Film guide · 2023
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Thirty years ago, stranded in the Quantum Realm, Janet meets a man beside a crashed ship. They work together to repair its power source.
The present. Scott is a famous hero with a memoir, recognized everywhere he goes.
Cassie, now 18, has been building a device with Hank to send signals into the Quantum Realm. Janet panics and shouts for them to shut it off.
Light bursts from the device, and all five are sucked into the Quantum Realm.
Scott and Cassie are taken in by a band of rebels. Hope, Hank and Janet land elsewhere.
Janet's group visits a city where they meet an old acquaintance of hers, to Hank's jealousy.
Janet finally explains: the man she helped 30 years ago, Kang, is a conqueror who destroyed world after world. She shrank his ship's power core so he could never escape.
Kang captures Scott and Cassie. He offers to send the family home if Scott retrieves the shrunken power core.
Inside the core, Scott is surrounded by countless possible versions of himself. They work together to reach it.
Kang breaks his word. The family and the people of the realm rise up against his army.
Hank arrives leading ants that have evolved over ages in the Quantum Realm.
Kang's henchman M.O.D.O.K. turns out to be Darren Cross from the first film. In the end, he sides with Scott.
Scott and Hope send Kang tumbling into his ship's power core.
Cassie opens a portal, and the family makes it home just in time.
A vast council of Kangs learns their exiled variant has been defeated and begins to act.
In 1901, Loki and Mobius watch a presentation by the inventor Victor Timely.