No matter how you feel about each and every movie in the MCU, it's pretty wild that Marvel has managed (via our Disney overlords) to create the first 10-year sequence of interconnected franchises. Ever.
Yeah, I know, Hollywood's been pumping out Bond movies for about a million years, but that's not the same and you know it.
That wobbly bit off in the corner is Iron Man 2 and we don't talk about it.
You can go back through an entire decade of films and figure out stuff nobody else has.
*unique until DC gets their act together, which might be never.
But you can usually count on Reddit to go full conspiracy theory with the smallest details they discover.
Reddit user leafinferno said that they'd noticed something in Thor: The Dark World that lined up with Avengers: Infinity War in a very interesting way.
In Thor: The Dark World, when Jane Foster is possessed by the Aether (actually the Reality Stone) and being scanned by the weird Asgardian MRI machine, she and the technician debate whether it should be called a "quantum field generator" or the admittedly snappier "Soul Forge."
Well, it means that as far as the MCU is concerned, there's a direct relationship between souls and anything with the label quantum slapped onto it.
And this is where other MCU theories begin to link up. Reddit user memeabstinent connected leafinferno's detail to their own idea.
See, at the end of Ant-Man And The Wasp, when Scott goes into the Quantum Realm to grab "healing particles" to bring back, it happens during the Snap.
At first, the Quantum Realm is bluish and calm — but by the time Scotty is getting panicked that nobody's yanked him back to Normal Realm, he's surrounded by more and more orange blobs swirling around.
If I thought was gonna die by crumbling into ash and the afterlife turned out to be chilling with Paul Rudd...well, I can't say I'd be disappointed.
Janet van Dyne did it to Scott so she could help get herself out of the Quantum Realm.
So if she could do it...can anyone?
Although, apparently everything is fine once you take your helmet off. What is this, Prometheus? Did Ridley Scott consult on Ant-Man?
User dubstastic posted this "blink and you'll miss it" screengrab from Hank and Janet's romantic getaway from the Quantum Realm.
Uh...is that a legit city down there?
I mean, it definitely explains how Janet was able to expand her wardrobe despite us never seeing any subatomic tailors.
Maybe it's also how she picked up those magic quantum powers, too.
Alternate Theory: That movie Downsizing with Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig is actually part of the MCU. Prove me wrong.
Ugh, sorry about that.
But let's be real, there was no way I was gonna avoid that "big" pun forever, so I'm just owning it now.
And if Ant-Man is the one hero who can do the most to reverse Thanos' big win at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, well...
Thanos might become the first being in the multiverse who isn't happy to see Paul Rudd.
