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Road to Doomsday: A New Rockstars Podcast

Why Ant-Man & Kang Still Matter to Doomsday | Road to Doomsday #25

Road to Doomsday: A New Rockstars Podcast

New Rockstars & Studio71

Tv & Film

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ant-Man Trilogy REVISITED before Avengers Doomsday! How will they explain the Council of Kangs? Welcome back to the Road to Doomsday, New Rockstars’ Doomsday rewatch podcast! This week, Erik Voss and Jessica Clemons revisit Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (2023), to explore the original plan for the Multiverse Saga and what elements of those plans could still come back in Avengers Doomdsay. Shop all things home at https://www.wayfair.com  Join us at IGN Live on August 7 for our LIVE RECORDING of our upcoming Civil War episode! Get $10 off using the code NEWROCKSTARS10 here: https://events.leapevents.com/tickets/ign-live-2026 Join the NR Underground for exclusive audio shows: https://nrunderground.supercast.com Check out our merch! http://www.NerdRiot.shop Written by: Alex Berg Head of Content & Executive Producer: Erik Voss General Manager: Zach Huddleston Senior Producer: Jessica Clemons Producers: Gina Ippolito, Alex Berg, Patti Chambers Podcast Producer: Brian M Kim Post Production Supervisor: Joshua Steven Hurd Staff Editor: Abby Freel Editors: Eric Gorday For business inquiries please contact business@nrdigitalstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention all passengers.

0:03.0

The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.

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Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.

0:17.0

Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:20.0

Trains on Uber.

0:23.6

Welcome back to new rock stars, I'm Eric Boss, and maybe the biggest mystery facing us for Avengers Doomsday is how will this movie address the way the multiverse saga was going to go with the Kang Dynasty?

0:32.6

Specifically the way the Ant Man trilogy totally set things up.

0:36.6

Paul Rudd's Scott Lang is going to return an Avengers Doomsday, along with his daughter Cassie Lang, played by Catherine Newton. So as soon as this guy opens his mouth in Doomsday, we're all going to be wondering this question, will he mention Kang? While all three Ant-Man movies together seem like kind of an odd choice for how Marvel Studios was going to be setting

0:54.4

up the thematic through line of the multiverse saga.

0:56.8

They just love Paul Red that much, and so do we hear at New Rock Stars.

1:00.5

While it may be one of the lesser beloved trilogies as we look back at the Marvel Studios

1:04.1

Infinity Saga, the weird turns that this franchise took as these three movies were developed,

1:09.2

shot, and released, kind of tell the stories

1:11.2

of Marvel Studios right before Endgame and right after Endgame.

1:14.6

It's really fascinating to revisit these three films, not just for the weird big swings

1:19.3

quantum man took, but for why Paul Red's Ant Man is the character for the Multiverse Saga

1:24.1

memes that we all love so much.

1:25.6

So in this episode of the Road to Doomsday Marvel Rewatch series, we are going back to the Ant Man trilogy to make some pretty bold statements about Marvel Studios real mistakes when it comes to Quantum Mania and what might have been instead of Doomsday and what Doomsday might build on from the world building that we saw in Quantummania in the previous two Ant Man films before it. Now, before we get into it, if you are in

1:44.7

the L.A. area or you have access to YouTube, next weekend is going to be IGN live. And New Rockstars is going to be there in the Magic Box in downtown L.A., specifically on Sunday, June 7th. We'll be there in person to hang out with you guys to do some really fun stuff. We're going to have a very special recording of this Road to Doomsday podcast, our episode about Captain America's Civil War.

2:03.5

If you want to watch that live on YouTube, you can watch it on IGN's YouTube. If you're in LA, you can watch that live and participate in that discussion with us. If you can't do either of those, we're going to be publishing just that show here on the New Rockstar's channel the following weekend. But I think being there live with us will be really fun.

2:18.6

So if you do want to join us, head to the link in the description, and you can use the code New Rock Stars 10 or $10 off your order, which is a pretty good deal, because ticket prices to this are very reasonable. We hope to see you there. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. All right, but let's get into it. The Ant Man trilogy revisited here on the road to Doomsday.

2:35.7

It doesn't even feel like you're watching a Marvel movie anymore. It feels like, oh, they made another Alice in Wonderland movie? Just the way how he does monologues that are constantly shifting. There's a lot of great humor in this. It might be up there as like the funniest MCU movie. Even without the Jonathan Major's drama that came after this, it's not a fun Kang origin

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