The Quantum Realm will be the stage for the events of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’
Unlike its predecessors, the third film starring Scott Lang, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, will be located, for the most part, within the Quantum Realm, a reduced universe that will present one of Marvel’s greatest villains: Kang, the Conqueror.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Quantum Realm appeared for the first time in ‘Ant-Man’ and was better explored in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’, but the new feature film promises to address aspects that have not yet been exposed and solve some doubts about the mysterious and tiny place.
We dabbled a little bit in the Quantum Realm in the first two films, but this time we wanted to give the production an entirely different look. It’s an epic experience.” peyton reed (via Disney). “Not only did we have to create the visual aspect of these cities and civilizations, but also create the internal logic and story, and then populate it with all these creatures and beings and structures,” he concluded.
How did the Quantum Realm come to be?
In the comics, the Quantum Realm is called the Microverse. According to the portal O Vício, the place started to be explored in ‘Captain America Comics’ #25, HQ written by Ray Cummings and released in 1943, where the novel “The Girl in the Golden Atom” (1919) served as inspiration for the development of the plot that accompanies captain America and Bucky Barnes being taken to a subatomic world called Mita.
Over the years, the existence of a shrunken universe has been explored in the early Fantastic Four stories, where, in issue #16, Doctor Doom becomes the ruler of a place called Micro-World, and yet, in the Incredible Hulk issues written by Harlan Ellison.
However, the concept came into frequent use from 1979 onwards when MEGO’s Micronauts toy line was adapted so that the dolls became characters from Marvel comics written by Bill Mantlewhere they inhabited a place that received the name of Homeworld.
Homeworld was part of a cluster of microverses that were divided into the shape of a DNA molecule. Thus, among the planets neighboring the one that housed the Micronauts were K’ai, which served as the backdrop for “Hulk: In the Heart of the Atom”, in addition to Kaliklak, which was the home of Beetle, a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy reformulated by Peter Quill, as well as Spartak and Tok, the homes of the Homewolds’ enemy Baron Karza and Doctor Doom’s allies the Lizardmen, respectively.
But, after all, what is the Microverse?
Still in the comics, it is explained how the Microverse came about. That’s because, about 15,000 years ago, a cataclysmic shift affects the earth and results in the separation of the human species, which now lives in different parts of the galaxy and evolves in different ways.
One such population is made up of the Ithacons who lost their home to the warrior Haamin and would cease to exist had their leader, Prince Wayfinder, not discovered a legendary weapon known as the Sword of the Star.
The object allowed the Ithacons to go into the past where, around 65 million years ago, dinosaurs still existed. As a result, in order for the population to have a home, the Sword of the Star sacrifices itself, thus its life force creates and feeds the Microverse, where the Ithacons come to live. The place remains alive through the Enigma Force.
How is the Quantum Realm explained in the MCU?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Microverse is called the Quantum Realm, as Marvel lost the license to use Micronauts in cinematographic works.
In ‘Ant-Man’, during the battle with Yellowjacket, Scott ends up going to the place that Hank Pym defined as “A reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity” , from where he can only leave after expanding in size.
The Quantum Realm is a place that only subatomic particles can access. In addition, time and space work in a unique way, so the rules of the land do not apply to the place that even allows time travel.
The above statement is proven when, at the end of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’, Scott is sent to the Quantum Realm to catch particles, but ends up being trapped there for five years after the snap of Thanos’ dos. Also, in ‘Avengers: Endgame’, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes used Pym Particles so they can travel back in time and reverse the destruction wrought by the titan.
It is also known that it is possible to access the Quantum Realm through a quantum tunnel, by magic, or even, as explained in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ through a device that acts as a kind of satellite for the microverse that was created by Cassie Lang.
Although these details have already been revealed, in the MCU, the place is surrounded by mysteries about its origin, its inhabitants and the technologies that reserve it, which must be solved with the new phase five films.
Source: Recreio
