap. This makes it somewhat surprising that he has a very important role in ''Endgame'', as someone who is said to play a major part in the plan to defeat Thanos.
* ButtMonkey: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the butt of many jokes, usually centered around the fact that he's not as "awesome" as the regular Avengers. Unlike Tony and Banner who are geniuses, Scott is called out on believing stereotypes about time travel; he also has to be reminded that he's way less known as Ant-Man than even the Hulk, and his dorky demeanour are looked down upon and mocked by several other characters. Nebula even ignores him and warns the Avengers that "there's an idiot around the landing bay".
* TheCameo: In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', he briefly appears as Giant-Man in Peter Parker's vlog of [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the airport battle]].
* CastFromCalories: When he talks to Bill Foster about growing, he mentions that after the airport battle in ''Civil War'' he slept for three straight days. He also requested orange slices immediately afterward.
* CelebrityParadox: ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' was referred to in an episode of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' -- Paul Rudd played field reporter Brian Fantana in that film. Additionally, Scott and his pals discuss Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio early in the film despite [=DiCaprio=] and Rudd having starred in ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' together.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: As in the comics, Scott has no innate powers and his ability to shrink, grow and control ants are derived entirely from his suit and Pym Particles.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: His red throwing discs can shrink anything they hit while his blue discs can enlarge them. [[spoiler:''Civil War'', specifically, Giant-Man, indirectly confirms that this applies to Pym Particles in general - namely, red is shrinking, and blue is enlarging.]]
* CombatPragmatist: He puts his shrinking powers to very inventive use to outmaneuver and outwit opponents, such as shrinking in the middle of combat to throw off Falcon and Black Widow. He's also more than willing to shrink enough to disable opponents' weaponry or gadgets.
* CompositeCharacter: In ''Captain America: Civil War'', he becomes Giant-Man, one of Hank Pym's old aliases from the comics. However, in this setting, he's the ''first'' (and so far, only) character to become Giant-Man, as Hank only dealt with shrinking during his career as a superhero.
* TheConscience: Pretends to be Tony Stark's after shrinking down to sabotage his armor in ''Civil War''. Fitting, because one of Scott's ongoing conflicts is being torn between what's legal and what his conscience tells him is right. And also because he's the size of [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] at the time.
-->'''Iron Man:''' Who's ''speaking''?\\
'''Ant-Man:''' It's... your conscience. We don't talk a lot these days.
* CowardlyLion: {{Discussed}}. When Scott insists that what he did is a burglary and not a robbery because he is a cat burglar, Dave asks Scott if he's a [[{{Pun}} pussy]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's introduced as a bumbling ManChild who has trouble holding down a job or paying child support for his daughter, but he was once an electrical engineer and demonstrates incredible intelligence when it comes to advanced security systems (see AwesomeByAnalysis). He's also a reasonably skilled hand-to-hand fighter and adapts quickly to Hope's training regimen.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Going subatomic is something he's warned to never do because [[spoiler:it's what lead to the "death" of Janet. He ultimately has to do so to save Cassie from Cross. This is downplayed by ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' where the tunnel developed by Hank and Hope allows people to safely enter the Quantum Realm as long as there's someone on the other end to pull them back to safety. Thanks to Thanos, now he can't]].
** He hasn't fully mastered his "growing" powers yet, and mentions having passed out during his first time trying. He seems to be able to handle growing larger for a longer period of time in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' but he still passes out after using them.
* DeadpanSnarker: He likes to snarkily hang a lampshade on all that surrounds him, like his AtrociousAlias or reaction to why Hank wants to hire him, and takes every opportunity to snark, whether [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] or [[ChewingTheScenery full-blown]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After defeating Falcon, far from being upset (if not a little embarrassed), Wilson was impressed enough to bring him into the Avengers as part of Captain America's team during Civil War.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: During the second time he breaks in Hank Pym's, the cops catch him and he tries to explain that he's not stealing anything. He's just returning something he stole before.
* DrunkWithPower: Parodied. He gives a ''very'' exaggerated laugh after he turned into Giant-Man.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: One of his key character traits, as an ex-con whose original crime started with trying to blow the whistle on his corrupt bosses at Vistacorp and return their ill-gotten gains to their customers. During Tony's visit to the Raft where Scott is incarcerated yet again for his part in the airport battle in Berlin:
-->'''Scott:''' [[ItsLikeIAlwaysSay Hank Pym always said]], [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys you never can trust a Stark]].\\
'''Tony:''' [[UnknownRival Who are you?]]\\
'''Scott:''' ...Come on, man.
* EmergencyTransformation: Turning into Giant-Man is generally this, since it's so physically taxing. [[spoiler:In the closing minutes of ''Ant-Man and The Wasp'', the toll of being giant for much of the final act causes Scott to pass out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, so that Hope has to follow him down to the seabed and manually shrink him down.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** His first scene is in prison, indicating a criminal past. Immediate scenes show his friendship with Luis and how he's willing to leave behind his past for the sake of his daughter.
** His friendly goodbye to ''all'' his fellow inmates also establishes how much of a NiceGuy Scott is.
* TheEveryman: In a world filled with geniuses, super soldiers, gods, spies, and aliens, Scott is the first MCU protagonist to just be a normal guy with a relatively normal life prior to obtaining the suit. All the more apparent when Hope and Hank come out of hiding to kidnap him in the second movie, meaning he's dressed in an [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]-esque flannel housecoat, undershirt, and boxers while he's being reintroduced to their world of espionage and superscience.
* EvilLaugh: A heroic example in ''Civil War'' when he becomes Giant-Man for intimidation.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Half the universe gets wiped out after Thanos' fingersnap. Him? He gets stranded in the Quantum Realm with no way out, and he's gonna wish he was dead. Scott does appear in the end of the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer intact and looking no less for wear, [[SubvertedTrope meaning that he somehow managed to get out during the]] TimeSkip]].
* FightingClown: During the airplane battle in ''Civil War'', most of his opponents don't take his abilities seriously during the fight... [[spoiler:until he grows into Giant-Man. Then it takes the combined efforts of almost everyone on the pro-Accords side to take him down.]]
* FireForgedFriends: With Paxton. The two initially hated each other, with Scott resenting Paxton for taking his wife and daughter while he was locked up and preventing him from spending time with Cassie, and the Paxton hating Scott for being a crook. Once Scott proves himself a hero and saves Cassie, while Paxton shows his willingness to give it all to save her as well, the two become good friends. By ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', Paxton has nothing but nice things to say about him.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Scott was trapped in the Quantum Realm for five years and by the time he escaped, he has no idea what has happened to the world and was shocked to see a memorial build to those who died as a result of Thanos' Snap.
* {{Foil}}: The Ant-Man movies are themed around fathers and father figures, with Scott the devoted father whose life is in a shambles contrasting with Hank, the successful, rational man who is emotionally distant to proteges. This becomes stronger in the sequel, which adds another father and (surrogate) daughter pair with [[spoiler: Bill Foster and Ghost]]: by that point, Scott has grown to the point where his good nature makes [[spoiler: Ghost take a shine to him]], and allows him to alleviate Hope's fears about her own parents.
* GiantFootofStomping: In the climax of ''Endgame'', he puts his giant form to good use by [[spoiler:stomping Cull Obsidian from the past in his giant form, instantly taking it out.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: For his own safety, the suit's regulator limits his size changing abilities. He can override it if the situation is serious enough to justify the risk.
** [[spoiler:Scott goes subatomic]] to finish off Cross when the guy is seconds away from murdering his daughter.
** He grows into Giant-Man, risking tearing his whole body apart, to give Cap a shot a going for the Quinjet.
* GoodParents: In a setting rife with DaddyIssues and {{Disappeared Dad}}s, Scott is, hands-down, the best father in the MCU. He adores Cassie, tries to set a good example of behavior for her, enjoys playing with her to the point that he constructed a play-fort that spans his entire house, is always available when she needs him (even if he's been captured by a villain) and while he encourages her heroic desire to help others, he doesn't make her his partner or sidekick or anything like that because it would be far too dangerous for a ten year old.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Played with. He probably would've been convicted of white-collar crimes if he hadn't broken into the house of his boss at Vistacorp and crashed the man's car into his pool, but the original theft was about blowing the whistle on Vistacorp's much larger crimes, which amounted to bilking their customers out of millions. Except the SCC couldn't find any proof, so Scott went to prison as a simple thief, came out unable to hold a job, and subsequently became an run-of-the-mill burglar just to make his child support payments.
* HappyEndingOverride:
** Scott's first film ends with him becoming the hero Cassie worships him as, regaining Maggie's respect, and gaining a new FriendOnTheForce in Paxton, resulting in him also getting fully pardoned for prior crimes. By the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's incarcerated once more due to not abiding by the Accords and assisting in Captain America and Bucky's escape. As a result, he's placed under house arrest at the beginning of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp''.]]
** [[spoiler: Gets hit with it again in the first stinger scene of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', where after getting Ghost a treatment for her condition and freeing Janet from the Quantum Realm while not getting caught out of his house arrest (leaving him free to reunite with his daughter), he gets trapped in the Quantum Realm himself after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos, leaving Scott adrift with no knowledge of what's going on in the larger world.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He puts himself down quite a bit, saying that he manages to "screw up" the noble goal of being a hero.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Due to his criminal past, he has a hard time convincing others (except his daughter) that he is a hero. Even aside from being a superhero, it's just plain hard for an ex-con to find a job, to the point that he has to use an alias to get a job at a ''Baskin-Robbins''.
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Scott pulls a Robin Hood heist on his former company who has been scamming people of their money. This action leads him to be arrested, divorced and his name being tainted.
** Despite receiving a happy ending in his debut movie, Scott decides to aid Captain America in his quest, violating the Sokovia Accords in the process despite having no other reason to sacrifice his happiness other than Captain America asking him for help. Though he seems guilty that it put the Pyms in trouble, his conversation with Hope suggests that he does not regret helping Captain America.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse until the seventh year.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The Ant-Man suit allows him to shrink to the size of an ant and even go subatomic. Although the shrinking isn't particularly impressive, it allows Scott to infiltrate many places, from secure vaults to pieces of technology (allowing him to sabotage fighters relying on tech), and against ordinary goons, his instant shrinking and regrowing allow him to be virtually untouchable, apply ConfusionFu to martial artists that should get the best of him, while still retaining his punch strength with the added bonus that the punch is concentrated on a much smaller area, making it even more damaging.
* IndyPloy: He is a very fast thinker, and it is one of the main qualities why Hank handpicked him to be his successor.
* InstantCostumeChange: When breaking out of his detention cell, he suits up in under ten seconds.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Ant-thony's death revved up Scott's motivation to bring down Cross, declaring that he would pay for doing so. Him taking his daughter hostage just made things deeper.]]
* JustLikeRobinHood: A self-proclaimed whistleblower, the robbery that Scott ended up doing time for was stealing back money from Vistacorp that they had been stealing for years, which he then actually funneled ''back'' to their customers.
* JustifiedCriminal: His burglary of the Pym house was out of desperation: as a felon, he couldn't hold down a job to pay child support.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee:
** He's ecstatic when he meets the Falcon, and starts acting like an excited fan.
** This happens again in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', when he's introduced to Steve Rogers, whose hand he can't stop shaking.
* LargeHam: He really hams it up during the big fight in ''Civil War''. Among other things, dramatically shouting "I believe this is yours, Captain America!" when giving Cap his shield back from Spidey and laughing like a villain when he goes into Giant-Man mode stand out.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Debuted in the final Phase Two film of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* LegacyCharacter: He succeeds Hank Pym in becoming the Ant-Man. Interestingly, this is averted with regard to the Giant-Man persona, as he's the first one to use it in this continuity (as it required his experimentation with something that Hank Pym never tried).
* LogicalWeakness: His Giant-Man form makes him huge, but it also makes him a bigger target. It also requires more energy.
* LoveableRogue: The crime that sent him to prison was merely PayEvilUntoEvil, to the point the Baskin-Robbins manager compliments his actions as [[JustifiedCriminal "cool crimes"]] before a company-mandated sendoff.
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* {{Manchild}}: He's goofy, excitable and carefree, and initially has trouble being a responsible parent to Cassie, holding down a steady job or displaying emotional maturity despite being in his 40s. Even after his CharacterDevelopment he shows shades of this. It gets hilariously lampshaded when Hank jokingly talks down to Scott [[ItMakesSenseInContext like he's four years old]], asking him if he wants a juice box or string cheese. Scott asks ''in all seriousness'' if they actually have any of those.
-->'''Hank:''' What are you, fifteen?
** That said, in the sequel this is played with: while he still has immature ''interests'' and inclinations, his years of house arrest have grown him into a very responsible and mature person, moreso, arguably, than the abrasive Hank himself - indeed, while Hank and Hope see them as boneheaded distractions, most of his issues then come not from foolishness but from him having to balance the many legitimately important things in his own life with the new problems they thrust upon him.
* MetaGuy: He regularly lampshades the wilder or illogical events in the story, such as pointing out to Hank Pym that he might want to consider calling the Avengers, or in the sequel when he lampoons the franchise's RunningGag of heroes disguising themselves with nothing but sunglasses and baseball caps.
* MightyGlacier: As Giant-Man, he can tear planes apart and easily smack aside the likes of Iron Man and War Machine, not to mention being tough enough that missiles don't even scratch him, but he is noticeably slower and clumsier than normal.
* MinionMaster: On top of his shrinking powers, he can control ants. You might think that's not useful, but then you remember just how many ants there are within a vicinity, and he can call upon ''all of them''.
* MomentKiller: Cuts the sincere vindication of [[spoiler:Hank and Hope reconciling]] short by hanging a huge, awkward lampshade over the scene and quashes Pym's feeling of elation that [[spoiler:Janet might still be rescued from the microverse]] by [[spoiler:making out with Hope right outside his door]].
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Scott points out to Hope that this is the main reason why Hank wants him to be Ant-Man instead of Hope, [[spoiler:because Hank doesn't want to lose her like he lost his wife Janet.]]
** Does this again in ''Civil War'' by committing to a dangerous action to increase his size that could potentially injure or kill him, to allow Captain America and Bucky to get to the Quinjet.
* MrFanservice: He has an obligatory shirtless scene in both of his movies.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:A non-fatal variation between him and Spider-Man in ''Civil War''. Spider-Man takes him out by webbing around his legs and forcing him to fall as Giant-Man, but in the process he smacks Spidey hard enough to take him out of the fight as well. Effectively, this ended in a draw.]]
* NiceGuy: Flaws and criminal record aside, Scott is generally a sweet guy.
* NoRespectGuy: Most people have no idea who he is, blunting a lot of his snark. See RunningGag below.
%%NotSoDifferent works only when at least one of the two similar characters directly states it InUniverse.
%% OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Last we saw Scott in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', [[spoiler: he was trapped in the Quantum Realm with no way of getting out due to the Pym family dying at the hands of the Snap]]. Yet, in the first trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', he's managed to escape, and has found the Avengers headquarters all by himself.
* OddNameOut:
** With fellow main characters, '''H'''ank and '''H'''ope.
** With his former(?) family Magg'''ie''' and Cass'''ie'''. The two having same letters before the similar last two letters of their names doesn't help his case. Then again... Scottie?
* OhCrap: When Iron Man defeats him [[MundaneMadeAwesome using]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext the suit's cooling system]].
** Also starts panicking when [[spoiler: Hank, Hope, and Janet stop responding to him while he's in the Quantum Realm.]]
* OneLastJob: He says that his days of breaking and entering and stealing things are over when he meets Hank... right before he learns he has to infiltrate a corporation and forcibly take the technology from it.
-->'''Scott:''' My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done. What do you want me to do?\\
'''Hank:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.\\
'''Scott:''' ''({{Beat}}, [[TrailersAlwaysLie only in the trailer]])'' ...Makes sense.
* OutsideContextProblem: Ant-Man is this to the pro-registration side in ''Civil War'' during the airport battle. Between Spider-Man and him, Ant-Man came on top as the most unexpected and annoying superhero reinforcement. His shrinking power allowed him to stand up to Black Widow, seriously annoy War Machine, partially sabotage Iron Man's armor and when he grew into Giant-Man, he stalled most of the pro-registration team, allowing Cap and Bucky to reach the Quinjet.
* PapaWolf: Everything he has done is to help or protect his daughter in some way, and he's at his most angry when Cross attacks his home and breaks into Cassie's bedroom. [[spoiler:In fact, trying to kill Cassie might be the one thing that'll make Scott break his ThouShaltNotKill policy, as Cross learned.]]
* LeParkour: As part of his "cat burglar" skillset. This was one of the reasons why he was selected by Hank, as any movement as Ant-Man requires parkour skills.
* PestController: He wears a special earpiece that allows him to convey commands to ants.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He retains [[SuperStrength his strength at normal size]] when he shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: His origin story -- he's recruited by Hank Pym specifically ''because'' of his criminal skillset. He manages to segue his way from just Hank's one-time BoxedCrook to being an actual superhero.
* ReformedButRejected: He has a difficult time trying to find honest work due to his criminal past, and his ex-wife and her new husband are very hostile towards him.
* ReformedCriminal: His goal is to become one, but Hank Pym has other ideas. It all works out in the end, though.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: In the trailer for ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Scott is listed as one of the casualties of the Snap. In reality, he was TrappedInAnotherWorld, with no way of getting out during the time the Snap occurred. Justified, as absolutely nobody knew he was there aside from the Pym Family, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim who couldn't exactly tell anyone about what he was doing]].
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His suit's helmet a sealed life support system, because suddenly shrinking and growing would have adverse effects on the human brain (namely the fact that they're suddenly breathing oxygen molecules several times larger than their biology will let them process). Scott's helmet seals in some atmosphere that shrinks with him, meaning he doesn't have to worry about such things.
* RunningGag: Other characters not having heard of Ant-Man, much to his annoyance.
-->'''Tony:''' Who are you?\\
'''Scott:''' ...Come on, man.
* ScienceHero: He has a Master's in electrical engineering, meaning that he can tinker with the Ant-Man suit to meet his specifications. He is confident enough to want to fiddle with the regulator before Hank warns him of the potential dangers. As a thief, he uses his scientific knowledge to use household objects to fool a fingerprint scanner and bust open a vault with ice. All of this tends to be heavily downplayed, since he has nowhere near the scientific background or espionage training of both Hank and Hope.
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Although the Pym particles keep his density from fluctuating, he expends much more energy moving and fighting as Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', becoming completely exhausted after only a short time. [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', it nearly causes his death, as he passes out while standing in the ocean and almost drowns.]]
* ShapeshifterModeLock: [[spoiler:In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', at one point he half shrinks down to the size of a child and his gear is stuck so he can't revert back to fullsize.]]
* TheSixthRanger: Of the Anti-Accords side/"Team Cap" in Civil War, Scott's the only one not to have any previous established history with the others (unless one counts his scuffle with Falcon). The rest (Bucky, Falcon, Hawkeye, and Scarlet Witch) all have ties with Cap and will fight to the end because of their friendship for him, while Scott was there because he [[AscendedFanboy just happens to be a major fan]] who Falcon thought had the chops for it.
* SizeShifter: He can quickly alternate between shrinking, growing and returning to his normal size. By the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[spoiler:he's integrated the enlarging particle into his suit and can use it to grow giant, though he hasn't perfected it.]]
* SquareCubeLaw: Portrayed inconsistently across his outings on screen; in the first film his density while shrunken is such that he can throw a grown man across a room with a single punch and can break through a plate glass window just by being flung at it, whereas being Giant-Man in ''Civil War'' doesn't make his density any less than a being of that size should reasonably have. Additionally, being Giant-Man takes a lot more energy out of him to utilize due to his new size, but being Ant-Man doesn't take any less energy than he would normally need (there was even a scene of him huffing and puffing as he ran across a boarding staircase in the airport while shrunken). Generally speaking the mechanics of his various sizes seem to be governed by RuleOfCool or RuleOfFunny more than any internal consistency.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of the users of the Pym Particle and the carriers of the Ant-Man/Wasp legacy, due to Hank, Hope, and a newly freed Janet getting dusted by Thanos.]]
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Hank gives him some throwing discs resembling shuriken that can grow and shrink things that they hit.
* StupidCrooks: While he himself isn't dumb overall, this is precisely how he got caught when stealing from his boss at Vistacorp, CorruptCorporateExecutive Geoff Zorick, leading to his arrest. He stole several items from him, and then took his car... and subsequently got carried away and drove the car into the mansion's pool. Despite having a Master's Degree in electrical engineering, Hope and Hank tend to view him in this light, and he frequently lives down to their expectations, if only because they're genius-level scientists with spy training.
* SuperStrength: When he's shrunken he has his strength at normal size applied to a very small point; when gigantic he's capable of feats that rival the Hulk.
* SurvivalMantra: Before enlarging himself into Giant-Man in ''Civil War'', Scott starts chanting "I'm the boss" to himself to psych himself up.
* TechnicalPacifist: He is very specific that he is not a robber, he is a burglar. Robbery involves threat of violence. He gets trained during the movie how to fight as Ant-Man, but only so that he can control his strength and not kill someone accidentally.
* ThemeNaming: He likes to use names that start with "ant" when naming his ants. Such as: Ant-ony, Ant-on, and Ant-onio Banderas.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He avoids killing whenever it's possible, but the one exception was when [[spoiler:Darren Cross was about to kill his daughter, and so Scott literally imploded him in a way that looked very painful. It should be noted that even then, it wasn't specifically out of anger but because Cassie was in danger and there was ''no other way''.]]
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In [[spoiler:TheStinger for ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'']], he enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve [[spoiler:more “healing particles” for Ava/Ghost. Hope, Hank, and Janet are acting as MissionControl, but before they can bring him back to his regular size, the three of them are snapped out of existence due to the events of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. Poor Scott has absolutely no clue as to why they aren’t responding, and no way of getting out]].
* {{Troll}}: When he miniaturizes and gets inside Iron Man's armor, he claims he's Tony's "conscience" and that they haven't spoken for a while.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He winds up trapped in the Quantum Realm after going in to procure some healing particles for Ava just as [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos]] wipes out half of all life in the universe, taking the entire Pym/Van Dyne family with it and the know-how to get him out.]]
* UnderhandedHero:
** He is a former burglar, fresh out of prison. He's trying to turn over a new leaf and leave his old life behind, but the skills he perfected as a thief are exactly what Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, needs to stop a powerful villain.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over. What do you want me to do?
-->'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.
-->'''Scott Lang:''' ...Makes sense.
** In his second appearance (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''), Scott acts as a [[spoiler: booby-trap when Spidey steal Cap's shield, spends most of the fight messing with the insides of Tony's suit, and provides an [[IncrediblyLamePun enormous]] distraction so that Cap and Bucky can get away.]]
* TheUnfavorite: He may be the closest thing Hank Pym had to a son outside of Darren Cross, but he's still this compared to Hope. He's less than thrilled to learn that Hank already had wings and blasters that he could've given him, but was saving for his daughter.
* UnknownRival: Long before he even meet Hank Pym, Scott really disliked Tony, probably thanks to his residual dislike for the corporate world. When interviewed by [=WHiH=] World News, he's glad when Christine Everhart says "he's no Tony Stark". Tony however doesn't even know Lang exists.
-->'''Scott:''' ...[[RunningGag Come on, man.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hank. The two trade insults back and forth, but ultimately respect each other.
* WeakButSkilled: Shrinking and controlling ants. That's it, at least to begin with. However, he can do that (and revert to normal) on command at a moment's notice. To make that useful he needed to train and learn to fight properly so that his attacks could be effective and quick. Hope puts it best when she says he needs to fight like a bullet. As a result, while he can never take on a Avenger like Black Widow in a straight fight, his SizeShifter powers let him trick his enemies and target their weak spots. This is averted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', where in addition to shrinking he can also enlarge, providing him with brute force as well.
* WouldHitAGirl: Training with Hope was full-contact.
* WrittenInAbsence: Due to being under house arrest, he does not partake in the events of ''Infinity War''. ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' specifically shows what he was up to before [[spoiler:(and during)]] the events of that film.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: In ''Endgame'', Scott is the one opening up the idea of time travel to the Avengers but gets the rules of time travel wrong, such as firmly believing in NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. Stark and Banner, who have studied the matter from a more scientific point of view, say that taking cues from Film/BackToTheFuture is ignorant and lame.
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