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-->'''Dr. Hank Pym:''' Hiya, champ! How was school today?
-->'''Scott Lang:''' Aw, ha ha ha! Alright, get your jokes out now, can you fix the suit?
-->'''Hope van Dyne:''' So cranky.
-->'''Dr. Hank Pym:''' You want a juice box and some string cheese?
-->'''Scott Lang:''' ...do you really have those?

* FateWorseThanDeath: Ava describes the quantum accident that killed her parents and left her in her entangled state by saying that ''she'' was the unlucky one. Bill Foster says that her disintegration might not be a clean death.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: Ava Starr/Ghost seems very... ''interested'' in Scott after she captures him, with her curiously staring at Scott until he wakes up (in contrast with Hope and Hank, both of whom Ava forcibly wakes up by hitting them in their backs) and creepily invading his personal space.

** Bill Foster at one point persuades Ava to bring Janet back instead of absorbing her like they initially planned as Janet (being one of the greatest scientists in the quantum field) could be able to help Ava's condition. After Janet is rescued, she indeed helps Ava, by stabilizing her molecules and later by sending Scott to the Quantum Realm to gain some energy in treating her.

* HollywoodLaw: Maggie's understanding of Scott's legal situation leaves something to be desired, as pointed out by her cop husband, Paxton.
-->'''Maggie:''' You can't just barge in here!\\
'''Paxton:''' Yes, they can.\\

'''Paxton:''' No, they don't.\\
'''Maggie:''' Really?

* NiceMeanAndInBetween:

* RunningGag: Maggie asking if the FBI has the right to do something, and her cop boyfriend quietly pointing out that they do have that right.

** Hope kidnaps Scott and has a giant ant substitute him by wearing his tracker and behaving like he does (nine hours in bed, etc.) to avoid suspicion. Of course, if anyone actually entered the house, they'd immediately see it is a '''giant ant'''. This doesn't stop Luis from questioning if it's Scott when he sees it, however.

** Then played straight again with the stinger, leaving Scott [spoiler:trapped in the quantum realm after Hank, Janet, and Hope get dusted by Thanos]].

* LivingGhost: As a child, the Ghost was exposed to quantum energy while caught in an explosion that killed her parents. This granted her invisibility and intangibility. However these powers came with a price; her molecular structure and equilibrium to become imbalanced and she requires a special suit to control her phasing ability.

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'''[[Film/AntMan1 <<< Phase 2]] | [[Series/WandaVision Phase 4 >>>]]'''-]]]]]

* EndOfAnAge: The movie was the last instalment of the MCU to be released in Creator/StanLee's lifetime. He died five months after the release and continued to make two more posthumous cameos in the films (the other one being ''Film/CaptainMarvel'') until his final MCU appearance in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

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* CreatorCameo: Creator/StanLee once again appears, this time as the owner of a car that Hope accidentally shrunk during a car chase scene between the heroes, Burch, and Ghost.
-->'''Stan Lee:''' Well, TheSixties were fun, but now [[DrugsAreBad I'm paying for it.]]

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'''[[Film/AntMan <<< Phase 2]] | [[Series/WandaVision Phase 4 >>>]]'''-]]]]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The only person Ghost appears to kill in the present is a DirtyCop working with a criminal in the black market.

* SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: Averted in full. Ava's condition steadily worsens, but Janet returns to proper size in time to transfer healing particles from the Quantum Realm to her, while Burch and his men are only arrested rather than killed. Hard to say though, if any of them got wiped by Thanos.

** Scott complains about the PaperThinDisguise used to get into Bill Foster's college lecture, and yet Hank manages - with Scott's help - to use the exact same thing to walk right out of the FBI office later on.

* SeriesContinuityError: When Scott is shown going to the Quantum Realm and surviving the snap, it's bright and sunny out, despite the fact that, due to the film taking place in San Francisco, which is in a different time zone than both Wakanda and New York[[note]]although both of those places are in different time zones as well, afternoon in Wakanda would line up with morning in New York[[/note]] - unless the Snap's effects were somehow delayed by a few hours for Hank, Janet, and Hope, it should be the crack of dawn at the latest.
* SerkisFolk: Similar to the previous film, we get a CG de-aged Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. This film, we also get a de-aged Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne. However, the de-aged Bill Foster seen in flashback is actually played by Laurence Fishburne's son.