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dishesonthetoprackHey there! Meet Scott.
Scott is, above all else, a dad. He's also an electrical engineer with a master's degree from MIT, a cat burglar, an ex-con (twice over, now!), and a future Avenger.
The Canon
If you haven't already seen Ant-Man, I'm gonna take a second here and encourage you to go give it a spin, even if you haven't laid eyes on a single other MCU property or even if superheroes aren't really your bag. (Guess what? They're not really mine, either! I have terrible MCU fatigue! And yet.) Ant-Man, while totally taking place in the MCU and setting things up for future Avengers movies, is widely considered the lowest-stakes Marvel movie out there. It's not about aliens or Thanos or the multiverse. It's about a heist. And even once he joins the larger MCU crew, Scott very rarely knows what's even going on with all that business.
We open with Scott Lang leaving San Quentin Prison, having served time for defrauding his former employer, the security firm VistaCorp, after he discovered they were massively overcharging their customers. (That's right, folks, we have a Robin Hood complex on our hands.) Scott really wants to find some legitimate work -- he has a master's degree, okay, it should not be hard -- but weirdly enough it seems like it's hard to find a job as an ex-con here in America. Who could have seen that one coming, right?
Anyway, because Scott is a great dad, he really wants to do right by his daughter, Cassie, and in order to be the best dad he can be, he needs to make his child support payments, and in order to make child support payments, he needs an income source, but no one's hiring ex-cons, and -- you know, recidivism is really a mystery.
Anyway. Scott learns, via his former cellmate-turned-best-friend, Luis, that there's a really awesome mark for arobbery burglary (point of clarification: robbery involves threats and violence!) that he just heard about through the grapevine -- some old, weird millionaire has a giant safe in his house!
Of course, if you've seen a movie -- particularly a superhero movie -- before, you know it's not just money in that safe. The old, weird billionaire is none other than Dr. Hank Pym, former SHIELD scientist and all-around obsesser-of-size-changing, and the thing hidden in the vault is what is known as the Ant-Man suit, which allows the wearer to shrink and grow with the press of a button.
Naturally, since this is a superhero origin movie even if it is mostly about a heist, Scott also has to learn how to use the suit once he's accepted his new role as the next Ant-Man under Pym's direction. There's a couple of training montages, AKA filmmaking's most economical resource, and soon enough Scott's doing well enough with his new toy to actually fight an Avenger.
The heist I keep mentioning comes into play because this is one of those superhero movies where the bad guy's gotten ahold of identical-but-slightly-better technology, and we have to get it out of his hands. Hank Pym's former protege, Darren Cross, has made a similar suit called the Yellowjacket, and the third act of the movie mostly focuses on getting the suit out of Cross's nefarious, nefarious hands.
And also set pieces. So many set pieces.
After everything ends well in Ant-Man -- Scott has to shrink down very small and is almost lost to the quantum realm, but it's all good -- Scott is all set to just hang in San Francisco and play Ant-Man on occasion, but then he gets tapped to take a side in Captain America: Civil War, and from then on out, he's pretty much Avengers-adjacent.
Scott is coming to Fandom post-Civil War, which means he's a couple months off fighting Iron Man and a bunch of pals, and also recently learned how much more tiring it is to go giant rather than tiny. Canonically, at the end of Civil War, he and Clint Barton are offered house arrest rather than jailtime for their involvement -- Scott's being sent to Fandom as an alternative to house arrest.
The Guy
Scott is a very nice, regular guy in his eternal early 40s. (Seriously, Paul Rudd is 53, but you could tell me Scott is ICly 35 and I'd be like, "Sure, that tracks.")
Some quick facts about Scott:
When out of his Ant-Man suit (read: how he will appear 90% of the time), he's a 5'10" white man with a slim (yet surprisingly muscular) build, brown hair and what I previously thought were blue eyes but no, folks, they appear to be green/hazel.
Personality-wise, this is a very genuine, friendly, goofy dude who just likes to make the people around him smile. He's also very expressive, both in his face (no poker face on this guy) and in his mannerisms.
Former con and cat burglar, but don't mistake that for flexible morals. Scott has a pretty strict internal code -- he doesn't inflict violence on the innocent, and he only steals from people who seem like they deserve it. The anti-capitalist hero we all need, but don't deserve.
Not, like, the world's most observant person. Tends to get into little scrapes because he didn't notice something, or didn't account for something. Sometimes he suffers. Sometimes his tacos do.
That being said, he's very good at improv, thinking on his feet and adapting to new situations.
He's dad to a roughly 9ish year-old daughter, Cassie, who lives back in San Francisco with her mother, Maggie, and her stepfather.
The Ant-Man Suit
When Scott has the Ant-Man suit on, which is going to be pretty rare (but hey, we'll see, it's Fandom), it looks like a black-and-red motorcycle suit with a silver, insect-like helmet and silver accents.
The Ant-Man suit has the following capabilities:
Size Manipulation. Kind of a gimme, but the suit is outfitted with a button on either of the gloves – the right one shrinks the wearer, while the left one grows them back to their original size. The 'Giant-Man' ability needs to be manually activated by a touchscreen on one of the suit's bracers, as it is extremely taxing on the wearer to maintain the giant form and should only be used in extreme situations.
Super-Strength and Durability. Okay, this is where it's gonna show that I never took high school physics – the process of size alteration generates force and momentum that scales beyond the abilities of normal humans – we get a lot of mileage out of that whole "ants can lift a hundred times their body weight!" fact, over here at Pym Technologies, lol. So the idea is that when Scott is the size of an ant, he can build up momentum and force that then scales when he returns to normal size. What this translates to in normal terms is that tiny Ant-Man's punches still land hard, and if he builds up momentum while tiny before returning to normal size, it's like getting hit by a damn car. When the wearer is small, the energy is compressed, so teeny-tiny Ant-Man still packs the punch of a 200-lb man, and he can also exert this force to leap great distances and heights, as well as being able to use the force behind, say, falling from a great distance.
Because of all this play with mass and force and physical concepts that, again, I do not really understand and don't really pretend to, anyone wearing the Ant-Man suit is extremely durable. They can fall or be thrown with great force, and come out only stunned as a result. As Giant-Man, his durability scales as well, and regardless of what shape or size he's in, Scott is generally pretty much invulnerable while wearing the Ant-Man suit.
Insect Communication. The suit has an EMP device in the helmet next to the user's ear, allowing them to communicate with ants. (Or, well. It says 'Insect Communication,' but for the life of me I can't think of them using this on anything but ants. Hank Pym effing loves ants.) The EMP Communication Device engages with ants' olfactory sensors and pheromones, and allows Ant-Man to use swarms of ants to carry or cover things, or to ride on the back of an ant.
And that's Scott! And player-wise, hi, this is Erin, the idiot behind Annie, Irene, and Laszlo. Still on Eastern time, still with the bad availability at the beginning of the week, still reading too many murder books in my spare time.
You know, I kept trying to find a spot for that gif and this is a fine one. It just needs to be here.
Scott is, above all else, a dad. He's also an electrical engineer with a master's degree from MIT, a cat burglar, an ex-con (twice over, now!), and a future Avenger.
The Canon
If you haven't already seen Ant-Man, I'm gonna take a second here and encourage you to go give it a spin, even if you haven't laid eyes on a single other MCU property or even if superheroes aren't really your bag. (Guess what? They're not really mine, either! I have terrible MCU fatigue! And yet.) Ant-Man, while totally taking place in the MCU and setting things up for future Avengers movies, is widely considered the lowest-stakes Marvel movie out there. It's not about aliens or Thanos or the multiverse. It's about a heist. And even once he joins the larger MCU crew, Scott very rarely knows what's even going on with all that business.
We open with Scott Lang leaving San Quentin Prison, having served time for defrauding his former employer, the security firm VistaCorp, after he discovered they were massively overcharging their customers. (That's right, folks, we have a Robin Hood complex on our hands.) Scott really wants to find some legitimate work -- he has a master's degree, okay, it should not be hard -- but weirdly enough it seems like it's hard to find a job as an ex-con here in America. Who could have seen that one coming, right?
Anyway, because Scott is a great dad, he really wants to do right by his daughter, Cassie, and in order to be the best dad he can be, he needs to make his child support payments, and in order to make child support payments, he needs an income source, but no one's hiring ex-cons, and -- you know, recidivism is really a mystery.
Anyway. Scott learns, via his former cellmate-turned-best-friend, Luis, that there's a really awesome mark for a
Of course, if you've seen a movie -- particularly a superhero movie -- before, you know it's not just money in that safe. The old, weird billionaire is none other than Dr. Hank Pym, former SHIELD scientist and all-around obsesser-of-size-changing, and the thing hidden in the vault is what is known as the Ant-Man suit, which allows the wearer to shrink and grow with the press of a button.
Naturally, since this is a superhero origin movie even if it is mostly about a heist, Scott also has to learn how to use the suit once he's accepted his new role as the next Ant-Man under Pym's direction. There's a couple of training montages, AKA filmmaking's most economical resource, and soon enough Scott's doing well enough with his new toy to actually fight an Avenger.
The heist I keep mentioning comes into play because this is one of those superhero movies where the bad guy's gotten ahold of identical-but-slightly-better technology, and we have to get it out of his hands. Hank Pym's former protege, Darren Cross, has made a similar suit called the Yellowjacket, and the third act of the movie mostly focuses on getting the suit out of Cross's nefarious, nefarious hands.
And also set pieces. So many set pieces.
After everything ends well in Ant-Man -- Scott has to shrink down very small and is almost lost to the quantum realm, but it's all good -- Scott is all set to just hang in San Francisco and play Ant-Man on occasion, but then he gets tapped to take a side in Captain America: Civil War, and from then on out, he's pretty much Avengers-adjacent.
Scott is coming to Fandom post-Civil War, which means he's a couple months off fighting Iron Man and a bunch of pals, and also recently learned how much more tiring it is to go giant rather than tiny. Canonically, at the end of Civil War, he and Clint Barton are offered house arrest rather than jailtime for their involvement -- Scott's being sent to Fandom as an alternative to house arrest.
The Guy
Scott is a very nice, regular guy in his eternal early 40s. (Seriously, Paul Rudd is 53, but you could tell me Scott is ICly 35 and I'd be like, "Sure, that tracks.")
Some quick facts about Scott:
The Ant-Man Suit
When Scott has the Ant-Man suit on, which is going to be pretty rare (but hey, we'll see, it's Fandom), it looks like a black-and-red motorcycle suit with a silver, insect-like helmet and silver accents.
The Ant-Man suit has the following capabilities:
Because of all this play with mass and force and physical concepts that, again, I do not really understand and don't really pretend to, anyone wearing the Ant-Man suit is extremely durable. They can fall or be thrown with great force, and come out only stunned as a result. As Giant-Man, his durability scales as well, and regardless of what shape or size he's in, Scott is generally pretty much invulnerable while wearing the Ant-Man suit.
And that's Scott! And player-wise, hi, this is Erin, the idiot behind Annie, Irene, and Laszlo. Still on Eastern time, still with the bad availability at the beginning of the week, still reading too many murder books in my spare time.
You know, I kept trying to find a spot for that gif and this is a fine one. It just needs to be here.
