That brings us to the primary entry on this roundup that is not associated to Ant-Man, although it nonetheless stays crucially vital to the lore concerned in “Quantumania.” Season 1 of “Loki” initially started as an excuse to carry again Tom Hiddleston in his fan-favorite position because the God of Mischief, though as a multiverse variant who was unleashed through the occasions of “Endgame,” by chance let unfastened from the timeline the place he was at the moment wrecking New York Metropolis throughout “The Avengers,” and ran afoul of the Time Variance Authority for messing up the delicate multiverse along with his incursions.

This story quickly become one thing else fully, nonetheless, holding grave penalties for the remainder of the MCU. Throughout his adventures, this model of Loki quickly supplied his companies to seek out and seize one other model of himself who was wreaking much more havoc on the multiverse: a being who would finally be revealed to be Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). Unable to carry himself to really flip her in, Loki as a substitute joined forces along with her as they battled the corrupt TVA and in the end discovered themselves face-to-face with the strangest particular person but: Jonathan Majors’ He Who Stays, a Kang variant answerable for staving off a multiversal struggle between his personal omnipotent variants.

Burdened by the load of this duty, he provides Loki and Sylvie a beguiling selection between killing him and risking one other struggle via alternate timelines operating amok, or peacefully changing him and taking on his job. Sylvie chooses the previous, naturally, and the outcomes lead on to the mess that Scott Lang and his mates encounter in “Quantumania.” Nicely, nicely, nicely, if it is not the implications of my very own actions.

“Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” arrives in theaters on February 17, 2023.