Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
The first movie in MCU Phase 5,Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumaniareleases in theaters on February 17 , 2023 , and will serve as the onscreen debut of the classic Marvel Comics villain know as MODOK . Billed as one of the biggest movies sinceAvengers : Endgame , Ant - Man 3will be introducing two new important antagonist into the MCU - MODOK and Kang the Conqueror . While it ’s no enigma that Kang is the overarching villain of MCU Phase 5 and beyond , those unfamiliar with deep Marvel lore may be curious - just who is MODOK ?
Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania’sMODOK first appearedin 1967’sTales of Suspense # 93 , four days after Kang the Conqueror ’s Marvel Comics launching in 1963’sFantastic Four # 19 . Also known as Mental Organism plan Only For Killing , MODOK is an egomaniacal supervillain whose jumbo head is build up with a horde of mind - establish powers — the most dangerous of which is his mavin , almost second-sighted intellect . Prior to his MCU debut in Phase 5 , the iconic eccentric has been have in various other media . Most notably , this includes Hulu’sMODOK , an animate tragicomedy series that was canceled after one season , and theMarvel ’s Avengersvideo game , in which he serve as the main villain .
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MODOK’s Comic Book Origin And History
Who is MODOK in the comics ? George Tarleton was merely a human Numida meleagris pigused by AIM , whom they eventually turn into their Mental Organism project Only for Killing . Due to AIM ’s experimentation , Tarleton ’s head rise to a freakishly prominent size thanks to the increase super intelligence information they gave him , growing so big that he take a float chair to be mobile . He was also given powers of techno - kinesis , which mean that he can remotely check engineering with his judgement . MODOK served as AIM ’s lead tactician and strategist , as his intelligence nearly borders on precognition .
Marvel ’s Avengers’video game translation of Tarleton fairly solidly mirrors the comedian , like his eventual final form and magnate . It ’s also a nice touch that they had Tarletonkill Captain Americaaboard the Chimera at the showtime of the game , see as how MODOK was primarily a Cap villain first , before becoming a enemy to any and all Hero of Alexandria in the Marvel Universe as time went on . However , it is interesting that Tarleton was always in seat of power at AIM , serving as its founder along with Monica . In the comics , it was only after he became MODOK that he forcibly took ascendance of AIM , as he had become too powerful for them to handle . The MCU ’s MODOK inAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania , however , will have an fabulously different extraction — especially since there ’s no MCU George Tarleton .
MODOK’s Role In Marvel’s Avengers Game
Prior to appear as an MCU villain inAnt - Man 3,Marvel brought MODOK off the page in the 2020Avengersvideo biz . While there are spate of regretful guysand Avengers villainsinMarvel ’s Avengers , the primary opponent is Dr. George Tarleton , the capitulum of Advanced Idea Mechanics , which take over as the earth ’s premiere peacekeeping violence after the tragical events of A - Day , which dissolved SHIELD and disbanded the Avengers for five years . Since that time , Tarleton has been acquire . As the game progress , Tarleton sweep up his unexampled identity as the classic Marvel villain MODOK .
This version of MODOK deviated somewhat from the comics , but not as much as the MCU . In the game , Tarleton was introduced to actor as a scientist working with SHIELD and the Avengers Initiative . Much of his body of work was focusedon Terrigen crystals , which they were using to power the engines of their newest helicarrier , dubbed the Chimera . alas , a darker game was afoot with Tarleton ’s colleague Monica Rappaccini , AIM ’s Scientist Supreme . Both wanted to try out further for their own desires for office and realization . Due to the unstable nature of the crystals , they cause a chain reaction in the helicarrier ’s engine , while simultaneously make up Taskmaster to stage an attack on the Golden Gate span to keep the Avengers fussy .
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In the backwash , San Francisco faced immense desolation , the helicarrier was destroyed along with Captain America , and the crystallization became a flatulency that give several dissimilar civilians with powers of their own , wrick them into Inhumans . The day was know as A - twenty-four hour period , and the Avengers disbanded . In the wake of their failure , Tarleton and Monica create AIM , filling the void and creating a robotlike peacekeeping mission power that also worked to becharm and " therapeutic " the Inhumans whom they believe were " diseased " . As previously mentioned , Tarleton transmute into MODOK over the course of the secret plan , thanks to Monica ’s treatments for the injury he sustained on A - Day .
Who Is MODOK In Ant-Man 3
AfterMarvel ’s Avengersand Hulu ’s canceledMODOKanimated series , Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumaniawill be serving consultation MODOK ’s first live - natural action film appearance , in which the giant - direct evil genius will be play by actor Corey Stoll . If the name sound familiar , that ’s because Stoll previously played Darren Cross / Yellowjacket back in the firstAnt - Manmovie . Cross was the former Hank Pym prentice who stolegenius Hank Pym ’s technology to found Cross Technologies , and was afterwards presumed beat after he monstrously shrank to a subatomic size in the ending ofAnt - Man .
Based on theAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumaniatrailer , Ant - Man 3’sMODOK andAnt - Man ’s Darren Cross / Yellowjacket could very well be the same person . Though Cross ' fate inAnt - Manleading to him transforming into MODOK never happened in the strip , this unusual new MODOK line story actually makes sense for a MODOK variant in the Multiverse Saga . In any case , Kang the Conqueror is decidedly not the only villain to keep an middle on inAnt - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania . As an evil genius and overlord strategist with a account of usurping power , MODOK could in secret be one of the biggest baddie in MCU Phase 5 .
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