What the 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' end-credits scene means for Marvel's future (SPOILERS!)

Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd play the titular pint-size heroes of Marvel’s latest blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp. (Photo: Ben Rothstein/Marvel/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy of Everett Collection)

Warning: This post contains big spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Marvel fans are still reeling from the events of April’s Avengers: Infinity War, which saw many of the franchise’s most beloved figures transformed from superheroes to dust particles thanks to the snap of mad titan Thanos’s (Josh Brolin) big purple finger. The film’s shocking outcome made it the year’s biggest global hit, spawned a viral meme, and resulted in numerous theories about the fates of Spider-Man, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. For that reason alone, Infinity War earned a well-deserved spot on our “Top films of 2018 so far” list.

Now Marvel Studios is taking a 10th-anniversary victory lap before signing off for the rest of year in the form of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the small-scale but mightily enjoyable sequel to the 2015 blockbuster. Set largely before the apocalyptic events of Infinity War, the film reunites the titular pint-size heroes (Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly), who, along with Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye, were notably MIA when Thanos’s minions invaded Earth. Director Peyton Reed includes a few, well, tiny clues about the whereabouts of Marvel’s missing do-gooders, as well as an end-credits scene that explains why neither Ant-Man nor the Wasp joined Iron Man, Captain America, and the rest of the gang to fight for humanity’s survival. Read on to learn about the implications of that bonus sequence, as well as what Marvel’s 20th feature tells us about the future of the MCU. — Ethan Alter, Adam Lance Garcia, and Nick Schager

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By Yahoo Entertainment Staff.