MODOK and Ant-Man and the Wasp- Quantumania

Warning: This post includes spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

A zany new character in Marvel’s latest release, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, will amuse but might also confuse viewers who lack deep knowledge of the comics. If you watched the first Ant-Man movie, you might recognize the actor who plays M.O.D.O.K.—Corey Stoll—who originally played Darren Cross. In the first movie, after Cross steals back the Yellowjacket suit, he and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) get into an epic battle that lands them in the bedroom of six-year-old Cassie, Scott’s daughter. Cross threatens to hurt Cassie, and to power down his suit, Scott has to go subatomic to get inside. This leads Scott and Cross to the Quantum Realm, but on…