Ant-Man (Scott Lang)

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Bronze, Comics: As a Stark employee he helps Iron Man and Bruce Banner with the Hulk regulator, and shrinks into the Iron Man armor to save Tony Stark.

Cinematic

Scott Lang, a convicted thief and electrical engineer, is recruited by Hank Pym in 2015 to become Ant-Man and stop Darren Cross. He backs Captain America in 2016, is held on the Raft, then serves house arrest. Lost in the Quantum Realm during the Snap until 2023, he proposes the Time Heist and joins the Avengers. In 2026 he is pulled back into the Quantum Realm and helps kill Kang.

Comics

A reformed burglar and electronics engineer from Florida who took Hank Pym's Ant-Man gear to pay for his daughter Cassie's heart surgery, then kept it with Pym's blessing. He worked for Stark, allied with and later joined the Avengers, led a stand-in Fantastic Four, died in the Avengers Disassembled explosion and was pulled back from it, and left Earth with the Guardians after Hydra's rule.

Timeline 25 events

  1. Bronze · Comics: He steals the Ant-Man suit from Hank Pym to fund his daughter's heart treatment, defeats Darren Cross, and Pym lets him keep the identity.
  2. Bronze · Comics: As a Stark employee he helps Iron Man and Bruce Banner with the Hulk regulator, and shrinks into the Iron Man armor to save Tony Stark.
  3. Bronze · Comics: He helps rescue the Wasp and fights Taskmaster alongside the Avengers.
  4. Modern · Comics: The Fantastic Four hire him as a stand-in scientist while Reed Richards is missing, and he and Cassie live in their headquarters.
  5. Modern · Comics: He joins the reformed Heroes for Hire after the Onslaught crisis.
  6. Modern · Comics: After helping the Avengers against Kang, he is offered and takes a place on the team.
  7. Modern · Comics: He is killed when the reanimated Jack of Hearts explodes at Avengers Mansion.
  8. Modern · Comics: The Young Avengers retrieve him from the past just before the explosion, and Cassie is then killed by Doctor Doom.
  9. Modern · Comics: He leads the Future Foundation and a stand-in Fantastic Four while the original team is away, and later defeats Doctor Doom.
  10. Secret Wars · Comics: Doctor Doom resurrects Cassie, and Scott moves to Miami and starts Ant-Man Security Solutions.
  11. Secret Wars · Comics: He is arrested to protect Cassie, tried, and freed, and she becomes his partner Stinger.
  12. Secret Wars · Comics: Under Hydra's rule he joins the Underground, is coerced into betraying it, and then helps defeat the evil Captain America.
  13. Secret Wars · Comics: Ashamed, he stows away aboard the Guardians of the Galaxy's ship and is welcomed as a member.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: He returns to Earth and resumes work as a hero.
  15. 2012 · Cinematic: Lang hacks VistaCorp to refund overcharged customers and burgles its boss's mansion, earning a three-year sentence in San Quentin.
  16. 2015 · Cinematic: Released from San Quentin on July 17, Lang is steered into stealing Pym's suit and agrees to train as Ant-Man under Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne.
  17. 2015 · Cinematic: Lang defeats Darren Cross in the Yellowjacket suit by shrinking inside it, passes into the Quantum Realm and manages to return.
  18. 2016 · Cinematic: Recruited by Clint Barton, Lang joins Captain America's side and fights Iron Man's team at Leipzig-Halle Airport, growing to giant size.
  19. 2016 · Cinematic: Captured with Rogers' allies, Lang is held on the Raft until Rogers frees him, then accepts two years of house arrest.
  20. 2018 · Cinematic: Three days before his sentence ends, Lang joins Pym and Hope to rescue Janet van Dyne from the Quantum Realm and fights Ghost and Sonny Burch.
  21. 2018 · Cinematic: Sent into the Quantum Realm to gather energy for Ghost, Lang is stranded when the Snap turns the Pym family to dust.
  22. 2023 · Cinematic: Freed after five hours of his own time, Lang finds five years have passed and tells Rogers and Romanoff that the Quantum Realm could allow time travel.
  23. 2023 · Cinematic: Lang takes part in the Time Heist and the Battle of Earth, operating the van-borne Quantum Tunnel as Thanos's forces attack the Avengers Compound.
  24. 2026 · Cinematic: Pulled with his family into the Quantum Realm, Lang is captured with Cassie and coerced by Kang into stealing the Multiversal Engine Core.
  25. 2026 · Cinematic: Lang and Hope destroy Kang during the battle of Axia's Celestium, and the family returns home through a portal.

allied with

Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Captain America), Hawkeye, Iron Man, Hope van Dyne

enemy of

Iron Man, Thaddeus Ross, Ghost, Thanos, Kang the Conqueror, Doctor Doom

travels to

Quantum Realm, The Raft, Earth

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026