17 July 2015 11:45 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
By now, audiences have been conditioned to stay seated at a Marvel movie until the very last seconds, just in case, and in this weekend's "Ant-Man," there are not one but two different extra scenes. And, yes, we'll be discussing spoilers here, so if you read past this point, please don't cry about it later. The first of the scenes is tremendously meta, a moment where Marvel is essentially making a promise to audiences. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) takes his estranged daughter Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily) into his private workshop. Much of the tension between the two of them in the film has to do with her confusion about why Hank wants to bring someone else in to wear the Ant-Man suit. When Hank finally tells her the truth about how her mother Janet, aka The Wasp, died in action, it helps heal the hurt between them, but it's »
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