In the comics, Scott Lang is an ex-convict who turns his life around and starts working for Stark Industries. After his daughter becomes ill from a heart disease, he plans to try and steal valuable things in order to raise enough money to hire muscle to get into Cross Technological Enterprises, which has the only doctor that can help his daughter. He just happens to come across the Ant-Man suit this way because he was burglarizing Pym's house/lab. After finding the Ant-Man suit, rather than hiring muscle, he uses it to sneak into CTE and discovers the doctor he needs to help his daughter is being held captive there. He beats up the thugs, frees the doctor, and gets her to help his daughter. From there, he tried to return the suit and turn himself in but since he used the suit for good, Pym decided to let him keep it.
The EMH episode isn't really the same as the comic though btw. They make a couple changes to make the story make more sense in modern day (hiring muscle to break into a company to get to a doctor that just happens to be the only doctor on Earth who can help your daughter's diseases? lol not going to work today).
I wouldn't mind seeing Darren Cross as the main villain with and his cousin Crossfire as his bodyguard/chief henchman and Elias Starr (Egghead) as the head CTE scientist who gives Cross the experimental nucle-organic pacemaker. My only issue with Cross is he might come across as just another version of Aldrich Killian.
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That's not quite true. No BIG ICONIC characters stay dead. Batman, Ironman, Spider Man, etc will never stay dead. However, lesser known character are another story, they can and do stay dead. Quite a few of the New X-Men are still dead, those students who got blown up on the bus are still dead, Hulk's wife from Planet Hulk is still dead, etc.
Couldn't she be a rich, socialite, fashion designer who also has a interest in science, if only to be closer to Hank?Yep Jan's father Vernon was a scientist. I would probably avoid making Janet also a scientist like Jane Foster who was changed from a medical doctor to astrophysicist in Thor and Betty Ross who is a cellular biologist in the hulk films.
I think Janet being a wealthy business woman, designer and socialite would make her stand out from the rest of the female love interests or superheroes.
Janet works with Pym as his lab assistant sometimes which could work in the movie and she could still be a partying socialite.
Characters like Cassie don't stay dead. She's like Nightcrawler. Or it's life if they killed off Franklin. You know he wouldn't stay dead.
Yeah, *if* they make Jan the doctor that can cure Cassie, it'd be almost inevitable that she and Scott hook up, and I agree that it's a definite no-no.
But Marvel's already made some off-base pairings with Pepper Potts taming the irrepressible Tony Stark, and Black Widow (allegedly) hooking up with Captain America. I wouldn't put it past them to match.com Janet and Scott.
Plus, Marvel Studios seem intent on taking everything else meaningful away from Hank Pym; might as well add Janet to that list and make it a clean sweep.
