Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania offers a new look at the MCU

 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania will introduce an all-new Big Bad to MCU audiences. For this reason and more, producer Stephen Broussard said the crew behind the film is trying to shake off previous stereotypes about Ant-Man movies.

In an interview with Total Film, Broussard talked about how previous Ant-Man movies usually followed the big Avengers movies and were seen as a "taste cleaner" for what happened. For Quantumania, however, they hope to reverse the trend and want the film to feel grand and "critical to the future of the MCU."

After the Avengers movies, phrases like 'taste cleaner' were wrapped around the Ant-Man movies," Stephen Broussard said. "If we have the opportunity to participate in Part Three, we hope that the film will shine and make it feel like it's central to the future of the MCU.

Instead of a big ensemble movie, Quantumania now acts as a preparation for what's to come, introducing not only the next villain in the MCU world but also the quantum realm to the audience. According to Broussard, they wanted it to give the feeling of a place fans had been to before and fill it that way.

 feels like a place you haven’t been to before in the MCU

"In an MCU, it feels like a place you've never been before," says Broussard. "Full of people, people, world, politics and history."

Of course, there is also the issue of introducing Kang the Conqueror into the MCU, a character who was "very powerful" during the Broussard era and will continue to appear in other stories.