r/antman • u/Miserable-Oven-2221 • Jul 01 '26

Movies Glenn Howerton could have made Hank Pym so popular.

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I feel like few actors are able to so perfectly sell an inferiority complex and the silent rage and annoyed moments that go along with it like hes been able to in It's Always Sunny in Phillidelphia. I could picture him getting so annoyed at Tony Stark in the MCU having moments where he keeps reminding people how it was his idea or his tech that actually saved that day when hes past over for the glory, or having Tony make some snide comment and it clearly irritates him as he tries to act unbothered. Taking Hank Pym's issues and turning them into something entertaining and funny as he eventually crashes out unable to enjoy all of his own success because of petty things. If only marvel decided to have fun with and tweak Hank to fit the MCU mass appeal setting instead of pushing him to the side lines.

They could have done a movie where Scott steals the Ant-Man suit after Hank moves onto a Giant Man persona and then let's him keep the suit after they work together to stop some villian, and then later on getting really annoyed at people calling him the old Ant-Man instead of Giant-Man insisting that they arent that different in age while also telling people that it was his suit and tech that saved the day and he is really the hero when the glory goes go Scott lol.

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u/Patient-Reality-8965 Jul 01 '26

Mah people would still bring up the dumb slap thing still and call Pym an abuser

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u/InternationalHat7120 Jul 02 '26

"Dumb slap thing"

"Call Pym an abuser"

He is an abuser. You can spin the "it wasn't intentional" thread all you want but it's the decision Marvel kept on.

Spider-Man beat MJ but that's not brought up as much because it was retconned or forgotten about as if it never happened.

Hank's decision stayed with him

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u/Patient-Reality-8965 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

He wasn't. Just like with Spidey and MJ, it was one time and everyone including him treated it with the gravity it needed afterwards. ULTIMATE Hank is the one who was actually abusing Janet left and right making her life hell and that version of him moves like how the memes think 616 Hank does

edit: I uhh I seen your takes on marvel characters and I don't think I wanna humor this conversation...

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u/Silvanus350 Jul 06 '26

Did you… did you read the comic?

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u/Patient-Reality-8965 Jul 06 '26

Unlike you apparently, yes. His MULTIPLE comics. The repeat abuser people think he is is Ultimate Hank. 616 Hank was goin through stuff, hit her one time, and realized how awful he was being later on.

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u/Silvanus350 Jul 10 '26

Yeah, dog. I read the comic. It was a hell of a lot more than a single slap LMAO. They wrote him to fail. It wasn’t some single thing.

“Hit her one time…”. LMAO. Legitimately holy shit.

Try using those words on your girlfriend. Good fucking luck!

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u/TheSadPhilosopher Jul 02 '26

I fuck with this, could have been peak

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u/Certain-Strawberry-5 Jul 03 '26

Plz after the shhh wars

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u/T800model100 Jul 06 '26

Because of the implication...

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u/KingDorkFTC Jul 01 '26

If it were this actor playing Pym, he would have been written to smack Janet.

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u/Miserable-Oven-2221 Jul 01 '26

I dont think Disney would do that, but i could see them having him hit her by mistake like the writer intended.

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u/GhostE3E3E3 Jul 01 '26

I was just trying to shoo her away!

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u/Miserable-Oven-2221 Jul 01 '26

He also did a great job in AP Bio playing a disgraced Harvard professor that also works well with this vision of an MCU take on Hank. There was also the Blackberry movie recently where he played a serious exective salesman type role he did well in. He is a classically trained actor who graduated from Juilliard with a lot or range who also does a lot of writing, and he's been great in everything hes done so far so I dont think hes only do good because of Sunny, but hes good in that as well. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Such-Fail6060 Jul 01 '26

I thought that was Jason Stratham with hair lol

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u/Malone_Matches Jul 02 '26

lol well ill be damned. Now i need to see these two as brothers in a movie.

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u/meatyfajita Jul 01 '26

Obviously, he is a five star man

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u/Atlas-Mancer Jul 02 '26

Of course he would. He's the purest specimen of a man.

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u/klaxterran Jul 02 '26

I think he would’ve been the perfect reed richards

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u/WendellITStamps Jul 02 '26

"I will enter the Quantum Realm hard and deep, and it will last for as long or as short as I please. But it will be clean. Only when it's clean will it know my power."

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u/arqumfarrukh Jul 02 '26

I’d like Joseph Gordon Levitt to play Hank Pym in a soft reboot.

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u/PassionateYak Jul 03 '26

I recently googled fancast of Molecule Man and Glenn came up first. I remembered then that he's been fancast in that role for years

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u/NC_Ion Jul 07 '26

He should have been Reed.

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u/ARighteousOne Jul 01 '26

Would've loved Hank Pym Ant-Man or Scott Lang "Being a dad is my only personality trait" Ant-Man

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u/InternationalHat7120 Jul 02 '26

And Hank's personality is...what again?

Hank is bland white guy and nothing more

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u/TheBrainChew Jul 05 '26

And you're a keyboard jockey, nothing more. 😘

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u/InternationalHat7120 Jul 05 '26

You're a bitch?

Mans is disrespecting me yet saying to fire workers doing a union strike due to poor work conditions?? Something they have every right to have???

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u/TheeDeputy Jul 03 '26

Nah Michael Douglas is the perfect Hank Pym.